Create your first business contract or legal agreement, protect yourself and get paid on time!
Welcome to Contract Law for Freelancers (and small business owners)!
This course is perfect for people who know nothing about creating their first contract, who have never created a contract before and/or are intimidated by creating their first contract. You may have just started a business, or never bothered creating a contract before. Maybe you can't afford a lawyer or can't justify spending hundreds of dollars to have somebody else create a basic legal agreement for you. No matter the circumstances, I'll teach you the basics of contract law for freelancers.
In this course for complete beginners, you will learn how to create one contract agreement to use with a client or multiple clients.
You will also learn:
How to create a contract from scratch
The different clauses that go into building a contract
How to protect yourself in a contract
How to use a contract to get paid on time
How to use a contract to allow yourself to showcase the work you do for your clients
How to avoid legal trouble
Tips and ticks for creating a perfect contract
This course, like all of my other courses includes a Q&A and discussion section if you have any questions about the course or about specific situations. I've spent half of the last decade working online for clients around the world and I've created hundreds of legal agreements in my time doing so. These agreements have saved me so many times and I wish somebody made a course like this for me when I first started.
So, what are you waiting for? If you're a freelancer or small business owner, you'll love this course!
Learn how to build one contract to use with a single client or multiple clients
Learn the different clauses that go into building a contract agreement
Build a contract for your freelancing services
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My name is Nader Nadernejad. (As seen on Season 1 of CBC's Canada's Smartest Person, Telus Business, Fullscreen, Maker Gen Studios, The Examiner, CKDU FM, TRENT RADIO and more!) I'm a multimedia producer, digital marketing expert and consultant. I use media to tell stories and create brand images. I've worked in television, radio and print, helping people around the world...
Title of course is misleading – this is a very basic course that is more about the instructor going through a pre-written template with different clauses to add to a contract and why they’re important. I didn’t learn definition of important freelancing contract terms in depth like I thought I would. Also, throughout the course, I kept wondering: Where did the info come from, other than the instructor’s experience? Did a lawyer review this contract? Has the instructor had a lawyer review the contract?
I did learn some valuable info and appreciated the instructor talking a lot about the human elements of creating a contract. But I’m still not sure this contract is a particularly good contract. It may be better than no contract at all, but maybe not. Because I don’t know where the elements of the contract came from or if a lawyer helped create this, it could also potentially be a messy / bad contract. Would be helpful to have some kind of validating party who is a lawyer vouching that this contract passes legal snuff. The instructor did say this video didn’t replace legal services, which I appreciated, but I think this disclaimer should come much earlier on in the video and the title of the course should be changed to better reflect the actual content of the course.
After watching this video and wondering where all these elements came from, I feel even better about my decision to hire a business attorney to help me write and read contracts as I start my freelancing business. If you’re starting a business as a freelancer, it is still really important to hire an attorney as part of your business. It’s expensive but even my short discussion so far with the attorney has been well worth the money to avoid signing or writing a bad contract that could cause a lot more damage, headache, and costs than paying a lawyer. Using this template might save some time, but definitely get it reviewed by a lawyer before sending it to a client!
good course
Easy to understand
Seems a bit underwhelming.
Easy to understand, clear and concise. Great course for a beginner!
The course was ok, not really what I was hoping it would be.
ok
I loved how a seemingly boring topic was taught in a fun way. All essential clauses I have been observing for a while are explained in a short and simple manner. Thanks for the templates as well. This course has proved that the communication skills used by the teacher affect the interest of the learners in the topic irrespective of the technical jargon in the content of the course. Good way to teach.
this course is great for a person who learns contract law for the very first time. but as a law student like me, this was ok. although i was very satisfied because Nader explained it like talking to a friend so i wasn't bored. but, for improvement, i wish you could slow it down a bit while explaining. Thank you!
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Rachel K.
The overview of the terms and conditions was the most useful part of the course. However, I think more legal explanation would have been useful. This was a little too general.
The things I'd change:
1. Watching him type was unnecessary. Content should already be written and then the time could be used to explain.
2. It doesn't seem like the free resource and.co exists anymore. I couldn't find it.
3. On the provided template, the services/signature section was just an image, not editable, and in a different font than the rest of the document.