David will deliver an interactive Pricing Workshop for creative entrepreneurs in July 2025. The workshop will cover three perspectives on pricing: – Calculating all the costs involved, including your time and business overheads. – Pricing in relation to customers’ perception and market positioning. – Pricing the benefits, options and intellectual property. Some additional online resources …
Category: Strategy
Creative Business Formula workshop
David delivered an interactive Creative Business Formula workshop for participants in the CASE Malta project. The workshop focused on key elements of David’s “Create Your Own Business Formula” methodology and provided time for participants to reflect on the development of their creative enterprises. The Creative Business Formula workshop themes included: – Defining Success. What is …
Ikigai for Success in Creative Business
Ikigai (生き甲斐, lit. ’a reason for being’) is a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living. It can be used by creative entrepreneurs to design your unique business formula to achieve both creative and commercial success. Everyone wants to be successful. And when I ask creative …
How to get the Important Things done
How to get the Important Things done, when there just isn’t enough time? It’s too easy to be busy doing all those smaller and more urgent tasks and never find time to do the big important things. Our excuse is that there just isn’t enough time. “We always have time enough, if we will but …
Artificial Intelligence and Creativity
David gave a presentation on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity to a conference in Kazakhstan in November 2024. Entitled “Creativity in the Era of A.I.”, he spoke about the creative industries and Artificial Intelligence. The conference was organised by the Ulttyq Ustaz Online Academy and the event was the Fourth Annual School of Rectors. The programme …
Startup Stress in the Creative and Cultural Industries
Startup Stress is one of the many things I advise on when working with my clients around the world. The creative and cultural industries are often seen as vibrant, innovative, and filled with passion-driven individuals. However, behind the allure of creating fashion, music, videos and cultural experiences lies a less visible reality: Startup Stress. In …
Export Readiness Workshops
David designed and delivered five online export readiness workshops in partnership with the Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board (NIPDB), The export readiness workshops are part of the Technovation Social Capacity Building Journey. David shared his expertise and experience of export readiness focusing on the topics below, using examples from his work around the world, …
Theatre Entrepreneurship Workshop for ICTheatre
David delivered an online workshop about Theatre Entrepreneurship for final year students at the Institute for Contemporary Theatre (ICTheatre). His workshop focused on creative entrepreneurship, specifically how practitioners can use theatre entrepreneurship to develop their careers, enterprises and organisations. David shared his professional expertise and international experience with students in the interactive workshop. Topics included: …
Creative Entrepreneurship in Malta
David delivers online workshops for artists and creative practitioners about Creative Entrepreneurship in Malta. Working in partnership with In Place of War, in collaboration with Arts Council Malta, David helped artists and creatives to become even more successful through CASE Malta, the Creative and Social Entrepreneur Programme. He has delivered workshops for participants in the …
Business Innovation and Culture
David gave an online lecture on Business Innovation and Culture to students in May 2023. He was invited by Munich University of Applied Sciences to make a presentation to masters degree students. David’s talk on Business Innovation and Culture included: – How to use both a-Creativity and i-Creativity in the context of innovation – How …