And so we come to the end of the course. Today’s theme being all about the business.
This was the module that I was most looking forward to and one of the primary reasons I booked myself onto the course. Through my portraiture work I very rapidly realised that to run a photographic business, the photography was only a very small per centage of the whole. Marketing, sales, the supply chain, order processing, accounts all play a major part too as do the protective elements of insurance and legal. As much as I would love to keep costs down by doing it all myself, I have to be a realist. Some of this is going to have to be outsourced. If not, I’ll be saddled with a lot of peripheral activities that I don’t really want to do.All of the business elements were covered today and I found the session to be phenomenally useful and thoroughly mind blowing. This stuff really messes with your head but for all the right reasons. It left me with a lot to think about and decide upon, but somehow better equipped to do so. Or perhaps the day has now given me the confidence that I need to make those decisions? Either way, the cause is irrelevant: it wil be the decision that counts.
I’ve already started to do my own research and in a couple of instances have alreay acted. I can’t wait for the information pack email to arrive 🙂
The biggest take-aways for me from today are…
- I can do this, and make it work
- I don’t need to be an expert at everything
- I had set my expectations way too low for what I now believe I can achieve
- I have a mammoth and enjoyable task ahead of me
As ever, have fun.
Gavin
