The Start-Up Series
The Startup series
The workshops in the Start-Up Series cover the basics that all creative professionals need to start or run their professional life as a self-employed person.
As with all of our workshops, each workshop can be delivered as a one-hour unit or combined with others to create a bespoke learning program for your participants. All workshops can be delivered in person or online.
Structure stuff
Proprietorship? Partnership? Company? Every company has a structure and each structure means different things in terms of your rights and responsibilities.
Boring stuff, but essential if you want to take the next steps in your creative business. Structure Stuff outlines all structures, including social enterprises, and debates the pros and cons of each.
What's it worth?
Working out what to charge for your creative work can be a nightmare.
Where to start? It covers the basics of figuring out your price point, including working out your price, then moves on to the psychology of pricing, understanding the market, creating loss leaders, and more.
An essential workshop for anyone struggling to understand the value of their own work.
Mind your own business!
A business plan is a summary and evaluation of your business idea and it is more than just a panacea for bank managers. It must be useful!
This workshop reframes the planning process to create a tool that will help you move forward and take action for your creative business or arts organization, in view of the purpose of the plan and how to put these great ideas into practice.
Time management for creatives
How on earth do we find the time to be creative, make money and also have enough time for a personal life? This non-judgmental workshop is about how to prioritize, set and keep goals, overcome procrastination, and learn new habits for better time management.
We also share our own tips and practical strategies for keeping all creative juggling balls in the air.