SYDNEY: THRIVE CONNECT 2

This is a CREATIVE PLUS BUSINESS event supported by the City of Sydney.

Join us for the second THRIVE CONNECT meetup event, Marketing Maestros. This quarterly series of meaningful meetups will combine networking with skills development for creative practitioners, artists, innovators, and small businesses, hosted at hubs and venues across the Sydney CBD. Each event will include a guest speaker and theme, with suggested conversation topics to make networking easier and connections more interesting.

Reaching new audiences, and keeping our current ones engaged, is never-ending. Our second meetup brings together marketing experts Belinda Daly and Robbi James to talk about out-of-the-box ways that creative businesses can approach marketing. With a specific focus on finding new ways to market and promote ourselves, our work, and our businesses in a world where the impact of social media is changing, our guest speakers will be sharing innovative ways to spread the word about your work, and develop lasting relationships with clients and consumers.

Registration is FREE and every THRIVE CONNECT includes plenty of time for networking (nibbles included).

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Venue: TBA

WHO’S SPEAKING?
Belinda Daly, the founder of The Marketing Edit, is a senior marketing, digital and communications consultant with over 25 years experience in the retail and property sector. 
Belinda has developed award-winning customer experience programs and has a deep interest in using multichannel segmented strategies to reach customers using a customer-led approach. 
She has extensive experience on the branding, repositioning and launch process having worked on numerous development projects including Pacific Fair, Macquarie Centre and Rhodes Shopping Centre. 

Robbi James is a producer, theatre maker, and marketing whizz who has built a portfolio career across media, business and brand development, public relations, and project management. He is a founding member and Executive Director of multi-award-winning production company Rogue Projects, , where he has produced fifteen fully-staged works in Australia and internationally, and the Cannes-award winning short film Refused Classification. Before joining the Creative Plus Business leadership team he led national touring company Critical Stages Touring as its CEO, and has been a cultural consultant for organisations large and small, including the Arts Council of Korea. He is currently also the producer of Salon, the NSW arts market and conference for theatre in NSW/ACT, at Arts on Tour.

WHAT’S THRIVE?
THRIVE SYDNEY is a new program of events, mentoring, and online experiences designed to enhance the professional development and wellbeing of Sydney’s artists and creative community. Supported by the City of Sydney and produced by Creative Plus Business, THRIVE brings to the city four initiatives to help creative professionals and artists come together, hear from inspiring industry leaders, access free professional development opportunities, and build new creative and professional networks.

By attending a THRIVE Connect event you’ll gain access to a dedicated private LinkedIn group, the THRIVE Toolkit (a trove of online resources, business templates, and a free professional and business development course), and be able to book in with a creative industries specialist for free mentoring about your practice or business.

WHAT’S 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.

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Accessibility: if you have any access requirements, please email fiona@creativeplusbusiness.com.
The venue entry is on street level and has lift access to Level 4.

Want to know more about THRIVE?

Visit the Thrive website here.

Interested in the next upcoming THRIVE CONNECT events? Check out the events page here or register to get updates here.