-Pleiades- wrote in post #3920750
Did you do the course at Tafe? Did you find it very helpful? I did the small business management course here at the lismore tafe and I didn't really find it all that helpful, not sure if it was the teachers or just the course in general??
Just curious to see what you thought of it?
Hey Kinnon,
I did the course through a some what private institution, it was a Certificate 4 in Small Business Management, its the equivilant to a Tafe course but run over 5-6 weeks as opposed to Tafe which was 12 months.
I found it more helpful than anything i have learnt to do with photography itself, it helped me set better goals, layout a proper plan for the business which will be attainable, ideas on marketing and how to target my specific market better. The difference (they told us) between this course and Tafe is that fact the final assesment was for us to complete a Business Plan, from what i was told Tafe doesnt do this, add the fact it was such an intense course as it was crammed in to 6 weeks you didnt get a chance to lose interest and for me it helped me stay focused.
It may have been your lecturers, our makreting guy was brilliant, finance not so much 
but he still made it clear enough to understand and learn just a tad boring
I would recommend anyone wanting to get in to business do something in the way of education, it cant hurt but it can definately help, the fact i have a plan and a set out direction is comforting for me now all i have to do is shoot and not worry so much about other stuff. Not to mention the contacts you can get from it, i have already scored 4-5 on going gigs which i would never had been able to prior.
