Artist Entrepreneur Incubator: Become a Media Darling - Multimedia

Calling all SC aspiring media professionals! Ever wonder how to monetize your craft? Is the thought of entrepreneurship intimidating? We can tell you how to make a living with YOUR ART!

The Artist Entrepreneur Incubator (AEI) is a virtual series collaboration between the South Carolina Arts Commission and One Columbia for Arts & Culture. AEI is available to artists across disciplines who live and work throughout South Carolina. The series of monthly, discipline-based interactive workshops are specifically designed for artists interested in transitioning their craft into a business. Workshops are led by artists of all disciplines, arts consultants, and educators. Workshops include information on business basics, licensing, marketing, contracts, and identifying resources for support and sustainability.

*The Artist Entrepreneur Incubator: Better Business for Creatives workshop is a prerequisite for attending this and all entrepreneurial training workshops in the series. If you did not attend, please complete registration for the Hit the Right Notes: Music session. A link and password will be provided via email you provide during registration, so that you may gain the foundational knowledge before attending this music-focused session.

Become a Media Darling: Multimedia
This course is designed to cover LLC basics, pricing, and how to determine your ideal client. This workshop will cover some of the following topics dealing with multimedia businesses as it relates specifically to photography, videography, and creative writing. Other areas of focus include pricing your service, multiple streams of income, identifying customers, Geographic area, attracting and retaining clients.

Workshop Outline

• What you need to call yourself a business
  Corporate structure and why you need it.
  Insurance
  Bank accounts
  Credit accounts
• Pricing your service or product
  All money isn’t good money
  People die from exposure
  Multiple streams of income
• Determining your ideal customer
  Geographical area
  Businesses or Consumers … or both?
  How to attract the clients you want

Presenter
Dr. Thaddeus W Jones, Jr. is director of programming for the Nickelodeon Theater in Columbia, a writer, director, instructor, and storyteller.

Virtual format: December 7, 6-7:30 p.m.
$10 registration fee (see Registration Fee exceptions below)
To find out more about event organizers, presenters, additional sessions, and register, click HERE.