Start a Design Business

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Entrepreneurship Foundations
-Learn the foundations of entrepreneurship and assess your potential to become a business owner.

Course 2: Entrepreneurship: Bootstrapping Your Business
-Start and grow your own business without outside funding. Learn what it takes to manage your spending, prepare your personal finances, apply for awards and grants, and more.

Course 3: Launching Your Creative Business
-Learn about business considerations and strategies unique to launching a creative business. Explore ways to help your creative business succeed.

Course 4: Running a Design Business: The Staffing Rule Book
-Learn how to make better, smarter, and more strategic staffing and organizational decisions to grow and manage your creative team.

Course 5: Creating a Business Plan
-Looking to build a business or expand one you're already running? You need to write a business plan. Learn how to define your business, market, product, sales strategy, and more.

Course 6: Running a Design Business: Creative Briefs
-Learn to write and use a creative brief for client-commissioned projects and ensure you have a roadmap for developing great design.

Course 7: Running a Design Business: Writing and Pricing Winning Proposals
-Explore how to write a winning proposal that effectively communicates your services and includes a smart pricing strategy.

Course 8: Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements
-Learn to protect you and your client's interests and ensure a great creative design with a well-written contract.

Course 9: Running a Design Business: Presentation Skills
-Convey your ideas with confidence and clarity to get the approval needed to move your project forward.

Course 10: Branding Strategy: Define Your Creative Edge
-Get strategies for confidently promoting your work as a designer or illustrator, developing a consistent brand, and landing your dream clients.