s.m.ART: Creative brilliance and sustainable development of artists of all media.
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WORKSHOPS
COMING UP: Assessment of Needs: Where are you now professionally? Where are you heading? What are your goals and professional aspirations? Everyone should have a plan and a strategy. These make professional growth easier and your bottom line within reach. We will help you outline the steps that you need to take to reach your professional goals. Marketing, Public Relations and Branding: Learn easy to use marketing techniques from marketing and public relations professionals. Every stage of professional development requires a unique approach and strategy. Learn how branding can help you with sustainable growth of your creativity. Negotiation Techniques: You are contacting a potential client. Now what? Let our professional trainers give you the confidence to stay competitive, stand by your demands, but leave your client happy, with an appetite for more projects from you. Entrepreneurship 101: Artists are business people too. Financial growth can be much easier if you tend to be more entrepreneurially minded. That is just our experience. Let's think outside the canvas, the page or the screen. Use your creative brilliance for innovative opportunities of economic development. Simple Bookkeeping and Accounting: This is not like a math test, we promise! There are certain simple terms and concepts that you need to be aware of to keep track of your professional or personal finances, a requisite, we think, for growth. Consulting and Incorporating: Learn some of the basic differences between employees and subcontractors. There are limitations and opportunities when working as a consultant. The same is true when you get paid as an individual or as an entity. Expanding Your Client Base: How to reach beyond your friends and family? Networking always helps. What else? Let us show some of the various resources for expanding your little black book of potential clients. Revenue Streams: This is where thinking outside the box comes in again. Evaluate your creative capabilities and their outcomes. Where may these outcomes be useful or even playful? Create an eye for product demand. Selling Your Work Online: What are the advantages and limitation of marketing yourself online? What to do? What not to do? Learn about the online resources that make your professional goals easier and more cost efficient to maintain. | EVENTS
COMING UP: We're Attending: Introduce yourself at the following events... Exhibits: Our members are showing their work at.... Meet the Expert: Networking events with experts, nonprofit organizations, gallery directors, artists, students, educators... |
