Student Comments from Marketing Your Services

Instructor: Emily Akin   Students of this course said: “This class was great. It met my expectations and then some! Definitely worth the cost of tuition. Every bit was helpful. As a complete newbie with no business background, the optional assignments certainly challenged my thinking, but I didn't find them too difficult. I chose the simpler ones to complete for credit, and will work through the others as time permits and as I work through getting my freelance business up and running.  It is nice being able to keep these lessons for future reference and deliberation on my own schedule rather than have to deal with it all at once. The discussion of Web sites gave me some wonderful information and great ideas on how to get started.  For a non-business person, I can't say enough good about this class.  Probably the best part was Emily's comments on the homework assignments.  She was very helpful and encouraging every step of the way.” — Terri O. Poss   “Excellent course. One of my favorites. The homework was challenging so we'd learn, but not so challenging that it scared us off! :-) Emily did an excellent job of explaining the lessons. I found all the lessons helpful, but I especially liked the ‘extras’ Emily tossed in during the weeks, such as links to articles she ran across. It was very apparent the class members were important to her. She cared that we ‘got it.’” — Tracy Ruckman   “This class gave me tons of ideas. I have them all on paper and e-mail and will go back through them again. The teaching was great.” — Sally Bradley   “This course offered a lot of valuable information. The lessons were insightful and made me think about areas of the business that I hadn't considered before. I liked the choice of assignments.  Because of time constraints, I was able to complete one per week; I can go back at my leisure and complete the others. When all of the assignments are completed, this will serve to put me well on my way to making the most of marketing my business. The work was not too easy, nor too difficult.  I would say that it was all necessary to grasp the best way to market one's work. I will continue to refer back to the information as I put everything into practice.” — Lynne Lepley   The marketing class exceeded my expectations. I am not a business person and always joked that there was not a marketing cell in my body. The combination of Kathy's "Starting Your Freelance Business" class and Emily's marketing class showed me that I can step outside my comfort zone when I have an understanding of principles and strategies for marketing. I especially liked the personal responses to the class homework. I learned even more by reading these posts to classmates' assignments. I liked the one-assignment requirement, but completed two or more each time, even when I only posted one. Sometimes the assignments started a process in my mind that I will continue working to complete. I loved the personal attention Emily provided, and I was thankful for the pdf file of all the lessons. I save all of the lessons, but this file is a convenient way to go back over the material covered without opening five different files. Thank you, Emily (and Kathy), for providing quality classes at reasonable cost. The series of classes I have taken were professionally presented and contained valuable information for a freelance editing career. —Vie Herlocker   I liked the thorough and clear explanation of each concept in the course.   Emily's quick response to homework assignments was great. Reading all her comments on other classmate's assignments really helps as well. It was also helpful to have sample Web sites to look at. I know this class will be very useful as I proceed with my writing and editing.   The course was excellent. The instructor presented the material in a clear manner that “newbies” like me could grasp.   Homework quantity and difficulty level were just right.   Thank you for offering this course. I will keep and refer to all the course information in the future and expect to profit by it. -- Kate Jesse    The course went beyond my expectations. I will keep going back to the lessons and reading and trying to apply them. I was an accounting major in college, and I took business classes, but never got far enough to look at things this way. I knew about books and records, but not principles and evaluating things. -- Michelle Levigne    A colleague is currently taking college coursework in marketing, and I think I learned as much, if not more, in this online course. The level of difficulty in the homework was just right. The lessons challenged me, but I didn’t feel frustrated. Emily shared real-life examples of how the marketing strategies we were learning have been applied by other business owners. Such examples really helped put the lessons into perspective. -- Laurel Vincenty