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Essential skills for a healthy freelance or micro business

BCI Workshop

25th Sep 2025

10am

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1pm

Armadillo CRM, 1 The Distillery, Avon Street, BS2 0GR.

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>by Bristol Creative Industries

This morning workshop will help businesses to hone essential finance and marketing activities, and create an immediately actionable implementation toolkit.

What you will learn

Marketing

  • Develop a bulletproof social media strategy that delivers results
  • Get practical tips for creating impactful and engaging videos
  • Discover creative content ideas and learn how to leverage AI

Finance

  • Create a simple one-page financial strategy for your business
  • Understand the key aspects of financial management for your business
  • Grow confidence around numbers and finance

Productivity

  • Create a way to work, which works for you
  • Maximise your time, so you never miss an invoicing deadline again!
  • Leave with a clear plan of what to do, and when, to meet your marketing and finance needs

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is ideal for founders, freelancers and directors of micro businesses, who want to build confidence and knowledge in order to grow their business in a healthy and sustainable way.

About the hosts

Ben Kinnaird

Ben brings over 20 years of experience in marketing and web design, working with businesses of all sizes, from small enterprises to global corporations. He hosts a marketing podcast featuring insightful interviews with industry experts and creates practical content that has guided hundreds of businesses across southern England. His deep market knowledge and ability to learn from every experience make him a valuable resource for business advice.

Huw Bowles

Strategic finance director, with a focus on business and profit growth. Huw works with, and coaches, business owners and directors to ensure they have a clear understanding of how they want their business to develop and the actions needed to achieve this target. He gets tremendous satisfaction from working with passionate and hard working entrepreneurs, and seeing their companies grow profitably and sustainably.

Alice Revell

Agile delivery lead, working in and leading high performing teams to drive focus, productivity and quality. Leadership and mentoring are key focus areas. Along with people development, Alice thrives on working with teams and individuals to create continuous improvement in frameworks, process, tools and quality – enabling businesses and solopreneurs to work smarter not harder.

Tickets

> BCI member tickets are £35+VAT.

> Non-member tickets are £95 +VAT.

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About Bristol Creative Industries

Bristol Creative Industries is the membership network that supports the region's creative sector to learn, grow and connect, driven by the common belief that we can achieve more collectively than alone. 

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