Would it be beneficial to take business classes for artists who want to sell their own work? I'm thinking about taking classes

@Devika Aldesi
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:24:46 +0000

@Devika wrote:

Glad it helped! It's by no means a complete list or anything, but I think those things are useful to know! I have thought many times how these things shouldn't be locked behind a uni degree but be more widely accessible, maybe in high school as extra voluntary classes or something. Because many of us will be active in smaller businesses at some point, or even start our own!

To list a few helpful resources:
http://www.investopedia.com/ This one might seem a bit overwhelming, but the have more basic articles too, on a wide range of topics, and just as important, they explain all kinds of terms, such as ROI, and have very helpful videos for many of them too!

If you want a book to sit down with, Kotler's "Marketing Management" is a heavy tome, and not only for small businesses, but answers a lot of questions you didn't know you had. It's pretty much the book on marketing. Plus, it gives you a bit of structure. It might require some googling of certain terms (perhaps on investopedia), we didn't read it until we had the basics down. The best option would be if you could get it at a library! Here's a preview on google books.

Unfortunately most of the books I had on accounting were in German, and might be limited in distribution...