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October 4, 2017 at 4:50 pm #57337
Perfect timing, yo!
This month I’d like to validate the audience around starting their own web / graphic design freelance biz.
They’d do things like …
- Learn the actual Adobe skills (yeah I said it, no Canva!)
- Design – So social media graphics, website graphics, PDF design, etc.
- Divi / WordPress ins and outs
- The actual ‘running an online biz’ part (the awesomeness… the horrors)
Right now it can be for any people like …
- Those that have a creative passion, dabble in these kinds of things and want to quit their 9-5
- May be a VA type person, but wants to level up their skillz
- Already run a freelance / agency type biz, but wants to learn themselves (or have their staff learn) these new skills to add on new service products
Stoked to jump into the materials. Hopefully manana!
October 4, 2017 at 5:01 pm #57342Would “The Creative’s Escape!” work with what you are envisioning?
and … A Membership / Community for …?
If you search Creative escape it’s been used relating to art so you’ll need to tweak the name or at least the URL but the idea is good.
October 5, 2017 at 5:19 am #57377Haha! You were quick @trish_hyatt . Glad you dig the idea! 🙂
It’s a brand new idea, so while I go through validating – depending on which audience I get I’ll nail down a real name. If I go all in and peeps leaving their 9-5, I think the Creative’s Escape would definitely work. But if I more-so target existing VAs, will prob go another direction.
October 5, 2017 at 11:58 am #57480Will each of these be a mini course that people go through that delivers on a specific topic? Each of them around the theme of creative escape?
Or is it a step-by-step process that leads them to “XYZ results?”
I like where you’re heading.
I definitely wanna learn photoshop in 2018 in a way that’s relevant to green screen production and my own branding.
October 5, 2017 at 12:38 pm #57487@bradleytmorris See that’s interesting.
So I’ve been playing with:
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign training:
- Branding
- Social Media Graphics
- PDF Fillable / Designs
- Logo Design
- Graphics for Websites
- Full-On Building a Divi Website
- etc.
But then ‘quick win’ graphic examples that would be like your image cutout, to push skills further than the basics (the advanced stuff).
I was thinking this could be a membership where the ‘skills’ are accessible always, but the ‘way to run a freelance business’ would be the actual course, they learn front to end. If that makes any sense.
The problem is, I don’t know if these peeps know ZERO design, but are ramping up, or that they know some, and more-so want the quick wins or especially ‘run the business’ part which is really hard for most anyway.
Someone was telling me to make this some premium coaching thing, but I’m not feeling that.
October 6, 2017 at 10:06 am #57651Hi Katrina, this sounds great! A few years ago I would have definitely been in the market for a course like this. I also love the idea of creative’s escape from @trish_hyatt. Winner!
It sounds to me like you need to get to know your avatar, your ideal customer. You say that you’re not exactly sure what these peeps are after so maybe that’s where you need to start with this? Defining your who? Maybe this could be done with a survey as is suggested in validation swamp? So you start to form a clearer idea and instinct of what people want and need.
If it helps…for me, a few years ago, I knew some skills but didn’t feel I knew enough and didn’t know at all how to make a business from it.
So I guess you need to walk in your customers shoes first. Sounds daft, but for every thing I create, I create an identity for it…a person I am selling to. I give them a name, a job, I know their hobbies, if they have kids, their hang up’s, the things that make them laugh & cry. Of course, there will be people who fall either side of what this ‘imagined customer’ wants from a course but if I can know…and therefore cater…to them it makes everything I write and create so much easier and also makes it much more personal because these imagined customers become my ‘knitted’ friends (where I live we call imaginary friends knitted, because we make and create them like you would if you knitted something. Lol) and then when I write to them it is personal and…Hopefully…more powerful because of that.
Hope that all makes sense and helps in some way.
October 9, 2017 at 6:22 am #57848I will speak personally:
What I’d love is a membership site, with really fun and relevant lessons for a busy entrepreneur that teach me skills to use photoshop in a way that impacts my business.
I’d love all sorts of different lessons that start me at the basics, then teach me more advanced stuff. Each category would be progressive, catering to the newbie beginner and then offering more and more advanced stuff.
@elijah on the mountain is making a course called, Tutorial Dojo, which is a similar idea on photoshopping.
It’s so needed. I want to be able to receive rapid support to learn photoshop fast. I know once I have the basics and can do some simple things, I’ll get the hang of it and be able to go deeper.
Doing a membership site also makes it so you can build it as you go.
Your students will be the ones to tell you what tutorials to make next and then you can just do it.
As long as you keep providing value and listening and improving the membership, people will keep paying.
It’s a living library.
I could even see you doing community challenges, where students have to showcase their work (photoshop challenges, etc…)
October 9, 2017 at 7:06 am #57861I love the ideas percolating on this thread. The last one made by Bradley is also similar to what I would want personally. Having years of photoshop experience, I would be interested in specific tutorials on very specific outcomes, like: How to make a 3d version of a 2d image, how to work with type shadows and make them stand out… Stuff I had to fumble around to get but am sure there are shortcuts and better ways.
October 9, 2017 at 9:09 am #57876The thought of photoshop scares me.. but as I am getting to grips with green screens, I’m sure that it is something that I could learn. I’d like the 101 for dummies version of using photoshop. That’s where I am, unlike the lovely @davidj
I do like the sound of what you’re doing and love what @bradleytmorris has said about a membership site.
October 9, 2017 at 10:09 am #57897@mars, I’m with you! I’d want 101 Photoshop for Dummies!
October 11, 2017 at 2:09 pm #58256Oh my, you all are awesome sauce! Doing a membership around just Photoshop skillz is 100% something I could put into action, and fairly quickly. I could also eventually add in other programs, as you say Bradley, whatever the students want.
I am actually still ‘following the path’ up the mountain from the start, but figured why not still jump into a challenge just to see what I can make happen.
Of course, client work has me drowning right now, so we’ll see. But even more the reason to get something going. LOL.
October 11, 2017 at 5:26 pm #58267This is so “not my area” right now – but I’m sure it will be one day. Perhaps you could start with 101 for dummies and cover the essential skills. Then you can build in more advanced skills as people get better and your community grows. If you start with the basics, you ensure that all start with the same base if essential skills. And if someone is struggling with an advanced concept because they missed something earlier on, them you can point them to the right basics video instead of needing to do individual tutorials.
Just an idea…
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