[h2]Exploring and Developing Your Creative Business Idea[/h2]
A FREE intesnive workshop course is being run in Staffordshire to help creative individuals who are either already finding it tough to get started, or who want some advice on discovering whether their big idea has any chance of commercial success.
[blockquote]The day will be led by Alison Grade, a creatve business owner and entrepenuer, who is a proven expert at turning creative concepts into business reality.[/blockquote]
The full day intensive course, which takes place in STAFFORD on 21 November 2013, will focus on tackling the key issues that face creative businesses to get going.
[h3]Creative Business Expertise[/h3]
Alison has had a high flying career in the television industry, and produced over 7000 minutes of film and television production at a cost of over £16m. She worked on documentaries, animation, drama, feature films, factual and entertainment productions on both high and low budget.
Currently Alison, (Twitter @alisongrade), runs Mission Accomplished, which she set up 4 years ago to provide training, mentoring and consultancy to start-ups and established small businesses in the Creative Industries.
She is also a Visiting Fellow with the School of Media at Birmingham City University.
(Editors Note: We have tried finding a website for Mission Accomplished, as we do like to promote the sites of the people running these kind of events, but we are struggling to find it? If anyone has the link can you please let us know at hello@staffordshirearts.co.uk)
[h3]Full Day of Intensive Training[/h3]
The day will provide a unique opportunity for Staffordshire Creative entrepeneurs to test whether you can turn your creative idea into a business reality and full time income.
During the day, this attending will learn how to present their business idea, find out if there is a need for their business, how to find customers, ideas for how to gain funding, creating an action plan and how to launch succesfully.
[h3]How to attend the event[/h3]
The Exploring and Developing Your Creative Business Idea course takes place on Thursday 21 November, 9:30am until 5pm at the Staffordshire County Council headquarters, Staffordshire Place 1, Tipping Street, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 2LP
The event is totally FREE, and you can book your space online here
Creative Enterprise is projected funded by ERDF and Coventry University associayed with the Institute for Creative Enterprise
