by creativeconsultancies | May 20, 2015 | Arts Business, Arts Marketing, Creative Consultancies, Ideas, Planning, Workshops
I’m very keen to get artists out of the gutter and into positive cash flow. I think as creatives we’ve been sold some big, bad myths that keep us stuck in negative self judgement, deflating self talk and a poverty conscious mindset. Today I want to debunk 2 of those....
by creativeconsultancies | May 14, 2015 | Arts Business, Arts Marketing, Creative Consultancies, Ideas, Planning
A while ago I went to talk in Sydney on crowdfunding by Pozible co-founder Rick Chen. Crowdfunding is such a great opportunity for creative businesses to explore, not only in terms of your financial strategy but also incorporated into your marketing. Here are my top...
by creativeconsultancies | May 6, 2015 | Arts Business, Arts Marketing, Creative Consultancies, Ideas, Planning, Workshops
A while ago I attended an arts business morning tea. I didn’t go in the particular hope of learning new business skills or having personal arts biz revelations. I went because it was an ideal piece of “competitor analysis” as a part of my ongoing “market...
by creativeconsultancies | Apr 28, 2015 | Arts Business, Creative Consultancies, Creative Process, Ideas, Planning
12 years ago I recorded my first full length album. The journey was tumultuous, my resources thin and the songs precious to me. I was surviving on stories of home recorded albums and “did I know Radiohead recorded that in a stairwell” type tales. I wanted...
by creativeconsultancies | Apr 20, 2015 | Arts Business, Arts Marketing, Creative Consultancies, Ideas
For a very short lived period I reinvented myself creatively as a fair trade fashion designer. Being fashion ambivalent at best, it was a strange tangent (I blame baby brain) and, predictably, turned out to not really be the business path for me. It was a wonderful...
by creativeconsultancies | Apr 6, 2015 | Arts Business, Creative Consultancies, Ideas, Planning, Workshops
It’s on the journey to the big vision that the learning happens, the creating and the growth. The destination is amazing but it’s the road there that makes up the heart of this creative life. Sometimes the milestones may not sound that impressive when...
