The Business of Being an Artist
Talk series
In these 10 to 15 mins discussions aimed at those without much experience of social media, Alice Black, Founder of ArtULTRA, and PR specialist Rioco Green discuss tips on how to master the worlds of Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and more.
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Download the cheat sheet which gives a helpful summary of the key points discussed in all three videos.
The first talk discusses how to make the best use of the most popular social media platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more.
In the second talk, we do a deep dive on Instagram, looking at formats, style, hashtags, captions, apps to improve your posts.
The third talk is about nailing your artist statement. Do you know the famous PR rule called Who? What? Where? When? and Why? Find out more in this video.
Business tools:
legal support
qLegal provides free legal support to start ups and entrepreneurs. High calibre postgraduate law students from Queen Mary University of London, supervised by practising lawyers from leading firms who volunteer their time, are on hand to provide assistance on legal matters. In particular, qLegal provide very useful free advice and resources, many of which are eminently relevant to artists who need to look after their creative outputs.
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The resources cover a variety of topics, including Intellectual Property rights, privacy and compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), copyright, simple contracts.