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Three Day Bootcamp
Learn how to find three new clients in three days and earn your first $300 as a Freelance Web Designer ... Guaranteed!
Lessons
1. THREE DAY BOOTCAMP - COURSE MATERIALS
Author: Spence
01-three-day-bootcamp
Learn how to find three new clients in three days and earn your first $300 as a Freelance Web Designer ... Guaranteed!
2. Your Essential WordPress Toolkit
Length: 5 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
02-your-essential-wordpress-toolkit
Since WordPress is a self-contained content management system, additional desktop applications arent required. This means that you can finally abandon Dreamweaver, Photoshop or any of the other expensive software bundles that have been standards in the past.
3. Whats my First Step? Find The Pain
Length: 19 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
03-find-the-pain
It has been said that the hardest part of any journey is taking the first step. In our case, were going to make it easy. Its just three little words. Ready? Find... The... Pain
4. Create child themes to customize WordPress
Length: 14 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
04-create-child-themes-to-customize-wordpress
At the heart of any WordPress website is the theme. Thankfully, WordPress has implemented a very unique and powerful theme system that enables one to create custom configurations, and then preserve and protect them from any future updates. This is known as Parent and Child theming.
5. Modify a theme logo, header, or color scheme
Length: 20 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
05-modify-logo-header-color
WordPress has a standard set of customization options available through the main administration dashboard. These include the ability to upload a logo image, a header image, or to select certain color schemes for the active theme.
6. Add slide shows to WordPress Themes
Length: 23 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
06-add-slideshows-to-wordpress-themes
This ranks as one of the most lucrative jobs for the time spent. It is most often seen in the WooThemes job board, as well as at the Responsive Theme help center.
7. Integrate MailChimp to a WordPress site
Length: 15 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
07-integrate-mailchimp-to-wordpress-site
One of the most important reasons to operate a WordPress site is to nurture a destination for marketing products and services to visitors today.... and to convince these visitors to join your mailing list so that you may continue marketing to them tomorrow.
8. How to approach your first potential client
Length: 15 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
08-how-to-approach-your-first-potential-client
Building client relationships is no different than building personal relationships. The key is to always BE YOURSELF. Even if you feel completely inadequate or inexperienced, you must build the foundation of your freelance web design business upon being true to your own personality.
9. Techniques you can use to get the job
Length: 8 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
09-techniques-you-can-use-to-get-the-job
Remember that our goal here is to find a person who is suffering the PAIN of being unable to achieve the results they want with their WordPress website. At this point, they are willing to spend money with someone who will solve this pain, but only if that person demonstrates the following qualities...
10. How to communicate with customers
Length: 4 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
10-how-to-communicate-with-customers
How should I communicate with a potential customer? There are three practical ways to interact with customers today: Email, Skype, and Telephone
11. How To Get Paid
Length: 7 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
11-how-to-get-paid
When discussing payment, it is critical to discuss two different issues: 1. When do you ask for, and receive, payment 2.What method to use for collect the actual payment (payment gateway)
12. Be Selective
Length: 5 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
12-be-selective
They say that the lowest hanging fruit still tastes as sweet, but requires a lot less effort. We are going to follow this axiom and get ourselves warmed-up by picking a job that meets the following criterion...
13. Find the PAIN
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
13-find-the-pain
The low-hanging fruit to which Ive referred will be found in any of the five places I referenced above: 1. WordPress.org Forums, 2. Codeable.io (formerly WooThemes Job Board), 3. Your Local Craigslist Listings, 4. bbPress.org, 5. BuddyPress.org
14. Codeable.io vs. WordPress.org
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
14-codeableio-vs-wordpressorg
We want to go to http://codeable.io and apply to be admitted as a Contractor. To ensure that quality work is performed, each contractor is currently reviewed before admission. The Codeable.io founders have suggested that this process will become more automatic in the future.
15. Tasks vs. Threads
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
15-tasks-vs-threads
When we log into Codeable.io we are first taken to the Tasks screen. While this may change in the future, this gives us a broad overview of available opportunities that may match our four criterion above.
16. Narrowing Down Our Choices
Length: 7 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
16-narrowing-down-our-choices
As you scan through the available tasks on Codeable.io, one can see whether other contractors have yet made estimates. Unlike the WordPress.org forums, Codeable.io has a nice mechanism already in place providing the following benefits to contractors and customers...
17. Your First Estimates
Length: 3 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
17-your-first-estimates
Once youve favorited a few likely candidates, one can focus on making first estimates. There is a three-step process you can apply when making estimates that will ensure you get the happiest customer and the largest payout.
18. Short Is Sweet
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
18-short-is-sweet
You will likely get the best results as a contractor on Codeable if you are concise and to the point in your first customer introductions.
19. The Value Of A Follow Up Question
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
19-the-value-of-a-follow-up-question
After you have expressed interest in a task, the customer will inevitably respond with feedback, or a polite clarification. This is your chance to exercise the power and value of asking a follow-up question.
20. It's Not How Much It Costs, It's About The Customer's Profit Or Savings
Length: 3 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
20-its-not-how-much-it-costs
One of the most valuable tactics to use when pricing a task is to reframe the conversation AWAY from your cost, and to instead focus the customer on discussing their potential increase in profit or savings.
21. The Five To One Ratio
Length: 3 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
21-the-five-to-one-ratio
Your goals for today should be: Find five suitable tasks on Codeable.io and make initial contact with customers, Ask a follow-up question of any customer who replies to your initial contact, and Prepare a task estimate (quote) for any customers who reply
22. It's Time To Set The Hook
Length: 5 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
22-its-time-to-set-the-hook
If youve followed our action plan from day one, you should now have as many as five active leads. These are customers who have replied to your initial contact and given you the chance to ask follow-up questions.
23. Close Your First Sale So You Can Use It As A Reference
Length: 4 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
23-close-your-first-sale
As we mentioned above, the only time you should ever compromise on the cost or payment for a job is when you are trying to get your first customer, who will then serve as a reference point for additional work. Codeable provides an easy way for you to share your profile and work history directly with potential customers.
24. Use Your First Customer To Help Close Other Customers
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
24-use-your-first-customer
Dont be bashful about using a positive reference from your first customer to help other potential customers decide to pick you on Codeable. Remember, new relationships are built upon Social Proof from other satisfied customers.
25. Review Your Work And Reload Your Gun
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
25-review-your-work-and-reload-your-gun
Before you go to bed this evening, be sure to review your other four task bids. Have the customers reached the point of picking a contractor? If so, and it turns out that they picked someone else, dont worry.
26. Rinse & Repeat - The Art Of The Upsell
Length: 7 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
26-rinse-and-repeat
By this time you should be feeling pretty comfortable with yourself, with reaching out to potential customers, and with focusing on the customers EGO rather than on the task for which they are seeking help. Today we want to focus on achieving our financial goal of earning $300 before our treasure hunt is over.
27. Gratitude Is The Best Sales Tool Of All
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
27-gratitude-is-the-best-sales-tool
Once you have successfully closed your first few sales, please do not forget the Golden Rule: Treat your customer the way that you want to be treated. The most important thing is to express gratitude to the person who has trusted you with their precious assets and ideas.
28. What Now? Next Steps
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
28-what-now-next-steps
Like anything in life, the first step is both the hardest and the most thrilling. We suggest you review the details contained in the back of the e-book, along with our supplemental videos (and optional bonus materials), then... JUMP....RIGHT...IN!
© 2014 1wd.tv - Freelance Web Designer Training
Three Day Bootcamp
Learn how to find three new clients in three days and earn your first $300 as a Freelance Web Designer ... Guaranteed!
Lessons
1. THREE DAY BOOTCAMP - COURSE MATERIALS
Author: Spence
01-three-day-bootcamp
Learn how to find three new clients in three days and earn your first $300 as a Freelance Web Designer ... Guaranteed!
2. Your Essential WordPress Toolkit
Length: 5 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
02-your-essential-wordpress-toolkit
Since WordPress is a self-contained content management system, additional desktop applications arent required. This means that you can finally abandon Dreamweaver, Photoshop or any of the other expensive software bundles that have been standards in the past.
3. Whats my First Step? Find The Pain
Length: 19 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
03-find-the-pain
It has been said that the hardest part of any journey is taking the first step. In our case, were going to make it easy. Its just three little words. Ready? Find... The... Pain
4. Create child themes to customize WordPress
Length: 14 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
04-create-child-themes-to-customize-wordpress
At the heart of any WordPress website is the theme. Thankfully, WordPress has implemented a very unique and powerful theme system that enables one to create custom configurations, and then preserve and protect them from any future updates. This is known as Parent and Child theming.
5. Modify a theme logo, header, or color scheme
Length: 20 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
05-modify-logo-header-color
WordPress has a standard set of customization options available through the main administration dashboard. These include the ability to upload a logo image, a header image, or to select certain color schemes for the active theme.
6. Add slide shows to WordPress Themes
Length: 23 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
06-add-slideshows-to-wordpress-themes
This ranks as one of the most lucrative jobs for the time spent. It is most often seen in the WooThemes job board, as well as at the Responsive Theme help center.
7. Integrate MailChimp to a WordPress site
Length: 15 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
07-integrate-mailchimp-to-wordpress-site
One of the most important reasons to operate a WordPress site is to nurture a destination for marketing products and services to visitors today.... and to convince these visitors to join your mailing list so that you may continue marketing to them tomorrow.
8. How to approach your first potential client
Length: 15 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
08-how-to-approach-your-first-potential-client
Building client relationships is no different than building personal relationships. The key is to always BE YOURSELF. Even if you feel completely inadequate or inexperienced, you must build the foundation of your freelance web design business upon being true to your own personality.
9. Techniques you can use to get the job
Length: 8 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
09-techniques-you-can-use-to-get-the-job
Remember that our goal here is to find a person who is suffering the PAIN of being unable to achieve the results they want with their WordPress website. At this point, they are willing to spend money with someone who will solve this pain, but only if that person demonstrates the following qualities...
10. How to communicate with customers
Length: 4 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
10-how-to-communicate-with-customers
How should I communicate with a potential customer? There are three practical ways to interact with customers today: Email, Skype, and Telephone
11. How To Get Paid
Length: 7 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
11-how-to-get-paid
When discussing payment, it is critical to discuss two different issues: 1. When do you ask for, and receive, payment 2.What method to use for collect the actual payment (payment gateway)
12. Be Selective
Length: 5 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
12-be-selective
They say that the lowest hanging fruit still tastes as sweet, but requires a lot less effort. We are going to follow this axiom and get ourselves warmed-up by picking a job that meets the following criterion...
13. Find the PAIN
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
13-find-the-pain
The low-hanging fruit to which Ive referred will be found in any of the five places I referenced above: 1. WordPress.org Forums, 2. Codeable.io (formerly WooThemes Job Board), 3. Your Local Craigslist Listings, 4. bbPress.org, 5. BuddyPress.org
14. Codeable.io vs. WordPress.org
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
14-codeableio-vs-wordpressorg
We want to go to http://codeable.io and apply to be admitted as a Contractor. To ensure that quality work is performed, each contractor is currently reviewed before admission. The Codeable.io founders have suggested that this process will become more automatic in the future.
15. Tasks vs. Threads
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
15-tasks-vs-threads
When we log into Codeable.io we are first taken to the Tasks screen. While this may change in the future, this gives us a broad overview of available opportunities that may match our four criterion above.
16. Narrowing Down Our Choices
Length: 7 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
16-narrowing-down-our-choices
As you scan through the available tasks on Codeable.io, one can see whether other contractors have yet made estimates. Unlike the WordPress.org forums, Codeable.io has a nice mechanism already in place providing the following benefits to contractors and customers...
17. Your First Estimates
Length: 3 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
17-your-first-estimates
Once youve favorited a few likely candidates, one can focus on making first estimates. There is a three-step process you can apply when making estimates that will ensure you get the happiest customer and the largest payout.
18. Short Is Sweet
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
18-short-is-sweet
You will likely get the best results as a contractor on Codeable if you are concise and to the point in your first customer introductions.
19. The Value Of A Follow Up Question
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
19-the-value-of-a-follow-up-question
After you have expressed interest in a task, the customer will inevitably respond with feedback, or a polite clarification. This is your chance to exercise the power and value of asking a follow-up question.
20. It's Not How Much It Costs, It's About The Customer's Profit Or Savings
Length: 3 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
20-its-not-how-much-it-costs
One of the most valuable tactics to use when pricing a task is to reframe the conversation AWAY from your cost, and to instead focus the customer on discussing their potential increase in profit or savings.
21. The Five To One Ratio
Length: 3 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
21-the-five-to-one-ratio
Your goals for today should be: Find five suitable tasks on Codeable.io and make initial contact with customers, Ask a follow-up question of any customer who replies to your initial contact, and Prepare a task estimate (quote) for any customers who reply
22. It's Time To Set The Hook
Length: 5 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
22-its-time-to-set-the-hook
If youve followed our action plan from day one, you should now have as many as five active leads. These are customers who have replied to your initial contact and given you the chance to ask follow-up questions.
23. Close Your First Sale So You Can Use It As A Reference
Length: 4 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
23-close-your-first-sale
As we mentioned above, the only time you should ever compromise on the cost or payment for a job is when you are trying to get your first customer, who will then serve as a reference point for additional work. Codeable provides an easy way for you to share your profile and work history directly with potential customers.
24. Use Your First Customer To Help Close Other Customers
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
24-use-your-first-customer
Dont be bashful about using a positive reference from your first customer to help other potential customers decide to pick you on Codeable. Remember, new relationships are built upon Social Proof from other satisfied customers.
25. Review Your Work And Reload Your Gun
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
25-review-your-work-and-reload-your-gun
Before you go to bed this evening, be sure to review your other four task bids. Have the customers reached the point of picking a contractor? If so, and it turns out that they picked someone else, dont worry.
26. Rinse & Repeat - The Art Of The Upsell
Length: 7 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
26-rinse-and-repeat
By this time you should be feeling pretty comfortable with yourself, with reaching out to potential customers, and with focusing on the customers EGO rather than on the task for which they are seeking help. Today we want to focus on achieving our financial goal of earning $300 before our treasure hunt is over.
27. Gratitude Is The Best Sales Tool Of All
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
27-gratitude-is-the-best-sales-tool
Once you have successfully closed your first few sales, please do not forget the Golden Rule: Treat your customer the way that you want to be treated. The most important thing is to express gratitude to the person who has trusted you with their precious assets and ideas.
28. What Now? Next Steps
Length: 2 minutesAuthor: SpenceComplexity: Standard
28-what-now-next-steps
Like anything in life, the first step is both the hardest and the most thrilling. We suggest you review the details contained in the back of the e-book, along with our supplemental videos (and optional bonus materials), then... JUMP....RIGHT...IN!
© 2014 1wd.tv - Freelance Web Designer Training
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