2025 annual Business club sale
Do you want to improve your creative business skills, knowledge & confidence this year? Is your lack of marketing knowledge holding you back from getting more sales, wholesale orders or commissions? Do you want to take part in better craft shows or selling events this year? Or work with interior designers or do a popup show? Do you want to make more money from all the hard work you are putting in? Raise your prices or fees?
Do you want easy-to-access business & marketing training that gives you practical solutions that you can implement immediately in your own small business? Training that is delivered by specialists, successful creatives & people who work in design & craft. Because all of our Business Club online lessons are delivered by experts, including marketing consultants, gallery & shop owners, social media specialists, interior designers, accountants & journalists!
Have you been in business for a while (most of our members have been self-employed for 3 – 10 years) but need to become more strategic & serious about your business, or keep more up-to-date with changes in how & where you sell and with what’s happening with social media? Do you want to get more & regular business inspiration & up-to-date marketing & social media ideas that actually work?
We created our Business Club membership for professional creatives like you!
Busy, ambitious business owners, working part- or full-time, in craft, design, giftware, homeware, visual art, print or illustration, who want to improve their business & marketing skills to make their small business more impactful, professional & profitable!
Our Business Club membership gives you easy & affordable any-time-you-like access to the best, most practical, honest and up-to-date online business & marketing training for your small craft, design or creative product/service business. The Business Club is perfect for busy creatives who want to improve their creative business & marketing skills & knowledge, and learn at their own pace from the comfort of their own home or workspace.
You will get IMMEDIATE access to over 160 online workshops, masterclasses and interviews on a wide range of business & marketing topics, all delivered by hand-picked business experts and successful creatives – all in one place!
Plus EVERY MONTH you can join 3 live sessions around a timely topic, with an expert, a creative + a community session to connect with other creative members. Most sessions are recorded so you can watch them whenever you like throughout the year.
OUR ANNUAL BUSINESS CLUB SALES IS ON FOR 3 DAYS ONLY – from Tuesday 7th of January at 9am (UK) until Thursday 9 January at 9pm (UK) 2025 you can join The Design Trust Business Club for only £180- (incl. VAT) for the next 12 months!
That’s 60% off, if you pay the regular £38,- monthly membership fee!
join the business club below by this thursday 9 january at 9pm uk
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the key facts:
- Get the best membership price: Only £180,- for 12 months (until early 2026)! Immediate access to 160+ online sessions of specialist creative business + marketing training
- Learn at your own pace. Dip in and out of The Business Club Library whenever you want to, as often as you like.
- Boost your knowledge, skills, inspiration, confidence in your business, marketing, finance, management – from the comfort of your own home or workspace
- Outcomes: Get practical, inspiring, up-to-date, real-life + quick business training from The Design Trust team, selected creative experts + successful creatives
- Especially created for: Ambitious, self-motivated creative soletraders, freelancers and business owners who want to improve their business + marketing skills in 2025. Most member businesses are between 5 – 10 years old.
- Wide range of business + marketing topics. All our guest speakers/tutors hand-picked are small creative business specialists or successful creatives.
- Time commitment: Really up to you! You can dip in and dip out whenever you need to, or join any of our 3 monthly live sessions.
- Join 150+ other creative business owners from across the UK and the world.
click the triangle to WATCH THIS 15 MIN intro VIDEO about our business club membership …
what is the design trust business club?
The Design Trust Business Club is a membership for busy & ambitious creative business owners who want to improve their creative business & marketing skills, knowledge & confidence so that they can create better businesses for themselves & their clients, get better & more clients and sales, and show in the best craft fairs, galleries & shops! As they are busy they want easy-to-access & affordable high quality online professional and business development training.
- You’ll get IMMEDIATE access to over 160 online audio-visual recordings of quick workshops (1 hour), more in-depth masterclasses (2 hours) and interviews & presentations around a wide range of business and marketing topics; creative business planning and time management, all aspects of selling and marketing yourself and your work (incl. branding, selling online, email marketing, SEO, selling at events and via galleries, standing out, creating a marketing plan, social media etc etc), finance and money, mindset and confidence, and everything in between!
- EACH MONTH you can join 3 new live sessions around a timely topic, with an expert, a successful creative & a ‘community’ session. Most of these sessions are recorded and added to The Business Club Library, so you can watch them whenever you like, as often as you like.
We invite (and pay!) a wide range of specialist speakers and successful creatives to share their knowledge, experience and inspiration with our Business Club members. Including social media and marketing consultants, interior designers, creative business advisers, gallery owners, well-known event & craft fair organisers, accountants, and journalists. You will learn straight from ‘the horse’s mouth’!
- Our Business Club members get a special discount: 15% off our shorter online workshops and 4-6 week online courses, such as Sell More Online, Craft Commissions and Email Marketing for Creatives.
- Our weekly Business Club newsletter is delivered to your inbox on Monday mornings with details about recent and upcoming sessions, recommendations & other tips.
learn from the best creative experts & successful creatives
We work only with experts in marketing, finance, and social media, and with people working in the field of design & craft so that you will learn from the best!
Dip in and dip out of our Business Club Library and our wide range of business and marketing topics to grow your creative business and learn and grow from the comfort of your own home or workspace, at your own pace.
Here are just some of the available interviews, workshops & masterclasses:
- Business Planning with ADHD with expert Amanda Perry
- How to Become A Successful Product Designer with Sue Pryke
- 90mins to Write Better Website Sales Pages with Patricia van den Akker
- Creative Commissions & Practice with Adam Nathaniel Furman
- Managing Your Parttime Business Successfully with Patricia van den Akker
- In Conversation with Sarah James of Craft Festival
- How I Use Trello To Manage My Projects with embroiderer Chloe Savage
- How to Turn Website Visitors into Buyers with Patricia van den Akker
- SEO: How to Find & Use Keywords with Patricia van den Akker
- How We Work with Creatives with Rachel Wicking, gift buyer at Kew Gardens
- Working with a Jewellery Gallery with Jade Mellor of Gill Wing Jewellery
- Cash Flow: What if you run out of money? with Patricia van den Akker
- Create a 28-day Marketing Plan to Get Sales with Patricia van den Akker
- What’s New On Pinterest? with Anne-Marie Shepherd
- How to Write a Quick Sales Email on Mailchimp with Anne-Marie Shepherd
- Working with an Interior Designer with Karina Lon
- How to Display Your Work at an Event with Michael Czerwinski of the Illustrator’s Fair
- How to Sell High End Craft with wood artist Eleanor Lakelin
- Setting Boundaries and Avoiding Burnout with Rebekah Lloyd
- How to Brief and Work with a Photographer with Yeshen Venema
- The 5-Stages to Sustainability with Katie Treggiden
- Mid-Year Journalling with creative coach Sasha Glasgow from Frank + Feel
- An Intro to Using AI to Writing Marketing Materials Faster with Patricia van den Akker
- How I Got Started on Substack with Sara Tasker
- How I Use Canva for Social Media with jeweller Lizzy Chambers
For the full list of 160+ Business Club sessions that you get immediately access to – see the regular Business Club membership here. Simply scroll all the way to the bottom for the full list!
Let us help you to IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE & MARKETING SKILLS & CONFIDENCE THIS YEAR!
some of our RECENT business club speakers: all experts & successful creatives
This session is utterly brilliant. Pitched perfectly for the next level of development in Mailchimp. rnrnThis is why I love the Business Club. You don’t get this kind of specific targeted help normally, at least not without paying for one to one. This session will really move me on with how I can use my email list.
Rauni Higson, Silversmith
Very interesting interview. So good to hear from an illustrator. rnrnI’m wanting to do more blogging, and this covered just about everything.
Joanna Martin, illustrator
I’ve used Mailchimp for years…but have always felt a bit confused about segments! I’ve learnt so much from Claire and I can’t wait to revamp my Mailchimp campaigns.
Catherine Lucktaylor, Ceramicist
I used Trello when it first came out over 10 years ago. Looks like it’s come on leaps and bounds, I’ll be giving it another try, will be excellent for my commissions. Thank you!
Jo Scott, artist
who is the design trust business club for?
We currently have around 150 Business Club members. Most of our members have been in business for 5 – 10 years, work parttime or fulltime in their business while juggling families & other jobs. 95% are based in the UK with creatives from across the world joining us too!
Most of our Business Club members are designer makers, crafts people (incl. jewellery, textiles, glass, metal, wood), illustrators, photographers, printmakers, Etsy shop owners and visual artists designing, making and selling their own work. We also have other creative professionals such as giftware & homeware designers, creative freelancers, and also creatives who run (online) workshops; have their own shops, galleries or organise events.
Our members offer a wide range of creative products and services, at very different price points and to very different client groups. They might be creating and selling affordable products that they sell on Etsy or at craft markets, or they might work on luxurious and top quality commissions. Many provide creative services, such as design work or licensing for business clients, bespoke work for individuals or collectors, or provide (online) training workshops.
Our business training is aimed at creatives who want to grow their business. However, we have members who have younger or much older businesses too! We do NOT recommend The Business Club to businesses who have just started or are thinking about starting a business.
*** WARNING: If you have been in business for less than 2 years we do not recommend you join, as the training might not cover what you need, is too advanced, and we do not provide ‘hand-holding’ of what to do first.
Our Business Club members love our practical, honest & inspiring approach, providing both specific business knowledge and experience, but also confidence and a dose of realism.
They are busy people with busy lives and families, and they really love the easy access to The Business Club Library so that they can select their own business topics to focus on and to learn about. It’s fully independent learning, and at your own pace. There is limited ‘hand holding’ … you create your own learning path focusing on what you want to improve or work on in your own business.
As we are based in London many of our Business Club members are based in the UK, but we have many international members from around the world, which we really love! It’s one of the big advantages of online learning!
Got any more questions?
Watch the intro video above!
Or check out here the ‘regular’ Business Club information for full details of all the sessions.
want to improve your business & marketing skills & confidence this year?
Don’t miss out … join us before thursday 9 january at 9pm (Uk) for the very best price!
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