Category: Creative Economy

COVID-19 Diversification Strategies – How to Diversify in a Crisis

During the pandemic, many businesses are developing COVID-19 Diversification strategies. These can be simply emergency tactics for the short term, or more fundamental strategic changes for the medium term. Some businesses will later return to ‘normal’ (or the ‘new normal’) whilst others will be completely transformed, emerging with a new business model (or Business Formula). …

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Creative Scale Up Programme online workshop

David has delivered an online workshop “How to Maintain Creativity in a Scale Up Environment” on two occasions for the Creative Scale Up Programme. This successful workshop will be repeated on Tuesday 01 December 2020 (13.30 – 15.30). Register now to attend this free online workshop. David has also delivered a workshop on Exporting and …

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How to Design a Creative Lifestyle Business

A creative lifestyle business is one that uses your creativity to deliver success on two fronts: commercial and lifestyle. The process of ‘Designing Your Creative Business’ is about deliberately designing a business model that will deliver success in multiple ways. If we define success in the broadest of ways, it needs to include not only …

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COVID-19 Business Strategy for Creative, Cultural and Digital Businesses

Information, resources and techniques to devise a COVID-19 Business Strategy for Creative, Cultural and Digital Businesses are summarised on this page. These are categorised under three headings: 1. Emergency Measures to cope with the immediate financial crisis 2. Adapting and pivoting as a temporary tactic to generate income in new ways survive the crisis 3. …

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Instagram Live Conversation on Creativity with Zulfiya Abdukhalikova

David was the guest in an Instagram Live Conversation with Zulfiya Adbukhalikova, hosted by Impact Hub Almaty in Kazakhstan. “Creative Business Responses: A Conversation“ was an Instagram Live event that took place on Tuesday 21 April 2020. The conversation included a discussion about creativity in the creative industries and other sectors. David spoke about the …

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Creative Business Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis

During the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses around the world are responding creatively, finding new opportunities and adding value in imaginative ways. This page empowers and inspires Creative Business Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis. A new ‘COVID-19 Business Strategies’  tookit plus several other online toolkits and courses are now available as part of extensive online …

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Pricing Webinar for Creative Industry Businesses in Bosnia & Herzegovina

David delivered a pricing webinar for creative industry businesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on World Art Day 2020, hosted by Foundation 787 and supported by Swiss EP.The pricing webinar “Three Dimensions of Profitable Pricing” provided an opportunity to consider pricing policies from three different perspectives: calculating all costs to ensure breakeven or profit; the effect …

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Oman Creative Economy Presentation

David gave a Creative Economy presentation at an event in Muscat, Oman, based on his international experience of the creative industries. His presentation “The Digital and Creative Economy” was made online to an audience of Oman Government officials, employees and others. David spoke about the opportunities for governments to use the creative economy in the …

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Liverpool Creative Industries

David has helped the development of Liverpool creative industries businesses and organisations through his business advice, training workshops and presentations. He has worked in partnership with Liverpool City Council, Merseyside ACME, Liverpool Vision and Culture Liverpool as well as other organisations in the city region to provide business support in his capacity as a business …

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United Nations Creative Economy presentation

David made a United Nations Creative Economy presentation at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He was invited by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to share his experience of working in the Creative Economy worldwide. His presentation was entitled: “The Creative Economy and Creative Entrepreneurship: A Worldwide Perspective”. In his …

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