Many creatives struggle to understand how to turn their passions into profit. In this session, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of starting your creative business, basic business planning, difference between being a sole proprietor or having a business entity, understanding legal and tax requirements, and income and expenses. It is an ideal webinar for applicants for the Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator program to start with their business plans.

Presenter: Erika Tapp Duran

Erika Tapp Duran, a Temple SBDC advisor, will be presenting this webinar. Erika provides consulting services to pre-venture and start-up businesses as well as teaching the center’s business planning courses. Erika is also part of the faculty of the Social Enterprise Program at the Villanova School of Business working with teams of students providing pro bono consulting for social enterprises. She came to Temple with a decade of experience in community and economic development in Philadelphia. Erika earned her EMBA at Villanova University, her MA at the University of Pennsylvania, and BArch at Cornell University.