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Whether you are considering to throw a music event, conference, company celebration or exhibition, you will need a great deal of resources and planning. Given that events are so wide ranging and can be customised to fit any need, the best practices for effective event planning also vary widely. Guest blogger Susan Roan shares some tricks and tips to ensure your next event has a long-lasting buzz!
Are you staring at a blank screen finding inspiration has upped and left? You may well have reached creative burnout. Here are 7 ways to recognise it.
If you’re happy, are you likely to be more productive, or is the reality of being happy that you’re more inclined to skip work and indulge in extracurricular activities?
In our forty sixth episode Richard is joined by regular contributor Deborah Henry-Pollard to discuss making ideas happen.
How do you stay productive as freelancer working from home? Susan Roan shares 11 top productivity tips.
How do you stay productive as freelancer working from home? Susan Roan shares 11 top productivity tips.
There are many reasons you may be missing your goal. Claire Meredith shares five of them with us and what we can do to turn it around.
In our forty sixth episode Richard is joined by regular contributor Deborah Henry-Pollard to discuss making ideas happen.
Routine can give us hope. Consistently performing little tasks you have decided to do can help improve your future life. Richard Lalchan shares how.
In Episode #17 we chat to Christopher Peacock about being an inventor, starting his handSteady business, developing a product, patents and lots more.
In Episode #16 we chat to Anthony Ogunbowale-Thomas about his crowd funding platform GoodFruit, how it differs from others and what it would be like if the Suffragettes had had a crowd funding platform.
In Episode #15 we chat to Daniel Dexter about setting up and managing a business in the audio visual and events industry.
Have you ever wondered where your creativity, well, went?
I used to be the same. Now I know when I’m missing my spark, I take action and, as I now work for myself, I have found this knowledge immensely useful!
Here’s five ways to get your spark back when it’s gone away
In Episode #14 we chat to Emma De Polnay about setting up and managing a business whilst being an artist.
In Episode #13 we chat to ‘Creator, thinker, do-er’ Yen Ooi and discuss her process of writing, creating and managing creativity and cats…
In Episode #12 we chat to author and entrepreneur Marisha Pink her process of writing Finding Arun, travel, best places to work for freelancers and more.
In our thirty seventh episode Richard is all on his own and decides to chat about Creatives Hub Live, community manager and stuff.
In our thirty sixth episode Richard is again joined by Adam Dickens in his car in a random field near St Albans, UK to discuss working for charities.
In Episode #11 we chat to Joey & Persia from Addictive Daughter about the inspiration behind Addictive Daughter, oh and farmers and sailors….
Review of our fourth Creatives Hub Live! event held on Tuesday April 29th 2014 in London, UK.
In our thirty fifth episode Richard joins Adam Dickens in his car in a random field near St Albans, UK to discuss working globally.
In our thirty second episode Richard is joined by Deborah Henry-Pollard from Catching Fireworks to discuss how to maintain your creativity.
In our thirty first episode Richard is joined by Deborah Henry-Pollard from Catching Fireworks to discuss how to start getting started.
In our thirtieth episode Richard is joined by Ian Christie from I.C.Works to discuss website content strategy.
We make all manner of excuses to convince ourselves we can’t do what we love. One of them is ‘I don’t have enough time’. I’m telling you that’s not true.
Julian Wills, Web Developer at Hallway Studios shares with us 4 ways to turbocharge your daily creativity and productivity.
In our twenty ninth episode Richard is joined by Rachel Goldberg from MySpecialPA to discuss using the write words -especially in emails.
January 2014, our third CHLive! took place, and it was a corker! Creatives from different disciplines joined together to kickstart their creative lives. Read on for more.
In our twenty eighth episode Richard is joined by Iko Akoh to discuss planning and getting projects off the ground.
Ana Ivanovic beat Serena Williams in the fourth round of the Australian Open 2014. There’s a lot we can learn from her to encourage and inspire us.
In our twenty seventh episode Richard is joined by Iko Akoh to discuss New Years resolutions and stuff.
Is it time for you to step up, to get serious about your business or side-project? Read on for how to raise your game in 2014.
In our twenty sixth episode Richard and Claire review the year. Oh, and its Claire’s last episode.
In our twenty fourth episode Richard and Claire discuss the idea of competition. Is it good? Is it bad?
Iris Louwerens, founder of Dig Mondays shows us three principles to build a thriving business. Editors note: This is a guest blog post.
In our twenty third episode Richard and Claire discuss the benefits of mini-hubs and small group accountability
5 reasons why I think its crucial to declutter to bring more inspiration to your creative life.
In our twentieth episode Richard and Claire discuss the merits of accountability and how it can help you to get stuff done.
In our nineteenth episode Richard and Claire discuss why we look at news and what else we could do with our time in the last in our series on de-cluttering.
In our eighteenth episode Richard and Claire discuss digital distraction and information overload in the second of our series of de-cluttering.
In our seventeenth episode Richard, on his own discusses the link between decluttering and productivity.
In Episode #10 of Insight Podcast we chat to Sarah Salisbury about what its like to be a freelance research consultant and left brain/right brain thinking.
This post is taken from the talk I gave at CHLive! London on 16th July 2013.
July 16th, in a very hot and sticky bar near St. Paul’s London we held the first of our quarterly Creatives Hub Live! events.
You’ve made a plan and know what to do, so you just have to get on and do it. Except you’re stuck. What’s happening when we procrastinate, and how do we overcome it?
If you’ve watched TED talks about starting something new and changing the world, you will have heard people talk about not trying to do it all by yourself.
Don’t keep your ideas to yourself. Sharing your ideas can transform them from thoughts to making them real. Here’s how.
In Episode #9 we chat to Tom Ewer from Leaving Work Behind about going it alone, blogging and publishing his income online.
Its not good to be alone. Don’t make the checkout staff at your local supermarket your only regular human contact -as wonderful as they may be. Keep meeting new people.
Being curious about other people is what networking is about. Being interested and listening to everyone around you not just those at an official networking event.
How much time is spent trawling Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or the BBC website? When you add it all up it can work out...