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Legal Survival Guide

 

Legal Survival Guide

 

Class Description

Ready to turn your creative side project into a thriving business? Join Craig Heidemann for an introduction to the business and accounting principles every creative professional needs to know. 


In this class, Craig will take you step-by-step through the process of setting up, running, and growing a small business. You’ll learn how to use QuickBooks to manage your finances, including managing client contracts and invoices. Craig will also help you navigate the potentially-confusing tax, legal, and copyright issues surrounding small businesses. You’ll also learn how to contract and/or hire people to do the tasks you can’t do yourself. 

Whether you’re just starting out as a business owner or you’re a longtime entrepreneur ready for a refresher course, this course will give you a roadmap to business success.

Lessons

  1. Class Introduction
  2. Small Business Failures
  3. The Business Plan

    Writing down your business plan helps you know who you are, what you face, and where you are going.

  4. Four Types of Business Structures
  5. Creating an LLC
  6. Domain Name and Operating Agreement
  7. Obtaining a Federal EIN
  8. Sales Tax
  9. Employees and Contractors
  10. Contracts and Electronic Signatures
  11. Releases and Permits
  12. Relevance of Copyright
  13. Copyright Registration
  14. Copyright and Infringement
  1. Licensing and Transferring
  2. Licensed and Copyrighted Music
  3. Accounting and Goal Setting
  4. Financing Your Business
  5. Quickbooks Overview
  6. Tracking Profit and Loss with Quickbooks
  7. Quickbooks Accounting System
  8. Estimates and Invoices
  9. Customizing Invoices
  10. Bookkeeper vs Accountant
  11. Unhappy Clients and Potential Liability
  12. Protecting Personal Assets
  13. Health Insurance and Retirement

Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

Excellent course and subject topic. Mr. Heidermann is a great teacher! Wonderful explanation, clear and concise details, humorous delivery, he kept me engaged the entire time. I truly had fun watching and learning during this course.

a Creativelive Student
 

I'm literally fresh off the boat, as the saying goes, having moved back to the US after decades of living abroad. I have the photography down (in some measure due to the instructors and courses here at CL), but being new to the business of photography in this environment I was rudderless. This course helped answer all my initial questions and put me on the way to getting established in my region... and beyond! Craig makes legal issues almost fun with his jocular, engaging style. Thanks so much to Chase and the people at CL for knowing what courses real working photographers need.

Andrew V Gonzales
 

This class is amazing (as is the Instructor). Funny, real, and to the point, Craig has a great way of making these aspects of business MUCH less intimidating. Still very applicable even in 2016. Loved it!