Do you wish you had a roadmap for creating a successful and enjoyable business without killing your creative passion? Lateral Action is running its amazing ‘The Creative Entrepreneur’ course again. The course is all about business and online marketing skills for creative people and has proven invaluable for anyone building a global small business around their creative passions. Read the full article…
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Creative Pathfinder: looking after your money
you need a system that helps you manage your finances simply and quickly. A system that gives you information that helps you run your business better, gives you peace of mind – so that you’re free to focus on more creative things.
Investment Matters – Creative Industries meets Investment Finance
This summary video gives an overview of the challenges of connecting Creative Industries to Investment structures that were covered at Investment Matters in 2008. The message of the need for a bridge or a translation between the values of the creatives and the values of the investor clearly came across fairly strongly the question is Read the full article…
Cultural & Creative Self-Employment in Hard Times (New Deal of the Mind report)
Arts Council England contracted New Deal of the Mind to research the role of the self-employed in the Creative & Cultural Industries. There are all sorts of interesting nuggets in the full report, here are our favourite stats, ideas and food for thought: It is estimated that 41% of people working in the creative sectors Read the full article…
CIDA is ‘Raising the Bar’ with MyCake
MyCake supports new creative freelancers at the CIDA Raising the Bar events in Yorkshire
Business training at Cockpit Arts
Mark McGuinness is running a series of four workshops to help you gain creative momentum in key areas of business. The series will focus on how to motivate creatives and yourself, time management, web marketing and presentation skills. Sign up quickly to book your place at Cockpit Arts in Holborn, London.
Non-business books & films
If you listened to all the business advisors recommendations of books & strategies you’d never get to the bottom of the pile. Personally there’s only so much of that stuff I can handle and I’ve rather reached the ‘tastes good but I couldn’t eat a whole one’ stage. There are however lots of non-business books Read the full article…