What kind of business training for freelance makeup artists do you provide? |
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MUD: MUD provides business and career development training for both freelancers and individuals seeking "corporate" careers. Our career classes include: designing resumes and business cards, using industry publications to find work, script breakdowns for budget purposes, union vs. non-union and networking. In the beauty course, we provide a photo session for a beginning portfolio. Westmore: As a part of each program, marketing tools relating to that area of the industry are discussed. For example, in the motion picture and TV makeup course, all facets needed to successfully work in the industry are discussed - set protocol, script breakdown, developing an initial resume, composition of a video reel, and the creation of a one-page web site with photos. Tobi Britton: REAL LIFE!! It is the only way to learn! My students are given the tools to go out there and start working. This means testing to build their portfolios, student films to hone skills, taking everything that comes their way to gain experience. Complections: Students are given the opportunity to participate in photo shoot sessions, training in building resumes, business cards, invoicing, bidding & quoting on jobs, professional etiquette, networking and marketing themselves as freelance makeup artists. Studio: This is an on-going dominant topic throughout the course. Students must understand taxes, budgeting, purchasing, marketing, advertising, and contracts and that they are, in fact, an artist in business.. Blanche MacDonald: Self-promotional, entrepreneurial and business skills are provided for in a mandatory course titled, "Career and Resume Prep". Students are required to research the industry and prepare their own complete package of promotional aids, including a networking plan. Joe Blasco: My accountants, attorneys and other individuals, from my make-up manufacturing firm, instruct my students in the various aspects of running a successful "business". Lectures are given in record keeping, accounting, psychology, personality development, negotiating deal memos, and industry politics - especially those aspects that involve properly and successfully communicating with other individuals.. Empire: Every course includes real-life business skills and marketing that pertains to the type of artistry covered in the course such as: interviews, resumes, business cards, creating your rates, invoicing, model release forms, starting portfolios and testing with photographers, building your book to create a stronger portfolio, negotiating contracts and rates, industry contacts, finding work through networking, advertising, improving your exposure, business ethics and state regulations. All instructors share their own trials and tribulations to help new artists learn from their mistakes. |