Home-Based Business on a Budget: Build a Free Website & More
What you'll learn
- By the end of this course, you'll be able to setup and design your own website
- Create a visually pleasing Online Store with a shopping cart without paying a dime
- Learn how to offer digital content directly from your website
- Create payment buttons and offer a discount
- Set up your business phone number with options
- Set up an email marketing campaign and newsletter
Requirements
- There are no prerequisites for this course. If the student chooses to follow along, they can get links to the 4 platforms we'll be using, but again, they're all free.
Description
**Note** This course has not been updated in a while and some of the information is outdated, but still relevant. New modules will not be added.
This course is a click-by-click, step-by-step setup of a website and back office to help entrepreneurs and anyone else looking to save money on costs when running a business or selling a product.
**Get your lifetime access at this super-low price now!
Review from Chakib CM:
Great course for people with low budget ! "Great course that show how to set-up a complete business online without spending a dime with a great free resources, thank you very much"
Review from Vincent Harris:
Outstanding!!!
"I feel like I was taken by the hand into building a website! Concise, informative, and practical. The techniques on how to save money are priceless!"
No matter what your business is, whether it's a service-based business or you have a hundred products to sell, you'll be able to benefit from the lessons in this course and tweak it to work for you and your business. In it we'll learn:
How to set up a website using Wix; a super simple, user-friendly platform (I'll tell you why I use this particular one in a later lecture)
How to set your website up with your own online store, completely free
How to set up payment buttons with options, a shopping cart, subscriptions, and you can even track inventory
How to get a business telephone number completely free, that rings up to 6 lines. You can schedule the times it rings to specific lines!
How to set up simple email marketing and newsletter
How to create forms/polls/questionnaires with results sent directly to a spreadsheet and how to bring it into your website. (you'd be surprised how useful this is!)
How to create a calendar/schedule with registration (perfect for events, meetings and even restaurant seating!)
How to create webinars/virtual conferencing and even broadcast a show LIVE! (This comes in handy for remote meetings/collaborations, video marketing and training sessions)
I'll show you how to link these resources together so keep your back office running smoothly at no cost
I'll also show you how to create a simple text logo for your business as an added bonus.
Now, there will be a few other things we'll get into, but these are the major points we focus on in this course. I've personally seen this system and these resources work for all types of business in all types of markets: Gyms and personal trainers, event planners, beauty supply store, martial arts studio, food truck pre-ordering system, hair/nail stylists and even a major insurance marketing agency...this list continues to grow!
You'll watch a series of screencasts that will walk with you through every step from beginning to end. I'm sure you'll pick up some great ideas for your business along the way! You'll be able to watch, follow along and then do it yourself before moving on to the next section/lecture. Each phase is divided into small, manageable lectures so that if you need to refer back to something you can find it quickly and easily. This isn't a course that hands out general information in hopes that you go purchase a more comprehensive course that contains 'the real' information you need. I'm not telling you what you should do, I'm simply providing the information and resources you need to get it done. By the end of this course, you'll be able to completely set up and manage your back office and website without having to shell out your hard-earned money on services that can cost nothing but a little elbow grease. Go ahead and click the blue 'Take This Course' button on this page and let's get your back office built!
Who this course is for:
- Small business owners
- Anyone that's paying for ecommerce and other back office features and wants to lower those costs to nothing
- Anyone with a product to sell
- Musicians, authors, artists, producers, photographers and anyone else with digital content to sell
- Fitness studios, gyms, personal trainers, tutors, teachers and anyone else with a class or schedule-base business and needs a calendar with registration
- Anyone that's paying for a business line without text messaging features, a ring schedule and much more
- Hair salons, nail salons, stylists, anyone with an appointment based business
- Restaurants with a menu and reserved seating
Course content
- Preview02:30
- 00:23Introduction to Wix.com
- Preview02:34
- 02:46Premium Features?
Instructor
![Sheila Bowen](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 13 Reviews
- 465 Students
- 1 Course
For many years as small business owner, before pursuing my bachelors degree in graphic design, I built my websites much like everyone and paid for premium services I thought I absolutely needed to pay for in order to effectively run my businesses online. I paid for e-commerce, I paid for an appointment scheduler, I paid for sites to host my digital content for sale, I paid for a business phone line, I paid, paid, paid! To the tune of $350/month (not including merchandise and other expenses) for "premium" services to run my website and reach my customers.
I knew there had to be a better way! I was putting out as much money as I was taking in. Fast forward a bit and I'm now a graphic designer building websites for myself and for my clients with the same design and functionality as those "premium" services I used to pay big time for. But now I'm saving a load of money every month doing it using only four resources that I already had free accounts with, and most of you do, too.
All of the methods I show in this course are tried-and-true effective for real-life businesses. Not only the content for your website and other business services (like a phone number), but even the method by which I'm teaching this course. I chose the platforms I did not only because of the cost, but because they are extremely user friendly. I know that when I build a website for a client, more often than not, they will be the one who manages it. My objective is to make it as easy as possible for them while still maintaining the quality. After the website is complete, I host a video training session with the client and we go over each stage of the build step by step, just like you will in this course. You'll be able to take what you learn in this course and expand on it. You'll realize how much you can do with free resources, and that's something you'll take with you beyond this course.
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