David will deliver a Webinar for the South Africa Youth Chamber of Commerce.
David’s interactive sessions discuss artists’ objectives and personal definitions of ‘success’ before moving on to the essentials of entrepreneurship for creatives.
In David’s webinar, he will draw on relevant examples of entrepreneurship from artists and creative entrepreneurs, from his international experience of having worked in more than 60 countries around the world.
Here are some online resources for creative entrepreneurs in South Africa and elsewhere:
Two kinds of Creativity: ‘a-Creativity’ and ‘i-Creativity’. Article and video from TEDx Napoli.
Create Your Own Business Formula (article)
Free article about devising a winning business strategy in the creative industries. In English and several other languages available here.
‘Designing Your Creative Business’ toolkit publication.
The complete toolkit publication in full-colour PDF format (16 pages) – online here.
T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity (Free eBook in English)
The free eBook version in English is available here.
Protecting Your Creativity. Chapter from book ‘T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity’ (link…)
Creative Labourer – or Creative Entrepreneur? Blog post about monetising intellectual property (link…)
Don’t Sell It, Rent It. ‘Ideas in Action’ case study about licensing intellectual property featuring Guillerme Marconi (link...)
Intellectual Property and your work. Intellectual Property Office UK (link…)
RE-Designing your Creative Business. A video-based online course and toolkit, which contains a section on idea generation, online here.
In a collaboration with Monash University in Australia, David produced a series of videos for the course in Creative Entrepreneurship.
Short Videos on Intellectual Property by David are online from a previous online workshop: “IP and Copyright: Making It Work”
Here’s a link to a complete list of free online resources for creative entrepreneurs. Video-based courses and toolkits, books and other products are online here.
Read ‘Ideas in Action’ article from Malta, featuring CASE Malta participant Diellza Ilgner:
How to Find Your Niche as an Artist.
Creative businesses worldwide have achieved greater success by attending David’s creative business training workshops and webinars for entrepreneurs in the creative, cultural and digital industries.
Webinars and Online Workshops: David’s creative business training workshops for creative entrepreneurs are also provided as webinars and online workshops, sometimes in combination with other online business support.
His creative business management workshops, webinars and masterclasses include Designing Your Creative Business, marketing, business strategy, financial management, leadership, pricing, commercialising intellectual property, business growth strategies, exporting and international business.
David has delivered his ‘Designing Your Creative Business’ workshop internationally using his DYCB Toolkit publication.
Creative business training workshops also draw on material in David’s books. Signed paperback copies of his books are sometimes included with the training workshop materials that participants take away to use in their creative businesses and cultural enterprises. Copies of books can be supplied for creative industries training workshops by arrangement.

