Starting a Creative Business

Do you have a creative business idea, project, or new career, that will transform your professional and personal life? Have you already started to build your business but you need support and tips to go forward? Do you find yourself working on creatively fulfilling projects but not getting paid what you deserve?

You know that starting a business requires a significant amount of time, energy, perseverance and resources. Personal and creative life might feel unbalanced when you think about being productive, getting things done and having tangible results.

Starting a creative business provides an overview of everything you need to be thinking about when setting up and running a creative and sustainable business.

The programme is designed for creative individuals who want to understand how to mediate creativity and productivity in a healthy and effective way.

WE WILL EXPLORE THE TECHNICALITIES OF :

• How to choose a legal structure for your business

• How to register with HMRC

• Defining your business Values and Unique Selling Point

• Knowing your audience, your market and your competitors

• SWOT Analysis

• Financial management and book-keeping 

• Effective techniques to organise your time and tasks.

BY THE END OF THIS WORKSHOP YOU WILL LEARN:

• How to balance your “creative mind” with your “organisational mind”

• How to remove negative belief and use positive emotions

• How to build a safe and supportive network around you and your business

• How to constantly nourish your creativity, gain new ideas and inspiration, even when you are busy with everyday business tasks.

WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR:

This Workshop is aimed at anyone who is interested in starting or has already started a creative business in Arts, Theatre, Production, Filming, Fashion, Design, Photography… or if you are thinking to work as self employed in creative industries and you need to understand how to create a business strategy. The Workshop will give you the basics tools to underpin your artistic vision when you start out, and help you to avoid fundamental mistakes.

OUR APPROACH:

The Workshop will run a presentation and a series of exercises. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and talk about your own situation. Workshop notes and reference materials will be provided.

This workshop is part of of our “Toolkit for Creative Entrepreneurs”: a series of 10 workshops that cover everything you need to think about when setting up and running a creative, successful and sustainable business.