My Entrepreneurial blog

Last week I was out from the course because I had done something to my knee and couldn't walk. I attended the Smithfield Rapid Injury Clinic to see if they could at least give me some crutches so I would be able to go to my course. After xraying my knee the doctor told me to take the time off and to keep my leg elevated for at least a couple of days. It took more than a couple of days to get better but although I'm not completely better I want to get on with my business. While resting, I managed to organise the first set of beginner guitar lessons and design, and order a three foot by six foot advertising banner to hang outside Santry Community Resource Centre. I'm very pleased with that. My good friend in the printing industry made it for me. Thank you very much John Molloy you legend. I was waiting for the assignment tasks to be put up on moodle, but they weren't put up until Monday morning. I put out a message to my colleagues in the course, to see what was to be do...

I downloaded the chromium operating system 32 bit onto my 8GB USB stick. I changed the bios on my Dell Latitude D810 so that it would boot from the USB first. It made moves to start up but seemed to be in a loop of closing down and starting up. I thought that I hadn't installed it on the USB stick properly, so I then decided to try it on my other computer (even though it was a 64bit machine) and it worked perfectly. My daughter had a packard bell computer which was running Windows 8. I was beginning to run so slow that it wasn't even worth turning on. I decided to try the Chrome O.S. in this machine, however this wouldn't run at all. I suppose it is because this machine needs the 64 bit version. I downloaded AVG to my daughters laptop, cleared off some programmes that weren't needed, and ran PC Tuneup and this sped it up fine.

Times available for the santry resource centre Timetable I decided that I would try out two classes. The early class would be for children, and would coincide with school closing times. The second class would be early evenings for teenage/adult classes.  I then placed an advert on Adverts for €5 . here is the link: http://www.adverts.ie/music-lessons/guitar-classes-for-beginners/13570385 I also placed a free ad on gumtree. here is the link: https://www.gumtree.ie/a-courses-training/dublin/beginner-guitar-classes-for-adults-children-santry-dublin-9/1002065521680911234419209

Here are some of the examples from the finance section of the course.

Entrepreneur task 1 This week, I researched www.trendhunters.com  And I applied 5 trends to my business. I also researched www.boardofinnovations.com/business-revenue-model-examples And applied two business models to my business. Entrepreneur task 2 This was a solution-focused activity, I started a diary of five things that slightly annoyed me during the day. write 5 solutions to overcome them. The build a business task for this week was to attend a business event,  I checked out eventbrite and meetup    However there weren't any suitable events at this time,   idea for a focused my activities and building up the business that I had already started. For my new guitar class I decided to allocate a new mobile phone as a business phone with a separate phone number.  I also decided to set up a new email address for this. I wanted an email address to suit the business. My new email address is musicmeup1@gmail.com Once I had done thi...

I decided that it would be a good idea to keep my business phone number and email address seperate from my private contacts, at least while I am trial trading, so I changed the poster for the guitar class to suit.

Goals to achieve my dream

Who are my customers?

We used two different types of business model I.e. Ryanair and Disney to apply to our business.

ENTREPRENEUR TASK 1 -  Perform a SWOT analysis of your  business/market - Perform a PEST analysis of your industry SWOT ANALYSIS Martin Rooney Guitar Lessons Strengths Ability to connect with learners Good foundation in music Good connections with other guitarists Experience in online tutorials Have taught before Can give feedback and advice Well known in area for musical ability Opportunities Online tutorials One to one tuition Dedicated tuition (teach party pieces) Guitar classes in other locations To buy and sell guitars and accessories on location. Weaknesses Not a graded guitarist Lack of formal guitar training (self taught) Insufficient working capital Threats Other guitar schools could come into the area. Graded & affiliated schools Online tutorials co...

Market research Process What do I need to ask Who should I ask

Don't take all the models too literally However these problems should be linked to convincing. ersi for research. 

This post shows the brain storming session in the entrepreneur session with Phil Gildea.