Tiny Home Bootcamp - Business Planning, Designing, and Building

This course is self-paced, so you don’t need to be logged in at any specific time. You can get started immediately after you enroll and the course materials will remain in your account with minimum guaranteed access for 12 months (1 year) after enrollment.

When you complete the class you’ll have a strong understanding of the processes and strategies needed to either work at a company and have the requisite skills or start your own business. You’ll also be able to take these skills internationally and work in remote places and make a positive impact in the developing world. We will connect you to business opportunities where companies are seeking people with this background and experience.

Watch these videos and download the excel file to create a budget for your business.

This week will get you focused on thinking about your clients in new ways. As Joseph Campbell coined the phrase - "The Hero's Journey", let's walk through how a buyer goes through the process of interest to decision to work with you. It can be said that everything your client does or doesn't do, revolves around a story (same for you as well). If you want to know what is driving their behavior (and yours), watch this series. From Madison Avenue ad agencies to Hollywood to anthropology, its all here. What does journalism have in common with your business? Everything. Look at how this relates to you and your business.

Copywriting is distilled down to person to person communication. Let's see how this works in things you purchase and why it is so powerful to speak to one person and not everyone. Google are the masters of communication. In all their might, is simplicity. Learn how they talk to you in subtle, yet powerful ways. Testimonials - Why are they important? Today if you have a smart phone, its never been easier. And here's why.

As we look at the second pillar of your goals, after your clients, is your team. This section will look at finding the best, leading them and making leaders out of them. How to attract the right person for the role? Often it comes down to what you say and how you say it.

Project Management - How do you keep it all together? Simple software that is free (or their paid version is amazing as well). Service Agreements - Having work throughout the year is essential. It is also important to be a resource for your clients as new things come to market to help them with. Let's walk through how these work for you and your business. Marketing Calendar - Often we need to look to other industries to see how we can adapt and integrate their strategies with ours. Take a look at this idea for your business.

Eat at a restaurant- do they charge by the hour? How about when you buy a refrigerator? Lets show you how you can FRP in your business. Request for Proposals - While you might not do these solicitations, go through this lesson to learn why incorporating the strategies in it, will bolster your own proposals. Customer Acquisition Costs - As the industry has known, this number is excruciatingly high. How can we bring it down? This lesson will offer some insights. Sales Strategies - While every company has different strategies for O&M, here are a few ways to approach it.

This section of the course is dedicated to your company. Budgeting, to the ScoreCard tool, Service Agreements, Line Extensions, O&M, Self Funding, Customer Acquisition Costs, Exit Strategies and Why I Sold.

Want to know the difference between sales and profits? You've come to the right place. This is an extensive excel tool to help you wrap you and your team around performance. It will help you make better team decisions from this day, forward.

Line Extensions - What are they and how you can add them to your offerings. Partnerships - Who to partner with and why? Self-funding Your Retirement - We all know that the world is headed towards self funding our retirements. This is a way to do it.

This is our last module but you still have access to the all of course materials for 12 months (1 year), so keep working and you'll be able to complete the course at your own pace. After your year of access expires you can optionally extend access with a HeatSpring Membership. Enjoy the course and keep in touch!