The Workflow Academy

Generally, you can expect:

$20/hr minimum: if you take to the course well and show potential for future growth, you can expect to begin around $20/hr (with a salaried position around $35K-$40K)

$50K-$60K for those with solid experience and/or existing skills. Many applicants may already have useful skills — they’ve worked in business, been admins for other software systems, 

So far, The Workflow Academy has trained 8 Zoho Developers, and each’s earning power has varied based off:

• Existing skillset: if you have previous programming/API experience, you’re going to fetch top dollar. If you have never heard of a CRM in your life, you’re going to start smaller.
• Previous experience: someone with solid business acumen will be able to apply Zoho more effectively than a green college graduate whose only experience is as a waiter. 
• Ability to quickly teach yourself new skills: The Workflow Academy had three separate 25-somethings come into this course with zero Zoho experience and walk out 2 months later able to bill $60/hr for Zoho consulting. What set them apart? They learned quickly and taught themselves new skills.

The short answer is: go ahead and apply to the course (the initial application takes 5 minutes), and The Workflow Academy will pretty quickly tell you whether you’re a good fit.

The long answer — people with experience with any of the following generally make better applicants:

Admin Experience in Business Software (i.e. you set it up/managed the account. +1000 points if you’ve already worked with Zoho):

• Salesforce (or other CRMs)
• Quickbooks (or other bookkeeping tools)
• Mailchimp (or other email marketing platforms)
• Shopify (or other eCommerce platforms)
• DocuSign (or other eSign tools)
• WordPress (or other website platforms)
• Zapier (or other API integrators)
• Asana (or other project/task management tools)
• Zendesk (or other customer support tools)

Fast, Hands-On Learners With Decent Computer Chops (i.e. you feel at home navigating a computer. You don’t have to be a programmer). Let’s assume you haven’t heard of ANY of the tools listed above. You might say, “Oh, then I’m not qualified for this course”. 

However — let’s say you spend 4 hours over the next week Googling/watching YouTube videos/signing up for free trials of each of the above tools. This type of hands-on, knowledge-thirsting learning makes you a PERFECT fit for this class! The Workflow Academy cares less about specific experience and more about those that are comfortable assimilating new information.

People Who Like Business (i.e. you don’t have to be a Milton Friedman-level capitalist, but you don’t snore when your cousin tells you about her entrepreneurial ideas). Small-to-medium-sized businesses (~<500 employees) constitute the biggest customer base for Zoho. You have to be someone that likes and understands business, and is interested in helping businesses start and grow.

In short: expect to get interviewed (likely several interviews), but whether or not you get the job is dependent on the quality of your work. 

There is a severe talent shortage in the Zoho Admin space — Zoho Partners everywhere are hiring, and companies using Zoho are looking for intelligent admins.

However, your odds depend heavily on the quality of the Zoho systems you create within this course and your ability to explain the methodology behind creating each system. Don’t worry — this course provides coaching for you and will be there to answer questions every step of the way.

If this was your first reaction, YOU ARE THE PERFECT STUDENT FOR THIS COURSE! The Workflow Academy instructors 100% self-taught on Zoho and love fellow autodidacts.

The curriculum is in the process of becoming fully self-sufficient, but the meat of it already is, and can be bought for less than the $299 tuition price. Please fill out this form and indicate that you’d like to teach yourself, and we’ll get you taken care of.