Business & Marketing
Get the business skills & Knowledge your creative work deserves
Great creative work isn’t enough to build a successful business. You also need to understand your clients, numbers, pricing, and how to market & sell your work creatively & confidently.
Practical business training, specifically for creative professionals.
Does this sound like you?
You’re working hard, but the numbers don’t quite add up. You want more confidence around pricing, selling, profit and creating a financially healthier business.
You know your work has an audience, but you’re not consistently reaching the right people. You want to attract customers who genuinely value what you do.
Marketing feels overwhelming or never-ending. You want to understand what really works so you can make better choices about your website, email, social media, events and selling to galleries.
You’ve been in business for a while, but there are still gaps in your knowledge. You’re ready to strengthen your business & marketing skills rather than feeling you should know it all by now.
You’re serious about making your creative business work. You’re prepared to learn, experiment and put what you learn into practice.
If you recognise yourself here, you’re in the right place.
what our business club members say …
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"The Business Club reminds me to work on my business. I do my finances and set goals, I send emails I wouldn't otherwise send, I review my costing and pricing and not just randomly make stuff up!
It reminds me I am a business and to work on my business."
Karin Celestine, Celestine and the Hare, Textile Artist
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"I loved this marketing session. My social media posts are usually all about the sales chat, which is why it probably bores me to tears!
It was helpful to get me thinking about what I could talk about and use it as a creative writing exercise."
Kate Kelly, Kaper, Paper Artist
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"The finance workshop helped me understand why it is so important for me to try and earn a decent living from what I do. It is about so much more than the figure on the bottom line."
Anna Scott, Embroidery Artist
Our business & marketing membership: The business club
The Business Club is our 12-month business & marketing training programme
The Business Club is specifically for creative professionals who make and sell their own work — including designer makers, artists and illustrators selling online, at fairs and exhibitions, through shops and galleries, or through commissions.
It’s for creatives who want to strengthen their business and marketing skills, increase their sales and build a more professional, profitable and resilient creative business.
You’ll learn what business, finance or marketing aspect to focus on, and how to apply it in your own creative business - each month builds on the next month.
Step by step throughout the year, you will:
Create a better business with goals and planning
Price your work professionally and grow your income & profitability
Improve your website, branding, and online sales
Use email marketing and social media to drive traffic and get sales
Create & launch stronger collections at the right time
Learn how to sell more effectively through events, galleries, trade & commissions
What our Business Club members get:
4 live sessions each month (1-2hours, day & evening sessions)
A combination of training incl. presentations by handpicked experts, group discussions & coaching, interviews with successful creatives, and co-working
Immediate access to 70+ recorded business & marketing sessions to learn at your own pace
A structured monthly approach with timely topics - designed specifically for creative businesses
Can’t make it live? No worries. Our expert & creative sessions are recorded and accessible in our private membership hub
The Business Club is not about learning more - it’s about building a business that actually works month by month.
The Business Club membership open its doors in early January and July.
Business & Marketing Training
Short, focused training to improve your business & marketing
Workshops, courses, and in-person events designed to help you improve specific areas of your business - led by Patricia or Anne-Marie.
Practical, hands-on, and designed so you can apply what you learn straight away.
Available Business & Marketing Training
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Costing & Pricing Booster
Get your costing & pricing sorted, and make your creative business profitable.
23 & 28 September 2026
£ 99
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Manage A Part-Time Business
Practical 5-hour workshop to help you balance your business with other work, family, and responsibilities.
£ 79
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Business Club 2027
Our 12-months marketing & business membership. Learn each month from experts and successful creatives.
Doors open early January 2027
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Craft Commissions
Want to learn how to manage, price & promote craft commissions better? Find out more when we launch a new intro workshop or in-depth programme in spring 2027.
★★★★★
"As someone with ADHD, learning to manage my energy and not my time has been a gamechanger. Understanding that I can't work 9am-5pm every day, and not fighting against it, but working WITH it."
Lisa Standley, Cottage Coppicing, Woodworker
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"Clare (Prickly Thistle) really fired up my energy. It was good to hear her talk about instinct, doing the right thing, and community. These things matter so much."
Sarah Sullivan, Ceramicist
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"It was so good to be walked through the process you need to take your potential customers on, in a deliberate, considerate, and engaging way. I think we all need to be reminded about how to do this instead of just 'panic posting'."
Carin Lindberg, Jeweller
Practical creative business & marketing resources
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