Rethinking your business | #147
2024 events for entrepreneurs
One of my goals for 2024 is to make new founder friends — not just on LinkedIn but in person.
I love virtual events, but there’s nothing like the magic of in-person and travel to lift your spirits. Since Covid, I’ve been mainly wfh, and life can feel a bit small and routine when you’re doing the same things every day, especially if you’re working weekends on a side project.
I mentioned it to a friend (who is also working all hours on her own stuff), and she said, “Yeah, I don’t know what day it is!!” I need to take a tip from the Geishas and change my outfit a few times a day rather than staying in sports gear. Make each workday an occasion because it is. Details matter!
So, I’m on the hunt for events for creative entrepreneurs; the smaller, the better. I’ve bought a ticket for Craft + Work, an intimate one-day event (max 50 tickets) built around personal stories and group convos. I chatted with the founder this week, Keir Whitaker, and what an inspiring story about how this came to be.
If you can’t find local business events that inspire you, start your own! Go, Keir. Here’s his review of the 2023 London event and I love the ambition — he’s also hosting it in New York and Toronto later this year. Having an event scribe capture the day is genius — those goody bags are a keeper!
“Chris was a great addition to the day. He was justifiably “expensive” but it was a bit different.”
As David Hieatt [Makers + Mavericks] says:
Let’s assume the economy isn’t coming to save your business anytime soon.
Think of your business in a new way.
Find a new reason to exist, a new customer.
Get the confidence and the fun back. We must replace this struggle fest with brave new different thinking.
Your network is your business.
Nika ✨
Kicking off with an NUJ London Freelance branch event tomorrow to celebrate International Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28). It remembers those who have lost their lives at work, or from work-related injury and diseases.
No conflict of any size in history has ever been this deadly to journalists so it feels important to gather in person. All welcome. I’ll be there.
Media meets for 2024
- Workers’ Memorial Day Rally: honour the Gaza dead and support the living. April 29, London [NUJ]
- Magazine Mayday: an afternoon of magazine chat at one of the quirkiest pubs in Macclesfield. May 1 [Grub Street]
- The Newsletter Conference: the first-ever gathering of newsletter professionals worldwide. May 3, NYC [Who Sponsors Stuff]
- Makers + Mavericks Off-Grid 2024: a hackathon for you and your biz. May 4, Cardigan, Wales [Hiut Denim Co]
- CEX: the 2024 learning and networking event for content entrepreneurs. May 5–7, Cleveland, Ohio [The Tilt]
- Craft + Work: an intimate day built around personal stories and group chat about building better businesses. May 31, London [Keir Whitaker]
- FIPP World Media Congress: bringing media and tech together. June 4–6 in Cascais, Portugal [Mx3]
- Publisher Podcast Summit and the first-ever Publisher Newsletter Summit: shape and refine your pod & email strategies. June 12, London [Media Voices]
- Nudgestock 2024: where behavioural scientists, creative minds, and marketers unite to tackle the toughest human challenges. July 5, London [Ogilvy]
- Ideas Fest: Glastonbury for business. September 12–13, Tring, Herts [Ideas Forums]
Read, listen, watch
▶️Find a Female Founder: a new directory to find & buy from women-led businesses launches with its first cohort of 150 service-based founders [Female Founders Rise]
▶️Why finding clients on LinkedIn is such a sh**show at the moment [Lizzie Davey]
▶️Saving emails is a pain in the ass. We made it easy [Email Preview]
▶️What worker-owned outlets charge for paid subscriptions. I looked at 14 outlets to see what they’re doing [Journalists Pay Themselves]
▶️Italy: the digital nomad visa we’ve been waiting for [The Freelance Informer]
Work with me
Wanted to be Jane Bond but ended up in journalism 🤷🏻♀️
I run Firebird, the content consultancy helping entrepreneurs impact the world with their stories. I want to see more female founders succeed. See my services here.
Originally published at https://www.nikatalbot.io.
