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Freelancing Course
 
Many of you, at different points in time, must have thought about doing your own business (or being your own boss.) But most of you never got started because you didn't know where to get started from and what does it really take?
To put it bluntly - all that you need to start your own business is desire and commitment. It does not need business family background or a master's degree in management.

Technowrites's special weekend batch may help!

This could be the opportunity you were waiting for.
  Who can benefit from the course?
 
Technical Writers
 
Instructional Designers
 
Creative Writers
 
Indexers
 
Graphic Artists
 
Web Developers
 
Programmers
 
Other Professionals (Photographers, Lawyers, and so on)
 
Existing Freelancers
 
Only three days that can change the rest of your life! . . . . and fees?

 
Course Content
 
What is freelancing
 
Types of business entities
 
How to start a company
 
Deciding Business Strategy
 
Business Plan, Business Model
 
Understanding taxes involved
 
Setting up office (or home office)
 
Managing expenses
 
Deciding Revenue Model
 
Managing bank accounts
 
Understanding market and marketing (in detail, including exercises)
 
Invoicing for your product or services (billing & taxation)
 
Managing accounting & finance
 
Understanding legal aspects
 
Going beyond one product or one service
 
Growing beyond freelancing
 
Understanding legal aspects
 
The course will also include detailed discussions on important topics like .
 
 
Global Assignments
 
Web-based Businesses
 
Quality Management
 
Process Optimization
 
Project Management

The participants will get rich training content including training notes and ready-to-use templates for quotations, company profiles, presentations, and invoices.
Training Schedule
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  Date Time    
 
Saturday 19th February 2011
Saturday 19th March 2011
Saturday 16th April 2011
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
   
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Venue
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Technowrites Office
3rd Floor, Sardar Sahaniwas,
Deccan Gymkhana,
Apte Road,
Pune 411 004
     
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Principal Trainer:

Makarand (Mak) Pandit - one of India's leading trainers with more than 6000 hours of training experience. Mak is Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Electronics and MBA in Marketing Management. Mak has got over 15 years experience in Technical Writing, with more than 300 successful projects. Mak started in 1994 as a freelancer (before earning the MBA degree) and went on to become director of four private limited companies. Mak is a first generation entrepreneur (no one in his family had business experience). Mak's business case was studied by student researchers of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai). Mak is also being profiled in a (soon to be published) book about unconventional entrepreneurs and careers.

In addition to his successful ventures in India, Mak also started (and continues to manage) companies in Singapore and USA. Mak has managed many complex Technical Writing and eLearning Projects for clients all over the world. His client list includes the best of Indian engineering and IT companies and 18 Fortune 500 companies. A partial client list is given at the end of this mail.

Mak is well-known for his ability of developing market-oriented courses. He has served on Board of Studies of University of Pune and is currently serving on Board of Studies of Symbiosis Center for Distance Learning (SCDL) to start course in Technical Writing. He has contributed to courses developed by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

Mak was one of the architects of India's first University conducted post-graduate Diploma in Technical Communication (a revolutionary course that lead to 80% placements within 3 months of completion of the course). Mak also worked with the Educational Median Research Center (EMRC), Pune to record a special video series on Career as a Technical Writer.

Driven by his passion for learning and training, Mak conducts several Technical Writing and Instructional Design Training Courses for individuals and corporate clients. Mak is a visiting faculty in several institutes including, . Department of Journalism & Communication, University of Pune . IIPM, Pune . Symbiosis, Pune . Cummins Engineering College, Pune . Indira School of Communication, Pune

Mak has published several articles including articles on Estimating, Freelancing, and Salary Surveys. Books containing his articles have been published by Baywood Publishing, New York.

Mak has mentored several students to be successful professionals (for audio and text testimonials refer to www.technowrites.com). Many of them have now become successful freelancers.

In the three days' time-frame of this course, Mak will share the best and worst of his business and personal experiences. You can learn in three days, which otherwise may take years!

But it does not stop there! In addition to Mak, specialist trainers will be invited for subjects like Project Management, Quality, Law, and Taxation.

All this is for the introductory price of Rs. 12,000/-
If you can not invest in your dream, who will?

For more information and mode of payment write to
or call +91 98232 25640

 
Mak's Partial Client List:
   
  Microsoft Corporation   CA
  Adobe   Honeywell
  Cisco   Hewlett Packard
  SAP   Citibank
  Atos Origin   Fujitsu
  St. Jude Medical   Boston Scientific
  Scantron   Abu Dhabi Oil Company
  Unilever   Nokia
  Motorola   Allen Bradley
  Emerson Engineering   Fisher Rosemount
  United Technologies  

Add to this major Indian IT & Engineering Giants . TCS . Infosys . Wipro . HCL . Tech Mahindra . L&T Infotech . Walchandnagar Industries Limited . L&T Engineering . Tata Power . BEL

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