Comments on: Free Online Courses for Writers (Beyond Writing Courses) http://allfreelancewriting.com/2008/12/29/freelancing/business-career/free-online-courses-for-writers-beyond-writing-courses/ Your Secret to Freelance Writing Success Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:14:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jennifer Mattern http://allfreelancewriting.com/2008/12/29/freelancing/business-career/free-online-courses-for-writers-beyond-writing-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-6465 Jennifer Mattern Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:28:26 +0000 http://allfreelancewriting.com/?p=1477#comment-6465 The fundamentals of marketing really don't change much, so most of those courses are probably still fine after a few years. For example they have an intro to marketing course there I believe - even at a few years, nothing should really be outdated. It depends on what exactly you want to learn though. You could look at the <a href="http://www.sba.gov/services/training/onlinecourses/index.html" rel="nofollow">SBA</a> marketing courses to see if there's something of interest there, or some of these: <a href="http://bwcourses.businessweek.com/index.jsp?bizweekpsession.id=9270f3b2653d58848c07fbac4312" rel="nofollow">BusinessWeek Online Courses</a> - you need to wait for an open session. <a href="http://www.kutztownsbdc.org/eLearningCourses/sba-marketing.asp" rel="nofollow">Kutztown University</a> offers a marketing 101 course. <a href="http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/index.php" rel="nofollow">Open University</a> has a few master's level courses in their business & management section. The fundamentals of marketing really don’t change much, so most of those courses are probably still fine after a few years. For example they have an intro to marketing course there I believe – even at a few years, nothing should really be outdated. It depends on what exactly you want to learn though.

You could look at the SBA marketing courses to see if there’s something of interest there, or some of these:

BusinessWeek Online Courses – you need to wait for an open session.

Kutztown University offers a marketing 101 course.

Open University has a few master’s level courses in their business & management section.

]]> By: Kristie Lorette http://allfreelancewriting.com/2008/12/29/freelancing/business-career/free-online-courses-for-writers-beyond-writing-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-6464 Kristie Lorette Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:10:44 +0000 http://allfreelancewriting.com/?p=1477#comment-6464 It was really nice of you to share these courses with us. Unfortunately for me, my two areas of expertise (marketing and real estate) were so old (2005 and 2006) that it wasn't current information, but I still wanted to say thank you. It was very thoughtful of you! It was really nice of you to share these courses with us. Unfortunately for me, my two areas of expertise (marketing and real estate) were so old (2005 and 2006) that it wasn’t current information, but I still wanted to say thank you. It was very thoughtful of you!

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