Learn how to win design projects, convince your clients to go with the best solutions, and cultivate lasting working relationships.

Transition your freelance design career into a small business, one step at a time.

Are you ready to grow your creative business? In this course, consultant Emily Ruth Cohen provides recommendations and a list of easy-to-follow rules for how to hire, organize, manage, and review employees within a creative team. Emily covers the hard and fast rules for staffing and staff management, culled from the mistakes and successes of other creative teams. These rules will help you strategically plan your organizational structure and roles, improve how you hire and manage your team, conduct more effective performance reviews, and more.

Explore how to write a winning proposal that effectively communicates your services and includes a smart pricing strategy.

Learn about the variables that go into pricing your work as a photographer.

You love photography and you're good at it. So maybe it's time to turn pro—as a freelancer or even full time. In this course, photo-marketing consultant Skip Cohen introduces the issues and considerations you should think about before starting a photography business. Learn how to define your niche, get practice and feedback, and build a brand as well as a network. From understanding the industry to marketing yourself, this course will give you a solid foundation on which to build a photography business.

Learn how to run a successful webinar with no technical hiccups. Discover how to choose the right webinar hosting platform, organize your content, use compelling visuals, and more.

Learn how revenue recognition—a seemingly innocent accounting topic—can turn a reported profit into a reported loss, sometimes with multibillion-dollar implications.

Great businesses can fail because of improperly managed cash flows. Learn the difference between net income and operating cash flow and how to manage your cash flow for growth.

Explains what financial ratios such as ROA and ROI mean and how they can be used to identify financial trends or assess a company's financial status.

Get a crash course in running a successful video production business. Learn how to get strategic with your productions, solve on-set problems, and deliver results to your clients.

Learn how to define your success factors before you write your business plan, and build a design business that flourishes with your passion and purpose.

Learn which business structure (sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or LLC) is right for you. Learn how it impacts licensing and permitting, taxes, and record keeping.

Learn how to create and move a master instance of Jenkins to the cloud-based servers of AWS (Amazon Web Services). In this course, instructor Michael Jenkins covers steps for setting up Jenkins, creating a build environment, connecting with webhooks, using a deployment service, and shutting down AWS resources. First, Michael shows you how to create a master instance of Jenkins, including how to configure a security group, a NGINX reverse proxy, and your Jenkins master instance. Next, he steps through creating a build environment and connect the Jenkins master server to the build server. Michael explains what a webhook is and how you can create and test one. He goes over how to deploy using Elastic Beanstalk. Finally, Michael discusses how to stop or remove AWS resources.

Kubernetes fans rejoice. You can now use this popular container orchestration tool with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy enterprise-scale Kubernetes clusters—without the headaches of managing multiple masters. This course teaches you the ins and outs of Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), including understanding the deployment model and creating the needed Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and policies. Instructor Robert Stormer also shows how to deploy and scale EKS workers to meet your needs, and integrate storage and networking. Plus, find out how to manage user access with Amazon IAM and Kubernetes RBAC, and monitor your deployments and underlying resources. Along the way, Robert introduces useful Kubernetes extensions and add-ons that can be used in the AWS environment.

Millions of people who used to work in offices now work from home, and with this change in workplace dynamics comes a whole new set of concerns and logistical challenges. Instead of worrying about commutes, business travel, or booking conference rooms, workers and organizations now need to find new and effective ways to connect for conferences, all-staff meetings, and other events that used to take place face to face. In this course, Gini von Courter shows how to use Microsoft 365 Live Events to help meet these challenges by providing live video streaming for meetings with up to 10,000 participants. Gini shows how to keep things running smoothly before, during, and after a live event. She covers key topics like choosing the right tool from the M365 building blocks—Teams, Yammer, and Stream—for a live event, scheduling live events and assigning roles, using an external encoder, starting the live stream, and hosting post-event conversations and managing event recordings and reports.

Learn how to run Microsoft workloads in the Amazon cloud. Find out how to set up Windows EC2 instances, create and join a Cloud Active Directory, and manage resources with Lightsail.

If you know even a little bit about programming languages, you know there are a plethora of options to choose from. If your priority is a language focused on reliability, speed, memory, safety, and parallelism, then Rust may be the one for you. In this course, instructor Barron Stone covers the key components of Rust, starting with basic programming concepts including variables, data types, functions, and control loops. He then moves on to some of the core concepts that are unique to Rust, including ownership, borrowing references, and crates. While Rust is great for low-level systems programming, it’s also being used for web apps, network services, and embedded programs. As Barron shows, the features of Rust, along with great tools, documentation, and a welcoming community, have made Rust a language that developers love.

Learn reactive programming with RxJava. Explore key aspects of this library as you learn simple design patterns and review real-world use cases.

Join LinkedIn Influencer Ryan Holmes—the CEO and founder of Hootsuite—as he shares his insights about what it means to be an effective social leader.