Freelance MBA: Master No-Code Solutions & Build a High-Demand Digital Career

Begin your journey with a captivating teaser introducing the course's focus on building all-in-one solutions for SMBs. Gain a clear understanding of the course structure, set ambitious goals, and learn about the three distinct lecture types used throughout the curriculum. Get inspired by a real-world perspective on how you can maximize your learning experience within this course.

Develop a mastery of essential computer skills that will streamline your workflow and boost your productivity. Explore a range of powerful macOS tools and shortcuts for managing files, applications, and windows efficiently. Learn how to optimize your clipboard and screenshot management techniques for faster collaboration. Discover a curated selection of productivity and communication tools designed to enhance your efficiency and communication with clients, including Slack, WhatsApp Business, Gmail, and more. Dive into time management techniques like Inbox Zero and learn how to conduct online meetings professionally. This section equips you with the foundation for a seamless and organized digital workspace.

Gain control of your clipboard history for maximum efficiency. Learn how to quickly access and manage your own library of saved text. Discover powerful tools that enable you to grab text directly from images, videos, and your computer screen. Master the art of taking instant screenshots, adding arrows, and instantly sharing image links with clients. Learn how to capture and share long, full-page screenshots for seamless collaboration. Discover a streamlined method for uploading and sharing files with clients within seconds.

Unlock the power of keyboard shortcuts for seamless file opening and window management. Discover how to enhance visual clarity with adjustable window opacity. Monitor your WIFI download and upload speeds in real-time from your menu bar. Master the art of online communication with free online phone services for text messaging and international calls. Dive into Slack team chat for efficient internal collaboration. Learn how to optimize business communication with WhatsApp Business. Discover how to instantly create custom email aliases for Gmail. Unlock the power of automation between any app or tool without writing a single line of code. Learn the fundamentals of custom domain names and how to set up custom email addresses for your business. Explore the leanest productivity suite for your clients, Google apps, and understand the quick use of Google Sheets for spreadsheet management. Discover the advantages of online data grid tools for organizing and processing information. Master the use of a superb project management tool and flow for efficient project execution. Explore a design tool that will become your favorite for creating stunning visuals. Enhance security and streamline logins with a powerful password manager. Quickly find email addresses for your business contacts. Generate professional invoices instantly with a reliable invoice generator. Choose the perfect online bank with multi-currency support for managing your finances. Safeguard your online activity with a top-rated VPN app. Efficiently switch your AirPods between your iPhone and Mac. Master the essentials of noise-cancelling headphones and microphones. Learn how to quickly switch to a 4G hotspot for seamless online access when you need it.

Effortlessly view the current time in different cities with a dedicated Mac menu bar utility. Learn the simplest method for checking time zone differences to streamline meeting planning. Discover a clean and simple notes app for capturing your thoughts. Transform your email management with the life-changing Inbox Zero method. Master the art of conducting professional online meetings on platforms like Zoom and Meet. Explore must-have Chrome extensions that enhance your browsing experience, block ads, enable quick screenshots, and provide access to a range of useful tools. Find a simple online tool for scheduling meetings quickly.

Dive into the inner workings of service-oriented small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Gain a deep understanding of appointment scheduling practices, ensuring consistent and high-quality service delivery, building strong customer relationships, and mastering effective communication and customer service strategies. Explore marketing strategies tailored for service-based businesses. Learn how to organize fixed-time projects, such as tennis competitions or events. Master time management and productivity tips for service-oriented SMBs. Gain insights into the tools and methods used by SMBs, from pen and paper to online marketplaces and website platforms. Understand the key financial aspects that drive service-oriented SMBs. Explore the entrepreneurial spirit, challenges, and rewards of running a service-based business.

Explore various real-world examples of service-oriented businesses, including tennis clubs, doctor's offices, piano teachers, residential buildings, concierge companies, local dance schools, cleaning companies, and fitness trainers. Gain a comprehensive understanding of how you can effectively implement digital solutions to address the specific needs of each business type.

Delve into the world of building digital platforms for service-oriented SMBs using Blackbell. Gain a thorough understanding of the platform's key features, including Prod vs Sandbox accounts, various Blackbell account types, and the distinction between Staff and Customer accounts. Explore the Blackbell mobile app for both clients and customers, and discover the possibility of creating branded mobile apps for your clients.

Get hands-on with Blackbell by creating your own SchedulePro test account. Optionally download the sandboxbb staff app (CMS Mobile) and the sandboxbb customers app (Mirage) to further enhance your practical experience.

Master the art of online bookings with Blackbell's Orders App. Learn about order status management, detailed order information, scheduled bookings, attached payments, order-related chat, private notes, labeling orders, order assignment to team members, order status filtering, and search functions. Gain insights into mobile app order management, email and push notifications for orders, applying discounts, sending quotes, and scanning customer QR codes for quick order retrieval.

Explore Blackbell's Payments App for streamlined financial management. Learn how to set up currencies, track payment successes, process refunds, handle payment failures, verify payments, send payment links, view account balances, and initiate payouts to banks. Discover features like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and the ability to find and export payment history.

Build robust booking forms using Blackbell's intuitive form builder. Learn how to duplicate, delete, or archive forms. Understand the concept of booking steps and how to capture user preferences using options like yes/no, checkboxes, quantity pickers, and dropdown menus. Discover how to capture essential user data using text fields, file uploads, and CRM fields. Create a test booking form to practice your skills. Gain insights into capturing text area input, delivery locations, and participant information. Learn how to display data to users within forms. Master the art of capturing time selection with various options like yes/no, checkboxes, minus/plus buttons, and dropdowns. Explore how to capture slot selection using options like number of slots, yes/no, checkboxes, minus/plus buttons, and dropdowns. Learn how to hide specific fields from users and make fields mandatory. Understand how to incorporate options pricing. Enhance your test booking form further with advanced features.

Explore advanced features for managing booking forms. Dive into price policy settings, payment methods, and order flow customization. Further improve your test booking form. Discover how to implement multiple-slot booking, confirmation flow management, cancellation policy configuration, and booking successful page customization. Learn how to automate chat messages for new orders and order confirmations. Master the art of labeling customers upon order confirmation. Continue refining your test booking form. Create custom jobs, manage workflow notes, set up alerts, request ratings, customize URL settings, and understand the importance of associated calendars and slot durations. Improve your test booking form with advanced features. Explore the possibility of booking more time slots, setting availability frequency, defining advance booking options, implementing minimum scheduling notices, creating buffers before and after events, managing forms lists and searches, organizing forms in folders, performing bulk actions, importing forms, and enabling express checkout. Learn how to set default form settings and automate message sending when 5-star ratings are received.

Master Blackbell's Calendar App for managing appointments and availability. Learn how to set maximum fixed number slot availability, define weekly availability, implement date overrides, label and color calendars, view related forms, set maximum bookings per customer and across all customers, synchronize with Google Calendar, manage variable resource availability, perform bulk date overrides, and manage bulk weekly hours.

Create stunning web pages using Blackbell's Pages App. Learn how to duplicate, delete, or archive pages. Understand the concept of page status, page titles, page access, page URLs, social media link previews, QR code generation, block reordering, block deletion, block duplication, block movement between pages, block visibility to users, and pinning blocks to the top or bottom. Discover various animation effects. Add blocks to pages, copy existing blocks, generate blocks with BlackGPT AI, and switch seamlessly between laptop, iPad, and mobile views. Learn how to add and change text in blocks, modify fonts, update text with ChatGPT, change font sizes, adjust text alignment, customize font colors, and apply bold and italic formatting. Master image cropping, including fit-to-full options, and choose between full image or aspect ratio displays. Add filters to images and upload images from your device. Use Pexels and Pixabay image libraries for stunning visuals. Generate images on Canva. Organize images into folders. Understand the concept of click actions and their logic for opening websites, pages, forms, YouTube videos, uploaded videos, PDFs, emails, phone calls, Instagram profiles, WhatsApp chats, Facebook Messenger chats, Telegram chats, and searching for services by date. Explore various block types like image and text blocks, link blocks, list item blocks, image gallery blocks, video blocks, PDF embedding, event calendar blocks, embedded page grid blocks, embedded booking form grid blocks, Google Maps embedding, HTML block embedding, custom blocks with HTML/CSS (Powerblocks), page headers, folder management, homepage customization, logo upload, color palette customization, domain name purchase and setup, domain name connection for existing domains, SEO optimization, navigation menu management, enabling multiple languages, AI-powered content translation, adding custom terms and privacy policies, forcing user account creation, managing page lists and searches, bulk editing, and importing pages.

Manage your clients' schedules with ease using Blackbell's Schedule App. Learn how to view and manage schedules, event details, event movement, event deletion, updating slots taken, using the time zone converter, creating events manually, viewing Google Calendar events, navigating to specific dates, viewing by resource, viewing as a timeline, viewing subscription payment calendars, setting up event reminders, managing schedules on mobile, and navigating the Schedule App interface.

Manage your clients' customer data with Blackbell's Customers App. Learn how to view and search customers, access customer details and history, label customers, manage customer profile updates, add private notes, view customer history, customize CRM data with public and private fields, make CRM data mandatory, enable customer field updates upon login, in their profiles, and while filling out booking forms. Learn how to update customer fields from the CMS interface, import customers using email pasting or CSV files, add customers manually, perform bulk labeling and CRM field updates, manage app credits, export customers to CSV files, and navigate the Customers App interface.

Enhance client communication using Blackbell's Broadcasts App. Learn how to create broadcast messages, add buttons, images, and attachments to messages, manage broadcast quotas, send test messages, send messages to all users, individual users, groups of users, and users with specific labels or CRM field values. Understand how to choose delivery methods (email or push notifications), schedule broadcasts, view open metrics, duplicate broadcasts, automate broadcasts upon customer signup, track email deliverability, handle unsubscriptions, manage sender and reply-to addresses, and explore the Broadcasts App interface.

Explore Blackbell's Coupons App for managing discount codes. Learn how to create coupons, create coupon lists, limit coupon usage across all users or per customer, set expiration dates, define usage restrictions, edit coupons, and navigate the Coupons App interface.

Master subscription management with Blackbell's Subscriptions App. Learn how to view subscription details, find previous payments, pause subscriptions, change plans, cancel subscriptions, create booking forms for subscription-related plans, enable user-defined plans, understand plan start dates with a calendar view, allow customers to view subscription payments and cancel subscriptions with a single click, manage subscription lists and searches, handle payment failures for recurring subscriptions, view subscription invoice calendars, automate subscriber labeling, grant automatic access to content and services, and navigate the Subscriptions App interface.

Enhance customer interaction with Blackbell's Chat App. Learn about read receipts, file attachments, drafting with ChatGPT, converting speech to text with ChatGPT, sending saved replies, setting up automated chatbots, and using chat on mobile. Explore standalone chat features.

Manage client tasks using Blackbell's Jobs App. Learn how to view job details, change job status, assign jobs, update details, label jobs, automate job creation with orders, view and search jobs, and navigate the Jobs App interface.

Gain valuable insights with Blackbell's Analytics App. Learn how to use the analytics dashboard, analyze views and traffic, track revenue-generating users and services, view customer ratings, integrate with Google Analytics, integrate with Google Webmaster Tools, automate messages upon receiving 5-star ratings, display ratings publicly, export data for analysis (orders, payments), and explore the Analytics App interface.

Get familiar with Blackbell's mobile app for staff. Learn how to login using manual methods, magic links, and email clicks. Explore features like viewing order details, changing order status, processing online payments, issuing refunds, chatting with customers, viewing schedules, updating calendar availability and overrides, managing customers, managing subscriptions, scanning QR codes to find orders, navigating order details, and accessing app settings.

Learn how to add staff users to client accounts, enable staff account login, and review notifications.

Master the creation of service marketplaces using Blackbell's ServicesHub. Learn how to create a ServicesHub account, set up marketplace descriptions, guidelines, and minimum commission structures. Explore supplier form setup, inviting suppliers, managing supplier applications, blocking signup applications, reviewing applications, approving or declining suppliers, adding supplier pages to the marketplace, receiving notifications for supplier orders and ratings, managing daily email notifications about scheduled services, viewing orders to suppliers, adding more suppliers, and understanding the successful use case of residential buildings.

Discover strategies for pricing your services effectively. Learn about one-time creation fees, recurring maintenance fees, AgencyLink referral fees, and explore a comprehensive PDF guide on pricing strategies.

Get inspired by a real-world case study showcasing how a team of four individuals billed $1,000,000 in four years by leveraging AgencyLink and providing services to residential buildings.

Master the AgencyLink platform for scaling your freelance business. Learn how to view clients and their referral payments. Access staff accounts. Create clients in three steps: through AgencyLink, from their own accounts, and through Blackbell.com referrals. Learn how to share content (pages, forms, images) with clients. Add live chat and customize footers. Import existing pages and forms. Invite client team members. Manage client platform payments both by the client and AgencyLink. Create custom online plans that bundle your services.

Unlock advanced customization options using code. Learn how to apply custom CSS and JavaScript. Explore the creation of fully customizable content blocks that remain editable by clients using mouse and keyboard. Discover webhooks, broadcast, and customer APIs for integrating with external systems.

Learn how to seamlessly integrate Blackbell with any existing website platform, including Wordpress, Wix, and Webflow.

Gain valuable insights from successful entrepreneurs.

Explore a comprehensive interview with George, a recording studio owner, who shares his insights on starting a studio business, customer personalization, effective marketing channels, team operations, customer data management, video editing, and team well-being.

Learn how to create a booking platform for a recording studio based on the insights gained from the interview with George.

Gain valuable insights from Orlane, an interior design architect, as she shares her experiences on client interactions, pricing, project scope organization, in-location processes, customer data management, client selection, online collaboration, and quality checks.

Learn about the course certification process and gain access to AgencyLink.