Basic Business Skills for Creative Start-Ups

Are you a creative professional considering of setting up your own business? Would you want to learn or improve your existing skills in managing the business side of things?

This workshop will provide clear, jargon busting help and practical tools for creatives to plan and manage their money. Amongst other things, participants will learn to price their work so as to make a profit and schedule their finances so that you’re not strapped for cash come the end of the month!

In this 2-hour workshop Johnny Martin, an experienced Coach on Finance and Managing Director at Johnny Martin Business Education Limited, will talk you through the topics you need for running your creative start-up successfully:

• Importance of business models
• Forecasting sales
• Profit & Loss report
• Pricing and margins
• Break-even
• Cash Flow
• Sources of finance
• Business legal structures
• How to do your bookkeeping