Creative Choices is a free online resource providing careers advice, job listings, and industry insights for creative careers. It uses a digital strategy of publishing high-quality online content and leveraging search engine optimization, email marketing, and social media to connect audiences to its resources with minimal costs. The goal is to create content that audiences want to find and share across different online channels.
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Creative Choices is a free
resource for anyone that works,
or wants to work, in a creative
career.
It features:
• Careers advice articles
• Job and opportunities listings
• An ‘Ask an Expert’ panel
A resource for creative careers
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Careers advice
Industry insights
Tips and insights about creative careers
straight from the people that work in them
Job profiles
Outlines of creative jobs, including entry
routes, skills and average salaries. Created
with industry endorsement
Creative people
Case studies of people in the creative
sector based on interviews. Includes what
they do day-to-day and how they got there
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Creative voices blogs
Guest blogs allowing you
to hear the the voices of
creative people on issues
relating to creative
careers
Can be opinion, analysis
or personal thoughts
about careers – all in the
own words of creative
practitioners
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To connect with as much of your audience as possible, with
as little expenditure as possible.
(resources are finite, the scope is limitless)
• Content must be great
• Your audience needs to find it
• People must share it.
The purpose of digital strategy
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Search
How to optimise
Popularity = Links
• Popular sites
• Credible sites(.gov, .ac, .edu)
• Exclusive links(don't get buried in the 'useful links' page)
• Accurate links
('Creative careers' better than 'www.creative-choices.co.uk')
('Deep' links to articles better than links to homepage)
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Hard opt-in
Those who have explicitly requested to receive email
communication (i.e. a website registration)
Email marketing
Soft opt-in
Where you have obtained contact details in the
course of a legitimate interaction (i.e. CRM)
Remember
There must be a clear unsubscribe option on the email
It must come from a valid contact address
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Email marketing
Build your campaigns
• Campaign Monitor, MailChimp, DotMailer
• Be consistent – pick a regular date and time and stick to it
• The same rules apply for good content – your audience is
time-poor and easily distracted
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Social Media
Join/Build a community
• Ensure you have a presence on all the main channels
• Take time to learn the ‘rules’ of the community
• Engage others in that channel – be ‘social’
• Social media also provides analytics
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Social Media
Engage your organisation
• Don’t concentrate the social media in the hands of the few
• Your organisation is full of experts – utilise that
• Be aware of the potential ‘time-sink’ – the rules of doing as
much as you can in a little time as possible apply
(tools like Tweetdeck or FollowerWonk can help)
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To connect with as much of your audience as possible, with
as little expenditure as possible.
(resources are finite, the scope is limitless)
• Content must be great
• Your audience needs to find it
• People must share it.
The purpose of digital strategy
Hinweis der Redaktion
Industry insights: tips and insights about working creative careers, often written by practitioners themselves or taken from conversations with them. Creative people is essentially case study interviews. Job profiles: is a library of information about creative jobs, with information about things like entry routes, necessary qualifications and salaries – these will need updating and we may need your help doing this.