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Some more business reading
  • the best design & craft events in UK in 2026: with dates & application deadlines
  • REAL LIFE: How I promote craft workshops – 3 creatives share their marketing strategies
  • REAL LIFE: ‘How I plan my creative teaching’ 3 creatives share

Some more business reading
  • Grow your creative business

    • Make more money

      • What to do if you want to make more money as a creative? 8 strategic questions & actions
      • 6 quick & simple actions to improve your website
      • The Design Trust’s favourite finance and money books for creatives
    • Costing & pricing

      • Real Life: 3 creatives share their costing and pricing tips
      • The Design Trust’s favourite finance and money books for creatives
      • 8 perfectly good reasons to raise your prices
    • Better & more clients

      • Real life: illustrator & artist jo scott shares how she promotes, manages & prices her art commissions
      • Real Life: 2 designer makers share how they manage & price their craft commissions
      • 3 essential steps to increase your online sales (on your own website or on Etsy)
    • Business support & resources

      • The Design Trust’s recommended magazines for creative businesses
      • The Design Trust’s 28 recommended podcasts for creative businesses
      • [free video training] feeling overwhelmed? 5 thought-provoking questions + solutions
  • Teaching Creative Skills

    • Plan & organise your training

      • REAL LIFE: ‘How I plan my creative teaching’ 3 creatives share
      • A maker’s story: Imitation or inspiration? What to do when somebody takes your TEACHING ideas.
    • Marketing your creative training

      • REAL LIFE: How I promote craft workshops – 3 creatives share their marketing strategies
  • Marketing & social media

    • Branding & photography

      • Get to know your ideal clients with these 10 questions
      • 9 top tips for photographing crafts and jewellery
      • “Should I have more than one brand?”
    • Marketing advice

      • REAL LIFE: How I promote craft workshops – 3 creatives share their marketing strategies
      • How much should I spend on marketing? 8 questions to set your crafts or design marketing budget
      • Get to know your ideal clients with these 10 questions
    • Sell more

      • the best design & craft events in UK in 2026: with dates & application deadlines
      • Real Life: 3 design & craft fair organisers share their tips for successful selling events
      • How to find and select the right craft fair for you? 21 questions to help you
    • Selling online

      • Real life: 3 creatives share how they use email marketing
      • 9 most common website mistakes creatives make
      • 3 essential steps to increase your online sales (on your own website or on Etsy)
    • Social media & email marketing

      • Our 20 favourite substack newsletters for creatives
      • Real Life: 3 Creatives share how they manage their email marketing
      • Don’t know what to write about? 24 ideas for your next creative business newsletter, blog, or social media
    • Galleries & shops

      • 6 top tips to avoid common sale or return problems
      • 20 of our favourite independent craft and design shops across the UK
      • “Why do shops and galleries charge so much commission?”
  • Creative Business Planning

    • Business planning

      • [Free video training] Create a simple one year business plan for creatives
      • ‘How do you manage your time?’ Three creatives share their tips
      • [free video training] have your got too many business ideas and goals? or none at all?
    • Time Management & Productivity

      • What to do if you want to make more money as a creative? 8 strategic questions & actions
      • [Free video training] Create a simple one year business plan for creatives
      • [free video training] feeling overwhelmed? 5 thought-provoking questions + solutions
    • Mindset & confidence

      • [free video training] feeling overwhelmed? 5 thought-provoking questions + solutions
      • [Free video training] 5 Confidence tips for creatives
      • What to do if your client thinks you are too expensive? 8 ways to respond

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