Business skills for creative practitioners

Initial notes on the type of content that could be included:

1. learning the difference between tactical and strategic planning
2. goal setting and planning skills  (learn how to prioritise and organise tasks and apply that knowledge to your own project or goals)
3. basic marketing theory
4. developing your unique selling point
5. visualising or communicating ideas to support information sharing and winning support (including proposal writing, e-portfolio building, creating mock-ups..)
6. core business skills including cost management and raw material sourcing, understanding economies of scale,  understanding profit and loss, competition analysis, basic accounting and tax obligations
7. developing a business and marketing plan
8. test marketing
9. benefits of starting small and building up slowly vs rapid investment seeking
10. trademarking and design registration

time plans