Become A 6-Figure IT Contractor Masterclass

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to Our Course

Lecture 1: What are the objectives of this course ?

Lecture 2: Who is this course for ? Who can become an Ultimate Contractor ?

Lecture 3: Who is Erdem ? Why is the right person to teach this course ?

Lecture 4: Why become a contractor ? Pros and Cons ?

Chapter 2: Mindset Change and Transform

Lecture 1: When should you pull the trigger and do the transformation from employee?

Lecture 2: What is the worst thing that can happen ?

Lecture 3: Change in value structure Getting fired and after life

Lecture 4: How to handle Cognitive Dissonance ?

Lecture 5: How to handle rejections ?

Lecture 6: How to leverage diversity ?

Lecture 7: Learn the rules of the game

Lecture 8: Divide and Conquer Problems

Lecture 9: Three levels of the mind

Lecture 10: Which movies to watch ?

Lecture 11: Why are you moving from an employee to a contractor ?

Lecture 12: How to leverage working mobile ?

Lecture 13: How to take risk and position yourself ?

Lecture 14: Upwork/LinkedIn and Remote Contracts

Lecture 15: Productivity different for every one 3 minds play onuralp think i waste time

Lecture 16: What do you need to focus and How to avoid marginals!

Lecture 17: Marginal talks and avoiding marginals ?

Lecture 18: What are the negative aspects of the Contractor?

Chapter 3: Finance and Learn Your Numbers First – Borrowing

Lecture 1: Employee and a family mans dilemma / sponsors and ratios

Lecture 2: Know your numbers

Lecture 3: Understanding the overall numbers Compare Quickbooks with Excel

Lecture 4: Not knowing numbers and Learning 3 rules of money management

Lecture 5: How much should you ask for ?

Lecture 6: Bankroll management

Lecture 7: Business Cycles

Lecture 8: How much money did i make and whats the potential ?

Lecture 9: I dont have any money. How do i borrow ?

Chapter 4: Setup for IT Contracting Company – Spending

Lecture 1: Setting up the company

Lecture 2: Online Banking Setup and Options

Lecture 3: Type of Insurances

Lecture 4: Where should you work ?

Lecture 5: Get an Proper Accountant

Lecture 6: Writing your business plan with Customer Development

Chapter 5: Tools to Use to Improve productivity – Spending

Lecture 1: Which software you need to use ?

Lecture 2: How to use Notion in a contract

Lecture 3: Teams, WebEx and remote calls how to prepare for them

Lecture 4: Quickbooks

Lecture 5: Tech Stack Mac Windows Linux

Lecture 6: Minimalist or Maximums

Lecture 7: Google Home , Smart Watches Tablets and Computers

Lecture 8: Why bother with Loom?

Lecture 9: Google Suite

Lecture 10: Laptop and EORI Number

Lecture 11: Lucid charts and mindmaps

Lecture 12: Email labels and filtering for contracts

Lecture 13: Join social networks

Chapter 6: Daisy Chaining Sales For Closing – Sales

Lecture 1: Contracts and types zero / term / fixed

Lecture 2: Always Be Closing With The Recruiters ( Real Life )

Lecture 3: Closing Contracts in Real Time

Lecture 4: Checking Contract for Taxes and Closing With Countersigned

Lecture 5: Security Cleared Contracts as a Leverage

Lecture 6: Close multiple jobs/contracts and borrow your own time

Lecture 7: Reject inside ir35 roles with charm

Lecture 8: Develop yourself

Lecture 9: Recruiter Call Frequently Asked Questions

Lecture 10: Recording a voicemail

Chapter 7: Marketing Pipelines for Leads – Sales

Lecture 1: Marketing application workflow and delegate on Upwork

Lecture 2: How should you manage your external application costs ?

Lecture 3: Why should you easy apply all the time ?

Lecture 4: Creating a killer CV

Lecture 5: How do you version cv in a practical way and leverage it during its life time?

Lecture 6: Linkedin tips and tricks

Lecture 7: LinkedIn presence and Full Text Search

Lecture 8: How do you leverage your name/brands ?

Lecture 9: Send Referrals All Over The Globe

Lecture 10: Using Udemy Courses To Promote Contracts

Lecture 11: Refer Calls To Calendly

Lecture 12: How to create great linkedin

Chapter 8: Delivering Contracts – Packing YourSelf as a Product

Lecture 1: Day one starting a contract and what you need to do

Lecture 2: First standup and introduction message in a contract

Lecture 3: Setting up the Notion Documentation Structure

Lecture 4: Handson Focus

Lecture 5: Creating Tickets even before the problem is there

Lecture 6: How many hours to estimate why 4 hr is the sweet spot ?

Lecture 7: Access and Followup Emails

Lecture 8: Being on Time as a Contractor

Chapter 9: Delegate and Cross the Chasm – Packing YourSelf as a Product

Lecture 1: When/Why should you delegate the task to India ?

Lecture 2: Customer Development in IT Contracting

Lecture 3: How to Relax ?

Lecture 4: Value of disappointment and money getting stolen story

Chapter 10: Immigrate and change your chances – Packing YourSelf as a Product

Lecture 1: If you are already in the first world

Lecture 2: Understand Forex and World Order

Lecture 3: Different problems and different timelines and contexts

Lecture 4: Setting up presence