Learn how to kickstart your freelance business from scratch with practical insights and real-world experiences!
This course guides you through launching a successful freelance business with practical steps, real-life experiences, and loads of resources to get you started.
Learn how to build a profitable freelance business completely from scratch and gain the tools needed to succeed.
Course update March 2021: I've added a new guide that shows how to automate project management tasks utilizing GitHub's Kanban board.
Are you ready to launch your own freelance development business but don't know where to start? I used to be the same way and I spent years refining my system in order to run a successful freelance business. My name is Jordan Hudgens and I'll be your instructor for this course. In addition to being an instructor I also have a freelance development business that generated over $295,000 last year alone. In fact, in one month I made over $43,000 in freelance work. And in this course I'm going to walk through the exact process I used to build my freelance service so that you can learn from it and launch your own business.
I have spent the last year putting together this curriculum based on my own real world experiences with clients. This includes discussing the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to becoming a freelancer. Many other freelancing courses are filled with 1-2 hours worth of theoretical concepts. I took a different approach and focus 100% on practical real life experiences so that you can truly use this course to launch a freelance business. The result is that this course gives you 2 to 3 times more material than most other freelancing systems.
I've organized the course into practical sections so that you can follow along, this includes:
Preparing for the launch of your business. Including how to schedule your launch, how to create a portfolio that actually gets clients, how to craft a list of template proposals, and every other component you'll need in order to start your business.
Next we'll move onto the top challenge freelancers come across: how to get clients! This was the most difficult obstacle for me to overcome when I started my freelance business and I walk you through my marketing system that generated so many clients that I had to hire additional freelancers to help take on all of the new clients that were signing up.
As important as getting clients is when it comes to launching a freelance business I don't end the course there. I dedicate sections to the topics of managing projects, testing for code quality, working with legacy applications, and how to manage client communication to ensure that your clients become your biggest fans.
If the idea of hard work doesn't scare you off and if the concept of making your own schedule and being able to work from anywhere in the world is appealing, then this is the course for you.
Since these concepts are part of my life's work, I didn't simply record myself discussing the material. I also wrote a full book on how you can launch your freelance business called: The Freelancer's Manifesto, and I'm giving every student that signs up for this course a copy completely for free (sold for $30 online and in stores). The book is a great companion to the video lessons and includes additional stories and examples from my own freelance experience.
In addition to the book, when you sign up for the course I will also send you all of the documents you'll need in order to become a freelancer, including: the legal agreements I give to clients, my full list of template proposals, and as with all my other courses you can message me anytime with any questions that you may have.
Please feel free to review the course curriculum and I look forward to going through the material with you on your freelance journey!
Build a freelance business completely from scratch, including: acquiring clients, building a portfolio, and managing projects.
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Jordan Hudgens is the CTO and Founder of Bottega where he leads instruction and curriculum development for all of the DevCamp and Bottega code schools around the US.As a full stack developer for over the past decade, Jordan has traveled the world building applications and training individuals on a variety of technology stacks, including: Ruby on Rails, Python, React JS,...
Good Freelancing course to know every corner of the business to succeed in your freelancing career.
Emphasizes the strategic and logical side of achieving success and, above all, happiness in self-employment. In addition to presenting the basic tools and techniques needed to become more effective, the trainer shares some very pertinent anecdotes revealing the importance of human skills, communication and respect for who you are and what you really want.
Great course to prepare the jump to freelancing. Even if it is from 2016, it is still relevant today for the most part. The only things that could be updated are the design software recommendations (No mention of Figma) and other newer project management tools (Monday, clickUp... ), but even then it is easy to understand the key useful features to look for in such software. Thank you Jordan!
Very good information; systematic approach.
I was expecting something more practical.
A great eyeopener and guide for anyone looking to looking to create their own business. However, some of the links are old and/or expired.
I really don't know much about freelancing and this lays out what it takes to be a freelancer. I have yet to launch my own business but I find these lessons very motivating to do so.
The course was effective in helping me gain confidence and develop a strategy for my freelancing endeavors.
Yes , though my industry is different however basic approach method and process are well explained. Hope this course can indicate the industry that its focusing on. Not all profession can benefit.
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Jp C.
Video is great. The information is presented in a clear manner that I can understand.