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6 Stages Of A Creative Business – Stage 6, CEO!
Stage 6 – CEO of my own empire!
Ok that may be ‘bigging’ things up a little but actually that’s exactly where you’re at!!
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6 Stages Of A Creative Business – Stage 5, Business Owner!
Running your creative business part time is a huge mindset shift so make sure you acknowledge how far you’ve come and how amazing you are!
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6 Stages Of A Creative Business – Stage 4, All the spare time!
Stage 4 – All the spare time goes to craft fairs and advertising on social media, spending most evenings plus weekends on the creative business… It’s paying for materials plus a little extra to treat yourself and the family.
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6 Stages Of A Creative Business – Stage 3, I’ve Sold!
Stage 3 – I’ve sold, someone outside my friendship group has bought one of my creations!!
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6 Stages Of A Creative Business – Stage 2, I’m getting requests!
When family and friends are making requests and offering a contribution that usually means the learning and practicing is starting to show – well done!!
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6 Stages Of A Creative Business – Stage 1, It’s all about the learning!
Think of this stage as your foundation, this is where you develop and improve the quality of your craft. This is also an ongoing stage! You never stop learning, improving and developing – this is one of the joys of being a creative and you need to keep the joy Read more…
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6 Stages Of A Creative Business
There are several steps or stages in creating a creative business, I’ve tried to rationalise these down to 6 stages of a creative business, and the great thing is you’ve probably already gone through the first two or three without realising! I’ll delve deeper into each stage in the coming Read more…
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3 Reasons why we should all use a cashflow
For the business gurus amongst us… I can see you rolling your eyes you know! Of course you use a cashflow, I mean seriously who wouldn’t?? However, lots of people don’t, even those who know they should, don’t always get round to it… I get that we are busy, at Read more…
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What is Networking and how can it help?
Networking can be an opportunity to meet and form business relationships with like-minded businesses and entrepreneurs. To share information, ideas, opportunities and find possible partners or collaborators. Types of Networking There are several types of networking. Our advice would be to try out a range of meetings and find ones Read more…
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Using your time to maximise your profit
One thing we ALL have in common is we get 24 hours in a day. Richard Branson has 24 hours, Beyonce has 24 hours, Margaret Cavendish had 24 hours, Steve Jobs had 24 hours, Elizabeth Garret Anderson had 24 hours… the list goes on Think about that for a while… Read more…
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Materials – How do you get the best price?
Materials – this is one of the simplest areas of costing. Well, I say simpler… It’s simpler as in, it is what it is, right? You buy a sheet of paper, a tube of paint, a roll of material and the cost is the cost, that goes into your numbers Read more…
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Pricing mindset – Are you sabotaging your business?
Pricing comes so easily to some but others (most of us I would guess) struggle. This struggle could be causing you to sabotage your own business without you realising!! Here are 4 tell-tale signs that you’re pricing strategy is wrong: You find yourself constantly filling orders but money is still Read more…