Competing effectively involves understanding your competitive advantage in relation to rivals in the marketplace. In other words: You’re creative – but so are they! In one of my business development workshops for creative entrepreneurs, there were artists, musicians, advertising professionals etc; by coincidence there happened to be three designers in the room. It was interesting …
Category: Development Strategies
Creative Business Feasibility
Creative Business Feasibility asks the question: It’s Creative – but is it a Business? Creative business feasibility combines creative passion – and a business focus. A creative passion is at the heart of every creative or cultural enterprise, and many entrepreneurs have developed their creative talents into successful businesses in the visual arts, music, design, …
Strategic Planning Course online now – free!
The EU-Eastern Partnership Culture and Creativity Programme has published a free strategic planning course online for cultural and creative entrepreneurs. Written and presented by David Parrish, the free strategic planning course has been designed especially for entrepreneurs in the cultural industries and creative industries, including cultural institutions, freelance practitioners, cultural enterprises, creative entrepreneurs and cultural …
Marketing Cultural Projects – three rules
The EU-Eastern Partnership Culture and Creativity Programme has published three main rules for marketing cultural projects. Here are three recommendations for marketing cultural projects from the online marketing course written and presented by David Parrish and published by the EU-Eastern Partnership Culture and Creativity Programme 1. Listen to your client From David Parrish’s experience, the …
The Trade Mark Challenge
The other day I was advising a client about a trading name for a new creative enterprise and the registration of a trade mark. There was a danger that the name she had chosen could infringe the trade mark rights of another business – so she decided to choose a different word for her new …
Free Online Courses for Cultural Entrepreneurs
The EU-Eastern Partnership Culture and Creativity Programme has published two free online courses for cultural and creative entrepreneurs: a strategic planning course online and a marketing course online for cultural and creative entrepreneurs. These courses are free for creative and cultural entrepreneurs world-wide. See David’s Marketing Videos and Strategic Planning Videos used in these online …
DBA Business Development Workshop
The Design Business Association has commissioned David Parrish to design and deliver a business development workshop for creative enterprises in the field of design. The workshop will be held in London on Tuesday 25 October and tickets are on sale online now. The half-day workshop “How to Create a Winning Business Development Plan” will help …
Successfully Avoid Risks
Risks are part of business. So we need to know how to successfully avoid risks. That means that first of all we have to acknowledge the risks facing our projects and whole enterprises. ‘Positive Thinking’ doesn’t eliminate risks, it just naively ignores them. Looking for the risks isn’t ‘negative thinking’; it’s the opposite! It’s only …
Strategic Vision and Business Success
Strategic Vision and a clear definition of Business Success are vital elements of strategic planning for all creative businesses and cultural enterprises. A Vision sets out the aspirations for the future of a creative business or cultural enterprise. This Vision (or ‘Strategic Vision’) is the ‘dream’ of the future, a picture painted in words, which …
SWOT Analysis for Strategic Planning
A SWOT Analysis is often used by businesses and organisations in their strategic planning process. In order to devise an effective strategy, organisations need to understand their own situation and the world around them through an objective analysis or ‘reality check’. This involves an Internal Analysis of the organisation and an External Analysis of the …