Skip to 0 minutes and 5 seconds Hello I’m Alison Grade I’m the author of The Freelance Bible and I’ve been a freelancer for most of my career and I’ve hired a whole bunch of freelancers too I’m going to take you through the steps you need to become a successful freelancer and distill those lessons I’ve learned along the way especially the hard ones and we’re going to look at throughout the course how do you work on your freelancing it’s not enough just to work in your freelancing doing the work that you do great freelancers work on their freelancing. What do I mean by that? you’ve got to be the CEO of your freelance career you’ve got to manage them finances the marketing the operations organizing what happens when.
Skip to 0 minutes and 47 seconds We’re going to look at what your skills are this is what I can do and then importantly translating that into why me why do I add value to a client what money do I need to live on how am I going to make the money work how am I going to manage my money and we’re going to look at marketing getting our message out there getting in front of clients and my favorite bit why freelancing is like dating finding clients today in the modern working environment freelancing is absolutely a necessity much more it used to be a stop gap or a personal choice increasingly it’s a necessity this course will show you how