Business Startup

Setting up her own card & graphic design business was always something on Michelle Wright’s ‘to do list’, but so were many other things. She was constantly looking at the cost of personalised invitations and cards, and thinking “I can do that” – and for a lot less than the sites she had researched; and as a qualified graphic designer she was producing leaflets and flyers on day-to-day-basis for business, and knew the industry inside out… “Why wasn’t I doing this for myself?”

Suddenly she turned a corner in her life, when her daughter was at school and “probably needed her more than she needed me, and was left with time on my hands”… In a whirlwind of about 2 months she enquired at Citizens Advice about the best way of setting up a business and they put her in touch with Salford Hundred venture. After an introductory Awareness session, Aspire course, one-to-one advice sessions from her business advisor colourwheel creative – her very own graphic design business venture was born!

“Aspire together with the intensive start up support not only gave me the information on all areas of business that I needed, but gave me the support and confidence to believe that actually, yes, I can do this!” she said. She came joint second in the Aspire competition which gave her the finance to create a website which is a key tool to her business; along with the printing of some support literature.

Michelle is sure colourwheel creative would have been born ‘one day’ but it would have taken her a lot longer to get there. “With the support of Salford Hundred Venture through the ISUS Business Startup programme, and the money from Aspire, colourwheel creative has been launched…and although that’s been ticked off my to do list, about thirty more things have been added to it!!”

For more information on colourwheel creative go to www.colourwheelcreative.co.uk
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