Discover the Secret to Earning Over $1,600 per Week
as a Successful Desktop Publisher...
Working the Hours YOU want...
Being Your Own Boss... No experience Needed...
Guaranteed
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Why You Should Get Into Professional Desktop Publishing!
- 1. High Profits: Desktop Publishers can make very good money. The average rates for desktop publishing are as follows:
Rate by Type of Work- Business card artwork
- $50 each
- Newsletters
- $60 p/h
- Wedding invitations
- $150 each
- Menu
- $100 each
- Self published books
- $60 p/h
- Flyers
- $100 each
- Brochures
- $250 each
- Hourly rate
- $60 p/h
These are just minimum rates! A Desktop Publisher can charge as much as their clients are willing to pay. You can charge $50 for a business card artwork supplying the artwork just on a CD and the job only takes 15 min. For a newsletter you can charge $250 supplied on disc only and it only takes five hours approximately and it is a lot of fun to put together. You can charge from $70 per page for book work. You can can do a resume or portfolio for $150 and it only takes around 1 hour! - 2. Start-Up Cost: All you need to start is a computer, printer with a desktop program a scanner, desks and chairs etc. that you probably already own, or could easily buy (new or second hand). You also need a phone and some basic office stationery. There are other items explained in the course for the long term setup.
- 3. Work from Home: You don't need a shop front to be a Desktop Publisher. You can run your business from a spare room. You can easily mix a home-based Desktop Publishing business with study, raising a family, a full-time job or a part-time job.
- 4. Demand: There is a demand for good Desktop Publishing. Every business must have artwork, manuals, product flyers etc even a guy pushing a mower needs a flyer!
- 5. Variety: Let's face it. Most jobs are boring. You do the same old thing every day, every week, every month, every year, right? You look forward to holidays just so you can do something different. Desktop Publishing offers a huge amount of variety. In the morning, you could be doing a newsletter in the afternoon a resume, flyer, business card, and after afternoon tea you could do another flyer, a product sheet and a resume this can be a typical day for desktop publisher.
- 6. Prestige and Respect: Desktop Publishers are respected for their high level of artistic skill and technical knowledge. If anyone asks you what you do for a living, you can say in all honesty, "I'm a Professional Desktop Publisher". People will hold you in high esteem.
- 7. Equality: It doesn't matter how old you are. It doesn't matter what sex you are. It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what you look like. It doesn't matter what jobs you've had in the past. There are no formal educational requirements. There are no formal licensing requirements. This business is open to anyone with real ambition and a desire to be successful - We will teach you every little step you need to get started.
- 8. Easy Work: A common belief is that Desktop Publishers need to be artistic, to make good money. This is not true. Your work must be good, but you don't need to be absolutely perfect. And it's not hard, backbreaking work either. All that's involved is talking to people and arranging their material into interesting newsletters with photos and stories that they supply to you. We will teach you every step you need.
- The certificate course in Desk Top Publishing is your gateway to this lucrative industry.
- To help you get started we have created the certificate in desktop publishing which is studied via our Online Instructional Video Learning Platform. Available 24/7 on any computer or mobile device including iPhone, iPad etc.
- This online course covers everything in order to be a profitable desktop publisher.We teach you everything you need to know to start the business and be successful.
- The course is literally "bursting full" with information to help you be a success in this business.
- Research shows that learning on video is the most productive way to learn a new skill, you can watch the videos at your own pace and you can watch them over and over until you fully understand.
- Course Delivery: The course is delivered 100% online. Upon enrollment students are issued with a log in and password providing access to the Courses For Success's E-Learning Platform. To preview our E-Learning platform request a FREE info pack.
Course Outline
Unit 1: Introduction To Desktop
This unit covers the introduction to desktop publishing. We look at the different types of design and the progresses in technology. We look at the type of work that can be done and learn how to make your own designs. We look at how to start putting your new desktop publishing business together.
Learn:
- The type of work that can be done and how to make your own designs
- What font to use to communicate ideas effectively
- How to get the attention of the reader
- How to write outstanding newsletters
- How to make flyers that work
- Learn about screens and how they work
- The top 10 mistakes that desktop publishers make and how to avoid them
- And much much more
Unit 2: Setting Up Your Home Office
This unit covers setting up your home office. It includes the design of your home office with computers and equipment that you need to run a successful business that will look and feel professional.
Learn:
- How to finance your equipment
- What insurance you need
- Your OH&S requirements
- Effective time management
- How to set up your accounting
- What type of communications you need
- And most importantly how much to charge
Unit 3: Colour For Design
This unit covers the basic principles of colour management. We look at colour and why it should be a key consideration for design. We look at the two types of colours - subtractive and additive colours. We also look at the colour gamut and the eye gamut - what you see with your eye will be different to what you see on your screen and will be different again to what will be printed.
Learn:
- How to use colour and why it should be a key consideration for design
- Colour psychology and what different colours mean
- Simultaneous colours
- What colours work together
- How to lead the customers eye to where we want them to read
- The meaning of colours to the age group of your target audience
- What colour management is and what it really means
Unit 4: Desktop Publishing Tutorials
In this disc there are 40 QuickTime movie tutorial lessons for the software program Adobe in Design CS 2. The tutorials provided will demonstrate how to use the software program and perform a variety of tasks from beginner to intermediate level.
If you are using another program don't worry as the principles are still the same.
Unit 5: Photoshop Tutorials
In this unit you will learn the basics of Photoshop so you can adjust, correct and merge images ready for your desktop publishing program.
Learn:
- How to use selection tools
- How to adjust photos
- How to fix up faces, whiten teeth, fix a droopy eye and fix skin blemishes
- How to get the lighting right for the final adjustments to the face
- How to get the magazine look in your photos
- How to edit a photo that you think is a goner
- How to choose the right business structure, sole trader, partnership or company.
Unit 6: How To Promote & Market Your Business
In this unit we cover the principles of marketing, the most common mistakes that people make and how to market your new desktop publishing business. We cover how to get work and build your customer base.
Learn:
- What it is the customer wants to know about your business
- How to become an expert and measure your marketing
- The principles of marketing
- How to market yourself to the right people
- What the customer wants to know about your business
- How to create a uniqueness and get more business
- The golden rules of advertising
- The most common marketing mistakes
- And much much more!
Resource Disc Including Course Manual
This disc includes your hard copy course manual with many useful tools to help you get your business started.
- A sample business plan
- A labelled diagram of a suggested home office layout
- Marketing letters
- Advertisements
- Colour management chart
- And more
12 Months Unlimited Tutor Support & Coaching
- One on one tutor support for 12 months so that you can get the most out of this course
- Tutor support gives you the benefit of two-way conversation any of the topics covered
- Feel confident that all your questions will be answered!
Why is this course so good?
- It's a proven system, which means if you follow the steps and implement the system we show you, you cannot fail.
- We provide tutor support so you are never on your own.
- The information is on video which means that we show you exactly how to do it (research shows that this is the most effective way to learn) and you can watch it over and over again.
- The information is the most up to date and latest available to ensure that you do it right.
- The course is presented in a professional manner by a government accredited trainer, which means that the course complies with government standards.
- There is absolutely no risk what so ever for you, all you have to do is study the course, and follow all the steps that we teach you and you will be in business making money.
