Starting Your Own Technical Authoring Business
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Who Should Attend?
Technical authors, writers or other communication professionals who are interested in starting their own business in technical communications. The course applies to those who want to operate either as self-employed contractors or set up larger businesses, such as documentation houses or agencies.

Course Objective
This is a business development course designed to provide professional technical communicators with an understanding of the fundamentals of business and equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to help set up and run their own business.

Course Content
• Understanding business fundamentals
• Organising your business start-up procedure
• Promoting the benefits of contract technical communication services
• Getting new business
• Keeping your client base
• Scaling up your business
• Contracts and other legal aspects
• Work-life balance

Training Methods
The course is presented in a seminar format centred around PowerPoint presentations. Delegates will be provided with course notes, folders, pens, etc.

Provisional Timetable
09:00-09:30 Arrival & Refreshments
09:30-10:30 Session 1
10:30-11:00 Break & Refreshments
11:00-12:30 Session 2
12:30-13:30 Working Lunch
13:30-15:00 Session 3
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:30 Session 4
16:30-16:45 Summary/Q&A

Other Information
Delegates will be given a set of professional guides for technical communicators covering subjects such as economics, project management and quality control.

Your Host for the Course is:

Dr Andrew Marlow BA, BSc, PGDTech, MSc, DBA, AMIMA, FISTC

Andrew Marlow is a fully-accredited partner of the ICFBA (the International Confederation for Business Advancement) and a Fellow of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators. He has over 30 years of experience working in technical communications and publications management within private enterprise, and a wealth of knowledge of business management and administration. He has worked as a freelance technical documentation consultant, and ran his own successful technical communications business for over 18 years. Today, he works as a specialist consultant and trainer for a wide range of businesses and individuals in all sectors.
 
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Duration1 day
 
£195
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