Copyright 2011 Shannon L. Buck: How to Live the Freelance Life

                                         Your Education

Education is important to the freelancer, whether acquired by traditional means or not. A college education may not be wanted or attainable, but there are other ways to learn what you need to know to enable you to set up and run your business. You may need to learn things such as:

• Starting a business

• Blogging

• Website building

• Ebook writing

• Creative writing

• Graphic design

• Journalism

You might go about learning these things in a variety of ways, such as:

• Adult education classes at the local high school.

• A course at the college, even when not attending for anything else.

• Online paid courses, through a university or not.

• Online free courses.

• Reading up on the subject.

Do not be afraid to learn what is necessary to run your business.

Once you are educated, and have had the opportunity to practice what you have learned, be sure that you are teaching your skills to others. A newsletter, articles or an eCourse are a few ways in which you might accomplish this.

Quick Writing Tip

Create an eCourse centering around topics that you know a lot about.

5 Writing Prompts

1. Article Idea: Online writing classes.
2. Book Idea: Your writing journey.
3. Ecourse: Travel writing.
4. Online School Idea: Freelance school.
5. Blog Idea: Lessons in writing.

Quote

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.~

Challenge

Expand your education. Find and online or offline course to take that will aid you in building your freelance career. Free courses count for this!

Special Report

Your Teen Can Help Your Freelance Career

In this Special Report, you will see how it is possible for your teenager to help you out while you are building your freelance career and how much, if anything, you should pay him or her for that help. Teens can be a big help with things like:

* Their younger siblings.
* Keeping up the house.
* Business tasks.

Special Report

A Freelancer’s Helper

In this special report, A Freelancer’s Helper, I will show you the value of having people to help you with every day tasks while you work. Each person will have different needs, and this report will help you to decide what help would be best for your circumstances.