Course Introduction
This course is meant to teach the tips and tricks of freelancing in the simplest and most effective way. The do’s and don’ts are discussed, which a freelancer must be aware of. An introduction to different types of freelance marketplaces is given in this course. Web portals like Fiverr, Guru, and Freelancer are introduced and discussed in detail so that a trainee can make money using these portals effectively.
Learning Outcomes
After completing this course, a trainee will be able to:
- Define freelancing
- Identify different types of freelance marketplaces
- Identify the pros and cons of freelancing
- Identify and apply their strengths/skills in the freelance market.
- Sign up as a freelancer at different platforms
- Create a compelling profile on freelance platforms
- Search the right projects
- Write a winning proposal
- Define the importance of communication skills
- Manage a project once it is awarded
- Manage project payments (escrow, invoicing system)
- Identify the importance of feedback for profile
- Identify the steps to keep projects coming
- Identify the mistakes and problems every freelancer faces
- Identify steps to become a Successful Freelancer
- Identify the steps for effective Bidding to get the most from the process
- Identify the steps to grow as a freelancer
- Identify how to retain existing client
Curriculum
- 12 Sections
- 200 Lessons
- 12 Weeks
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- Week 118
- 1.01 – Introduction of the Instructor
- 1.12 – What is covered in the Course and Course Support
- 1.23 – Introduction to Freelancing: What is Freelancing?
- 1.34 – Introduction to Freelancing: Why Freelancing?
- 1.45 – Introduction to Freelancing: Importance of Freelancing for Females
- 1.56 – Introduction to Freelancing: Types of Freelance marketplaces
- 1.67 – Introduction to Freelancing: Advantages of Freelancing
- 1.78 – Introduction to Freelancing: Disadvantages of Freelancing
- 1.89 – Essentials of Freelancing
- 1.910 – Choose Your Craft (Skills): Define Your Goals
- 1.1011 – Choose Your Craft (Skills): What skills do you have?
- 1.1112 – Choose Your Craft (Skills): What skill excites you?
- 1.1213 – Choose Your Craft (Skills): How to learn a new skill?
- 1.1314 – What is Business Communication?
- 1.1415 – Importance of Communication Skills for Freelancing
- 1.1516 – How to Improve Communication Skill
- 1.1617 – Real World Scenarios and Examples of Communication With Clients
- 1.1718 – Ways of Freelancing
- Week 216
- 2.0What Will I Learn?: Learn how to win your Client’s trust
- 2.1What Will I Learn?: Charge more to your Freelance clients
- 2.2What sets you apart as a Freelancer?: Level of Skill
- 2.3What sets you apart as a Freelancer?: Communication Skills
- 2.4What sets you apart as a Freelancer?: Speed of response
- 2.5What sets you apart as a Freelancer?: Professional Behavior
- 2.6What sets you apart as a Freelancer?: Presenting your work
- 2.7What sets you apart as a Freelancer?: Defining Project deliverables
- 2.8Mistakes and Problems every Freelancer face: Which project should I take?
- 2.9Mistakes and Problems every Freelancer face: Pricing yourself
- 2.10Mistakes and Problems every Freelancer face: Calculate hours
- 2.11Mistakes and Problems every Freelancer face: How to manage time?
- 2.12Mistakes and Problems every Freelancer face: Work life balance for Freelancers
- 2.13Mistakes and Problems every Freelancer face: Freelancing Behaviour
- 2.14Mistakes and Problems every Freelancer face: Setting project scope in the beginning
- 2.15Mistakes and Problems every Freelancer face: Lack of client’s response
- Week 317
- 3.0Freelance Job Hunting Skills: Freelance Job Selection
- 3.1Freelance Job Hunting Skills: Bidding on the right project
- 3.2Freelance Job Hunting Skills: Identifying fake vs original project
- 3.3Freelance Job Hunting Skills: Asking questions
- 3.4Freelance Job Hunting Skills: Importance of professional response to the project
- 3.5Freelance Job Hunting Skills: When to put a premium bid?
- 3.6Freelance Job Hunting Skills: High priced projects vs low priced projects
- 3.7Types of freelance marketplaces: Traditional freelance marketplace and Nontraditional freelance marketplace
- 3.8Types of freelance marketplaces: Upwork
- 3.9Types of freelance marketplaces: Freelancer.com
- 3.10Types of freelance marketplaces: Fiverr.com
- 3.11Types of freelance marketplaces: Guru.com
- 3.12Types of freelance marketplaces: PeoplePerHour
- 3.13Types of freelance marketplaces: Craigslist
- 3.14Types of freelance marketplaces: List of all major freelance marketplaces and their reviews
- 3.15Presenting Yourself
- 3.16Assignment 1
- Week 417
- 4.051 – Best Time to Create a Profile
- 4.152 – Essentials of Profile
- 4.253 – Create Graphics for Your Profile
- 4.354 – How to Open Bank Account
- 4.455 – Difference Between Payment Verification and Withdrawal method
- 4.556 – Setting your payment information: Reason for populating your payment information
- 4.657 – Setting your payment information: Registering your business with FBR
- 4.758 – Setting your payment information: Getting a bank account
- 4.859 – Setting your payment information: Getting IBAN, Swift code
- 4.960 – Setting your payment information: Populating bank wire information
- 4.1061 – How to Find Work on Fiverr (Defining Fiverr): Introduction to Fiverr
- 4.1162 – How to Find Work on Fiverr (Defining Fiverr): Importance of profile details on Fiverr
- 4.1263 – How to Find Work on Fiverr (Defining Fiverr): How to create a GIG?
- 4.1364 – How to Find Work on Fiverr (Defining Fiverr): The importance of keywords
- 4.1465 – How to Find Work on Fiverr (Defining Fiverr): The importance of Video for your Gigs
- 4.1566 – How to Find Work on Fiverr (Defining Fiverr): Extra offer (time constraint) to get more money
- 4.16Quiz 119 Minutes10 Questions
- Week 517
- 5.067 – How to Find Work on Fiverr (Defining Fiverr): The importance of meeting timelines (deliverables)
- 5.168 – How to Find Work on Fiverr (Defining Fiverr): Importance of employer’s feedback
- 5.269 – How to Find Work on Fiverr (Defining Fiverr): How to promote your GIG on Fiverr?
- 5.370 – How to Find Work on Fiverr (Defining Fiverr): The importance of multiple Gigs
- 5.471 – How to Find Work on Fiverr (Defining Fiverr): Buyer request and its importance
- 5.572 – Fiverr: Funds withdrawal method (Payoneer)
- 5.673 – Fiverr: Disputes
- 5.774 – Introduction to Freelancer.com
- 5.875 – Freelancer: Bidding on projects, bid types and requesting milestone’s payment
- 5.976 – Freelancer: Payment integration and withdrawal methods
- 5.1077 – Skrill: Account creation and payment method integration
- 5.1178 – Introduction to PeoplePerHour
- 5.1279 – PeoplePerHour: Requesting Milestones and Raising Invoice
- 5.1380 – Upwork: Introduction
- 5.1481 – Upwork: Benefits
- 5.1582 – Upwork: When to start doing business
- 5.16Assignment 2
- Week 617
- 6.083 – Upwork: Profile Setup
- 6.184 – Upwork: Tests
- 6.285 – Upwork: Badges
- 6.386 – Upwork: Project Catalog
- 6.487 – Upwork: Specialized Profile
- 6.588 – Upwork: Connects policy
- 6.689 – Upwork: Membership plans and their perks
- 6.790 – Upwork: Difference between fixed and hourly jobs
- 6.891 – Upwork: Work Diary
- 6.992 – Upwork: Handling invites
- 6.1093 – Upwork: Feedback and Reviews
- 6.1194 – Upwork: How to identify Scam
- 6.1295 – Upwork: Handling Disputes
- 6.1396 – Upwork: Direct Contracts
- 6.1497 – Upwork: Finding right jobs
- 6.1598 – Upwork: Effective bids for the right jobs Part-01
- 6.16Quiz 210 Minutes10 Questions
- Week 716
- 7.199 – Upwork: Effective bids for the right jobs Part-02
- 7.2100 – Upwork: Client Retention
- 7.3101 – Upwork: Identify Good Clients
- 7.4102 – Upwork: Reach out existing clients
- 7.5103 – Upwork: Upselling
- 7.6104 – Upwork: Policies
- 7.7105 – Upwork: Agency and its Pros and Cons
- 7.8106 – Upwork: Forum and Communities
- 7.9107 – Realtime project hunting – case study-01
- 7.10108 – Realtime project hunting – case study-02
- 7.11109 – Realtime project hunting – case study-03
- 7.12110 – Realtime project hunting – case study-04
- 7.13111 – Realtime project hunting – case study-05
- 7.14112 – Realtime project hunting – case study-06
- 7.15113 – How to find Work on Traditional marketplaces (Guru, upwork, freelancer.com): Identifying the project
- 7.16114 – How to find Work on Traditional marketplaces (Guru, upwork, freelancer.com): Importance of understanding client’s brief
- Week 817
- 8.0115 – How to find Work on Traditional marketplaces (Guru, upwork, freelancer.com): Summarizing client’s brief
- 8.1116 – Upwork, Guru and Freelancer policies: Policies of Freelancing Marketplaces
- 8.2117 – Upwork, Guru and Freelancer policies: What gets your profile banned?
- 8.3118 – Upwork, Guru and Freelancer policies: How to get your profile unbanned?
- 8.4119 – Effective time for bidding: What is the best time to bid on a project?
- 8.5120 – Effective time for bidding: How soon a response should be submitted?
- 8.6121 – Effective time for bidding: Importance of using smartphone for PMB (quick response)
- 8.7122 – Importance of PMB: How to craft a response for employer’s message?
- 8.8123 – Importance of PMB: How soon a reply should be submitted?
- 8.9124 – Importance of PMB: Free offer in the response
- 8.10125 – Importance of PMB: Encouraging an interview time setup
- 8.11126 – Importance of PMB: Importance of Video
- 8.12127 – Importance of PMB: Why message storage in PMB is important?
- 8.13128 – Steps for project Award: The first response
- 8.14129 – Steps for project Award: Setting up a payment proposal
- 8.15130 – Steps for project Award: Requesting Escrow
- 8.16Assignment 3
- Week 916
- 9.0131 – Steps for project Award: Defining milestones
- 9.1132 – Managing Freelance marketplace dispute with employer: What causes a dispute?
- 9.2133 – Managing Freelance marketplace dispute with employer: The importance of keeping track of conversation
- 9.3134 – Managing Freelance marketplace dispute with employer: When to file a dispute?
- 9.4135 – Managing Freelance marketplace dispute with employer: When to get out of a dispute?
- 9.5136 – Inspirational Story: Mudassir Malik (CEO AppsGenii)
- 9.6137 – Inspiration Story: Nazia Rasool (Business Development AppsGenii)
- 9.7138 – Inspiration Story: Hisham Sarwar (Making a freelance career with no digital skill)
- 9.8139 – What to do when bids don’t attract a response?: How to manage disappointment?
- 9.9140 – What to do when bids don’t attract a response?: Think un-orthodox
- 9.10141 – What to do when bids don’t attract a response?: Go back to previous clients
- 9.11142 – What to do when bids don’t attract a response?: Give an amazing offer
- 9.12143 – What to do when bids don’t attract a response?: Check your bid time, PMB response
- 9.13144 – How to win your first client as a freelancer?: Self confidence
- 9.14145 – How to win your first client as a freelancer?: Mastering a skill and knowledge
- 9.15146 – How to win your first client as a freelancer?: The amazing formula of landing your first project
- Week 1017
- 10.0147 – Business Side of Freelancing: How much money can you make?
- 10.1148 – Importance of creating a brand: Importance of Creating your business logo (your brand)
- 10.2149- Importance of creating a brand: Importance of creating your website
- 10.3150 – Importance of creating a brand: How to create a free website?
- 10.4151 – Importance of creating a brand: How to get hosting and a domain name for very low cost?
- 10.5152 – Importance of creating a brand: Importance of creating a PDF profile
- 10.6153 – Importance of creating a brand: Importance of creating Facebook page
- 10.7154 – Use of Social media to promote your Freelance profile: The importance of LinkedIn
- 10.8155 – Use of Social media to promote your Freelance profile: Paid vs Free promotion
- 10.9156 – Outsourcing: What is outsourcing?
- 10.10157 – Outsourcing: When to think about outsourcing?
- 10.11158 – Outsourcing: Using software to keep the check on progress
- 10.12159 – Outsourcing: Payment milestones
- 10.13160 – Outsourcing: Importance of networking with your outsourced team
- 10.14161 – When to hire an in-house team member?: The right time to hire a resource
- 10.15162 – When to hire an in-house team member?: The appropriate talent hunt
- 10.16Assignment 4
- Week 1116
- 11.0163 – When to hire an in-house team member?: Website to hire talent for your work
- 11.1164 – When to hire an in-house team member?: How to grow your work and team?
- 11.2165 – Importance of using software for project management: Why software?
- 11.3166 – Importance of using software for project management: What are the best software for project management?
- 11.4167 – Difference between a freelancer and a home-based service business: The balanced, logical differentiation
- 11.5168 – Difference between a freelancer and a home-based service business: Decide what you want to offer
- 11.6169 – Difference between a freelancer and a home-based service business: The target market
- 11.7170 – Difference between a freelancer and a home-based service business: Reach out to your target market
- 11.8171 – The Pros of being a freelancer: Compensation
- 11.9172 – The Pros of being a freelancer: Work life balance
- 11.10173 – The Pros of being a freelancer: Location
- 11.11174 – The Pros of being a freelancer: Optimism
- 11.12175 – The Pros of being a freelancer: Recession Proof
- 11.13176 – The Pros of being a freelancer: Entrepreneurs of the future
- 11.14177 – Cons of freelancing: Pessimism
- 11.15178 – Cons of freelancing: Profession of freelancing may not prove to be a veritable paradise
- Week 1218
- 12.0179 – Cons of freelancing: Low productivity
- 12.1180 – Cons of freelancing: Better Reward
- 12.2181 – Cons of freelancing: No health security
- 12.3182 – Cons of freelancing: Stability
- 12.4183 – Cons of freelancing: Effected by economic ups and downs
- 12.5184 – Lesser Known But Equally Powerful Freelance Websites: 99designs
- 12.6185 – Lesser Known But Equally Powerful Freelance Websites: Freelance Writing Gigs
- 12.7186 – Lesser Known But Equally Powerful Freelance Websites: Toptal
- 12.8187 – Lesser Known But Equally Powerful Freelance Websites: Simply Hired
- 12.9188 – Conclusion: Emphasis on freelancing
- 12.10189 – Conclusion: Your role in taking up freelancing and improving Pakistan’s ranking
- 12.11190 – Conclusion: Increase in foreign remittance
- 12.12191 – Conclusion: Pakistan’s role in global IT world
- 12.13192 – Passive Ways of Income
- 12.14193 – Global Presence
- 12.15194 – How to Move from Freelancing to Entrepreneurship
- 12.16195 – How to Setup Team
- 12.17196 – The Last Advice
