By Novelist, Trainer and Journalist, Sue Walker Networks, chance meetings and speculative approaches Who do you know? Yes, working in the creative industries is indeed about having, talent, skill and great ideas but that old adage of who you know is as true now as...
FREE TO FEU members, check out the workshops FEU Training running this October including Linked In and Meeting Up (Birmingham), Tools for Goal Setting and Marketing Your Work (London) and Social Media (Newcastle). All workshops aim to help creative freelances gain and...
Pitching for work face-to-face By tutor and life coach Muriel McClymont As skills for life go, learning to sell yourself effectively, has got to be right up there as a survival skill for freelances. It’s no good being the best at what you do if, when you get the...
By novelist, trainer, and journalist, Sue Walker CVs – the ultimate writing challenge? ‘I’ve got too much to say’; ‘I’ve not done enough’; ‘I don’t know what I’ve got to offer,’ are just a few of the typical responses I get when running CV workshops for...
By actor-writer Kate Willoughby Coworking: from little acorns… From what I’ve seen, coworking is well suited to creative freelances. It gets you out of the house, enables you to meet like minded freelances and encourages you to be productive. No wonder...
FEU TRAINING is launching a series of new workshops this autumn to support freelances in their career progress. Following the successful ‘Make Impact’ workshops earlier in the year, these new skills development opportunities continue to focus on the key business...
Coworking: an example By actor-writer Kate Willoughby As part of my research into coworking for freelances I wanted to get some firsthand experience of an existing coworking event. I therefore signed up for one of KindredHQ’s Jelly events, which took place recently....
BY ACTOR-WRITER KATE WILLOUGHBY Working as a creative freelance often means spending many hours alone – creating. While this can be productive and joyful or at least a necessary (if painful) part of freelancing, too much isolation can have a negative impact on our...
