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SUMMARY:MORUYA: I Hate Networking
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SOUTH EAST ARTS \n\n\n\nI Hate Networking is a surprisingly fun event designed to encourage creative people to get to know each other while acknowledging the horror of networking and sharing a few tips at the same time. While it’s a vital skill in the creative industries\, many practitioners consider networking to be the stuff of nightmares. I Hate Networking combines education with the opportunity to practice in a safe and friendly environment while embracing the discomfort of the whole process and having a laugh. \n\n\n\nTips that will be shared include:+ Success is before you start – preparing before the event;+ Mastering the art of the introduction;+ Overcoming shyness\, awkwardness and the urge to run away;+ Dealing with wankers and other difficult people;+ Getting the all-important follow-up right. \n\n\n\nYou’ll learn how to network in the first half of the session\, and practice your skills in the second half. \n\n\n\nWhat do I get? All participants in this workshop also receive:+ Lifetime access to a dedicated I Hate Networking Dropbox folder full of additional resources and workbooks to help continue the learning after the workshop is over;+ Access to additional free webinars to supplement the material covered in the workshop;+ The possibility of further one-to-one business advice\, mentoring and support from one of our creative industries business specialist advisors. \n\n\n\nWho should enrol?This workshop is ideal for curious hobbyists\, creative freelancers and businesses\, and arts organisations. \n\n\n\nWho is presenting?Business advisor and creative industries expert Monica Davidson from the Creative Plus Business Group. Monica is a writer and filmmaker by trade who learned how to run a successful creative business and now shares that knowledge with others. In her workshops\, Monica discusses her own experiences and shares examples from the 900-plus people she has mentored through the process of starting and building their creative businesses. \n\n\n\nWhat is NSW Business Connect? Business Connect is a dedicated and personalised NSW Government program that provides trusted advice to help you start\, run\, adapt or grow your small business. Creative Plus Business provides confidential\, independent business advice and skills training for small and medium creative businesses across NSW as part of the NSW Government’s Business Connect program. \n\n\n\nWhat’s Creative Plus Business?We’re a social enterprise dedicated to educating creative people and arts organisations about business skills. We help through sharing practical knowledge in a fun and irreverent way\, and everything we do is designed to help creatives to feel more confident and comfortable about the entrepreneurial aspects of their creative practice. We believe that a bit of naughtiness\, tempered with a kind heart and a big dose of professionalism\, is the key to helping creative people understand the boring basics of business. \n\n\n\nAccessibility: if you have any access requirements\, please email hello@creativeplusbusiness.comVenue: Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre\, Corner of Vulcan St and\, Campbell St\, Moruya NSW 2537 \n\n\n\nThis workshop is sponsored by NSW Business Connect\, a dedicated and personalised NSW Government program that provides trusted independent business advice and events to help you start\, run\, adapt or grow your small business.
URL:https://creativeplusbusiness.com/workshop/moruya-i-hate-networking/
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SUMMARY:MORUYA: How to Start a Creative Business
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SOUTH EAST ARTS \n\n\n\nCurious about turning your creative practice into a fully-fledged small business?  This fun and friendly workshop will cover all the essentials you’ll need to get the basics right and avoid some of the most common pitfalls for creatives as they enter the world of self-employment and freelancing.  \n\n\n\nYou will learn all the following\, with a focus on the arts and creative industries :+ Making a plan for your start-up journey+ Understanding ABNs\, structures\, business names and licences+ Getting ready for the money+ Preparing for the market+ Where to go for more (free) help. \n\n\n\nWhat do I get?  All participants of this workshop also receive:+ Lifetime access to a Dropbox folder jam-packed with resources+ A Creative Business Start-Up Checklist+ A One Page Creative Business and Marketing Plan+ The option of more one-to-one advice from a creative business specialist.All questions are welcome in this relaxed\, safe and inclusive workshop. Participants are also encouraged to share their own experiences and network with their fellow practitioners. \n\n\n\nWho is presenting?Monica Davidson is an award-winning expert on the creative industries\, who began her professional life as a freelance journalist and filmmaker. In 2014 Monica completed her Masters degree in Screen Arts and Business at AFTRS\, and was appointed as the first NSW Creative Industries Business Advisor by the Department of Industry. Shortly after she founded the social enterprise Creative Plus Business\, which is dedicated to educating creative people about small business and marketing skills. In 2019\, Monica was awarded the QUT Creative Enterprise Australia award for being a Creative Trailblazer that “advocates\, mentors\, donates\, educates and advises within Australia’s creative economy”. Monica continues to work as a writer\, filmmaker and occasional performer. \n\n\n\nWhat is NSW Business Connect? Business Connect is a dedicated and personalised NSW Government program that provides trusted advice to help you start\, run\, adapt or grow your small business. Creative Plus Business provides confidential\, independent business advice and skills training for small and medium creative businesses across NSW as part of the NSW Government’s Business Connect program. \n\n\n\nWhat’s Creative Plus Business?We’re a social enterprise dedicated to educating creative people and arts organisations about business skills. We help through sharing practical knowledge in a fun and irreverent way\, and everything we do is designed to help creatives to feel more confident and comfortable about the entrepreneurial aspects of their creative practice. We believe that a bit of naughtiness\, tempered with a kind heart and a big dose of professionalism\, is the key to helping creative people understand the boring basics of business. \n\n\n\nAccessibility: if you have any access requirements\, please email hello@creativeplusbusiness.com \n\n\n\nVenue: Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre\, Corner of Vulcan St and\, Campbell St\, Moruya NSW 2537 \n\n\n\nThis workshop is sponsored by NSW Business Connect\, a dedicated and personalised NSW Government program that provides trusted independent business advice and events to help you start\, run\, adapt or grow your small business.
URL:https://creativeplusbusiness.com/workshop/moruya-how-to-start-a-creative-business/
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Diversify Your Creative Income
DESCRIPTION:HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOU THINK OF TO MAKE MONEY? \n\n\n\nCreative businesses often need help to brainstorm all the possible ways to diversify their income streams (especially now!) and become more financially sustainable. Diversify Your Creative Income is an interactive online workshop that allows participants to discuss the various general ways that creatives can make money (including services\, goods and passive income)\, and includes practical exercises to help brainstorm those ideas. \n\n\n\nThis workshop examines:+ Identifying your Core and Complementary Skills;+ The Minimum Viable Offering;+ Using a Skills Audit to inspire ideas;+ How to identify a ‘good’ idea;+ Helpful resources and more! \n\n\n\nWhat do I get?All participants of this workshop also receive:+ Lifetime access to a dedicated Diversify Your Creative Income Dropbox folder full of additional resources and help;+ Access to a dedicated webpage full of links and resources to help them get ahead in their creative business. \n\n\n\nWho should enrol?This workshop is ideal for recent graduates\, freelancers and anyone struggling with time\, work and creativity. It’s also relevant no matter what your profession – filmmakers\, writers\, designers\, visual artists\, musicians\, composers\, dancers\, performers – everyone can benefit from a quick introduction or refresher to the basics of time management and setting goals. \n\n\n\nWho is presenting?Wendi Lanham is an actor\, presenter\, model\, and the Business Manager of Creative Plus Business. She has a wealth of experience combining business and creative practice and is well-versed in the myriad ways artists can make money in order to weather the famine and feast of creative income more effectively. \n\n\n\nWhat is NSW Business Connect? Business Connect is a dedicated and personalised NSW Government program that provides trusted advice to help you start\, run\, adapt or grow your small business. Creative Plus Business provides confidential\, independent business advice and skills training for small and medium creative businesses across NSW as part of the NSW Government’s Business Connect program. \n\n\n\nWhat’s Creative Plus Business?We’re a social enterprise dedicated to educating creative people and arts organisations about business skills. We help through sharing practical knowledge in a fun and irreverent way\, and everything we do is designed to help creatives to feel more confident and comfortable about the entrepreneurial aspects of their creative practice. We believe that a bit of naughtiness\, tempered with a kind heart and a big dose of professionalism\, is the key to helping creative people understand the boring basics of business. \n\n\n\nAccessibility: if you have any access requirements\, please email hello@creativeplusbusiness.com \n\n\n\nThis workshop will take place on Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link in an email from Creative Plus Business prior to the workshop. Note: this workshop will not be recorded. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is sponsored by NSW Business Connect\, a dedicated and personalised NSW Government program that provides trusted independent business advice and events to help you start\, run\, adapt or grow your small business.
URL:https://creativeplusbusiness.com/workshop/online-diversify-your-creative-income-4/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Expert Panel — Humanise Your Brand
DESCRIPTION:Branding is one of the most powerful assets your business has\, but gone are the days of impersonal content and messaging. To build an engaged and loyal audience\, you must humanise your brand. To put it simply\, humanising your brand means being personable and relatable across your marketing messaging and cultivating memorable and meaningful connections with your target audience\, rather than going for the hard sell. AKA\, acting like a human. At the end of the day\, people do business with brands they trust and the simplest way to do this is to communicate with your audience like they’re right in front of you.In this conversation-style webinar\, Marketing Manager Lillie Brown will be joined by Mia Fileman of Campaign Del Mar to explore ideas and strategies for small businesses and freelancers to humanise their marketing and craft a standout brand personality.What’s Included?A 90-minute webinar with our creative industries experts (which you can access later if you want)\, plus lifetime access to additional resources on our website containing more resources to support your learning. \n\n\n\nWho should sign up? Creative and arts practitioners\, freelancers\, start-ups\,  students and arts entrepreneurs from beginners to established (International sign-ups welcome!). We also welcome curious hobbyists and people from outside the arts.  \n\n\n\nWho are our hosts with the most? Lillie Brown is a freelance marketing strategist and Marketing Manager of Creative Plus Business. Lillie works with small to medium creative businesses to devise and implement marketing and social media strategies that are easy for creative brains to digest. She walks clients through a comprehensive planning process to create simple to understand and actionable strategies to help them fulfil their vision – including Creative Plus Business! \n\n\n\nMia Fileman is a professional marketer with 21 years of experience as a Brand Manager\, Agency Director and Creative Strategist. She’s the Founder of Campaign Del Mar\, a marketing education platform for entrepreneurs and emerging marketers. Mia is the host of the Got Marketing? Podcast and a widely published marketing expert. She has written for Social Media Examiner\, Mumbrella and Smart Company\, among many others. \n\n\n\nWhat’s Business Connect? Business Connect is a dedicated and personalised NSW Government program that provides trusted advice to help you start or grow your small business. Creative Plus Business provides confidential\, independent business advice and skills training for small and medium creative businesses across NSW as part of the NSW Government’s Business Connect program. \n\n\n\nAccessibility: if you have any access requirements\, please email hello@creativeplusbusiness.com \n\n\n\nThis webinar will take place on Crowdcast. You will receive the Crowdcast link in an email from Creative Plus Business prior to the webinar. This webinar is sponsored by NSW Business Connect\, a dedicated and personalised NSW Government program that provides trusted independent business advice and events to help you start\, run\, adapt or grow your small business.
URL:https://creativeplusbusiness.com/workshop/webinar-expert-panel-humanise-your-brand/
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Social Media for Creatives
DESCRIPTION:DOES SOCIAL MEDIA HURT YOUR BRAIN? \n\n\n\nSocial media is a complex and challenging marketing tool for a lot of creatives\, who find it hard to strike the balance between constantly talking about themselves and ignoring the platforms entirely! This friendly and up-to-date workshop covers the basics of how to kickstart marketing using social media\, with a focus on the main tools at your disposal and the strategy behind the socials. \n\n\n\nWe’ll also cover:+ Understanding your Brand online+ Understanding your Tribe+ Choosing the right platform for your clients+ Tips and tricks on staying up to date … and much more! \n\n\n\nWhat do I get? All participants of this workshop also receive:+ Printed materials to help in class;+ Lifetime access to a dedicated Social Media for Creatives dropbox folder full of additional resources and help;+ Access to a website full of links and resources to help you get ahead in their creative business. \n\n\n\nWho should enrol?This workshop is ideal for recent graduates\, freelancers and anyone struggling with the business aspects of their creativity. \n\n\n\nWho is presenting?Lillie Brown is a freelance marketing strategist and Marketing Manager of Creative Plus Business. Lillie works with small to medium creative businesses to devise and implement marketing and social media strategies that are easy for creative brains to digest. She walks clients through a comprehensive planning process to create simple to understand and actionable strategies to help them fulfil their vision. Lillie has been the Marketing Manager of Creative Plus Business since 2018\, and is invaluable in helping build our social enterprise to a national scale! \n\n\n\nWhat is Creative Plus Business? We’re a social enterprise dedicated to educating creative people and arts organisations about business skills. We help through sharing practical knowledge in a fun and irreverent way\, and everything we do is designed to help creatives to feel more confident and comfortable about the entrepreneurial aspects of their creative practice. We believe that a bit of naughtiness\, tempered with a kind heart and a big dose of professionalism\, is the key to helping creative people understand the boring basics of business. \n\n\n\nAccessibility: if you have any access requirements\, please email hello@creativeplusbusiness.com \n\n\n\nThis workshop will take place on Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link in an email from Creative Plus Business prior to the workshop. Note: this workshop will not be recorded.
URL:https://creativeplusbusiness.com/workshop/online-social-media-for-creatives-5/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: From Little Things
DESCRIPTION:Loads of arts and creative not-for-profit organisations are volunteer run and led\, especially in the regions. This webinar is a practical panel discussion and a real-world look at a few volunteer NFPs and how they have grown in terms of funding\, diversification of income\, and management. We’ll discuss the nitty gritty of how to: \n\n\n\n+ Find and motivate volunteers;+ Diversify income and survive beyond funding;+ Build a succession plan for the future;+ Work with the board.We’ve teamed up with  C+B Advisor and NFP expert Andrew Gray\, who also happens to be the Executive Director of South East Arts\, as well as David Hewitt from Stonewave Taiko and Donna Ballard from Wingham Acoustic Music Festival. \n\n\n\nIdeal for: Anyone working with or for an arts and creative not-for-profit\, and keen beans hoping to get one started. \n\n\n\nWho’s hosting?Business advisor and creative industries expert Monica Davidson (director and doyenne of Creative Plus Business) is a writer and filmmaker by trade who learned how to run a successful creative business and now shares that knowledge with others. In her workshops Monica discusses her own experiences\, and shares examples from the 900-plus people she has mentored through the process of starting and building their creative businesses. \n\n\n\nAndrew Gray has decades of experience in the creative and cultural industries\, including as the Executive Director for regional arts development organisation South East Arts. Prior to that\, Andrew worked in education and public programs for institutions such as the National Film and Sound Archive. Andrew has a broad understanding of a range of creative industry practices\, and is an occasional musician\, performing with The Jonathan Richman Experience and The Novellas. \n\n\n\nDavid Hewitt  is an internationally renowned percussionist\, vocalist\, composer improviser\, educator and a multi-disciplinary performer who received his training in Australia\, Japan\, and the USA. David has composed for concert\, film\, theatre\, TV\, and radio broadcast\, and is a co-creator of the category-defying outfit ‘The Spaghetti Western Orchestra.’ He has taught at Victorian College of the Arts\, Macquarie University Queensland and Newcastle Conservatoriums\, and the University of Western Sydney. Based in the Bega Valley\, David is currently director of Create and Inspire: Four Winds and the artistic director of Stonewave Taiko. \n\n\n\nDonna Ballard was born and raised in the MidCoast area of NSW\, and she kicked off her creative career working with Edstein Creative Stone. Donna has managed a disability support organisation\, About Inclusion\, and was appointed CEO of Taree Universities Campus in 2020. In the community part of her life\, Donna volunteers in a number of community groups\, the highlight being the Wingham Akoostik Music Festival. Every year since then\, she has been strongly committed to growing\, not only her audience\, but the sustainability and capacity of the event\, and developing the volunteer organisation that bring it to life. \n\n\n\nWhat’s Creative Plus Business? We’re a certified social enterprise dedicated to educating creative people and arts organisations about business skills. We help by sharing practical knowledge in a fun and irreverent way\, and everything we do is designed to help creatives to feel more confident and comfortable about the entrepreneurial aspects of their creative practice. We believe that a bit of naughtiness\, tempered with a kind heart and a big dose of professionalism\, is the key to helping creative people understand the boring basics of business.
URL:https://creativeplusbusiness.com/workshop/webinar-from-little-things/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: How to Start a Creative Business
DESCRIPTION:LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE! \n\n\n\nCurious about turning your creative practice into a fully-fledged small business?  This fun and friendly workshop will cover all the essentials you’ll need to get the basics right and avoid some of the most common pitfalls for creatives as they enter the world of self-employment and freelancing.  \n\n\n\nYou will learn all the following\, with a focus on the arts and creative industries :+ Making a plan for your start-up journey+ Understanding ABNs\, structures\, business names and licences+ Getting ready for the money+ Preparing for the market+ Where to go for more (free) help. \n\n\n\nWhat do I get?  All participants of this workshop also receive:+ Lifetime access to a Dropbox folder jam-packed with resources+ A Creative Business Start-Up Checklist+ A One Page Creative Business and Marketing Plan+ The option of more one-to-one advice from a creative business specialist.All questions are welcome in this relaxed\, safe and inclusive workshop. Participants are also encouraged to share their own experiences and network with their fellow practitioners. \n\n\n\nWho’s presenting?Ann Niddrie balances creativity with a love for data and strategy. From early beginnings as a photographer she expanded her skills into online marketing and producing and directing public art projects. More recently she has worked in creative industry development and is a passionate advocate for investment in creative industries. \n\n\n\nWhat is NSW Business Connect? Business Connect is a dedicated and personalised NSW Government program that provides trusted advice to help you start\, run\, adapt or grow your small business. Creative Plus Business provides confidential\, independent business advice and skills training for small and medium creative businesses across NSW as part of the NSW Government’s Business Connect program. \n\n\n\nWhat’s Creative Plus Business?We’re a social enterprise dedicated to educating creative people and arts organisations about business skills. We help through sharing practical knowledge in a fun and irreverent way\, and everything we do is designed to help creatives to feel more confident and comfortable about the entrepreneurial aspects of their creative practice. We believe that a bit of naughtiness\, tempered with a kind heart and a big dose of professionalism\, is the key to helping creative people understand the boring basics of business. \n\n\n\nAccessibility: if you have any access requirements\, please email hello@creativeplusbusiness.com \n\n\n\nThis workshop is sponsored by NSW Business Connect\, a dedicated and personalised NSW Government program that provides trusted independent business advice and events to help you start\, run\, adapt or grow your small business. \n\n\n\nAttending this event will consolidate your thinking about starting a creative business in NSW. You’ll then be eligible to book an advisory session to test your business idea.
URL:https://creativeplusbusiness.com/workshop/online-how-to-start-a-creative-business-3/
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