Business Set Up For Creative Entrepreneurs

From Design to Marketing and selling on your own Website & Amazon, Ebay, Etsy & Co.

What you'll learn
Create a business for all your handcrafted or digital items you want to sell on your own site, Etsy, Amazon, Ebay, CreativeMarket and all other creative sites
Learn how to set up your website and your own store on your website
Learn to design e.g. your products and/or images, banners for your website and marketing with Gimp (free program)
Market your products with Content and Social Media Marketing as well as networking
Requirements
you need to install the free program Gimp on your computer
you should have a domain and/or webhosting for your website (or plan to set it up soon)
Description
In this course you learn how to set up your creative business. No matter what you sell - we cover it all.
You learn how to set up your own website, add a store to your site, do the "right" content marketing by adding the content your audience needs, wants and searches for.
You learn how to market your creative and digital products on various sites. Beside that I've included a part about pricing your products, content marketing and social media marketing - from Twitter over Facebook to Pinterest. Beside that, even if you just decided you want to become a digital designer - this course is yours because I have also included a complete guide on Gimp.
You learn everything, from the first steps to creating digital items to setting up your own websites. If you go through this you know at the end how to make a banner and images for your marketing, how to apply and use styles and create various elements and textures.
This course is a big one because it is meant as a digital, self-paced tutor which guides you from the very beginning to becoming an expert in your niche. There is no behind in this course, this course will be your companion answering all your business problems from the very first lesson to doing social media marketing.
If you want to set up your own website you of course need webhosting and a domain but beside that all you need to do is installing the free image editing program Gimp.
We start with a business foundation, you learn about the features of a good business name, you learn how to package your products and set up your store and website. We will also include a newsletter on your website and learn why this is important.
Then we learn how to create images with Gimp you'll need for your website.
We will close our course by doing content and social media marketing.
Please check out the supplementary material section for downloadable resources/PDF.

Overview

Section 1: Welcome!

Lecture 1 Welcome to Business Set up for Creative Entrepreneurs

Lecture 2 Course Outline

Section 2: Learn Designing with Gimp

Lecture 3 Learn Designing (46 PDFs to download included)

Section 3: Your Business Foundation

Lecture 4 Choose your Designer Name and Logo

Lecture 5 Create a Blog and use a real Domain

Lecture 6 Create a Header for your Website

Lecture 7 Create a Blog Background

Lecture 8 Modify your Blog with Widgets

Lecture 9 Content creation for your Website

Lecture 10 Install Google Analytics

Lecture 11 Set up a Newsletter

Lecture 12 Create a Newsletter Box with a Button

Lecture 13 Make the Newsletter Graphic clickable

Lecture 14 Create your Terms of Use

Section 4: Set Up A Store

Lecture 15 Add a Woocommerce Store to your Site

Lecture 16 Add Categories to your Store

Lecture 17 Add the Shop to your Menu

Lecture 18 Set up a Product

Lecture 19 Basic Settings (Currency, Colors, etc.)

Lecture 20 Set up the Sidebar

Lecture 21 Add a sharing plugin

Section 5: What you need to decide upfront…

Lecture 22 Your Packaging and Product Description

Lecture 23 Why selling in more Stores does not equal more money

Lecture 24 Why it is essential to show what you can do with your Products

Section 6: Use Facebook to find new Customers

Lecture 25 Using Facebook and why it is essential for your Business Success

Lecture 26 Set up a Facebook Page

Lecture 27 Set up an Image

Lecture 28 Set up your Logo on Facebook

Lecture 29 Content for your Facebook Page

Lecture 30 Load Videos and Images to Facebook

Lecture 31 Add your Newsletter to Facebook

Lecture 32 Like and Find Pages in your Niche

Lecture 33 Planning regular Posts

Section 7: Attract more Customers with Content

Lecture 34 Creative Content for your Blog/Website

Lecture 35 Boring and Valuable Content

Lecture 36 Linkbuilding - Spreading the Word about your Designs

Section 8: Pinterest is the place to go to share visual Content

Lecture 37 Pinterest Overview

Lecture 38 Where your Pins appear on Pinterest

Lecture 39 Find Friends and Boards on Pinterest

Lecture 40 Your Profile on Pinterest

Lecture 41 Pin it from your Site

Lecture 42 Change and edit a Pin

Lecture 43 Create an Account on Pinterest

Lecture 44 Find your Friends on Pinterest

Lecture 45 Pin without the Pin it Button

Lecture 46 Add the right Picture on Pinterest

Lecture 47 The Power of Pinning

Section 9: Twitter - another place you can conquer

Lecture 48 Using Twitter

Lecture 49 Set up your Twitter Profile

Lecture 50 Find Followers on Twitter

Section 10: More Ways to advertise

Lecture 51 Meet your Customers where they are

Lecture 52 Why you have to price your products higher

Lecture 53 Marketing which lasts forever

Section 11: You did it!

Lecture 54 Go for your Passion!

Lecture 55 Bonus Lecture: What else we are up to and Coupons

you create handmade products,you want to sell digital products such as images, fonts, Photoshop Styles & Brushes, digital scrapbooking products, tutorials, courses,you want to sell on Etsy, Ebay and Amazon or sites such as CreativeMarket,you want to start a small business for your own product you created