Whether you’re launching a solopreneur freelance career or scaling your branding agency, it’s essential to have solid business advice. Not the fluff that leaves you high after listening to an inspiring success story second-hand. And not the dry business books of your parents’ generation.

 

You need practical help to guide you through:

• How to launch: what’s essential & what can wait for later
• How to get graphic design clients & sell your services with confidence
• How to organize your business administration behind-the-scenes
• What to delegate & how to find others who can help you succeed
• What software to use
• Where to network
• How to leverage social media, marketing, & word-of-mouth
• How to scale once you have momentum
• How to make sure your bank account never runs dry

 

You need to find the proven methods and strategies that will help you to become the CEO of your own graphic design company. Even if you don’t have previous business experience, you can build a profitable and fulfilling freelance business. Quit your 9-to-5, gross over $10K/month, and learn how to book high-ticket design clients as a freelancer!

 

Let’s explore some freelancing online courses that will take you from starting to succeeding. Own your dream! You don’t need to work for an employer anymore. You can launch, run, and scale your own graphic design business.

 

We’ll explain the options for a solopreneur and take you through how to scale into an agency that lands high-ticket design clients through our graphic design industry knowledge and network.

 

First: the free $12k Client Attraction Masterclass will show you how to position your graphic design business to land high-ticket clients who value your work and are willing to pay for it! Snag your spot here to learn the 3 things $12k+ design clients want and how you can close the deal with them here.

The Profitable Designer Program

If you’re starting out and you’ve never run a business before, freelancing can be both exciting and overwhelming. Your emotional pendulum might swing from an ecstatic sense of possibility to nerve-shredding fears about getting clients and making enough money to pay the bills, quit your 9-5, and hit consistent $10k+ months in your design business!

 

We have just what you need. The Profitable Designer Program gives you everything you need to know to become….a profitable freelance graphic designer! (And it works for any creative who wants to go out on their own, so web designers, brand designers, and others find this course informative and instructional.)

 

This program is designed to be:

• Flexible & easy to fit into your busy schedule (even if you also have a 9-5)
• Actionable with practical step-by-step instructions for what to do next
• Inspiring as it’s based on a full-service studio’s experience & tells you what to do and what mistakes to avoid!
• Complete with templates & samples, so you can implement right away

 

The 12-week Profitable Designer Program includes 85 videos, 47 workbooks, and massive amounts of super-actionable bonuses like a Sales Call Formula, Email Templates to use with your clients, a Content Marketing Planner, and more.

 

Plus, you get access to an exclusive community of designers where you can swap referrals, grow your network, and get each other’s help with your business challenges.

 

Here’s what some of our program graduates have done with what they learned from The Profitable Designer Program:

 

“I was able to quickly apply some concepts like setting my goals, naming my agency, and learning how to find clients. I felt confused before starting the Profitable Designer Program, and it helped me develop a better vision of what I want for my agency.” – Claudia Astorino

 

 

“This course has given me an immense amount of confidence. Before I started I had never worked with contracts… I felt overwhelmed by how to start, and I had no clear goals. Now I have contracts, a business task organizer, financial systems in place, invoices created, an ideal client, organized branding, and clear cut weekly and monthly goals.” – Morgan Pantoja

 

“Save yourself the time of reading 50 different business books! Just pay attention to this course and you will learn more. Aventive Academy talks about design as a business: specialized, concrete and very comprehensive.” – Dynia Grille

 

Niche Courses for Niche Knowledge

If you’re already underway and have some freelance clients, you might want to focus on the specific areas you are currently struggling with. There’s a series of money-making online courses that will help you overcome common freelance business hurdles and get more design clients.

 

Here’s a sample selection of freelance graphic design courses that can help you through those entrepreneurial growth pains:

 

Client Workflow – This course shows you how to run design project communications with clients, including what documents to send in what order, how to handle revisions, how to set boundaries with clients who send hundreds of inbound emails, and other practical issues you’re facing.

 

Pricing Your Design Services – This course is designed for freelancers who want to figure out the answer to the key question: “How much should I charge for my services?” It’s a stand-alone program that walks you through the math of setting your freelance graphic design rates. At the end of the course, you’ll be confident and ready to see profitability build up in your freelancing bank account!

 

Niche Your Design Business  – This is a short course for designers who have heard niching down will make them more profitable, but they don’t know how. In fact, they are scared that niching down will mean losing potential clients! This course helps you to discover your niche and then what to do to ensure a constant, steady flow of brand, web, or graphic design projects. Imagine figuring out who you love working with and booking-out with those clients….profitably!

 

Let’s hear from some designers who have already taken these courses and implemented what they learned:

• “I have raised my rates for branding considerably. I used to offer logo design for $1100. I now offer 3 branding packages for clients to choose from that range from $575 to $990. That’s 5 – 9x increase in my business!”
• “Before discovering these courses, I felt like I hit a brick wall and was at a dead-end in my design career.”
• “I love the ‘personal experience’ tips. With Aventive Academy, I had a major insight into why I wanted to start my business, and I feel super motivated!”

 

Mastermind for Freelance Graphic Designers

If you’re new to freelancing, you can fast-track with a mastermind. But, most often, mastermind students are seasoned professionals with tough business decisions to make. For example:

• Should you scale your design business?
• Should you hire and turn into an agency?
• How do you find good people to work with?
• What if you’re profitable but cash flow is a problem?
• What if you need more cash flow to be able to expand?
• Should you be so tired and, if not, how can you delegate more?
• What does profitability really look like? How good can the good life be?
• What’s next?
• What has someone else already learned & you didn’t even know to ask a question about it yet?!

 

Not making enough money? Don’t know how to grow your freelance business? Aren’t landing great brand design clients you want to work with? Feeling stuck? Talk to others who have cracked the code and reach high-ticket clients consistently. Learn how to grow your graphic design business to become profitable and enjoy what you do every day.

 

The Aventive Academy Mastermind lets the best share with the best. This application-only class is a safe place to pick the brains of other graphic, brand, and web designers who are already working for themselves.

 

The other design business owners in the Mastermind have questions too, and Aventive’s founder Kady Sandel gets involved in situation-specific analysis of the deep business questions. Brainstorm in a structured space that’s designed to teach you….fast! Convenient (online) and creative, the Mastermind sessions will help you take your business to the next level.

Successful Creative Entrepreneurs Take Action

It’s hard to reinvent the wheel all by yourself. And online platforms are giving us education in a new way that is convenient, meaningful, and efficient.

 

This is the year when you can up your game. Learn what you need to know from those who have succeeded already. Be the freelance graphic designer who accomplishes the dream and lives the life!

 

At Aventive Academy, we have freelancing business programs that will get you beyond your web & brand design business challenges and into the profitability zone — whether you’re trying to hire your first employee, land your first client, or hit your first $10k month!

 

Sign up today and start studying right away. You can be on your way to accomplishing your goals of freedom, unlimited income potential, and working for yourself!

 

Don’t wait any longer. Make this the year you leverage your skill, learn how to run your own freelance business, and jump on the digital freelancing rocket ship! Invest in your future today….reap the rewards this year. Register now. Take action — that’s what successful entrepreneurs do!