Course Enrollment: PD-101 Business Skills: Creating a Business

Course Summary: Note: This course requires compulsory materials to be ordered. The book is available at GenealogyStore.com Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Professional Genealogy: A manual for researchers, writers, editors, lecturers and librarians (2001; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2012). Optional Print Course Material: Business Skills: Creating a Business *Course material will only be sent to students who are registered in the course. Creating a genealogical or personal historian business requires many steps. First, there is self-analysis to determine who you are, what you want, how to achieve balance in work and personal life, and what kind of business you wish to start. Next, you will need to conduct business and marketing planning, market analysis, and establish an overall business structure. Finally, you must consider what you need for your busin