This course is for photographers, creatives, and early stage entrepreneurs in North Carolina who want to set themselves up for success. Our objective for this one-day program are to understand how you can build a legally compliant, profitable, and sustainable business practice that fits your lifestyle. This includes reviewing the tenets of entrepreneurship, understanding what makes a business sustainable, and recognizing where you are in the NC-specific steps that a business must complete to be legally set up. We will discuss the "business triangle" of sales, marketing, and financials, and we will utilize AI prompts to help you translate your work to create systems and workflows that support strategic business planning, as well as your next steps.