Your journey to growth begins here!
Mandy, Dani and Lucy are all successful creative businesswomen who have combined their knowledge and experience to help you.
If you are ready to move your business forward and become the creative businesswoman you know you can be, the Creative Business Academy is definitely the place for you.
Over 50 years of Experience
Between us we have over 50 years of business experience, each of us bringing something different to the party.
Mandy is a successful 6-figure business owner who has business strategy in the creative space nailed. Dani runs a successful handmade product business and a coaching practice and she is the Queen of business organisation. Lucy is a successful artist and author who is the visibility guru.
Nowhere else will you find this level of business expertise especially designed for creatives by creatives.
Mandy Nicholson
Mandy is a Creative Genius Consultant, Artist, Author and Creative Retreat owner who helps creative women to launch, grow and scale their businesses and make more money.
Dani Louise Smith
Dani Louise Smith is a craft business owner and coach.
Running a handmade keepsakes business for nine years, Dani now also helps entrepreneurs in the crafting industry to build a business they love from home.
Lucy Sheffield
Lucy is an abstract artist. Her passion lies in freedom of expression using bright colours. Lucy loves to intuitively paint, allowing all of her bubbly personality to be splashed across the canvas.
Lucy comes alive when she paints, and loves to spread that joy & beauty out into the world for all to see.
Example Curriculum
- Welcome to Minding Your Mindset (3:32)
- Forgiveness & Gratitude
- Imposter Syndrome
- The Mind of a Creative (25:37)
- How to STOP Chasing Shiny Objects
- Limiting Belief's (8:50)
- Re-framing & the Expectation Effect
- Intentionality in Business is a Mindset
- Value & Belief's
- Valuing Yourself and Your Work (6:49)
- You Are Responsible (7:49)
- Overwhelm ~ How to Move Through It ~ With Lucy
- How To Build A Strong Mindset ~ With Lucy
- Intro and Top 10 Tips for Business Strategy (7:14)
- You Are Your Greatest Asset (6:49)
- Your Business Story
- Choosing Your Business Model
- YBBI
- Ideal Client
- Archetypes
- T.A.C.T (9:11)
- Planning & Goal Setting
- Facebook - Personal Page, Business Page & group (26:59)
- Social Media Strategy
- Mind Mapping for Success (17:00)
- Converting Leads into Sales
- Vision Boards That Work
- Your Customer Journey and Value (10:06)
- Sales Funnels and How They Work for Sales Prediction
- Scripting Your Perfect Life
- Your Perfect Life Vision Planner
- Sales Page Template
- How to write a simple business plan
- The power of a morning routine
- Making VS. Marketing
- Marketing without money
- Ideal client
- Introduction to branding
- Pricing Handmade Products (10:35)
- Introducing Payment Plans (9:03)
- Product photos PDF
- Daily Method of Operation
- Time management
- Content for creatives
- Networking for growth
- Upselling & Increasing Order Value
- Building a Website
- Facebook for Creative Businesses
- Lurker to hot lead: How to sell to your Facebook group
- Insta for Creatives
- Email marketing with Mailerlite
- Lead magnet ideas for product sellers PDF
- Trello project management
- Passive Income for a handmade business
- Droppshipping
- My top 10 business resources list
- Mini Mailerlite Course
- Templates - Quotes
- Why content sells with Dani (22:09)
- Plan with purpose with Dani
- Canva folders and templates with Dani
- Creating a content bank with Dani
- Creating your content pillars with Dani
- Dani's How to create content easily with AI
- Content Ideas ~ With Lucy (PDF & Video) (7:50)
- Canva Graphics
- How To Present Your Copy & Writing From The Heart (Video) (8:09)
- Example Interaction Posts ~ with Lucy
- 10 Tips to write great copy
- Mandy's 10 commandments of writing copy (19:46)
- Live Zoom 10th May with Mandy, Dani & lucy
- Masterclass with Claire Clark - How to use branded planners to create sales (49:44)
- Monthly Zoom with Mandy Nicholson 15th June 23 (40:41)
- Monthly Zoom with Lucy ~ How To Create A 5 Day Challenge ~ 12th July 2023 (51:33)
- Masterclass - List on Etsy like a pro - Karen McClusky (80:30)
- Business Marketing and Planning with Dani (71:12)
- Monthly Zoom - Re-igniting your business with Mandy Nicholson 13th Sept (56:51)
- Monthly Zoom ~ How To Videos & Uploading To You Tube with Lucy 18th Oct (57:06)
- Monthly Zoom - Mind map for strategy with Dani (90:28)
- November 2023 Tik Tok & Short Form Video with Mel Wakely (63:11)
- Monthly Zoom - Lead Tracking for Sales with Mandy (21:04)
- Monthly Zoom (January 24th) ~ Approaching Your Ideal Clients with Lucy (38:49)
- Monthly Zoom - Applying for Grants and Funding with Dani
Some FREE resources for you
Here are some of Mandy's free resources to help you on your journey.
