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LinkedIn Learning

Employee to Entrepreneur

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to develop, plan, and executive a strategy to move from working for a company to working for yourself.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Regaining your power
1. Developing a Prepared Mindset
  • Recognizing your readiness
  • Identifying your reservations
  • Your starting point
  • Elevating your self-awareness
2. Generating Your Business Idea
  • Ideas need to solve problems
  • Leaning into strengths and passions
  • Ensuring marketability
3. You May Not Need a Business Plan
  • Get it off the ground
  • Staying lean and iterating
4. Getting Your Business "Live"
  • Setting up business systems
  • Building your company website
  • Creating your financial structure
  • Scheduling your workflow
  • Getting out of your own way
  • Overcoming your "pricing shyness"
5. Growing Your Entrepreneurial Network
  • Having conversations on social media
  • Leveraging in-person networking
  • Networking do's and don'ts
6. Positioning Your Brand
  • Building a competitive position
  • Gaining brand visibility
  • Stages of customer awareness
7. Communicating with Potential Clients
  • Communicating your value
  • Overcoming objections
  • A confident close
8. Becoming Business Savvy
  • Emphasize continued learning
  • Business 101
  • Thinking bigger
Conclusion
  • Go crush it!

Taught by

Madecraft and Dana Robinson

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