We’ve launched a business course for our amazing Creators!

We have so many talented creatives working with us and our dream is to see each and every one of them succeed in chasing their own dreams.  We have budding fashion designers, leather workers, screen printers and even a shoe designer!  But as any entrepreneur knows, running a successful business is more than just a great skill or even a great product.  Running a successful business (especially a small scale start-up!) requires the business owner to be proficient in a whole range of tasks – from business registrations and tax to advertising and market research!!
That’s why we launch the Sparrow Creatives Business Course.  We wanted to equip our artisans who are interested in starting their own business with the skills and knowledge they need to make it successful.

Our first session was led by Tania Koeries of TMK Solutions.  SO. MUCH. AMAZING. INFORMATION.! I’ve been running this business for almost 4 years now and I still learned so much from this course and saw all the mistakes I had made in the first year.  I am so so thankful that we were able to offer this course to our Creatives so that they don’t have to make the same mistakes I did.  She covered everything from the initial business registration to Tax compliance and even personal income tax.

Session 1: Business Registration & Tax Compliance
Session 2: Branding & Marketing
Session 3: Textile Design & Printing Methods
Session 4: Market Research & Product Development – Group Work
Session 5: Building a business plan
Session 6: Personal One-on-One mentorship through business launch

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For this first run of courses, we opened it up only to our existing seamstresses and the ladies in our SewBoss program.  We had such great feedback from the course participants and several comments from outsiders on our social media to see if we would be opening up future courses to the public.