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I've been offered a Digital Marketing Apprenticeship. The Creative Copywriter Course gave me the confidence needed to put myself out there. I'll forever be grateful to Tasha, Caitland, and the ilovecreatives team. You've all helped me get unstuck from a job I've struggled with for twelve years of my life. This is the biggest achievement of my life. Thank you ✨

I felt like I was guided through all the right steps of how to present a design project. Each section really helped me understand the flow and process from designing to presenting to finances all while letting my creativity shine! I'd highly recommend taking this course because of how easy the sections are to follow, and you can make great projects all the while!

The course has been a real game-changer! I came out of it with a new skill set and confidence in my ability to build websites. I loved how the course was super approachable and gamified. It kept me engaged and interested in continuing on my web design journey. The course is such a good entry point into web design! All of the lessons are fun and Puno makes everything so easy to understand.

This course really stretched me. When I signed up, I thought "hey! this is going to be a breeze " - I even took a week off of work to go through it. But quickly I found out this was going to be a steep learning curve for me! I was surprised very quickly on how much there was to learn and pick up through the resource centre and the TAs. I learnt how to bring wireframes to life, which was so fun!

The best part of the course was getting to interact with Joellen. Her feedback was super helpful! I used the course to help prepare me to have a conversation with my boss (basically pitching my SMM services to him), which I now feel I can have given all of the decks I put together throughout the course.

The Social Media Manager Course helped launch my career pivot. I was able to secure a freelance social media gig because of the projects I worked on during this course, and that was my ultimate goal! I can’t thank Joellen enough for all her help and feedback—I felt supported every step of the way. This was the most entertaining course I’ve ever taken and it laid down a great foundation for my transition into the social media field.

This is a fantastic course that is well worth the investment. It is far and away the most professional, thorough, and helpful course that I've taken. The quality of ilovecreatives is truly unmatched. Aside from how much I learned, I was routinely just blown away at how impressive the presentation is. This was more put together than some of my college courses!!! And it sure didn't cost as much as those!!

The fact that it's very interactive, in the sense that you have a project to follow and in each video you learn something new in bite-sized pieces and, by the end of it, you have an actual website created!! Also love having Discord and access to the teacher. That is invaluable!

Besides everything about the course looking sick 🔥🔥🔥 and Puno's charm, wisdom and charisma, I also loved that the course add a whole module on Freelancing. Plus this is such a cool, inspiring and supporting community to be part of 💘

I love how the course helped me prioritize and simplify what to focus on first, next, and finally - in the right order to get my money situation together. While passive income and investing sound sexy (you'll learn all about that in this course, too) what I really needed do was pay off debt and increase income first. ilovecreatives makes financial literacy fun, cool, and easy to understand.

I literally loved everything. From the amazing video lessons with funny meme's and cool music and design to the notion workbook that really helps and of course the incredible support from Megumi and Yewande in Discord the whole course is a absolutely perfect and 100% worth it to start your career as a Shopify Developer. It is perfect to understand Shopify and jumpstart your motivation to develop also several other skills outside of this course.

The Video Creator Course made the creative process super intuitive, way less intimidating, and fun. I became so much more confident in my content creation skills and ability to come up with ideas and iterate on them. My dad got the course for me for my birthday, knowing that I was interested in flexing my creativity. I didn't expect the course to be so engaging and jam packed with knowledge and resources.

Completing this course has given me the practical knowledge I was seeking, and I now feel more confident in my abilities and what I can contribute as a digital marketer. I feel like I gained the most personal insight during the Digital Audit section of the course. It helped me better understand the process and revealed how I can effectively assess and enhance the digital presence of the brand I work for, as well as potential future clients.

I enjoyed completing the assignments because they helped me put the course material into context. Tasha and Caitland have been incredibly generous with their constructive feedback and sharing useful resources. One of the highlights was finally being able to create a cohesive portfolio. Learning about other students' experiences on the Discord community is also inspiring and motivating.

I'm currently volunteering at and I just got a freelance marketing project through this org's President (super serendipitously and it was because I had made such an amazing strategy deck!!). So I just wanted to thank you for passing down your wisdom and knowledge and literally changing lives.

The digital audit and strategy sections made me realize how much knowledge and skillset I already have to offer. The toolkit section was the most valuable as I learned a lot of new skills on how to run ads. The resource section has amazing tools to help organize the information, which I was previously confused about how to present effectively.

I'm a senior copywriter, but I was really lacking a supportive mentor who could help me get out of my head during my creative process. This course definitely delivered on that; it's restored my confidence in listening to my own instincts and helped me with my creative process.

I loved the opportunity to receive real, thoughtful feedback from Mindy and Sarah throughout the course. Their feedback allowed me to incrementally uplevel my designs and come away with a finished product I was really proud of. They're also the sweetest and it was so fun working with them as instructors after having collaborated with them previously as a client. <3

I loved how the curriculum was structured, and getting to feel like I was learning 1:1 with Puno by my side was amazing. Diving into the coding side of things and discovering how much customization you can do with CSS was so satisfying. Honestly, this course was exactly what I needed to jumpstart my freelance web design business. It gave me an incredible foundation, and I’m so excited to see where things go from here!

I loved the connection to web designers all around the world, the supportive community in Discord! People were always helping each other out with code snippets and giving each other feedback. I found Puno and the course teachers's feedback so valuable as well, I felt that I grew so much as a designer through their ample help.

I think my favorite part was receiving such deep and thorough 1:1 feedback from Puno. Her insights were incredibly valuable, allowing me to understand my strengths and identify areas for improvement. Having the opportunity to make revisions based on her feedback really elevated my learning experience. Puno's personalized feedback made the course feel very tailored to my growth and development, which was truly invaluable.

This course was genuinely healing work. Going to be so real, there were moments where I wanted to give up, give in, and toss off my little fantasy web design top hat. However, I did not. I learned first that I was not alone; I had a whole community of people on the Discord channel who had either figured it out or were willing to help.

I gained extensive knowledge about Squarespace, web design, freelancing, and, unexpectedly, myself. I realized I had been imposing unnecessary constraints on my growth as a designer and as a person. Working in a job with rigid expectations and processes had inadvertently led me to box myself in. This course helped me break free from those limitations and explore new possibilities.

My skill set is more aligned toward analytics and research rather than creative writing. I had the most fun researching brands I had an interest in, doing a deep dive into their promotional materials, determining a tone of voice, and analyzing them more than creating copy for them. I also figured out my own personal TOV which gave me more insight into myself.

It has been great to actually have proper knowledge about the store object, the product object, the collection object, to really learn about all of these, technically, what is available to be manipulated, to what extent can we manipulate it. So to actually have a course like this to understand the concepts, the building blocks behind the design, so that we can prepare a good design for the developers, so that they love us—they don’t hate us anymore.

My confidence in my taste as a designer has skyrocketed! I also feel so, so confident navigating around Squarespace. I can now look at a gorgeous Squarespace site and have a pretty solid idea of how the designer built it (whether that be with custom code or using sneaky block settings!). This course is a GAME-CHANGER.

I was finally able to learn and understand CSS. With the course, it was less overwhelming than learning by myself. The lessons were simple, easy to follow and fun! Now I find CSS and code fun to play with!

When I started to receive constructive and positive feedback from my teachers it was incredibly validating and made me think "wow, I think I can actually do this!". Once I got that confidence I was surprised how inspired and motivated I was to keep going. I've actually been able to structure a portfolio, land clients, and fulfill briefs thanks to the Creative Copywriting Course.