Freelance Training from Tuts+ Premium
Are you a passionate freelancer, or looking to make the leap into freelancing full time? We’re excited to announce that FreelanceSwitch has partnered with Tuts+ Premium to offer in-depth video courses and eBooks for freelancers as part of a monthly membership.
What you’ll get:
- Freelance Bootcamp video course from James Clear of PassivePanda.com. This course will teach you everything you need to know to start and run a thriving freelance business. We’ll add a new freelancing-relevant course every month covering topics like marketing, business, SEO, finding clients and earning more money as a freelancer – all taught by industry experts.
- More than $500 USD worth of eBooks, including How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer, Freelance Confidential, Successful Freelancing for Web Designers, LinkedIn and Lovin’ It, From Photoshop to HTML, Professional Web Design (Vol. 1 & 2), iPhone App Entrepreneur, How to Write Great Copy for the Web, Twitter Up Your Business, Rockstar WordPress Designer, How to Build a Successful Blog Business, Successful Facebook Marketing… and more!
- Periodic bonuses, like downloadable resources and special in-depth content.
Join Tuts+ Premium ($19/mo) now to access all this immediately, or read on to learn more about the partnership between FreelanceSwitch and Tuts+ Premium.
What is Tuts+ Premium?
If you’re not familiar with the Tuts+ sites, you may not be aware of what else Tuts+ Premium offers. For $19 a month, members can access full video courses, Premium tutorials and guides, downloadable resources, and a full library of eBooks, with new content added weekly! To give you a better idea, here’s just a sample of what you’ll find in Premium:
- Weekly high-end tutorials from the Tuts+ Network covering topics like design and web development.
- High quality video courses on the skills you want to learn, including Freelance Bootcamp, 30 Days to Learn Photoshop, and more!
- The entire Rockable Press and Smashing library of eBooks.
- An active community discussing the latest courses with experts standing by to help you learn.
Freelance Bootcamp
Our first Tuts+ Premium offering for freelancers is intended to bring new and experienced freelancers alike back to the basics of successful freelancing. In Freelance Bootcamp, James Clear, founder of Passive Panda, gets to the root of running a successful business and sets you up with strategies that will help you get started, get profitable, and get growing. Through a series of lessons, James helps you focus on what is most important to your business and get you started right. The course covers all the following topics:
- The fundamental key to the freelancer mindset.
- No-nonsense advice about your portfolio.
- Finding and securing your first clients.
- Knowing how much to charge, negotiating budgets, and when to raise your rates.
- Finding better clients…and keeping them.
- Essential knowledge for marketing, referrals, legal basics, and more!
Course Preview:
The Mindset of a Successful Freelancer
Developing Your Offer
$230 Worth of eBooks for Freelancers
I’m especially excited about the eBooks we have available for freelancers. We have more than a dozen books in the library, including popular titles like: Successful Freelancing, Freelance Confidential, How to be a Rockstar Freelancer, and much more. We have books from notable authors like Collis Ta’eed, the Smashing Magazine team, Susan Johnson, Skellie and so many more. That’s over $230 worth of business books alone and over $500+ worth of books total in our library that you can download for a $19 membership! And we’re adding new books from Rockable Press and other publishers all the time.
We’ll also be keeping an ear out in the Tuts+ Premium forums for what you’d like to see us offer next for freelancers. Hope to see you there!
Please note that the Tuts+ Premium membership comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. But we think you’ll love it!
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Hey everyone, it’s Skellie here. I’m the manager of Tuts+ Premium and will be keeping an eye on the comments here to answer any questions you have.
Also, feel free to let me know about the content you’d find useful, and the topics you’d like us to cover for freelancers.
Thanks!
I’m just wondering when it made the jump to $19 a month. I mean, I love the site and even author content on the AE site, but I feel that’s pretty high for the content that’s available.
Hey Remington, thanks for your feedback. We launched the new Tuts+ Premium in December last year. Whether the price is worth it depends on what you’re interested to learn, that’s true – but we get members telling us every day that the membership is fantastic value for money. I guess it’s up to each person to browse through what’s on offer and decide for themselves
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Thanks again for commenting, and glad to hear from you!
Skellie
Hi, I’m not new to the freelance world nor with Envato and it’s market places, but is there a money back garuantee if new members aren’t satisfied for certain reasons?
Hey D, there is a money-back guarantee for the first 30 days of the membership. If you’re not happy for any reason, we’ll refund your payment, no questions asked.
I have been subscribed to the “full package” for 19.00/mo since I think December/January. It’s been a great value, and I have no complaints. Quite frankly, and this is not to offend anyone, the cost is minimal when compared to how much you can make in this industry when educated and experienced.
It’s a wonderful value for all of the materials I have access to, and I’d recommend it to anyone.
D – There is indeed a money-back guarantee, but we think you’ll find it worth while.
Glad to hear you’re enjoying it, Brian!
Just to fill you guys in, I’m creative producer for Tuts Premium and will be overseeing the freelance and business offerings myself. As former Editor of FreelanceSwitch, I am really invested in providing the content you guys want! Feel free to let me know if you have suggestions or feedback.
I would so buy Tuts+ if you could buy it through the Envato Marketplaces, with marketplaces credit.
Hi Skellie and Amanda, I was wondering if there’s any plan to roll Freelance Switch job board membership in with this package?
I don’t disagree that $20 a month is probably excellent value for the Tuts+ Premium content, but as a freelance developer I’m so busy I know I’ll only get to take advantage of a small amount of the content. I’d be prepared to pay an extra $12 a month on top of my job board membership to access it, but not $20 a month.
All these little monthly things just end up being quite expensive – after Freshbooks, Basecamp, PayPal, and various job boards have taken their pound of flesh there’s not a lot left in the profit margin.
I’d love to know what you think of the idea of bundling job board membership and Tuts+.
Kind regards
Kate
Hey Kate, thank you for the feedback. At this time the Job Board membership and Tuts+ Premium are separate products and we don’t have any short-term plans to integrate them. It would certainly be a pretty amazing deal if it were the case though
I quote “Freelance Bootcamp video course from James Clear of PassivePanda.com. This course will teach you everything you need to know to start and run a thriving freelance business. We’ll add a new freelancing-relevant course every month covering topics like marketing, business, SEO, finding clients and earning more money as a freelancer – all taught by industry experts.” I used your video course and managed to get some jobs in web design. Thank you! So much value for money!!!! Thank you thank you!
Glad to hear it helped you, Tray! We’ve gotten a lot of good feedback on Freelance Bootcamp and can’t wait to release our next freelance-related course.
Hi;
Superb and awesome training guideline
Definitely it will help others to learn from home
Thanks
Rumi