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Sales and Marketing for Freelancers and Entrepreneurs

The Complete Guide. Sales and Marketing techniques and strategies for the Entrepreneur and Freelancer.

Created byRobert Gebhardt
BeginnerUpdated Jan 21, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleLEARN the fundamentals of Sales and Marketing
  • check_circleBE PREPARED for any situation and any Sales or Marketing opportunity
  • check_circleSIGN UP for Freelance Websites - with Step by Step instructions and screen recordings
  • check_circleCREATE emails that work
  • check_circleSEE How you can Always be Marketing, whether online or offline
  • check_circleMAKE Passive Marketing work for you, so you can be marketing while you sleep!

About This Course

This course will teach you how to find your first clients as a freelancer/entrepreneur. It will also teach you how to then use these clients to find better quality clients so that, over time, you can plan to be working with your ideal client(s) in the long run. In other words, this is your complete guide to sales and marketing as a freelancer. 

Your first clients will help you earn money. Your next clients can help you earn a living. But you still don't want to be earning a living if it is with clients who don't pay you enough/take advantage of you/etc. The good thing about having clients is that you can leverage them to get better quality clients. This is what good sales and marketing is about. 

This is for Freelancers and Entrepreneurs

While employees in a company may find many useful tips here, this course is geared toward people working for themselves. So all you freelancers and entrepreneurs out there. Whether you are just starting out (selling to your first clients) or have been in the game for a while (but wish to raise the standard of client you deal with), then this sales and marketing course will have useful material for you. 


See what other students have had to say:

"This course was perfect for me. I love to learn by watching and then doing. It was great to be able to watch a segment and then put it straight into practice. Highly recommend this for people wanting the basics of sales & marketing. Just what I needed, enough information without the overload. AWESOME!!!!!!!!"  -  Wendy Smith

"This course is helpful for people wanting to start on becoming freelancers and self-employed individuals. This course is also helpful for freelancers that are having difficulties on getting clients."  - John Adriel Benolirao

"Very thorough and very knowledgable" - Melania Rossi


This is not purely Academic!

This means that you should not be taking this course from start to finish before starting out, but rather you should be applying the sales and marketing methodology and lessons as soon as you learn them. One of the biggest mistakes freelancers make is to delay getting started because they don't feel ready yet. So I designed this course to help you get started right away. So hopefully, by the time you reach the end of the course, you will already be making sales as a freelancer. 

This Sales and Marketing course is for All Freelancers!

Whether you are a programmer, a freelance writer, a photographer, a freelance teacher, or even a freelance lawyer (yes, they exist), then this course is for you. My background is as a freelance translator, but I gear this information for all freelancers. 

This is also NOT platform-specific. So this isn't only for Upwork or any other specific platform. Although the concepts can certainly be used on these platforms.

Course Content

6 activities • 49 videos • duration: 2h 38m

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Section 15 videos • 13 min
  • videocamIntro
    Duration 1:14
  • videocamCourse introduction
    Duration 2:47
  • videocamWhat to expect from this course
    Duration 5:21
  • videocamWho am I?
    Duration 1:46
  • videocamTypes of Freelancers
    Duration 2:22
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Pre-game (Getting set up)-Part17 videos • 16 min
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Freelance Websites - Signing up-Part15 videos • 15 min
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Freelance Sales-Part18 videos • 22 min
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Marketing-Part115 videos • 48 min
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Tips and Tricks-Part19 videos • 42 min

Your Instructor

Robert Gebhardt

Translator / AI Consultant

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Robert has been a translator since childhood. He started translating for extra money while in high school, and continued to do so throughout college and graduate school. These days, his clients include banks, corporations, non-profits, consulates, as well as private individuals, and he has been able to expand and set up his own boutique Translation Agency called Lugano Translations, run entirely with Freelancers. His education and background was in finance and fiscal policy, and his translation agency specializes in financial and legal translations. His expertise is in Entrepreneurship and Freelancing, from both the perspective of the "hirer" as well as the "hiree". Robert also has a passion for languages, both for work and just for pleasure.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

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