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Be Your Own Boss: Strategies for Launching Your Creative Career

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Overview

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In this class Martina Flor, lettering artist and designer, unravels the nooks and crannies of being self-employed, providing practical tools and useful tips to start your own studio.

Martina, previously showed you techniques and foundations to create lettering at her classes The Golden Secrets of Hand-Lettering: Create the Perfect Postcard, The Golden Secrets of Script Lettering: Find Inspiration In Your Handwriting and Storytelling Through Lettering: Exploring Different Styles. In this class she will address many of your questions concerning freelancing and starting a career with what you like doing.

Based on her own personal experience, Martina demonstrates how taking the big leap to freelancing, as challenging as it is, is also a unique opportunity to shape your personal brand from the ground up. 

Throughout this class Martina will cover:

  • How to build your reputation
  • Foundations for building and maintaining a portfolio
  • How to use social media
  • How and where to find clients
  • Strategies for building relationships with future clients
  • Pricing your work, and more!

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • When is the Right Time?
  • The Right Mindset: Pros and Cons
  • Being Your Own Client
  • Showcasing Your Work
  • Your Bio - How I Introduce Myself?
  • Finding Clients
  • Do I Need an Agent?
  • Building an Audience
  • Pricing Your Work
  • Developing a Creative Brief
  • Creating a Professional Work Process
  • How do I Get Better?

Taught by

Martina Flor

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