Do It Yourself
The full curriculum, implementation guides, templates, and community access. At your own pace.
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Get The Creative's MBAMonetising Your Creativity
The Creative'sMBA.
A business education for working creatives who know the craft and need a system for turning it into a career that lasts.
Why are you so good and still so broke?
You spent years getting good. The work is real. People tell you so, and they mean it. And still the income swings, clients haggle, the "exposure" never turns into anything, and you're not sure what to charge or where the next job is coming from.
There's nothing wrong with you. Nobody taught you the business.
Art school taught you to draw. Music school taught you to play. Nobody showed you how to position your work, price it, sell it, and keep doing it for ten years. You've been improvising the most important part of your career.
That ends here.
The 5 C's.
Every module comes with implementation guides, exercises and reusable tools, plus the Campfyre community around you while you build.
- 01
Clarity makes your value clear.
Know who you are, who you serve, what you stand for, and what you're actually selling.
- 02
Content makes your value visible.
A system for showing your work that you can sustain, without becoming an influencer.
- 03
Community builds trust around your value.
Direct relationships you own, because people buy when they trust you, not when they've seen you.
- 04
Collaboration multiplies your value.
Partnerships that pay and a network built on contribution, not proximity.
- 05
Currency captures your value.
Pricing, offers, sales, negotiation, and revenue streams that fit your work and your life.
The order is the method.
You spend the first four to earn the fifth. Skip the foundations and monetisation is a constant struggle. Build them in order and the money follows.
What you walk away with
The goal isn't to finish the videos. It's to leave with something working.
- Clear positioning
- A defined audience
- A specific offer
- A content system you can sustain
- A community strategy
- A collaboration plan
- A pricing model
- A revenue model
- A practical plan for generating business
Is this for you?
It is, if you're a working creative, in any discipline, who's good at what you do and tired of that not translating into money. If you want a system rather than another pep talk. If you want a career that lasts.
It isn't, if you're mainly looking to improve your craft, you want fast money, or you won't do the work between sessions.
This isn't a course about becoming more creative. It's about building a livelihood around the creativity you already have.
“I finally raised my rates and stopped apologising for them.”
Which track is right for you?
Do It With Others
Everything in DIY, plus The Lab: a 90-day implementation cohort with weekly group coaching, peer feedback and live Q&As. You don't just learn it. You build it.
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Join the next cohortDone With You
Everything above, plus direct strategy sessions with me, personalised positioning, offer and pricing development, and a customised roadmap. Deliberately limited.
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Apply| What's included | DIY | With others | With you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full curriculum | |||
| Implementation guides, templates and tools | |||
| Campfyre community access | |||
| The Lab: 90-day implementation cohort | |||
| Weekly group coaching | |||
| Peer feedback and live Q&As | |||
| Direct strategy sessions with Jesse | |||
| Personalised positioning, offer and pricing | |||
| Customised roadmap |
“I built the course I wish someone had given me.”
I'm Jesse Dan-Yusuf, Creator-in-Chief at Campfyre. I wanted a business education for creatives that sounded like us, built from inside the creative life: making things, selling things, working with clients, growing audiences, getting it wrong, trying again.
I couldn't find it. So we built it.
You don't graduate out of Campfyre.
The Creative's MBA is part of The Creative's Journey. But it isn't something you finish and disappear from. You stay, you keep building, and eventually you help someone else find their way around the fire.
Campfyre is the community for creatives, by creatives. Our mission is to help 1 billion creatives make a living and impact doing what they love. For you, it starts with one decision.
Stories from around the Campfyre
“I finally raised my rates and stopped apologising for them.”
“Within weeks, people understood exactly what I was selling.”
“I stopped posting randomly and built a system I could sustain.”
Still have questions?
How long does it take?
Self-paced, most finish in six to eight weeks. The cohort runs 90 days so you have time to implement, not just consume.
How much time each week?
Three to five hours. Most of it should be doing.
Does it work for my discipline?
If your work creates value for other people, yes.
I'm not in Nigeria. Can I join?
Yes. Online, and sessions are recorded.
Something else?
Email hello@campfyre.co. A real person will reply.
You've built the craft.
Now build the career.
Make your value clear. Make it visible. Build trust around it. Multiply it. Capture it.
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