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Ready to strike out on your own as a freelance designer, or build your own design studio from the ground up? This path will provide you with essential information, expert insights, and inspiration for running a design business.
- Learn and apply best practices for starting a business.
- Grow your business and maintain creativity
- Discover how to manage your work using expert recommended best practices.
Overview
Syllabus
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- Course 1: Entrepreneurship Foundations
- Learn the foundations of entrepreneurship and assess your potential to become a business owner.
- Course 2: Running a Design Business: Freelancing
- Provides tools and insights for self-employed designers just starting out.
- Course 3: Running a Design Business: Starting Small
- Transition your freelance design career into a small business, one step at a time.
- Course 4: Creating a Business Plan
- Looking to build a business or expand one you're already running? You need to write a business plan. Learn how to define your business, market, product, sales strategy, and more.
- Course 5: Running a Design Business: Creative Briefs
- Learn to write and use a creative brief for client-commissioned projects and ensure you have a roadmap for developing great design.
- Course 6: Running a Design Business: Pricing and Estimating
- Figure out what to charge for your design services, and learn how to set an hourly rate, create estimates, and make sure you get paid.
- Course 7: Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements
- Learn to protect you and your client's interests and ensure a great creative design with a well-written contract.
- Course 8: Running a Design Business: Presentation Skills
- Convey your ideas with confidence and clarity to get the approval needed to move your project forward.
- Course 9: Sales Secrets for Small Business
- Get a simple three-step sales system (explore-present-act) that you can incorporate into your own small business to boost sales.
- Course 10: Running a Design Business: Self Promotion
- Learn how to promote your design business. Discover the various ways to use self-promotion, both analog and digital, to stand out in today's competitive marketplace.