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Final Project Mastery Post

I feel like I had learned only a few things during my time studying this Masters degree in Entertainment Business. Starting with the Mastery class, I really enjoyed the book offered, but other than that, the course was relatively simple and straight-forward, much like the rest of the program. In the following month, I was able to start a log using Evernote for class notes, ideas, and bookmarked websites.

However, because of the intense scheduling of this degree, I was not able to do any Lynda.com tutorials or explore the campus’ Writing Center. Instead, I ended up creating an account with Grammarly and got tips for improving my writing right away. Fortunately, I did find some great online APA resources, like Project APA and APA Style Blog.

In Month 2, I went through Executive Leadership. I was able to identify and improve my leadership style by the instructor’s video clips on YouTube. In one of the discussion posts, I was able to determine ways to better utilize the decision-making process. However, I decided that leadership is not something I have any interest in.

For Month 3’s course Project and Team Management, I had already known the basics of project management from previous job experiences. I was not sure which project I should start this degree off with, so I had worked on budgets for a smaller business project idea instead of on a larger scale. Unfortunately, I did not gain much information on how to motivate a team to accomplish project goals. Perhaps, this is for a more advanced course.

In Month 4, things started to turn around as far as what project I should choose for the remainder of the degree. In Business Storytelling and Brand Development, I was able to think of ways to start creating an online business with a solid brand. I was not able to write better to tell a business’ story, but I did create the first drafts of my company’s mission statement.

I took Entertainment Business Finance in Month 5, and my hopes were to pass this course fairly easily. However, I took that for granted as I did not. I also did not get too much of an understanding when it comes to fundraising, developing financial projections for various businesses, or necessary capital management and operations expense management.

I was very confused by the requirements on a couple of the assignments, and over time, I saw why. However, I immediately discovered that if I were to be successful in this degree, it would have to be on whatever I can figure out with the resources I am given. This course was a disappointment in that I did not gain the education I was expecting for financial steps or realistic monetary scenarios for even smaller businesses or projects.

In Month 6, my schedule had me taking Digital Marketing. Here, I developed a marketing plan for business created in Month 4. I also learned tips for digital and traditional marketing strategies. In turn, this helped me understand how to develop a stronger online presence for a business.

Next, I started the Negotiation and Deal-Making course for Month 7. For this class, I learned basic deal structuring and preparation, essential negotiation and deal-making skills, and contracts creation skills. I really enjoyed the assignments in this course as there was a lot of variety in their content. For example, the online training was more realistic than I gave it credit for.

For Month 8, I was delightfully surprised with the Product and Artist Management course. Throughout the whole month, I identified management issues for artist management and tips on how to avoid and resolve them. I also learned how to connect a product to an artist, and brainstormed on new products for artists. Unfortunately, I was not able to network with a local artist this month.

In Month 9, I knew the Advanced Entertainment Law was either going to be comfortable or enjoyable for me. Thankfully, it was both! I had come into this course knowing a fair amount of basic entertainment law concepts, so it was nice to be able to get validation on the information I had picked up. However, I was able to pick up some ways on how to protect intellectual property. Also, looking into the various insurance policies that exist for this kind of protection was helpful to me, as well.

Month 10’s course for Entertainment Media Publishing and Distribution was wonderful! Not only was the information broken down appropriately, but I ended up with a ton of bookmarks of websites that I am excited to explore more after graduation. This month, I was able to improve upon digital publishing knowledge, as well as my understanding of the various digital publishing models. Sadly, I was not able to network with a distribution company as I had hoped, but I now know about Lulu and CreateSpace.

For the Business Plan Development course, I could not believe that this was Month 11 already. I also was thinking this class was going to be a lot harder than it was. After the first assignment, it clicked: All I am doing here is compiling all the work I did in the past eight months of class. Although I did manage to research some extra materials I needed for a possible business plan. The feedback I received on my first business plan draft was extremely helpful.

Finally, we have come to Month 12, where I am currently in the Final Project: Business Plan course. Expectedly, I refined my business plan created in the previous month. I thought I was going to eventually present this business plan to my peers, but thankfully, I did not. Unfortunately, too, I did not create a visually appealing and engaging presentation of my business plan as I had hoped, but it was enough to get by.

With this above timeline of monthly goals for all twelve of my courses in Full Sail’s EBMS program, I would say that I easily met most of my goals. Month after month, I got better at understanding how to pass the class, mostly because the concepts were not a challenge for me. If I had more time throughout the months, I think I would have taken advantage of doing a more thorough job on some of the assignments, watched Lynda.com tutorials, and maybe even do some of the tasks again for more practice. If you want to read the individual month’s feedback in more details, feel free to review my previous eleven posts.

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BPD Mastery Post

My hopes for seeking this Masters degree in Entertainment Business were so that I can provide counsel to those who need business or marketing direction in any creative capacity. I feel like I learned not only many business operation aspects, but more specifically, the legal bounds, financial expectations, and various ways to make more money in the industry through product sales. With all the articles, videos, books, and exercises I received so far in this degree, I now have that hub of resources that I was hoping to get. I even use some of these references each month as they relate heavily to my job in the music industry on an introductory level.

At the end of this course, I feel like I did not realize how much of my initial goals I had already accomplished. In this last year, I had achieved a more substantial and specific direction that I would like to take next year. At the very least, I will be satisfied knowing that I successfully obtained another college degree this year, and got my hands on some immediately useful resources. If you are interested in what my goals were at the beginning of this program, they are listed below:

•    Schedule and discipline myself for time management of projects •    Create a notebook/log of important concepts learned each month •    Utilize the school’s Writing Center •    Identify and improve my leadership style •    Determine ways to better utilize the decision-making process •    Get tips for creating and maintaining business relationships •    Learn basic project management •    Work with a budget on a larger scale •    Motivate a team to accomplish project goals •    Create an online business with a solid brand •    Write better to tell a business’ story •    Develop a good customer experience through a company’s website •    Get tips on fundraising •    Get tips on developing financial projections for various businesses •    Learn basic capital management and operations expense management •    Develop a marketing plan for business created in Month 4 •    Learn tips for digital and traditional marketing strategies •    Develop a stronger online presence for business created in Month 4 •    Learn basic deal structuring and preparation •    Learn basic negotiation and deal-making skills •    Develop contract-creation skills •    Identify management issues for artist management and tips on how to avoid and resolve them •    Learn how to connect a product to an artist •    Network with a local artist •    Identify basic entertainment law concepts •    Learn ways to protect intellectual property •    Get tips on how to leverage the digital revolution for various strategies in entertainment •    Improve upon digital publishing knowledge •    Learn various digital publishing models •    Network with a distribution company •    Research materials needed for a possible business plan •    Develop a formal business plan for business created in Month 4 •    Get feedback on business plan draft •    Refine business plan created in Month 11 •    Present business plan to peers

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MPD Mastery Post

For this month of Entertainment Media Publishing & Distribution course, I really liked it. Having a small amount of experience with music publishing last year, I knew whatever I learned this month would be just as valuable. Before I begin, let me review my goals for this course:

Improve upon digital publishing knowledge

Learn various digital publishing models

Network with a distribution company

First, I truly enjoyed the amount of history that was presented in this course. As an Art History minor in college, I have a keenness for the way things were done long ago. I had a class back in undergrad called ��History of Prints” where we studied the Gutenberg press. It was nice to get a refresher on this because the technology and process are so fascinating. Beyond this, the course went more into the Industrial Age of printing and publishing and even further into how these operations are done in today’s era.

Even though I have had experience with the music publishing model, it was enlightening to see how the other forms of media get published. For this month’s overarching project, I chose to simulate publishing a non-fiction workbook. Exploring further into how this is done has been advantageous for me as I hope to actually follow through with this later next year or the year following.

Also, I appreciated the large collection of resources throughout the course materials. I probably have about 30 bookmarked websites for me to use when I am ready to publish my project ideas, primarily the book publishing resources. I even found out that one of my friends has already used Createspace to self-publish a couple of his books. This makes it a little less intimidating for me when I am ready to publish my own books.

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AEL Mastery Post

I think for this month in the Advanced Entertainment Law course I did really well. I knew this subject matter interested me tremendously and I was going to learn some fairly useful concepts that I could apply later to my business idea. As a result of this month, I was able to complete the three major goals that I established at the beginning of my EBMS program.

Below are the goals and strategies that I wanted to achieve for this class:

Identify basic entertainment law concepts.

Learn ways to protect intellectual property.

Get tips on how to leverage the digital revolution for various strategies in entertainment.

I think the most important concepts I learned this month were those involving intellectual property and contracts. Not only are these directives essential for whenever I am ready to launch my own brand, but I can use them immediately as well. I have many friends that are about to start a business or release a creative work right now, and I even know more people that are further along in their business venture developments. Either way, they all know my passion in doing things right and watching projects prosper, so they are waiting for me to report back on all this excellent legal knowledge I am learning. I have hopes that once I finish my degree, I can be of use to these creative folks, as well as use this knowledge for my own blog and podcast series that I plan to launch next year.

One especially awesome thing that happened this month was that I got two one-on-one sessions with the instructor where I could pick her legal brain about anything. These meetings were beneficial because we got to explore issues with setting up my brand, the measures need to be in place to protect it, and purchasing a website domain name before registering for a trademark. I did not plan for these sessions, but they were surprisingly valuable for me and my future ideas.

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PAM Mastery Post

The Product & Artist Management course this month was not only insightful but also very reassuring for my project idea. I have already used this class in my current job multiple times throughout these last few weeks. I especially enjoyed the topics on artist management and the product’s life cycle. I did not realize all that goes into managing artists and a product from beginning to end. I even related a lot to this new term "sidepreneur," and signed up for a subscription to the magazine of the same name.

Below are the goals and strategies that I wanted to achieve for this class:

1 - Identify management issues for artist management & tips on how to avoid and resolve them.

2 - Learn how to connect a product to an artist.

3 - Network with a local artist.

Interesting enough, I ran into Dale Rock, who works in Artist Management at Full Sail, and I was able to ask him some questions about dealing with artists in studios specifically. This information helped me understand what the emotional dynamics are like usually in that scenario, and also I know now that I would much rather work with artists on an independent/unsigned level. In other words, I would only be interested in hiring an artist for projects where I need the support. Instead, I would not need to sign an artist to a label or even work with a record label or music library for my project needs.

Outside of this, I learned more about how much marketing plays into these management strategies. In a nutshell, if I can not define a market, then it will be extremely hard, and near impossible, to introduce a product in the market and then create a business out of it. Lastly, I will leave you with my favorite takeaways from this class:

3 Truths in the Entertainment Industry

Talk is less effective than action.

You can never know too many people in the business.

There is no substitute for hard work, imagination, creativity, and persistence.

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NDM Mastery Post

The Negotiation and Deal-Making course was extremely informative and insightful for me this month. I think I was even able to go beyond my original plan that I established from back at the beginning of this degree. Below are the goals and strategies that I wanted to achieve six months ago:

1 - Learn basic deal structuring & preparation.

Take notes in course.

2 - Learn basic negotiation & deal-making skills.

Take notes in course.

3 - Develop contracts creation skills.

Read or watch any course materials & apply them to a draft contract. Then, run this contract draft by my instructor.

One thing to note from this list is the last item. Unfortunately, I was not able to draft up a contract for my instructor to review. However, I was shown an example of a CONFIDENTIALITY, NON-COMPETITION AND NON-SOLICITATION AGREEMENT contract just this last week. I had never seen a contract like this before, so it is a good thing to refer back to for my future business goals.

With all the concepts learned throughout the NDM course, I can see where my negotiating skills were lacking. I am now noticing a difference when talking with someone during a negotiation or deal. I am now asking more questions, and I am more verbal about recognizing the other person’s feelings. This can be applied easily to my future ambitions for my blog and podcast series that I wish to launch in 2018. I imagine that I will want to utilize these skills to make deals and negotiations with prospective sponsors or folks that I will want to interview for my podcasts.

Overall, I was not expecting these goals to apply to my everyday life so quickly. I was even using these new negotiation tactics with my boyfriend and my coworkers. I am glad that this course was immediately constructive for me, and I hope to continue on with my strategies for this class.

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DMK Mastery Post

This month in Digital Marketing I am asked to watch a Lynda course for 1 of my activities in Week 2. The first week was easy and quite encouraging as I am already familiar with marketing concepts, but I even learned a few more digital tools that week. In fact, this Lynda course was an additional resource that I wasn’t expecting this month and I was able to add more digital tools to my ever-growing list.

The Lynda course I watched is called “Top 10 Social Media Management Tools”. My goals for this course were to learn some ways to organize social media posts for multiple accounts and to explore how to incorporate this into the marketing plan for my business venture. Some takeaways that I gathered from this course are the following:

IFTTT - A great mobile app that allows for custom workflows to incorporate social media updates and other related actions.

Hootsuite - A platform that displays and controls multiple social media accounts and related content all on an at-a-glance style dashboard.

SproutSocial - Another platform that combines multiple social media accounts onto one platform, but also has a unique and unified inbox for all incoming notifications across all of the social media accounts.

I’m currently struggling with managing my various personal social media accounts, so these tools are already so helpful. I am excited and plan to use them on those existing accounts first before I use them for the business. I want to play around with IFTTT to see how I can quickly generate and send out a Facebook post with pictures. I’ll also want to set up, both, Hootsuite and SproutSocial with the same social media accounts. Then, compare the features and analytic reports between the two platforms to see which one is more accurate and effective for my business.

This course was immediately very helpful for me and I hope to continue on with my strategies for this course that I established from the beginning of this degree.

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EBF Reflection Post

This month in Entertainment Business Finance had its ups and downs. The first week did not go as planned because my job got in the way, but for the rest of the month, I was able to stick to two out of the three goals in my strategy for this course. My Mastery Goals & Strategies plan from the beginning of this degree are:

1 - Get tips on fundraising.

Take notes in the course.

2 - Get tips on developing financial projections for various business.

Read or watch any course materials.

3 - Learn basic capital management & operations expense management.

Take notes in the course.

Watch the 5 Personal Finance Tips lynda.com tutorial.

I enjoyed working out all the math problems for this course. Math is something I’m very good at and it was a nice break in the program to get back to a course that is easy for me to grasp, and not as challenging as the others. In this, I was able to complete the work and get a grade that was more gratifying than what I’ve been used to. I even got to read more about investment options and what an IPO is (initial public offering). These are things that I’ve wondered about in the past but wasn’t exactly sure about, which some of the case studies helped tremendously to grasp. Although, the rest of the case studies were not that hard to understand and were very simple for me to show the work, especially since we were to use calculators. I guess I’m used to always showing each step for my math work.

The most important financial concepts I can take away from this course were, again, definitely the investment options, especially the various types of stocks and bonds out there, and then also how to calculate the time value of money. The exercise for that last concept was very helpful for me, personally and professionally, and I’m so glad I could also take away the formula tables for this concept to use in the future.

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BSB Reflection Post

This month in Business Storytelling & Brand Development was pretty successful and also very insightful. However, I wasn't able to stick to my entire plan from the beginning of this degree:

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Create an online business with a solid brand.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

2 - Write better to tell a business’ story.

Utilize course materials & school’s writing center.

3 - Develop a good customer experience through a company’s website.

Utilize course materials & apply them on a test website.

Watch the WordPress Essential Training lynda.com tutorial. 

From this list, I was able to get through 2 out of the 3 bullets. However, I know exactly why I didn’t have time for the last bullet point. There are a couple of reasons actually. First, the instructor gave the class so many resources that before I could reach/watch and then process one link, another tip would follow. Some resources were immediately helpful like BM Fiddle, and others, such as The Visual Hammer, I can’t wait to come back to after I graduate to see how I could better use them for some of my most creative ideas and projects.

The other reason I could get to my last bullet point above is that I couldn’t decide on which project to tackle for the duration of the EBMS program. See, I have a close friend who wants to start a business for her skin care services and social media. I had been using her idea and company brand, Simply Skin, to visualize the assignments from my first three courses, but then something started to not make sense in Week 2 of this course. I questioned if I was going to benefit more in continuing with my close friend’s brand or if I should focus more on an idea I had for a blog and podcast series. After meeting with the instructor, I was able to make a decision. I’m going with my blog/podcast idea and develop ways to make this happen for myself. If my

This really helped set a lot of things into motion for me and gave me a better sense of direction for the remainder of this degree program. Now, I’m hopefully that this momentum will continue and even more so next month when I venture into business finances.

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PTM Reflection Post

This is the last week of my Project & Team Management course and I have to say that my game plan for this class was about 75% successful. I was able to utilize all of the course materials for mastery goals, which were:

Learn the basics of project management

Work with a budget on a larger scale

Motivate a team to accomplish project goals

I found that the textbook, The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management by Eric Verzuh, was very insightful, as well as many of the suggested readings from Safari’s Creative Edge, the archives to each week’s GoToTraining sessions, and also the videos posted in the course announcements. Even though I wasn’t able to squeeze in a Lynda training that I planned for, I was still extremely satisfied with all the other resources provided within the class itself.

The one thing I really learned the most from this course was the variety of spreadsheet templates presented for each weekly assignment. For example, the spreadsheets for Project Definition, Work Breakdown Structure, and Risk Management from Weeks 1, 2, and 3 had nice layouts that would allow me to think of any project’s “big picture”. I will definitely be using this anytime I pursue a new endeavor, which happens very often for me. This way, I can slow down my creative thoughts and focus on every aspect that will affect the project and the chances of me missing details will be minimal.

Additionally, it was nice to write down a solid plan for conflict resolution. I knew I was pretty good at most conflicts so when I had to write out a step-by-step guide for the future, the words came out rather easily. It was also nice to see my approach to conflicts supported by articles and texts from the course. If you’re interested in seeing my conflict resolution policy, check out the file attached to this post below. I hope you find it useful for your own personal or professional conflicts. If you have a specific issue that you’re concerned about right now, I’d love to work it out with you. If I can’t resolve it with my policy listed on this file, then I’m excited to learn a new approach.

While I’m excited to see what next month will bring, I’m just as eager to hear what you think, so feel free to reach out to me if you have any insights on any of the topics I’ve shared in this post or really anything. :D

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Executive Leadership

Based upon my recent reading of Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power and John Maxwell’s Developing the Leader Within You, I think my leadership style is turning out to be more like Greene’s concepts in that my approach to leading people is strategic and planned. Since I do not aspire to run my own company or influence a vision on a team of people, my leadership style would work more like management.

I say this honestly because the first 6 laws I’ve studied are more appropriate to me than people development and inspiring a vision that Maxwell mentions many times in his concepts (1993, pp. 1-160). This is because the people I currently manage do not need me to push them on their own development. They are strong in their current state of development or they pursue their own continued education.

As with being inspirational, I’ve had two companies of my own and I know after having to run them, that it is something that I no longer wish to do in my future. I think it’s too much administrative work and doesn’t yield enough time for me to be creative and work with my team as closely as I wanted.

In fact, Greene’s 6 laws that I’ve studied so far are already helping me in my current job as a manager of 3 slightly difficult and disgruntled employees. Overall, these employees are not happy with the company and how they have managed their own careers and their emotions are not directed at me. However, they see me as one and the same as the company because I am management. So in order to get the work completed and enhance more positive communication, I’ve already utilized the following Greene laws to make a change in my workplace:

Law 1: Never Outshine the Master

Law 2: Never Put Too Much Trust in Friends, Learn How to Use Enemies

Law 7: Get Others to Do the Work for You, But Always Take the Credit

Law 9: Win Through Your Actions, Never Through Argument

Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness

Law 35: Master the Art of Timing

Below is a list of both of the books I mentioned in this post so you can check them out and see more of what I’m talking about. Hopefully soon, I’ll be able to expand more on this theme. Until next time!

References:

Greene, Robert. (09/2000). The 48 Laws of Power [VitalSource Bookshelf version]. Retrieved from https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/books/9781101042458

Maxwell, John C. (1993). Developing the leader within you. Nashville: T. Nelson.

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

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Below I will list a timeline of monthly goals for all 12 of my courses in Full Sail’s EBMS program. After each month, you will see 3 goals and a strategy to achieve these goals that will help me be more successful month-to-month. I hope to use this timeline as a checklist to track my progress in each course.

Stevie’s 12-Month Mastery Timeline

Month 1 - November 2016

Class Name - Mastery: Personal Development and Leadership

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Schedule and discipline myself for time management of projects.

Watch the Time Management Tips lynda.com tutorial.

2 - Create a notebook/log of important concepts learned.

Add a digital notebook in Evernote app and maintain it throughout the month.

3 - Utilize the school’s Writing Center.

Submit any paper 3 days early to them for review.

Check out this video on online APA resources.

Month 2 - December 2016

Class Name - Executive Leadership

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Identify and improve my leadership style.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

Watch the Management Fundamentals lynda.com tutorial.

2 - Determine ways to better utilize the decision-making process.

Take notes in the course.

3 - Get tips for creating and maintaining business relationships.

Read or watch any course materials.

Month 3 - January 2017

Class Name - Project and Team Management

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Learn the basics of project management.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

2 - Working with a budget on a larger scale.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

3 - Motivating a team to accomplish project goals.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

Watch the Managing Employee Performance Problems lynda.com tutorial.

Month 4 - February 2017

Class Name - Business Storytelling and Brand Development

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Create a online business with a solid brand.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

2 - Write better to tell a business’ story.

Utilize course materials & school’s writing center.

3 - Develop a good customer experience through a company’s website.

Utilize course materials & apply them on a test website.

Watch the WordPress Essential Training lynda.com tutorial.

Month 5 - March 2017

Class Name - Entertainment Business Finance

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Get tips on fundraising.

Take notes in the course.

2 - Get tips on developing financial projections for various business.

Read or watch any course materials.

3 - Learn basic capital management & operations expense management.

Take notes in the course.

Watch the 5 Personal Finance Tips lynda.com tutorial.

Month 6 - April 2017

Class Name - Negotiation and Deal-Making

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Learn basic deal structuring & preparation.

Take notes in course.

2 - Learn basic negotiation & deal-making skills.

Take notes in course.

3 - Develop contracts creation skills.

Read or watch any course materials & apply them to a draft contract. Then, run this contract draft by my instructor.

Month 7 - May 2017

Class Name - Product and Artist Management

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Identify management issues for artist management & tips on avoid & resolve them.

Take notes in the course.

2 - Learn how to connect a product to an artist.

Take notes in the course.

3 - Network with a local artist.

Contact Dale Rock (FS Artist Management) for artists that already work with FS.

Month 8 - June 2017

Class Name - Advanced Entertainment Law

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Identify basic entertainment law concepts.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

2 - Learn ways to protect intellectual property.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

3 - Get tips on how to leverage the digital revolution for various strategies in entertainment.

Take notes in the course.

Month 9 - July 2017

Class Name - Entertainment Media Publishing and Distribution

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Improve upon digital publishing knowledge.

Take notes in course.

2 - Learn various digital publishing models.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

3 - Network with a distribution company.

Ask instructor for a contact.

Month 10 - August 2017

Class Name - Digital Marketing

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Develop a marketing plan for business created in Month 4.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

2 - Learn tips for digital and traditional marketing strategies.

Take notes in course.

3 - Develop a stronger online presence for business created in Month 4.

Take notes in course.

Month 11 - September 2017

Class Name - Business Plan Development

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Research materials needed for a possible business plan.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

2 - Develop a formal business plan for business created in Month 4.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

3 - Get feedback on business plan draft.

Submit a draft to instructor.

Month 12 - October 2017

Class Name - Final Project: Business Plan

Mastery Goals & Strategies:

1 - Refine business plan created in Month 11.

Apply feedback given from instructor.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

2 - Present business plan to peers.

Create a visually appealing and engaging presentation of business plan.

3 - Successfully pass this class.

Read/watch any course materials & apply them in the course assignments.

Take notes in course.

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When Guy encounters a complicated fact he really tries to understand what it is, rather than hitting it over and over again very fast until skills develop.

John Man via http://www.throwcase.com/2014/10/27/student-has-amazing-breakthrough-by-doing-what-teacher-says/

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This is a link to my LinkedIn profile. Feel free to connect with me to keep out to date with all thing professional in my world.

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So I made a logo of my name, but I couldn’t decide on which style to go with, so I made two. I feel the top one appeals to a more youthful market, while the bottom logo is more traditional. You tell me what you think! :)