Lynda.com - Running a Design Business: Freelancing [34 Videos (MP4), 34 Subtitle files (SRT), 15 Exercise files (PDF, DOC, GIF)]
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Duration: 1h 23m
Coach: Petrula Vrontikis
By choice or by circumstance, most designers will be freelancing one or more times during their career. In this course, Petrula Vrontikis provides an overview of the financial and creative advantages and disadvantages of being self-employed, along with methods, tools, and insights for starting out. The course helps you customize a strategy for your unique situation, from setting up accounts and tracking business expenses, to entering into contracts and invoicing for your work. The last chapter contains Petrula's advice on maintaining good business relationships and tactics for staying motivated and inspired.
Topics include:
* What is a freelancer?
* Tracking expenses
* Paying taxes
* Understanding business licenses
* Creating contracts and invoices
* Preparing, transferring, and storing files
* Tracking billing and payments
* Managing your work-life balance
Table of Contents:
Introduction 2m 30s
Welcome 1m 11s
Disclaimer 40s
Exercise files 39s
1. What Is a Freelancer? 8m 55s
Definition of a freelancer 2m 5s
Ongoing models of freelancing 2m 31s
Temporary models of freelancing 2m 25s
Why agencies and clients hire freelancers 1m 54s
2. Preparation 17m 28s
Managing expectations 2m 44s
Required forms and quarterly payments 3m 36s
Finding an accountant and a bookkeeper 2m 33s
Tracking business expenses 2m 33s
Subcontractor versus employee 2m 16s
Understanding business licenses 3m 46s
3. Agreements and Contracts 16m 21s
General principles 53s
Signing nondisclosure agreements (NDA) and work-for-hire agreements 4m 9s
Contracts with agencies 1m 41s
Contracts with clients 2m 14s
Using standard conditions of agreement 4m 51s
Coping with revisions and change orders 2m 33s
4. Professional Practice 15m 18s
Finding and keeping good clients 2m 2s
Getting a great start when working directly with the client 2m 33s
Protocol for correspondence and meetings 2m 50s
Challenges freelancers face with agencies 2m 39s
Challenges agencies face with freelancers 3m 6s
Taking credit for work with agencies 2m 8s
5. Organization and Getting Paid 10m 43s
General bookkeeping setup 3m 0s
Invoicing and purchase orders 2m 42s
Creating past-due notices 2m 47s
Managing nonpayment situations 2m 14s
6. Long-Term Success Strategies 11m 0s
Establishing and maintaining business relationships 3m 15s
Working "on spec" 2m 12s
Learning to say no 3m 8s
Staying motivated and inspired 2m 25s
Conclusion 50s
Next steps 50s
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Lynda.com - Running a Design Business - Starting Small [36 Videos (MP4), 36 Subtitle files (SRT), 36 Exercise files (PDF, DOC, PSD)]
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Learn how to transition your freelance design career into a full-fledged business, one step at a time, in this installment of Running a Design Business. Petrula Vrontikis, founder of her own design firm, explains how to parse the legal options, business licenses, and tax ramifications that come with starting a small business; hire subcontractors and employees; get work; and maintain good business relationships. The course also points to important trends in the industry that your office might want to embrace, such as virtual partnerships that allow you to nimbly collaborate, and common small business challenges that you want to make sure to avoid.
Topics include:
* Naming and structuring your business
* Keeping records
* Cultivating business relationships
* Hiring employees and subcontractors
* Creating schedules and managing deadlines
* Understanding industry trends
* Avoiding the pitfalls of spec work
* Promoting your business through social media
Table of Contents:
Introduction 2m 52s
Welcome 56s
Disclaimer 40s
About this course 41s
Exercise files 35s
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David James - SEO Consultant in 90 Days [MP3s]
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How To Start Your Own Offline Consulting Business and Make a Full Time Living In 90 Days Or Less!
The Biggest Offline Consultants Reveal Their Ultimate Secrets to Success
You’ll Find In Depth Interviews From:
Ron Herman
Ron Herman has been an entrepreneur, consultant, and sales trainer since the 1980s, with clients worldwide.
Ron is well known in internet marketing circles, having published and sold his first eBook in 1992.
Ron has a consultant training product called OfflineNinja.com, and has taken the time to discuss in great detail how to use positioning and influence to close big ticket consulting deals.
John Jonas
John Jonas is the mastermind behind Replacemyself.com. John explains to us how important it is to outsource your business and how to avoid the common mistakes that people make when trying to outsource their projects.
Jim Cockrum
Jim Cockrum is the mastermind behind offlinebiz.com. With a community of 10,000 offline consultants in his membership site, Jim offers a ton of advice to everybody who is looking to take their offline marketing business to the next level.
Holly Cotter
Holly Cotter founded her own internet based company in 1998 and is the president of Prosperity Marketing LLC. She has a proven track record of helping businesses generate sales online and has helped hundreds of people on how to make money online.
Liam McIvor Martin
Liam Martin has released some of the greatest offline marketing products such as 'The Perfect Process' and 'The Perfect Product For Facebook'. Liam discusses how he outsources his lead generation system. Liam Martin was also a guest speaker at SXSW 2011.
Millard Grubb
Millard Grubb has been involved in offline consulting for over 20 years and always offers advice to potential clients and other offline consultants who need a guiding hand. Millard explains just how one client can bring you a full time income.
Ryan Shaw
Ryan is responsible for an amazing Offline Consulting Course called 'The Offline Apprentice System Training'. Ryan Shaw began making a comfortable living in less than 58 days. Ryan Shaw explains how his business went viral with very little work.
Brian Anderson
Brian Anderson is the founder of Peach Tree SEO and is responsible for managing search engine strategies for various clients that brings his business over $120,000+ per month.
Sam Bakker
Sam Bakker is the creator of Facebook Cash and has helped several clients who are brand new to promoting online and help them achieve the success they’ve always dreamed of.
Kate Buck Jr.
Kate Buck Jr. makes over $100,000 annually by offering social media to various clients. Her latest product Let's Get Social has taught tons of people how to make money online by offering social media to various clients.
Brad Gosse
Brad Gosse is a webmaster turned business owner. Brad began building websites for various clients and scaled his business with a very intelligent recurring income strategy that everybody can benefit from.
Mr X
Mr X has decided to remain anonymous. Why? Because his SEO tactics are so devastating that he doesn't want to be in the spot light. Mr X runs an SEO Company that gets his clients ranking for various positions in the search engines. Mr X has over 11 years of SEO experience and is by far the best SEO Consultant I have ever met.
Steve Champagne
Steve Champage makes over $10,000 a month helping clients with SEO. Steve explains to us how to get testimonials from your clients and how to take your offline marketing business to the next level.
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Lynda.com - Blogging for Your Business [27 Videos (MP4), 27 Subtitle files (SRT), 4 Exercise files (PDF, DOCX)]
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Duration: 1h 27m
Coach: Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Blogging for Your Business takes you through the planning process of creating a blog as part of your business marketing strategy. Author Morten Rand-Hendriksen provides a structured approach that divides the planning process into discrete stages, each with its own tasks and decisions.
Through the course you are presented with key decisions, best practices, and expert advice that make you better informed and more equipped to build a blog that helps boost your business and its presence online. The course also shows how to set goals, delegate responsibilities, find a content niche, recruit contributors, and how to make technology decisions.
Topics include:
* Why blog for business?
* Defining goals for your blog
* Deciding where to host a blog
* Picking a platform
* Creating a content strategy
* Designing the blog
* Scheduling posts
* Promoting posts on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks
Table of Contents:
Introduction 3m 8s
Welcome 1m 43s
Using the exercise files 1m 25s
1. Blogging for Business: Core Concepts 8m 25s
What is a blog? 2m 53s
Why blog for business? 2m 48s
Business blogging in five stages 2m 44s
2. Goals 10m 37s
Finding a purpose 2m 58s
Defining goals 2m 54s
Creating a one-year plan 4m 45s
3. Strategy 8m 49s
Where does the blog live? 2m 50s
Who "owns" the blog? 3m 0s
Creating editorial guidelines 2m 59s
4. Technology 17m 43s
Understanding the web 3m 7s
Picking a platform 3m 4s
Social media decisions 2m 19s
Getting wired in 2m 40s
SEO and sharing 6m 33s
5. Content Creation 22m 25s
Creating a content strategy 3m 28s
Content formats and types 4m 46s
Recruiting contributors 2m 44s
Creating content 4m 8s
Using images 3m 39s
Using video 3m 40s
6. Implementation 15m 6s
Designing the blog 4m 26s
Preparing to publish the blog 4m 3s
Creating a blogging schedule 2m 55s
Social interaction 3m 42s
Conclusion 1m 16s
Going live and beyond 1m 16s
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Joseph Menn - All the Rave; The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster [AAC]
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ALL THE RAVE. . — by Joseph Menn
The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning’s Napster
PUBLISHER'S REVIEW
At age seventeen, Shawn Fanning designed a computer program that transformed the Internet into an unlimited library of free music. Tens of millions of young people quickly signed on, Time magazine put Fanning on its cover, and his company, Napster, became a household name. It did not take long for the music industry to declare war, one that has now engulfed the biggest entertainment and technology companies on the planet.
For All the Rave, top cyberculture journalist Joseph Menn gained unprecedented access to Fanning, other key Napster and music executives, reams of internal e-mails, unpublished court records, and other resources. The result is the definitive account of the Napster saga, for the first time revealing secret take-over and settlement talks, the unseen role of Shawn’s uncle in controlling Napster, and hidden agendas and infighting from Napster’s trenches to the top ranks of the German media giant Bertelsmann.
All the Rave is a riveting account of genius and greed, visionary leaps and disastrous business decisions, and the clash of the hacker and investor cultures with that of the copyright establishment. Napster left a generation of music fans feeling that paying the recording industry close to twenty dollars for a CD was a foolish and unnecessary extravagance, which provoked a still-growing backlash against digital media consumers that might leave them with less control than ever. Here is the inside story of the young visionary and the company that made it happen.
BOOK DETAILS:
Program Type: Audiobook UNABRIDGED
Duration: 13 hrs and 59 mins
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Release Date: Feb. 2013
Publisher: Audible, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B000ENBO0S
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Techbul [WSOTD] [Win + Mac]-Discover 1000s of Profitable Keywords Within Minutes With techbul's Keyword Suggestion!
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Techbul [WSOTD] [Win + Mac]-Discover 1000s of Profitable Keywords Within Minutes With techbul's Keyword Suggestion!
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