So, um, I started NEIS yesterday.

Noooooo!!!!!

It’s so much work! There is so much to know! There is so much to do in such a short period of time! This course, Certificate IV in Small Business Management, is not supposed to go for like a month. It’s supposed to go for a year!

Just these past two days have been… the definition of “crash course”. I’ve come home on both days feeling like I want to go right to bed. And yet, I can’t, because I have homework to do!!

From what the past two days have taught me, I have to:

• Do a metric tonne of research including surveys, statistic tracking, reading, talking to people and studying competition
• Register my business name
• Make sure my home has Public Liability insurance
• Write an extensive Business Plan on which I will be judged on the 17th of February, along with copies of things including insurance, driver’s licence, ABN and BRN.
• Work out pricing
• Choose a host and domain registrar sooner rather than later (like, before the 6th of February)
• Make sure my website is up and running soon!

Who knows what further bombs will be unloaded on us… though I feel like it may include marketing and whatnot.

Oh man. Freaking out.