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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
Mistakes and Problems every Freelancer face: Freelancing Behaviour
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Topic Brief
In this topic instructor will talk about the importance of positive attitude as a freelancer.
Skill(s) the trainee will acquire after completing this topic:
- Professional Behavior