Managing your Finances as a Creative Professional

One of the most difficult aspects of setting up your own business in the creative industry is putting a price on your work and defining your business strategy. In this course, review your business or business idea at a financial level to give it the best foundation, allow it to grow, and see it make progress.

With Mònica Rodríguez, founder of the business school for creators and creatives Empresas Creadoras, discover the tools to allow you to make decisions and manage your business in order to shape your future for the better.

This course is the perfect complement to Mònica's first one, Business Models for Creators and Creatives, where she teaches you to develop and implement your business vision to create more opportunities for success.

Start by getting to know Mònica and her professional background as a business mentor and founder of Empresas Creadoras, a business school for creatives. Get to know some of the people who have made an impact on her career, among them writers, economists, coaching experts, lecturers, and more.

Using the creative business models template Mònica has devised, learn why this way of conducting business is different to the rest and what you can do about it.

Rethink your relationship with money by making a list of your outgoings and their importance in your day-to-day operations. Then, analyze the information obtained and study yourself as a client before becoming a vendor.

Discover that numbers are your friends and not a constraint when it comes to creating. Look at how to plan your sales funnel and use the special business canvas for creators and creatives as a guide.

Learn to put a price on your work using basic accounting concepts, calculating personal spending, and that of your business.

Finally, Mònica guides you through the sea of decisions that a businessperson in the creative industry has to make every day, like how to accept or reject proposals, using a tool she created to help you in this process. Now it's your turn to apply all you've learned to your own business!

Using your business criteria, define your sources of income, their prices, and the sales arguments for your communication and marketing actions.

Creative professionals with their own business or those who are considering the idea. The course is also useful if you work for an employer, as it provides you with more opportunities to improve your career by growing personally and professionally.

You don't need any previous knowledge, just some paper and a pencil to take notes.