About This Workshop
About This Workshop
Looking to grow your freelance business or take your side hustle to the main stage? This workshop covers the essential skills that freelancers and side-hustlers need to grow their brands and market themselves effectively. Over the course of three weeks, you’ll complete a series of handpicked classes and project prompts designed to help you build a successful brand, cultivate an online following, and engage your audience. Great for newbies and seasoned pros alike!
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Workshop Timeline
- Step 1: Due October 1st. The first step to promoting and growing your freelance practice is developing your authentic personal brand. In Building Your Online Presence: Personal Branding through Social Media, blogger Kate Arends shares how to create, evolve, and leverage your online personal brand for growth. You’ll create a purpose statement for your brand and share it in the class’s project gallery by October 1st.
- Step 2: Due October 8th. Next, we'll dive deep into social media marketing with freelance artist and designer Cat Coquillette’s class Social Media Marketing: Top Tips for Growing Your Followers & Going Viral. You’ll learn tons of tactical tips for growing your followers and engagement on social media.
- Step 3: Due October 15th. Finally, you'll tie together everything you’ve learned in Content Calendars Made Easy: Save Time and Develop a Personal Brand. In this class, Chanel Hays will show you how to optimize the time you spend on marketing while giving your audience quality, consistent content. You will complete a content calendar exercise and upload your project in the class’s project gallery by October 15th.
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Looking to grow your freelance business or take your side hustle to the main stage? This workshop covers the essential skills that freelancers and side-hustlers need to grow their brands and market themselves effectively. Over the course of three weeks, you’ll complete a series of handpicked classes and project prompts designed to help you build a successful brand, cultivate an online following, and engage your audience. Great for newbies and seasoned pros alike!
Get your first month of Skillshare Premium free! (New members only)
Workshop Timeline
- Step 1: Due October 1st. The first step to promoting and growing your freelance practice is developing your authentic personal brand. In Building Your Online Presence: Personal Branding through Social Media, blogger Kate Arends shares how to create, evolve, and leverage your online personal brand for growth. You’ll create a purpose statement for your brand and share it in the class’s project gallery by October 1st.
- Step 2: Due October 8th. Next, we'll dive deep into social media marketing with freelance artist and designer Cat Coquillette’s class Social Media Marketing: Top Tips for Growing Your Followers & Going Viral. You’ll learn tons of tactical tips for growing your followers and engagement on social media.
- Step 3: Due October 15th. Finally, you'll tie together everything you’ve learned in Content Calendars Made Easy: Save Time and Develop a Personal Brand. In this class, Chanel Hays will show you how to optimize the time you spend on marketing while giving your audience quality, consistent content. You will complete a content calendar exercise and upload your project in the class’s project gallery by October 15th.
