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Meeting Preference: Video
Languages: English
I specialize in the Arts. I can help you start run and grow your business. Whether Non-Profit or Commercial. As the owner of a Dance company myself I have guided many and continue to be a consultant for arts organizations in WNY and it is within this same scope of knowledge I would like to help you achieve your goals. I am qualified to mentor in topics including but not limited to:
• Entrepreneur Mindset
• Deciding on a business name
• Branding (tag line)
• Your niche (what makes you different)
• Establishing a business
• NYS Requirements
• Business Plan
• Financials
• Understanding Business Credit
• Insurance
• Taxes
• Funding
• Crowd Funding
• Writing proposals for funding
• Grant Writing
• Technical Writing
• Transcribing
• Writing Your On Demand Course
• How to use social media for grants and fellowship research
• Creativity/Innovation
• Marketing and target audience
• Website
• Digital Marketing
• Hashtags
• Algorithm
• Freelancing
I am an "Artist in Residence." I have been performing for 40 years. I am a child of the theatre. I graduated from the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts and continued my education in Musical Theatre at SUNY Fredonia and finally receiving the Certificate in Dance Composition from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. I am the owner of Virtue Dance Collective which is a Freelance Dance co. which operates solely off grant funding. Former Artistic Director of African American Cultural Center's Dance & Drum Performance Co. and am currently a consultant for the Kakilambe' African Dance co. I've traveled internationally singing, dancing, acting, choreographing and directing, whether it's for my own company or a production I'm a part of. I currently sing in community choirs and continue to perform in community theatre. I have worked for the colleges in WNY as well the Buffalo Public School system and Arts in Education Institute. I wrote my first grant at the age of 13 and have been doing so ever since. I am firm believer that money is out there for the arts, and I can show you how to get it.
I am also the owner of John Campfield & Associates. Specializing in Life and Accidental Insurance for NYS. Business Mentoring, Life Coaching, Mediation and Arbitration. We offer a wide variety of services to fit the needs of the growing adversity within working class families and the urban community.
Areas of Expertise
- Branding
- Business Plan
- Contracts
- Customer Service
- Digital Marketing
- Management & Operations
- Software & Applications
- Strategy Development
Industry Experience
- Arts, Entertainment, & Recreation
- Business Consulting & Coaching
- Information Technology
- Nonprofit
- Professional Services
- Retail