Working for yourself: 20 essentials for success
What you'll learn
- Decide if they are ready for self employment
- Start working for themselves
- Identify what they need to do before they set up their own business
Requirements
- Have a desire to work for themselves
Description
The essential things you need to know to help you make a success of becoming self-employed, setting up your own business and/or going freelance. This course gives you Insights and strategies draw from over 25 years experience running my own marketing and consultancy business and working with successful entrepreneurs and business owners in many industry sectors.
This is not stuff you will find in a business text book. The "20 Essentials for Success" are distilled from years of practical business experience. I also provide tips from 12 other successful business owners: I asked each of them to give three pieces of advice they would pass on to someone wanting to start their own business.
Starting your own business or going freelance is a big decision, hopefully one that will change your life forever in a very positive way. But that journey can be difficult and challenging, and taking this course is one of the steps you can take to help you maximise your chances of success.
The four hours of video content is supported by a written transcripts of the audio lectures, quizzes and some option a short assignments to help you start applying the ideas on the course to your own business.
At the end of the course you should have a more clearly focussed business idea, a better appreciation of what running your own business is really like and a understanding of the personal qualities you need to develop to maximise your chances of success.
The course is aimed at anyone who are considering going freelance or working for themselves for the first time - either full or part-time.
Who this course is for:
- People who are considering becoming self employed
- People who have recently become self-employed looking for additional guidance
Course content
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Instructor
![Mick Farmer](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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I have been running my own design and marketing business for over 25 years. Prior to starting my own business I worked for several UK advertising agencies and worked 'client-side' for a while as a marketing manager.
During that time I have worked with and advised hundreds of people in many different sectors. I have worked as business mentor; I am also a distance learning tutor for the Cambridge Marketing College and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).
I have written business and marketing courses for colleges around the UK covering a wide range of topics including digital marketing, personal development, retail fundamentals and business administration. I am also a director of a small charity working in East Africa.