Welcome to Establishing Your Freelance Business 101.
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Establishing Your Freelance Business 101 is taught by Christi McGuire and Erin K. Brown.
This course is 10 weeks long; it begins on September 13, 20210, and runs until November 29, 2021.
The forum for this course is via Google Groups, which is an online discussion board. You will be automatically added to the Google Group and receive posts via your email (the address that you used to register for this course). All communication will be held within this Google Group. You can email the Google Group from your inbox by using the email: establishing-your-freelance-business-101@googlegroups.com. You may also access the page via this direct URL: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/establishing-your-freelance-business-101.
The instructor will post a topic (via the Google Group) every Monday for the duration of the course that correlates to each week’s lesson. During the week, you are encouraged to ask questions, make comments, and reply to other students’ questions and comments. The forum (Google Group) can be an amazing tool to get to know one another as fellow editors, encourage one another, share information, and submit homework assignments. The more active you are on the forum, the more this course benefits all participants.
Below are the lessons for the course. Please click on the links to view or download. The discussion in the forum will be based on each week’s lesson. Please only post regarding that week’s lesson.
September 13—Lesson 1: A Good Career Choice for You
September 20—Lesson 2: Planning Your Business Strategy
September 27—Lesson 3: Marketing Your Business
October 4—Lesson 4: Potential Clients
October 11—Lesson 5: Pricing Strategies
October 18—Lesson 6: Working with the Client
October 24—Lesson 7: Protecting Your Business and Yourself
November 1—Lesson 8: Organizing Your Business
- Lesson 8_SUPPLEMENT
- Lesson 8_Handout_BILLABLE HOURS LOG (BLANK)
- Lesson 8_Handout_CLIENT TIME LOG
- Lesson 8_Handout_TIME USAGE LOG
November 8—Lesson 9: The Government and Other Authorities
November 15—Lesson 10: Maintaining Balance in Your Business
November 22—Conclusion and Evaluation
November 29—Access to this Course Page and the Google Group will be closed.
These lessons are for your use only. They are copyrighted information. All rights reserved. Reproduction or redistribution, all or part, is prohibited.
Please note that your access to this course page will end two weeks after the conclusion of the course.
Feel free to contact us at any time if you have questions.