{"id":473,"date":"2010-05-06T19:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T09:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2010-05-06T19:18:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T09:18:42","slug":"export-exhertions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"export exhertions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went to a Design Victoria mini-symposium, or what they called a <a title=\"Design Victoria website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.designvic.com\/Events\/DesignVictoria\/2010_05_06_Tools_of_the_Export_Trade.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Tools of the Export Trade Masterclass<\/a>. I found out about it on the <a title=\"ADU - blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.australiandesignunit.com\/index.php\/design\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Design Unit blog<\/a>. Owing to the recent shenanigans that ensued when getting works to international exhibitions (thanks <a title=\"Volcano!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/04\/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eyjafjallajokull<\/a> for making it even more stressful), I was (and am) keen to &#8216;skill-up&#8217; in this area. The marketing insights and the tips from professionals managed to outweigh the the speakers who intoned some very irrelevant information for a small business such as mine. In fact, after today, I&#8217;m leaning towards using the term &#8216;micro business&#8217; when referring to my art practice.<\/p>\n<p>While the info on offer was all well intentioned, and possibly even some of it useful to me; like some of the nuances of the &#8216;dark arts&#8217; of marketing, and more grants info available from the Victorian Government and <a title=\"Austrade - helping Aussies export to the world\" href=\"http:\/\/www.austrade.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Austrade<\/a>, it&#8217;s not likely come in handy when my projected output won&#8217;t reach the marketing budget needed to trigger their minimum grant amount.<\/p>\n<p>Ahh well, back to sweating over the details on Australia Post forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa goes to school. Well, marketing school. A marketing masterclass, in fact. Where are the masters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36,9,16],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grant","tag-documentation","tag-grants","tag-masterclass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}