The Essential Guide To Business For Artists And Designers
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The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers
"This second edition of the best-selling, comprehensive handbook The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers will appeal to a wide range of artists, makers, designers, and photographers looking to set up and establish an arts practice or design business within the visual arts and creative industries. With fully revised content, three new chapters, and profiles of contemporary artists and designers from around the world, this guide leads the reader through the most important aspects of setting up and growing a profitable enterprise"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers
Author: Alison Branagan
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2017-02-09
This second edition of the best-selling, comprehensive handbook The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers will appeal to a wide range of artists, makers, designers, and photographers looking to set up and establish an arts practice or design business within the visual arts and creative industries. With fully revised content, three new chapters, and profiles of contemporary artists and designers from around the world, this guide leads the reader through the most important aspects of setting up and growing a profitable enterprise. Providing the vital knowledge and tools to develop a vision and achieve business growth, topics include: - Building networks and successful negotiation tactics - Promoting an engaging social media presence - Business planning and money management - Overview of legal, tax and intellectual property issues - Setting up a website and trading online - Exploiting innovation and future trends As well as specially tailored enterprise exercises and useful diagrams, this latest edition features apt quotations and indispensable resources including an extensive glossary and a list of key professional bodies and organisations based in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and South America. This handbook is printed in a dyslexic-friendly font and includes new illustrated mind maps and colour pictures throughout.
The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers
Author: Alison Branagan
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2017-02-09
"This new edition of the best-selling business handbook for artists and designers is a comprehensive guide to setting up a profitable, professional art or design practice. Written by an expert who teaches entrepreneurship and business start-up, this book leads the reader through the most important aspects of running a creative business, from how to make a living to innovation and managing business growth. Topics include: * Working with new technologies and social media * Pricing work and financial planning * Managing legal and copyright issues * Building networks and successful negotiation tactics * Planning for growth and exploiting future trends New to this expanded edition are: * International profiles of creatives who run thriving businesses * Templates, forms and spreadsheets to copy or download from the companion website * Exercises to build business skills * An extended list of useful resources * A chapter on how to grow your business * An overview of the current business environment for entrepreneurs, including opportunities such as trading with a smart phone, copyright protection using QR codes, selling internationally, crowd sourcing for funding, and setting up a pop-up shop * Updated tax and legal information on setting up a business based in the UK or US * Expanded information on trading internationally The book is printed in a dyslexic-friendly font and includes illustrated mind maps and colour pictures throughout"--