We arranged to meet as a group today as the last meet up before christmas. It was myself and two other team members who came to this so we read through each other's manifestos and combined them into a single paragraph. We all had quite similar things written down, some of the same phrases were used across all three which was good because it showed that we all understood the idea of our business. We were doing this for over an hour, constantly going back and changing words that didn't sounds right or didn't have the right tone of voice. We kept tweaking sentences too to make sure we were getting the correct message across. This is what we had by the end...
We are an online creative community that hosts monthly, themed competitions for UK based aspiring artists. Each month, twelve winning designs are made available to purchase as print based products through [our website name]. The designers also have the option be promoted during that month of sale thorough links to a personal website or social media account. Our goal is to finance a sustainable and profitable business whilst supporting artists and respecting buyers through the means of reasonable commission and pricing. Above all, it is important to us to create an ethical and honest relationship between everyone involved.
Obviously this isn't final because our business may still evolve and we haven't had feedback or input from Georgie or Rebecca on this yet but we are communicating with them through Facebook messenger and iMessage to ensure the whole group stays involved. This is also how we are all going to stay in touch over the christmas break.
When discussing name ideas, I had very little to show but we discussed it and Tyler made a good point about having it themed around flowing to show that the competition will forever be changing. It made me thing about rotation and the seasons so maybe this could be a theme to work with which is related to the business but not in an obvious way. We have set ourselves a deadline to have the name decided by Friday 11th December so we can start the Christmas break with this issue settled.
I brought up an idea I thought of which was to have a calendar at the end of the year which would have the top selling design from each month in it. I thought it made sense to do something like this seeing as the business is based around a monthly changeover. The other members of the group thought this idea might work but we couldn't really make any decisions about it without the rest of our group there. It was also suggested that it could be sold for charity. This would be a good way of continuing the ethical way we run the business but we would have to look into this because we wouldn't want to be losing money.
As for work to do over christmas, we wrote a to do list of things that need researching and to be thought about. I suggested splitting this list so everyone had a different task to do to make this process more efficient but instead we are all going to do a bit of everything so everyone has knowledge on each aspect of the business and we can have a proper discussion about these things when we meet after Christmas.
- Ideas for logos and website layout/design.
- Make any changes to the Manifesto after receiving input from everyone.
- Research the structures of similar companies (etsy, redbubble…)
- Research into printers and costs of materials.
- Research into costing of postage and packaging.
- Sizing and dimensions of prints - research and decide.
- Research into packaging design (envelopes, tubes...)
- Research web advertising and how we could make money from this.
- Research where you stand with selling things for charity.
- Setting up an online payment method.
- Research into how much people would be willing to pay.
- Research into how people like to pay (by card, paypal...)
- Setting up a newsletter/email/account. Some way of sending reminders for deadlines and notifications for when things come on sale or the theme has changed over.
- Possibility of a forum or social media account.
- Possibility of an app - or at least a mobile friendly website.
- Splitting of wages.
- Commission prices.
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