Set Up Your One-Person Business Systems in a Weekend (Self-Paced Course)

Spend one focused weekend setting up the simple systems a one-person business runs on, so enquiries, clients, projects and money stop living in your head.

This self-paced course walks you through six sessions, about ten hours in total, using tools you probably already have: a cloud drive, a spreadsheet, an email account and a calendar. There's no expensive software to buy. By Sunday evening you'll have a business HQ, a pipeline, onboarding templates, a money system, a delivery workflow and a weekly review habit.

What's inside

• Start Here guide: a weekend timetable, a 20-minute prep checklist and your starting point
• Module 1: Your business HQ. Folder structure, naming rules, passwords and security, and one place for tasks
• Module 2: Pipeline and client tracker. Every enquiry and client in one place, each with a next action
• Module 3: Client onboarding. Templates from enquiry reply through proposal, agreement outline and welcome pack to kick-off
• Module 4: Your money system. Invoice layout, payment terms, three polite reminders, a tax pot and a monthly money hour
• Module 5: Delivery and workflow. A project template, process checklists and a template library
• Module 6: Automate and review. Three simple automations and a 30-minute weekly reset
• Final 30-day action plan
• Every module has a clear outcome, step-by-step instructions, a worked example, a checklist and a fill-in worksheet
• Bonus files: business-systems-dashboard.xlsx (clients, projects, an invoice log with days overdue, a tax pot calculator and a weekly review), onboarding-and-money-templates.docx (editable) and a complete printable course workbook

Who it's for

• Freelancers, consultants, sole traders and new limited-company directors who are good at the work but feel buried by the admin around it
• Anyone about to go full-time on their own who wants to start organised

The UK tax and legal points (such as late-payment interest and the ICO data protection fee) are general guidance, not tax or legal advice. Check your own situation with an accountant or adviser.

Format & delivery

• A ZIP download with 15 PDFs (lessons, worksheets, Start Here guide and action plan), a 32-page complete workbook, an Excel dashboard and Word templates
• Self-paced: designed for one weekend, and fine to spread over a few weeks
• Instant digital download: you get the files straight after purchase, and nothing is shipped
• Original material for your own business use. Please don't resell or redistribute it.