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. …
Bundle services into packages to increase prices and profits
There are many way to increase prices and profits – and some techniques involve charging less, not more! At a recent webinar on pricing, I was asked how an enterprise selling services can increase prices. My answer was to say that we can put together different ‘bundles’ or ‘packages’ of services, to suit different price …
Cash Flow Planning Spreadsheet – free download to use
David has published a cash flow planning spreadsheet as a download in a free toolkit product. This can be used as a cash flow planning tool to create a cash flow projection or cash flow forecast for your business. His presentation on cash flow planning and sharing his cash flow planning spreadsheet took take place …
This invisible hand controls cultural exports
What’s the connection between the Batman logo and a t-shirt design using clever wordplay in Arabic? These cultural exports are both subject to copyright and can only be reproduced with permission. Hollywood’s creations are recognised worldwide, to the extent that we talk about ‘cultural imperialism’ and the dominant position of western culture in an increasingly …
Colombian Orange Economy Conference
David was a speaker on creative entrepreneurship at a Colombian Orange Economy conference in Bogotá. The International Forum “Territorios Innovadores” focused on the development of the Colombian orange economy and creative industries. David spoke about “Preparing Talent, Creativity and Entrepreneurship for BioDiverse Cities” using his international experience of business support programmes to help creative entrepreneurs to become more successful. …
WORTH Partnership Project (interview)
The WORTH partnership project supports creative minds to develop innovative products. Throughout the European Union, the WORTH Partnership Projects organisation creates and supports transnational collaborations between fashion designers, creative people, manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) and technology firms looking to develop design-driven and innovative products. David is a mentor with the WORTH Partnership Projects and they interviewed …
Irish Creative Industries are thriving! (video)
The Irish Creative Industries are thriving, as this video from County Donegal illustrates. David is working with the Local Enterprise Office Donegal to help businesses to grow and create jobs in the Irish creative industries. The Generate Programme is focusing on small creative and digital businesses with the potential to grow and create jobs. The …
Work Life Integration
In one of my creative business books, I wrote about the “work life balance”. Since then I’ve travelled one step further. Now I practice “Work Life Integration”… See also Business Design for Lifestyle Success article and blog post on Lifestyle Businesses. I am proud to have deliberately designed my business for lifestyle success. Some people work hard all …
Who the hell is Info@ ?
As a management consultant I advised an advertising company in Scotland. Before my first visit I looked at their website and saw that they had a wonderful portfolio of work and an interesting list of clients. However, I didn’t get a sense of how big the company was, how many employees they had, or whether they were younger or older …