Featured Alumni

Cassidy Turbin - Student at HCA

Hello all, this is my first blog post for the Hubbard College. Through these following blogs you can find how I use what I learned at the school in my career training to help me with my business plans.

To give you a little information about myself I’m a 22-year old musician (Multi-instrumentalist.) and live in Los Angeles. I am a freelance musician, meaning I play for people who pay me to record or perform with them. I also have been teaching private music lessons for the last 8 years both from my own studio location as well as from a music school in Pasadena and a private school in Canoga Park.

About 3 years ago I became more interested in how I could get more work as a musician and how to increase my student roster and keep them coming in. I wanted to finally have that waiting list I dreamed about. I started doing various things, i.e. student referral rewards, Internet ads, etc. to promote myself and found the business side of my lessons to be rather hit-or-miss. Sometimes my promo would work and other times I’d lose money printing. So I started reading business magazines and finance articles in magazines but nothing seemed to help as they only addressed problems large corporations had. I needed something more basic that could be applied from the top down; something that could apply to an individual’s career all the way up to a large corporation.

I was invited about a year ago to one of Hubbard College’s Talent Café nights to play some music and got an idea after taking a tour, of the self-paced college degree they offer. I before had considered going to one of the many California Colleges to get some sort of Business Administration Degree, but I had just finished a year earlier, the Musician’s Institute and felt it was time to get my career on the move. I liked the idea of coming to a college and studying on my own schedule, there in the school. So I signed up for the degree program!

Now I’m almost done with my program here at the Hubbard College only a year later… Sure beats a 4-year degree!

Through my blog posts you’ll read about my successes in applying the courses I’ve taken here. Enjoy what’s to come in my future posts.

Cassidy Turbin

There has been much hullabaloo in the news and blogs about how much of the bail out money went to the bank executives.

“The 116 banks that so far have received taxpayer dollars to boost them through the economic crisis gave their top tier of executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses and other benefits in 2007,” says an AP study

The AP review of annual reports that the banks file with the Securities and Exchange Commission found that the average paid to each of the banks’ top executives was $2.6 million in salary, bonuses and benefits.

And they’re the folk that go the institutions into this mess with their lack of administrative and management skill.
It’s no wonder the SBA Office of Advocacy states that the number one reason a business fails is the lack of administrative and management expertise.

What we need right now is managers and business owners who have some sane and workable Administrative Technology under their belts.