Tag: creative and digital

Business Creativity Speech in Chiang Mai, Thailand

David Parrish gave a Business Creativity speech in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at the ‘Punspace’ workspace creative hub for digital nomads, startups and creative entrepreneurs. He made a presentation entitled ‘How to Profit from Creativity in Business: Think Creatively to Achieve Success’, drawing on his own experience as an entrepreneur and his work in more than 50 …

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Creative Industries Job Creation

Creating new jobs in twos and threes, hundreds of times over, month by month, is great news for the economy, but not seen as ‘news’ by the media. Consequently, creative industries job creation is often overlooked by the media and the economic impact of the creative industries is underestimated. Here’s an article I wrote about …

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Digital Economy Business Growth – speech in Kosovo

David spoke about digital economy business growth at Innovation Centre Kosovo (ICK) to an audience of 80+ entrepreneurs including digital and creative startups. He was the guest speaker at a special event in Prishtina and spoke about ‘Business Growth in the Creative and Digital Industries’. His presentation included topics such as exponential growth, innovative business …

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Saudi Arabia Creative Economy Conference

David Parrish was the international keynote speaker at the Ejadah Saudi Arabia Creative Economy Conference at King Abdullah Economic City near Jeddah. The Ejadah Creative Economy Conference and Exhibition (Confex) was the first of its kind in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. David said: “I am delighted and honoured to be invited to speak at …

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Don’t do Market Research!

Marketing is all about looking at things from the customer’s point of view. That requires understanding customers and, indeed, listening to customers. Don’t do market research! Listening to customers is the term I tend to use, instead of the phrase ‘market research’. That’s because ‘market research’ tends to conjure up the idea in people’s minds …

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Marketing Strategy is ‘Invisible’

One of the reasons that strategic marketing is overlooked is because it’s not obvious; it’s not ‘in our faces’. Strategy is practically invisible to outsiders, because it is the thinking behind the scenes within businesses that we never get to see. Marketing strategy is invisible. What we do see, as consumers and observers of businesses, …

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not all customers are good customers

Strategic Marketing avoids Bad Customers

Not all customers are good customers! Strategic Marketing will avoid and deter bad customers. Customers can be bad customers for all sorts of reasons. They can be unprofitable or troublesome. They can waste your time or cause stress. Some interfere too much. Some aren’t worthy of including in your portfolio. Others pay late, or never. …

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Marketing Audiobook ‘Chase One Rabbit’ published

The book ‘Chase One Rabbit’ is also published as an AudioBook. This strategic marketing audiobook can now be downloaded from Audible, Amazon and iTunes. ‘Chase One Rabbit: Strategic Marketing for Business Success. 63 Tips, Techniques and Tales for Creative Entrepreneurs’ was published as an Audiobook in February 2016. The 5-star reviewed strategic marketing book was …

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Exponential Growth Business Model in the creative sector

Most businesses in the creative and digital industries want to grow and I advise them on growth strategies based on their ambitions and their own definition of success. Business growth in the creative and digital industries requires a combination of creative passion and smart business thinking. Plus hard work and a fair amount of luck. …

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Ansoff’s Matrix for Creative Business Development

Strategies for creative business development and growth using Ansoff’s Matrix (or Ansoff Matrix). [Note: this article was updated in a response to the COVID-19 Crisis. See updated article which includes a new ‘COVID-19 Diversification Matrix’, adapted from the Ansoff Matrix, to devise strategic responses to COVID-19.) When advising creative and digital businesses about strategic marketing …

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