True North: Creative Business Planning with Shannon Etnyre

Shannon Etnyre the founder and CEO of True North: Creative Business Planning, a creative business incubator, offers a suite of business development services designed for the creative community joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Shannon Etnyre discuss the following:

  • Give us a little background on your company, FollowTrueNorth.com and how it came about. Describe the project in your own words.
  • What are the most important facets of entrepreneurial success? How does FollowTrueNorth.com help facilitate that success?
  • As an incubator, what projects have come about as a result of the idea generation platform?
  • What are the key differentiators between you and other players in the business planning sector?
  • Where do you go from here?

Duration: 12:04

Shannon Etnyre is the founder and CEO of True North: Creative Business Planning, an online creative business incubator. Etnyre calls herself an artist, writer, and number cruncher, and after over a decade of working in Corporate Finance, she has followed her creative instincts and combined her interests to form True North. As Etnyre persued creativity through art, food styling & photography, & graphic design courses, she found that her business planning skills could help her creative counterparts.

Etnyre also serves as the Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Arts & Education located in Idaho, and is a community volunteer at the Micro-Enterprise Training & Assistance in Boise, Idaho. She received her coaching certification and leadership training through the Center for Workplace Excellence She also holds a B.A. in Business Economics from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a M.B.A. in Business Organization & Entrepreneurship from California Lutheran University.

She lives near Boise, Idaho, with her husband, two young sons, their pup and two siamese cats.

FollowTrueNorth.com
FollowTrueNorth.com celebrates the unique creative journey of each individual. We work with start-ups, established companies, and those looking for growth and beyond. FollowTrueNorth.com has designed a suite of business support products and services to eliminate the overwhelm starting and managing a new business can cause. With self-paced guidebooks, facilitated online classes, an extensive creative community, and an online forum, the platform provides a virtual consultant 24/7. In addition, we offer one on one coaching, strategic planning, and business plan services.

Related Web Site: FollowTrueNorth.com

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