Blog posts and Articles

These creative business blog posts and articles are written to help creative entrepreneurs become even more successful by combining their creative talent with smart business thinking. They complement my books, guides, videos and a range of free resources for creative business development.

In addition to this list of recent blog posts, there is also a complete index of all blog posts in alphabetical order.

A selection of the most popular marketing blogs for creative, digital and cultural enterprises.

And here is a list of travel blogs.


How to Set the Right Prices

If our creative enterprises are to continue doing great work over the long term, they need to be financially sustainable. That means we need to combine our vision, values and objectives on the one hand, with a financially robust business model on the other. The right decisions about pricing are crucial if our creative businesses ...

Competitive Advantage and Fell Running

Here’s how I explain Competitive Advantage in my book ‘T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity’, using the metaphor of fell running (the British sport of running up and down mountains: ‘fells’): === One of the questions to answer is: “What can we do better than our competitors?” Ironically this might not ...

Colour Palette and Font

The colour palette and preferred font for use with the corporate identity of T-Shirts and Suits and David Parrish are as follows. Download PDF of colour palette with full details of colours including RGB, Hex and Pantone references. Univers 55 Roman is the font used. In the event that this is not available, there are ...

Reflections of a Locked-Down Digital Nomad

It’s January 2021 and I’m at home in England, in lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic. Looking out of my back-bedroom-office window at the snow falling against the background of a grey sky, I reflect that this is a complete contrast to my travelling office setup as a digital nomad. Somewhere I have a photo of ...

Reframing the Question – creative thinking technique

This technique involves asking the question in a different way, so that more options and ideas can be discovered. Very often the question is asked in a ‘narrow’ way, which results in blinkered or restricted thinking. For example we could ask: “What can we do to ensure that customers enjoy the theatre performance?” … or ...

How to Generate New Ideas

In this introduction to creative thinking techniques to deliberately generate new ideas, David also talks about the 'Two Modes of Thinking'. These modes can conflict with each other if managed wrongly, or can both be highly effective if managed separately. This video is a free extract from an online video-based course and toolkit: "COVID-19 Business ...