Setting Up
- Developing ideas
- Planning and assessing viability
- Understanding and testing the market
Marketing
- Establishing, developing and protecting your image
- Writing artist information, brochures, catalogue entries, press and other marketing requirements
- Pricing and selling work including trading terms and contracts
- Expanding your market – techniques and ‘how to’ including ‘where first’ – including new media, exhibitions, specialist shows, trade fairs and exporting.
- Diagnosing target galleries and shops both nationally and internationally to match up with your work
- Developing the visitor and tourist potential and the effective use of data bases and new media
Finance
- Business advice and cashflow management, planning and projections
- Raising money - grants, banks, public and private sectors, philanthropists and other potential lenders and stakeholders including beneficial arrangements customers and suppliers.
Accounts & Taxation
- Establishing or reviewing trading structure - sole trader / partnership / limited company / social enterprise and everything required to get going – and registering with HMRC
- Advice on book-keeping and accounting systems including Sage Accounting
- Preparing annual accounts and taxation including returns and compliance
- Working and family tax credit, advice and claims.
- VAT – getting the right scheme – and ongoing returns and compliance
- Employing people and setting up your own PAYE scheme
- Proactive business and tax planning to maximise your ‘net of tax’ income
