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Business & entrepreneurshipBusiness & Entrepreneurship Lessons
Learn to run a business from someone who is running several right now. Practical, one-on-one lessons on pricing, marketing, money, and systems — in Athens or on Zoom.
Taught by Nick Bradfield
This isn't an MBA and it isn't theory. It's what running real businesses day to day actually teaches you — setting prices people will pay, getting customers to find you, keeping the books straight, paying people correctly, and building the systems that stop everything from depending on you.
Lessons are built around your situation: an idea you want to test, a side hustle you want to turn into income, a small business that has outgrown the way you run it, or creative work — music included — that you want to make pay. Bring the real numbers and the real problem, and that becomes the lesson.
From an operator
Taught by someone running several businesses at once, so the advice is the kind that survives contact with real customers.
Your business, not a case study
Every session works on your actual pricing, marketing, or problem — not a generic example.
The business of creative work
Musicians and makers welcome. Turning creative skill into income is its own subject, and it's covered here.
Systems and AI included
How to automate the repetitive parts of a business is part of the curriculum, not an upsell.
What business lessons can cover
- Validating an idea before you spend money on it
- Pricing and packaging what you sell
- Marketing: your website, Google, local search and paid ads
- Bookkeeping basics, cash flow, and knowing your real numbers
- Hiring, contractors, and paying people properly
- Systems and automation that get you out of the day-to-day
At the studio, at home, or on Zoom
At Rabbit Hole Studios
One-on-one lessons in a working recording studio in Athens, with microphones and playback on hand.
1001 Winterville RdAthens, GA 30605
At your home
Lessons come to you anywhere within 50 miles of Athens — the practical choice for drums and piano, where the instrument stays put.
Within 50 miles of AthensLive on Zoom
The same private lesson from anywhere, on Zoom in its musician mode — full-range audio with the usual call filtering switched off, so held notes come through the way they were played.
How online lessons work →Frequently asked questions
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