Aspiring creative enterprise WizzyBoard today received a boost to help turn its creative idea into commercial reality, winning QUT Creative Enterprise Australia’s Creative3 Investment Marketplace and a business package valued at $125k.
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HS: What is your earliest memory as an entrepreneur?
SG: I have always worked in setting things up – as a teenager and in my early 20s, music tours, radio stations, education programs for at risk kids – but it was around 23-24 that I began to see it as entrepreneurial. I guess these things were entrepreneurial but my ethos came out music, specifically the DIY (do it yourself) movement around punk and hardcore music. I reckon it’s a really good principle, many of my friends from this time now have highly successful businesses across all multiple fields.
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HS: What is your earliest memory as an entrepreneur?
MM: Taking my savings at the time and flying to New York for a full, upmarket blowout for three days and nights on the basis that if my entrepreneurial career took off then it really didn’t matter and if it crashed and burned then, well, I would always have New York.
HS: How did you get started professionally?
MM: Following my degree and a couple of years hitchhiking through Europe to Asia i joined Price Waterhouse (as it was then known) as a trainee accountant and qualified as a Chartered Accountant three years later.
HS: For agencies and freelancers reading this, what tips for working with clients? What about early/emerging career creatives?
MM: You have to be hard with clients as the client is not always right. If a client is convinced that pink text on a red background is absolutely right for them it is your job as a digital professional to point out the errors in their thinking. Walking the fine line between being authoritative and knowledgable and coming across as arrogant and unsympathetic is one of the more difficult parts of dealing with clients.
With regard emerging career creatives, the CEO of our largest Reading Room business – David Burgess in London – joined us as a designer fresh from University. We receive literally hundreds of CVs for potential design recruits and interns and it is very difficult to be heard above the noise. David did this by designing up a beautiful CV on a piece of parchment rolled up in a tube and delivering it personally to our reception desk. We will always talk to people who make this level of effort to work in our business.
HS: Best Reading Room moment!
MM: There are plenty from our company Christmas outings to Paris, Barcelona and Amsterdam but it’s probably as well to stick away from these! Client wise it seemed a long way from a two man band in a back bedroom in Camden when I was introduced to Prince Charles at a drinks reception at St James’ Palace where he congratulated us on producing him a great website.
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Seven aspiring creatives have been selected to pitch their business ideas to a panel of experts at the 2011 Creative3 Investment Marketplace next week for their chance to win a $125,000 valued business package.
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With less than one week until Brisbane fires with creative energy at this year’s Creative3 International Forum, the jam-packed program has been finalised and the anticipation is building for the October 26-28 event.
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We’re excited to announce that emma louise will be performing at our Creative3 Conference Dinner on Wednesday 26th October.
The sublime sounds of singer-songwriter emma louise have made their way onto our airwaves with her debut single ‘Jungle’ going straight to high rotation on triple j. Now, we get to wrap our ears around her enchanting debut EP, ‘Full Hearts & Empty Rooms’.
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I briefly worked with Kevin (on Brisbane Festival – the new brand and design) and had been privvy to his thoughts and musings across a couple of events this year. Kevin sat down with me (electronically, via email) to answer a few questions that I have in mind including great advice for both early/emerging career creatives and established creative businesses. Thanks!
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Whenever I attend conferences, both within and out of state, I always have a check list in mind to make sure that I am prepared virtually. Here’s my checklist of how you can make the most of Creative3 based from my observations of attending (and listening in) conferences in the past.
Connect on social media and make use of Creative3’s online social networks
In the lead up to and during the conference, we will be posting live updates to broadcast some of the key points and highlights. Delegates are encouraged to join the conversation online.
1. Twitters users can delve into the conversation by using the #creative3 hashtag.
2. Keen on making yourself known to be a delegate? Update your social media accounts (mainly Twitter and LinkedIn) to show that you are a Creative3 delegate.
3. Keen to connect with others online? Follow @c3forum and join the conversation, add creative3 on Facebook or connect on the LinkedIn discussion board. These online connections are another way to make the most of the networking opportunities that Creative3 offers during the conference plus you never know who you might be introduced to online…
Is your online presence in shape?
Put your best foot forward at the conference and online. By taking a quick audit of your online presence, you can make the most of the event.
1. Is your online, public profile up to date? If you don’t have a content-managed public online presence, consider creating one. There are free services online to make this process quick and easily such as LinkedIn, About.Me, Twitter, The Loop (they have a job seeker feature) and Behance (for creatives).
2. Is your online profile ‘conversation-friendly’? Ideas include adding keywords to help initiate discussion (ie what interests you?) and including a website link that will allow others to get in touch with you.
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We are pleased to announce the official photographer of Creative3, Mark Lobo!
Mark Lobo is a photographer based out of Brisbane, working in commercial, editorial and portrait photography. Often bringing his studio out on location, he combines technical precision and natural expression to form his well recognised and colourful style. Playing off the surrounding environment and the genuine nature of his subjects, the result is both spontaneous and polished.
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As the fastest growing entertainment sector in the world, the gaming industry is serious business and a valid economic contributor, according to co-founder of New Zealand’s largest social gaming company Mitch Olson who will present at this year’s Creative3 International Forum in Brisbane this month.
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