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Building Your Freelancing Career Capstone (Coursera)

Offered by California Institute of the Arts,
Building Your Freelancing Career Capstone (Coursera)

As the final course in the Building Your Freelancing Career specialization, learners will build upon their fundamental skills from courses 1-4 to develop a fully fleshed out business plan, brand and financial model for their real freelancing business, or one they develop just for the purpose of determining whether or not they will be able to launch a new business venture. Once they have developed their plan, they will be able to submit them for peer review and completion of the specialization.

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Course 5 of 5 in the Building Your Freelancing Career Specialization.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Course Overview
You've arrived at your capstone project! Hopefully, you have taken the time to work through and consider the lessons from all of the previous courses. This is the moment where you'll pull all of those lessons together to produce a comprehensive business plan.
Course 1 Review - Developing Your Service
WEEK 2
Course 2 Review - Finances
WEEK 3
Course 3 Review - Style and Presentation
WEEK 4
Course 4 Review - Risks
Course 5 - Business Plan Wrap-Up
WEEK 5
Finalize and submit your plan
Let's review what goes into a business plan and how you can assemble all of the work you have done in the previous courses into your freelancing business plan.

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