Waitlisted - Building Your Freelance Foundation
Thursdays 12-1:30pm, PDT - Weeks 8-12
Successful freelancing requires more than just great work. In this series CPD will help you create a solid foundation of business basics to set you up for success. Together we’ll learn the basics of setting your rate, creating a contract and invoice, finding clients, and pitching your work.
You can read details of what we’ll do each week down below. All times are PDT.
Thanks to great interest, registration in Building Your Freelance Foundation is closed. We are keeping a waitlist and if spots open up, we will contact students in order from that list.
Session Five
In this session we’ll focus on best practices for pitching your work to clients. Together we’ll learn how to create a brief curated portfolio, and we’ll draft a pitch email template. We will end the session by participating in a Q&A with a successful freelancer.
Session Four
This week’s session will focus on finding clients. We’ll talk about how to build a creative community, how to utilize your personal network, and how to search for opportunities. Together we’ll create a people map and an outreach email to send to your networks.
Session Three
This week’s session will focus on either building or editing your online presence. Together we’ll research freelance profiles and discuss why they’re successful or not. We’ll look at each other’s websites, instagrams, and LinkedIns and will implement easy tips for engagement and networking.
Session Two
This session will focus on learning how to get paid and keep organized as you begin to look for clients. Together we’ll calculate your freelance rate, learn how to track your time, and create an invoice template and a spreadsheet for tracking clients.
Session One
In this session we’ll chat through the topics you’d like to tackle in this series, and then we’ll dive into the learning about freelancing business basics. We’ll cover W9s, 1099s, 1040Es, Contracts, and NDAs. Together we’ll create a freelance business folder to get organized, and we’ll work on a draft contract template to get you started.