Freelance Success:
Business Support For Australia’s Artists

It's so simple, and yet so exceptional and unique - business support exclusively for creative people.

Making money in the arts is supposed to be impossible, a stroke of sheer luck for the privileged few. It's the dream of many artists, though, to become professional and find financial security from doing what they love.

Now, there is an organisation aimed specifically at creative people who want to work for themselves and make money from their craft.

Freelance Success offers training, advice, networking events and more for creative people. At the core of Freelance Success is the Workshop, a small business course like no other.

Full of humour and an irreverent attitude, it's the opposite of traditional business training. While most small business courses concentrate on goods-based enterprises, Freelance Success addresses the wholistic nature of freelancing in the arts in Australia, addressing personal, creative and professional issues.

The course covers all the necessities of working for yourself, including:

  • Business: all the requirements of setting up and maintaining creative self-employment;
  • Money: living without a regular income, in both personal and business life;
  • Tax 1: the basics of getting an ABN, and managing GST and PAYG responsibilities;
  • Tax 2: understanding income tax, and learning how to make your creative life a tax deduction;
  • Law: the fundamentals for creatives - copyright, contracts, and defamation law;
  • Marketing: the essential tools, with particular emphasis on word of mouth.

Freelance Success is open to anyone with a career in the arts who'd like to work for themselves, either as a freelance, a small business, or an independent artist concentrating on their own projects.

Since the Workshop was first offered in 1994 Freelance Success has helped hundreds of creative people, from actors to writers and everyone in between.

Now in 2006, Freelance Success is re-launching with an Australia-wide focus. We are offering an improved course with additional booklets, more services and events, and a new website.