About This Workshop
About This Workshop
Welcome to Creative Business Bootcamp: 30 Days to Build, Launch, and Market Your Creative Brand! This challenge is designed to walk you through the key steps of launching your own creative business, from defining your brand to marketing it to consumers. Over the course of the next month, you’ll take three classes taught by three extremely talented creative entrepreneurs: Jeff Staple, Faye Brown and Gary Vaynerchuk.
To complete Creative Business Bootcamp, you’ll create and share a project in each of the three classes alongside hundreds of other participants. This challenge is perfect for any creative individual who’s interested in learning what it takes to launch their own product-based business!
Classes
- A Staple of Branding: How to Start Your Creative Product Company
- Branding Your Creative Business: Launching Your Brand
- Context is Key: Social Media Strategy in a Noisy Online World
How It Works
- Enroll in each of the three classes and watch all video lessons to learn the skills you need to complete the project assignments.
- Every few days, you will receive an email outlining your upcoming project assignment.
- Post your project progress in the class’s project gallery to get feedback from your classmates. The best learning experience on Skillshare is collaborative so be sure to offer feedback to your classmates regularly as well.
- Run into any trouble? Jeff Staple will be hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on September 22nd at 12:00pm PT (3:00pm ET). Post your questions here to have them answered on the 22nd between 12-1pm PT!
- All students who complete all three project assignments by October 15th will receive a Skillshare Creative Business Certificate, and three winners will receive one year of free membership to FoundersKit, a curated bundle of all the best tools and resources to help creative entrepreneurs launch a new business.
Due Dates
September 15 - 24: Branding with Jeff Staple
- Watch: A Staple of Branding: How to Start Your Creative Product Company
- First Project Assignment: Complete a branding project with name, slogan, logo, and first collection CADs
- AMA with Jeff Staple: Tuesday, September 22nd at 12:00pm PT. Post your questions here!
- Project Due: Thursday, September 24th, 11pm PT
September 25 - October 5: Launching your Creative Business with Faye Brown
- Watch: Branding Your Creative Business: Launching Your Brand
- Second Project Assignment: Create and share the 3 key elements you'll need to launch your brand
- Project Due: Monday, October 5th, 11pm PT
October 6 - October 15: Social Media Strategy with Gary Vaynerchuk
- Watch: Context is Key: Social Media Strategy in a Noisy Online World
- Third Project Assignment: Create a channel-specific social media strategy for your brand
- Project Due: Thursday, October 15th, 11pm PT
FAQ
For any generals questions on how Sessions work, please read the Session FAQs. If you can’t find your answer there, please email [email protected]
Classes
Projects
Students
Classes
Projects
Students
Welcome to Creative Business Bootcamp: 30 Days to Build, Launch, and Market Your Creative Brand! This challenge is designed to walk you through the key steps of launching your own creative business, from defining your brand to marketing it to consumers. Over the course of the next month, you’ll take three classes taught by three extremely talented creative entrepreneurs: Jeff Staple, Faye Brown and Gary Vaynerchuk.
To complete Creative Business Bootcamp, you’ll create and share a project in each of the three classes alongside hundreds of other participants. This challenge is perfect for any creative individual who’s interested in learning what it takes to launch their own product-based business!
Classes
- A Staple of Branding: How to Start Your Creative Product Company
- Branding Your Creative Business: Launching Your Brand
- Context is Key: Social Media Strategy in a Noisy Online World
How It Works
- Enroll in each of the three classes and watch all video lessons to learn the skills you need to complete the project assignments.
- Every few days, you will receive an email outlining your upcoming project assignment.
- Post your project progress in the class’s project gallery to get feedback from your classmates. The best learning experience on Skillshare is collaborative so be sure to offer feedback to your classmates regularly as well.
- Run into any trouble? Jeff Staple will be hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on September 22nd at 12:00pm PT (3:00pm ET). Post your questions here to have them answered on the 22nd between 12-1pm PT!
- All students who complete all three project assignments by October 15th will receive a Skillshare Creative Business Certificate, and three winners will receive one year of free membership to FoundersKit, a curated bundle of all the best tools and resources to help creative entrepreneurs launch a new business.
Due Dates
September 15 - 24: Branding with Jeff Staple
- Watch: A Staple of Branding: How to Start Your Creative Product Company
- First Project Assignment: Complete a branding project with name, slogan, logo, and first collection CADs
- AMA with Jeff Staple: Tuesday, September 22nd at 12:00pm PT. Post your questions here!
- Project Due: Thursday, September 24th, 11pm PT
September 25 - October 5: Launching your Creative Business with Faye Brown
- Watch: Branding Your Creative Business: Launching Your Brand
- Second Project Assignment: Create and share the 3 key elements you'll need to launch your brand
- Project Due: Monday, October 5th, 11pm PT
October 6 - October 15: Social Media Strategy with Gary Vaynerchuk
- Watch: Context is Key: Social Media Strategy in a Noisy Online World
- Third Project Assignment: Create a channel-specific social media strategy for your brand
- Project Due: Thursday, October 15th, 11pm PT
FAQ
For any generals questions on how Sessions work, please read the Session FAQs. If you can’t find your answer there, please email [email protected]
