Photography plays a huge part in creating and promoting your brand and your business. With good photography you take charge: showing and presenting your work in the best possible way, directing how people will perceive it. In this one-hour, practical and very visual webinar award-winning professional photographer Jackie King will show you how to identify [...] Read more »
Exclusive Design Trust webinar: ‘Money & Emotions: how feelings & beliefs about money affect the way you do business’ with Pete Mosley
How do you feel about money? Be honest … Do you feel poor or rich? When do you feel particularly poor or rich? Are you comfortable with money, and talk at ease about your income, pricing your work, your hourly rate? Or do you find it hard to put a value on your work, to [...] Read more »
The Design Trust Challenge February 2013: Your why’s? & your core values
Wow! The response to The Design Trust Challenge has been so wonderful. So many creatives participating and sharing, or writing about it on their own blog. Others are doing the exercises but aren’t sharing yet … Don’t be shy, we would love to hear from you too! There are some really truly personal and inspiring [...] Read more »
The Design Trust Challenge January 2013: What is ‘your word’ for the year?
Wow, I have been really overwhelmed by how many people signed up for The Design Trust Challenge straight away! And so much great feedback already. Absolutely wonderful! Firstly a big congratulations to everybody who ‘signed up’. You know, it is so easy to just read this and other business advice, and think ‘yeah, that’s useful’ [...] Read more »
A graphic designer’s guide to creating a brand strategy for your craft or design business
This guest post is written by Avril Broadley of graphic design agency Broadbase, a graphic design duo based in East London. They have worked with many retailers, manufacturers and designers to bring products to market. They are the designers behind Jewellery Week and recently created the branding for Treasure at Somerset House. You can see [...] Read more »
Exclusive Business Club webinar: Visioning & why it is important in planning your future with Deborah Henry-Pollard
Visioning is a very creative process, helping you to imagine your future and what you want to achieve and who you want to be. It is takes an important role in the business planning process. In this one hour webinar we will discuss: what a vision is, why it is important to have one, how [...] Read more »
The Design Trust Guide to Start & Run a Successful Craft Business
I wrote this guide to help creative people get clarity and direction in how to start and run their own small craft business. It gives lots of practical advice and information, but also looks at the big picture. Setting up as a freelancer or sole trader can be really daunting. There are so many things [...] Read more »
How to boost your creative thinking for your business
For most creative people coming up with new ideas, being innovative or ‘think outside the box’ is pretty easy, it’s part of their DNA! Often they struggle with too many ideas, rather than too few! Often I am rather surprised how conventional many creative businesses are when it comes to doing their business planning or [...] Read more »
Exclusive Business Club webinar: Making sense of your business plan with Alison Lewy of Fashion Angel
A business plan provides information about your business, its markets, operational details and finances. It forecasts events and enables you to review actual events versus forecasts, and then make appropriate corrections. This webinar podcast is for people who: might not have a business plan at all, but would like more direction for their business. did [...] Read more »
Free Design Trust webinar: Speak like a TED Talker, become better at public speaking with Sarah Lloyd-Hughes
Do you find public speaking scary? Most of us do! Whether you are pitching for business, doing a talk, or running a workshop or training session, there is no better way to influence and inspire people and potential clients about your work than through powerful, passionate and authentic public speaking. Sarah Lloyd-Hughes is a coach, [...] Read more »