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With real-world projects and immersive content built in partnership with top-tier companies, you’ll master the tech skills companies want.
Meet the growing demand for digital freelancers by building your personal brand and starting a successful online business.
06Days14Hrs13Min53Sec
At 10 hours/week
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You’ll master the skills necessary to become a successful digital freelancer. Learn how to market your services to clients, scope projects and manage client relationships.
Basic computer skills.
This course will discuss the fundamentals of digital freelancing by outlining the benefits and disadvantages of working for yourself, as well as the main differences between working as a freelancer versus a traditional role. In addition to establishing the mindset and skills of a freelancer, this course will teach how to market yourself as a freelancer by creating your personal business identity and brand, using social media in a strategic way to find clients and creating a portfolio website targeted towards client acquisition.
This course covers the freelancing project journey end-to-end, starting with how and where to find clients and ending with the process of closing out a project with a client. It covers best practices for each stage in a freelancing project as well as bootstrapping a freelancing career. This course draws on learnings from practical experience and considers a variety of real-life scenarios and strategies that freelancers are likely to navigate.
With real-world projects and immersive content built in partnership with top-tier companies, you’ll master the tech skills companies want.
Our knowledgeable mentors guide your learning and are focused on answering your questions, motivating you, and keeping you on track.
You’ll have access to Github portfolio review and LinkedIn profile optimization to help you advance your career and land a high-paying role.
Tailor a learning plan that fits your busy life. Learn at your own pace and reach your personal goals on the schedule that works best for you.
We provide services customized for your needs at every step of your learning journey to ensure your success.
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Melissa is a Top Rated Plus Upwork Freelancer, Velo Certified Wix Partner, entrepreneur and founder of tech company OMG Code. Melissa has attended UC Berkeley, studied medicine (while learning Spanish) in Guadalajara, and has worked many places as a digital nomad. She believes in never giving up.
Anupam runs a tech startup using data science to provide information about social impact organizations. He holds an MS in Computer Science from University of Southern California and has spent more than a decade designing and building technologies for underserved communities. He has 6 granted patents at USPTO.
The end-to-end process of finding clients, managing projects and creating invoices.
On average, successful students take 1 months to complete this program.
This program is designed to help you take advantage of the growing need for digital freelancers. Prepare to meet the demand for qualified professionals that can deliver great work.
The need for strong freelancers at an enterprise organization is greater than ever. The skills you will gain from this Nanodegree program will help you land jobs in several industries as countless companies are trying to keep up with digital transformation.
The program is for individuals who are looking to advance their careers as freelancers and need the tools to build a portfolio and market themselves.
No. This Nanodegree program accepts all applicants regardless of experience and specific background.
No prior experience is required, but it is recommended that students are comfortable with basic computer skills, such as:
This is a beginner course that helps freelancers in any field build their brand. If you have not figured out which career you would like to pursue, we’d recommend browsing our catalogue for an intro program.
The Digital Freelancer Nanodegree program is comprised of content and curriculum to support 2 projects. We estimate that students can complete the program in 1 month working 10 hours per week. Each project will be reviewed by the Udacity reviewer network. Feedback will be provided and if you do not pass the project, you will be asked to resubmit the project until it passes.
Access to this Nanodegree program runs for the length of time specified above. If you do not graduate within that time period, you will continue learning with month-to-month payments. See the Terms of Use and FAQs for other policies regarding the terms of access to our Nanodegree programs.
Please see the Udacity Program FAQs for policies on enrollment in our programs.
There are no software and version requirements to complete this Nanodegree program. All coursework and projects can be completed via Student Workspaces in the Udacity online classroom.