This year at the Flashbelt conference, I’m doing a brand new workshop specifically geared to the economic climate that is currently surrounding the multimedia and online industry. Here it is:
Save Yourself Now: What Your Boss Won’t Tell You
In this full-day workshop, Robert Reinhardt teaches you how to build up your self-defense skills as an independent contractor for multimedia/web design and development. If you’re considering venturing out on your own or don’t expect your current employer to watch your back much longer, this workshop is for you. Learn the do’s and don’ts of running your own consulting business without breaking the bank or jeopardizing your future options. This workshop is geared to experienced web design or development professionals who are confident in their skills and yearn to expand their current prospects.
By luck or circumstance, Robert has preserved his career autonomy over twelve years of varied job roles and responsibilities, including teaching, writing and consulting. Robert’s experience with both small and large projects has helped him develop strategies that reduce frustration and anxiety—for clients and production teams.
In addition to his freelance work and evolving his own company, Robert has experience working in-house for companies of various sizes. In one five-year stint, he built a team of just two Flash developers in a small start-up to a full-blown department for a multinational agency. Pulling from personal experience and specific case studies of real world projects, here’s a brief overview of topics Robert covers in the workshop:
- Picking a legal entity for your business, from sole proprietorship to S-corp
- Determining hourly rates or project rates, and when to call in for backup
- Managing your projects on the fly, including open source tools for version control, report tracking, and time tracking
- Setting up production for Flash CS4, Flex Builder, and FDT
- Tapping third party Flash resources, from open source libraries to licensed components
- Improving your own brand through writing skills, from maximizing your tweets to writing published works
- Leveraging the potential of social networking to further your business and career goals.
If you think this is the workshop for you, register and sign up for the “Freelancing Workshop” (not my preferred choice of words) at the Flashbelt site. If you’d be interested in attending an online version of this workshop, post a comment.
Tonight, I’ll be giving a 15 minute sneak peek at some of the material I’ll be covering at the Flashbelt workshop.
Watch the recorded event here:
http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p33706601/
I presented this session to the FlashMN user group in Minneapolis. Hope to see you there!