Alison Branagan MA AIBC FRSA

This course is essential for anyone who desires to make a living from art, design, image-making, or other creative activities. It focuses on vital marketing, promotional and presentation skills. To guarantee success, creatives have to network, profile build, write statements or marketing copy, and generate imaginative publicity for their ventures. Alongside being able to present visual material for editorial use, or constructing proposals. Practical exercises will improve confidence in presenting projects and ideas to sponsors or audiences.

Alison Branagan MA IC FRSA’s publications include 'The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers', and 'A Pocket Business Guide for Artists and Designers' both published by A & C Black, 'Making Sense of Business' (A no-nonsense business skills guide for managers and entrepreneurs, published by Kogan-Page), 'The Illustrator's Guide to Success' (published by the AOI, Alison Branagan, Fig Taylor, Simon Stern, and et al, out as print on demand Summer 2011). For more information and to view over one hundred student testimonials go to www.alisonbranagan.com and www.makingsenseofbusiness.com