The Roadshow hits Brighton on the 26th of June

June 19, 2014 by Joel_Hughes

On The the 26th of June, the tboRoadshow hits Brighton (free tickets on Eventbrite) for an evening of web business related talks and Q&A.

Our venue is Clearleft’s lovely 68 Middle St. on the night before Responsive Day Out.

Unlike many things in life, this is a FREE event. I’m also trying to get some FREE beer as well (we’ll see).

>> tickets are free <<

The event will run from around 19:00* and we’ll have a few talks plus some Q&A at the end.

As usual the talks will be all about the business end of things (we’ll leave handling responsive images etc to the next day’s event).

The roadshow is all part of promoting next month’s The Business of Web Design conference which is happening in Cardiff (main conference tickets available here).

(*Exact timing to be confirmed)

Confirmed speakers (I’ll flesh this out shortly)

Joel Hughes (me, sorry about that, title: “Lessons I’ve (slowly) learnt from running a web business“)
Elliot Taylor (tbc)
Jo Petty (‘A Crash Course on the Freelance Experience‘)
Richard Jones (Title: “how to make a living by giving things away (or surviving in a open source world‘)
Q&A session (the floor is yours!)

Grab your free tickets from eventbrite asap

Joel

p.s. full speaker details

Joel Hughes

(me) I’ve been working in the web for over fifteen years and been running my currently company since 2001. In that time I’ve worked in loads of roles and made loads of mistakes ;) I’m currently focussed on growing by business and trying to get better at all of the non-web tech things which typically hold back freelancers & agencies; i.e. the business side of web design.

Richard Jones

Richard is the Technical Director of i-KOS digital services, an agency specialising in e-Commerce and Drupal. Most recently he has lead the redevelopment of the lush.co.uk site as it moved to Drupal and is the author of “Getting Started with Drupal Commerce”. He is also a regular speaker at Drupal Community events other conferences related to the e-commerce world.

i-KOS is a digital consultancy specialising in e-Commerce and Drupal. We’ve been in business for 14 years but a number of years ago make the switch from proprietary software to Open Source. This meant a change in our business model to find a way to survive without a steady stream of license fees. That was the initial challenge, but since then we have discovered a whole new way of operating by embracing and participating in the Drupal community. This has had unexpected benefits and opened us up to a great number of new opportunities. In this session I’d like to share some of what we’ve learnt about letting go of code copyright and the unexpected benefits of giving intellectual property away.

Jo Petty

In this talk Jo will talk about her experience and approach to managing her freelance career. From finding clients, to dealing with tricky ones, chasing up payments and marketing yourself, she will cover it all in this talk.

Jo is a freelance copywriter and content consultant. She’s been freelancing for just over a year and along the way has worked with the big, the small, and the more unusual clients out there. She’s based in Brighton and has a penchant for good copy, good gin, and internet cats.

Elliot Taylor

After working as a manager I moved to the other side of the table and setup an ECommerce agency (raison.co). As we’ve grown we’ve become more specialised and learnt a huge amount. I’ll be talking about what we’ve learnt over the last three years and how to scale up from freelancer to agency.

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One thought on “The Roadshow hits Brighton on the 26th of June”

Elliot (Raison) (@raisononline) says:

June 24, 2014 at 8:38 am

Looking forward to giving the talk – see you all there.

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