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Grow the impact of your initiatives with tips on how to best manage, market and grow your awards, competitions and more!

  • Reframing Open Calls: How To Create Non-Competitive Spaces

    Reframing Open Calls: How To Create Non-Competitive Spaces

    In this article, we’ll explore how shifting perspectives on creative competitions could make them friendlier, fairer, and more inclusive spaces.

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  • Your Open Call is Over—Now the Real Engagement Begins

    Your Open Call is Over—Now the Real Engagement Begins

    Hosting an open call is truly an enriching experience. It allows for you to discover new talent and support them, create connections, and foster creativity. However, once the opportunity is over, the real challenge—and the true potential for impact—emerges. This can allow for the nourishment on meaningful relationships and the growth of your community.

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  • Turning Disappointment into Opportunity: Crafting Your Commiserations Email

    Turning Disappointment into Opportunity: Crafting Your Commiserations Email

    As uncomfortable as it can be, sending out commiserations emails are part and parcel of running an opportunity.

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  • How to Run a Good Program with Reduced Resources

    How to Run a Good Program with Reduced Resources

    This article shares practical strategies for organisations to run impactful creative opportunities like open calls and competitions with limited resources.

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  • Pricing your competition

    Pricing your competition

    How to price your awards and competitions is a fine art. Discover best practice when setting your entry price, alternative ways of making money and the impact the wrong price can have on your awards.

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  • Key sites to list your design competition on

    Key sites to list your design competition on

    Posting your design competition on a listing site might be a good way of sharing your contest to more people. We share our top directories to post your design competition on to get more entries.

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  • How To Run an Online Photo Contest (& Market It Like a Pro)

    How To Run an Online Photo Contest (& Market It Like a Pro)

    Learn the secrets to running an online photo contest with our expert guide to boosting entries and growing your campaign.

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  • Top sites to list your Photography Competition

    Top sites to list your Photography Competition

    We’re here to help you get the word out for your photography competitions! Here’s a list of photography competition directories to start the process.

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