MANDURAH: Creative Business Basics Workshop Day
May 23 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Learn the basic skills needed to start your professional creative career in this one-day offering by Creative Plus Business.
Creative Business Basics was designed by creative professionals to help those just starting their enterprise, emerging artists, recent graduates, and curious freelancers needing a business check-in.
This one-day workshop provides an entertaining and accessible insight into the basics of small business or self-employment, and how to avoid common pitfalls that artists or creatives can fall into when starting their journey.
Creative Plus Business promise a safe space to ask questions; where the mysteries of creative business become a little clearer – all with a specific focus on arts practice and the realities of a creative life.
Some of the topics will include:
+ Setting goals and creating a strategic plan
+ ABN’s, including how to obtain one
+ Legal structure, business names and licensing requirements
+ Time management strategies, and adapting them to work for you
+ Adapting a business plan template to your needs
+ Understanding what to do next
Participants will not only leave feeling more confident in their ability to start a creative enterprise, they will also receive lifetime access to carefully crafted resources by Creative Plus Business, to continue providing support and guidance long after the event.
This workshop day is catered with tea, coffee and a light lunch included in the ticket-price.
Participants Also Get
+ Templates, Guides, and Tools to use on the day and in your business or practice.
+ Lifetime access to a Dropbox folder jam-packed with additional resources and helpful links.
+ Access to additional free webinars to supplement the material covered in the workshop.
+ Information on how to access further one-to-one business advice, mentoring and support from one of our creative industries business specialist advisors.
Who is presenting?
Monica Davidson is an award-winning expert on the creative industries, who began her professional life as a freelance journalist, performer, and filmmaker. Monica has a Masters degree in Screen Arts and Business from AFTRS and was appointed as Australia’s first Creative Industries Business Advisor in 2013. In 2016 Monica founded the social enterprise Creative Plus Business, an organisation dedicated to educating creatives about small business skills, financial literacy and marketing.
What is CREATIVE PLUS BUSINESS?
We’re a 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.
Accessibility: The workshop is wheelchair accessible. if you have any other access requirements, please email hello@creativeplusbusiness.com
Cost: Registration for Funding Fundamentals is $60 incl GST.
This workshop is presented by Creative Plus Business as part of the City of Mandurah’s Creative Learning Calendar program.