Articulate can advise you on how to maximise the potential of your creative business. We can help you identify how to sell your work and suggest ideas that you might not have considered.
We can advise you how much you could expect to earn based on the type and volume of work you produce.
We can calculate how much it costs you to produce and sell the work taking into account all the bits that are often overlooked such as the cost of stalls or gallery* commissions and tax etc. We can tell you which of your ideas are most likely to make money and which ones you might want to drop. We can give you the information to manage the risks to your finances including the risk of not getting paid.
We can help you write about yourself and your work including filling out applications for events that you want to take part in. We can help you expand your audience by letting more people know about your work.
At the heart of what we do we put together a plan for you to develop your business and keep you on track. We can review how you are doing against your goals and advise any changes that you should consider.
We can ensure that you comply with all necessary rules to keep your business legal.
Our most popular fee option is is to act as your business manager for a minimum term of 18 months. For this we provide as much initial support as you want to create a plan to develop your creative business and get the key actions in place. This usually consists of a several two hour meetings with homework for both of us in between. We agree actions and how quickly they can be done and set further meetings to discuss progress and next steps. We then provide as much ongoing business advice as you need by phone, email or online. We believe the more you use our services the more you are likely to earn. We charge 10% of your income for this service, payable monthly based on your cashflow. Our clients love this because it minimises the financial risk to them and means we are both committed to making your business a success.
Alternatively we can agree a fixed fee for a specific set of activities, the fee is calculated based on the number of hours work needed at £100 per hour.