So I thought I would create a blog to document my daunting journey of starting a business. So my 'business idea' is called Live Sport Talks. Basically from the start, I was looking to conquer the highly competitive world of sport journalism. So my current job is OK, at times quite interesting but generally I find myself yearning for 5pm. I decided to take action and research how to be a sport journalist. So works out I don't have £9,000.00 knocking around for a masters degree (typical), so I took the cheaper route of taking a questionable freelance journalism course online. From my research, it was clear that experience was key for this industry, which made sense. I started writing for a few different online newspapers, which was basically covering games of Basketball and Hockey which their writers I imagine weren't keen to attend themselves for free.It was ok though, I enjoyed the buzz of having a media pass and rushing over to get soundbites from the players. I finished the course and got my media pass, ( still not sure if it holds any real value), and continued to write for these publications. I wanted to learn more about sport writers and these sport professionals. I attended a few events to hear from these people, such as the sport writing festival in London which was a highlight. I found that there wasn't as many of these talks out there as I hoped. That's when I got my idea of Live Sport Talks. So why don't I host these events myself? Work with different agencies to provide these athletes, and charge people to hear them talk about how they became a professional sports star or broke that world record in Beijing. So that was decided, I had the idea and now I just had to think HOW I was going to make it happen!
Follow my journey of trying to make 'Live Sport Talks' work as a profit making business ( wish me luck!)
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