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Last week we said farewell to our last group of inspiring students for the year! We are so damn proud of all of you and can’t wait to see you grow over the next few months and beyond! Only a few weeks after the courses have ended and we’ve already had messages from students landing their first paid clients — and every time it happens our team has a
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It’s hard to believe it’s already day 5 of our web development retreat. Last night, as we sat around the dinner table our students reflected on their experience so far and their favourite moments... this is what they had to say. ♥ “Honestly, on day one I felt pretty good — everything was making sense, coding seemed easy and I was over the moon. By mid-day on day 3 I felt like I had forgotten everything, it seemed like everyone was moving faster than me and I honestly wondered if I was *actually* going to be able to do this. But then today, seeing it all come together on our page as I built live website completely from scratch in languages (HTML and CSS) that I had never even heard of before IOC, I couldn’t be prouder of myself or more glad that I made the decision to attend.” ♥ “I was really nervous about whether or not I would be able to learn enough to start working with real clients after the course — but now it’s only day 4 and I’ve already built a website that I could have sold to a client... that’s insane” ♥ “I tried learning online and at a community college but it just didn’t sink in — here with such a high ratio of mentors who have been so patient and supportive, what an incredible way to learn.” ♥ “Why did nobody tell me the food would be this good?!” ♥ “I am excited to have these skills, but honestly I’m almost more excited to have discovered this incredible community of people who want to live their lives differently — be more than their careers, travel the world, left each other up. I feel like we’re already family”
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Want to score yourself a free custom website? Meet @rachelbowler_, one
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past community managers who recently decided to come back to IOC - this time as a student. I’m just a few weeks she’ll be attending our web-dev bootcamp, learning how to code and building a responsive custom-designed website or blog from scratch. She’s generous decided to donate her time and give away this website for FREE to someone who needs it. A custom built site like this would normally cost $2000 - $3500, and as part of the course every line of code will be double-checked by one of our experienced mentors. Then she’ll throw in hosting and integration to a content management system so that you can edit your content and maintain your site without know how to code yourself. To enter, head over to @rachelbowler_’s post and tell her why you need this! Then comment below and tell us what web project you would LOVE to have completed by 2020!
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What does it take to start a career as a content creator? How quickly after attending our course can you start 💰actually💰earning💰real 💰money? What is a day in the life of an IOC student like? What are some of my top tips for anyone looking to pivot into an entrepreneurial path and start their own business? This week our co-founder @hellotinamay and mentor @keiramary_ sat down to talk about the Social Media and Content Creation course and answer all these questions and more. Go watch it now on @keiramary_ IGTV
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GIVEAWAY - FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP FOR MOMS to launch a new career, or start a profitable side hustle! . We're giving away 1x full-ride scholarship (worth $4500) and 10x $1000 partial scholarships that can be used towards either of our immersive courses, in Web Development or Social Media & Content Creation. This scholarship is for moms everywhere -- whether you are planning for a baby, coming back from maternity leave, a stay-at-home mom or empty-nester. You'll walk away after this 2-month program (6 weeks part-time online + 10-day Bootcamp in Bali) with tangible digital skills and a resume enhancing live portfolio, ready to start a new career as a web developer or social media manager. It's beginner-friendly, so you don't need any previous experience and we offer every single student lifetime support, so we'll have your back every step of the way helping you land clients (or a job) and start growing an income. Applications are open now - https://www.instituteofcode.com/scholarships/mothers/ Tag someone who deserves to win this below! (P.S. We know in 2019 that moms aren’t the only ones taking on the child-raising responsibility so if you are a stay-at-home or solo dad, or a gender diverse parent who needs a leg up feel free to apply!)
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Sizing your images for Instagram 📱🤷🏼♂️ Optimising your images for Instagram and ensuring that they fit the required measurements when uploading is a quick and easy way to avoid awkward cropping and pixelation in images. Social media these days has so many different sizes and orientation options that it can be tricky to know which one to run with. � We recommend making your square photos 1080px by 1080px in size. That way, when Instagram compresses the file, the version that’s displayed on Instagram should be close to 600px by 600px, meaning that your image will remain intact and to scale. . . . . . . . . #digitalnomadlife #digitalnomads #socialmediastrategy #socialmediabootcamp #entrepreneur #hustlehard #entrepreneurlife #remotework #creatives #creativelife #smallbiz #creative #supportlocal #marketing #digitalmarketing #socialmediatips #smallbusiness #igdaily #businessadvice #socialmediahelp
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Special moments on retreat ✨ @maria_naidu had her 21st birthday whilst on retreat, and to top it all off it was her first time travelling overseas by herself 🌍 To help her celebrate we organised a little surprise party, a cake and some flowers and then arranged to have her family on Skype while we all sung her happy birthday 🎁 When you join the #IOC community, you're not only a student, but you also become family 💕 . . . . . . . . #girlboss #wanderlust #buildingbossladies #handsandhustle #ilovebali #thebalibible #dontquityourdaydream #theguguide #bossbabe #loveyourlife #careergirl #societygal #therisingtidesociety #girlswhoblog #wanderlust #exploreeverything #travelgram #alwaysgo #lifeofadventure #bloggerlife #digitalnomad #remotework #balilife #photographycourse #travelblogger
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#womenintech 👑 We love empowering women to take a chance and try something new, especially in an industry that has previously been typically filled with men (don't worry boys, we celebrate you too!) Coding has mostly been a male-dominated industry and the stigma of sitting behind a huge monitor all day coding hard software has been well and truly broken 👏🏼 Coding is one of the most creative, collaborative and empowering career paths to choose these days. Having the freedom to be able to bring beautiful designs to life from your laptop, anywhere in the world, sounds like a pretty amazing job to us. So to all of our fellow #womenintech out there...you're all superstars! We would love to hear your little (or big!) wins so feel free comment below so we can support each other and grow our community of women who code 😄 . . . . . . . . #webdevelopment #dontquityourdaydream #websitedesigner #webdeveloper #learntocode #coding #codingbootcamp #newskills #techeducation #studyabroad #digitalnomad #digitalnomadlife #tech #websitedesigner #digitalnomad #digitalnomadlife #wanderlust #bloggerlife #techlife #webdev #freelancer
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SEO for websites - is your websites optimized correctly? 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♀️ It's all well and good to build the most beautiful website that you've ever created BUT is it being seen by your audience, and more importantly, Google? SEO seems to be a daunting task that few are game enough to touch, however when you strip back to the basics you'll be surprised to learn that optimising your website for SEO is much easier than you think! Below are a few of our sneaky hidden tips and tricks! 📝Geotarget your site in Google Webmaster Tools 📝Use synonyms and commonly occurring words throughout your site's copy 📝Add value to pages with ordered lists, images, videos and tables 📝Link to related content on your site with useful and very relevant anchor text These few additional little items to check off can make a world of difference when it comes to ranking your website on Google! . . . . . . . #digitalnomadlife #digitalnomads #socialmediastrategy #socialmediabootcamp #entrepreneur #hustlehard #entrepreneurlife #remotework #creatives #creativelife #smallbiz #creative #smallbusinesswa #supportlocal #marketing #digitalmarketing #socialmediatips #smallbusiness #igdaily #collectivehub #womeninbusiness #businessadvice #marketingstrategy #branding #socialmediahelp
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Meet Jake & Jaz, a couple of who share a passion for all things chiropractics, branding and now web development. Jake and Jaz recently completed our web development retreat in Bali and have rebuilt their entire website, and their first custom client site in only one month following the course! 👏🏼 Jake and Jaz came to us with almost zero coding experience - they were using pre-built templates to create websites for clients and wanted to expand their knowledge to offer custom-built responsive websites to their clients. We couldn't be prouder of these two, and can't wait to see what they come up with next! . . . . . . . . #webdevelopment #dontquityourdaydream #websitedesigner #webdeveloper #learntocode #coding #codingbootcamp #newskills #techeducation #studyabroad #digitalnomad #digitalnomadlife #tech #websitedesigner #digitalnomad #digitalnomadlife #wanderlust #bloggerlife #techlife #webdev #freelancer
