Business development podcast & blog for independent creatives
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Client brief
This project is about helping independent creatives grow their business. The target audience is independent creatives that are already in business or those people that are contemplating breaking free to start pursuing their creative interests with the aim of it being their full time profession. The phrase "Independent Creatives" is referring to those creative types that are working solo - self employed. Examples of typical professions in the target audience would be: illustrators, artists, designers (graphic or interior for example), photographers, writers, solo musicians, makers and crafters (cards, jewellery, cake decoration, ornaments etc).
The website will contain content centered around a podcast and blog which will discuss business tips for startup, growth and marketing. Making good use of digital marketing so independent creatives can thrive in the modern, digitally enabled world will be a core theme.
This is not about "Creative marketing" it's about "Marketing for creatives" - a subtle but important difference.
The name needs to be something that is either short enough or can be shortened without loss of clarity for use on social networks such as Twitter which has a limit of 15 characters for the user handle. The name can be more than one word as long as the concatenated or shorter version for social networks is suitable.
The name must be something that has consistent meaning in the US as well as the UK.
I'm open to names that aren't based on the phrase "Creative" in them as long as it's not too tenuous a link to what the site and podcast is about.
This project is about helping independent creatives grow their business. The target audience is independent creatives that are already in business or those people that are contemplating breaking free to start pursuing their creative interests with the aim of it being their full time profession. The phrase "Independent Creatives" is referring to those creative types that are working solo - self employed. Examples of typical professions in the target audience would be: illustrators, artists, designers (graphic or interior for example), photographers, writers, solo musicians, makers and crafters (cards, jewellery, cake decoration, ornaments etc).
The website will contain content centered around a podcast and blog which will discuss business tips for startup, growth and marketing. Making good use of digital marketing so independent creatives can thrive in the modern, digitally enabled world will be a core theme.
This is not about "Creative marketing" it's about "Marketing for creatives" - a subtle but important difference.
The name needs to be something that is either short enough or can be shortened without loss of clarity for use on social networks such as Twitter which has a limit of 15 characters for the user handle. The name can be more than one word as long as the concatenated or shorter version for social networks is suitable.
The name must be something that has consistent meaning in the US as well as the UK.
I'm open to names that aren't based on the phrase "Creative" in them as long as it's not too tenuous a link to what the site and podcast is about.
Submitted by P Sandford
543
Names submitted
12
Naming experts
16
Votes cast
Jul 15, 2014
Closed on
Winning Name
CreativesAhead.com
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