Creative Juice Workshop 2024

It has always been a dream of ours to show our care and support for the Fargo-Moorhead small business community and with the new year we have decided to make this dream come true in the best way we know how! We hosted our first-ever Creative Juices Workshop from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. on April 12th, 2024 in the Ivy + Rose warehouse and plan to make this event an annual affair. Creative Juices invites local business owners to collaborate in a unique blend of strategic insights, creative ideas, and practical implementation strategies. The Creative Juice workshop hosts an influential crowd with long-lasting impressions. This year’s workshop was graced with 3 amazing speakers: Maria Rue with impact social, Morgan Allora with Studio Freshly, and Mark Quamme with The Creative’s Flow!

Thank you to all the amazing creatives that attended this workshop!! It was an huge inspiration to hear all of our speakers teach about how to strategize and implement new ideas in small businesses. Some of the topics of April’s workshop was streamining your social media strategy, learning more about the key pillars within your business, and finding your flow within your business.

Maria Rue- impact social:

Maria spoke on how to streamline your social media strategy to keep a consistent posting schedule, develop a method for creating content, and stay on top of the ever-changing trends. 

Maria founded Impact Social in 2018 as a social media & content creation agency specifically for on-trend, growing, and busy small businesses. She provides individualized strategies to each of her clients to best reach their desired audience online!
She’s living the dream every day by discussing clients’ goals, creating imagery that impacts & resonates with their followers on social media, & brainstorming new ways to stay on top of trends & remain creative.
Outside of work, Maria is passionate about perfume and creates content online herself!

Morgan Allora- studio freshly:

Morgan spoke on key pillars your business needs to document within your business and ways to infuse your ideas and values visually for your brand

Infused with creativity, garnished with fun!

Studio Freshly is a queer-woman owned photography company, based out of the Fargo/Moorhead area, specializing in small business branding through documenting your company’s product, process, experience, portraits, and events. Studio Freshly believes in elevating your “business’ special sauce” by translating your product or service into badass visuals that connect with your audience. Whether you’re launching a new brand or refreshing your image, Studio Freshly has a package to fit your needs, ensuring a personable, organized, energetic, and stress-free experience.
Morgan Allora is a Minneapolis native who made the FM area home in 2012. She’s a composition enthusiast, bernedoodle owner, eager connector, entrepreneurship advocate, and IPA lover with degrees in Graphic Design and Public Relations from Concordia College. Morgan has been creating for clients since 2013, taking her photo biz full time (as M.Schleif Photography) in 2017. With a greater understanding of who she serves and a last name changed, (shoutout wife and chaos manager McKaila Allora) she launched Studio Freshly in 2023.

Mark Quamme- The Creatives Flow:

In Mark’s session he spoke on the building blocks of running your creative business to keep the juices flowing, and creating for your audience and finding your flow. 

The Creative’s Flow is a queer owned creative support studio, based out of Fargo, ND. Owner + Lead Flow Finder Mark Traynor Quamme started the studio with two main goals in mind: Help creatives do more of what they love and ensure more beauty gets out in the world. To have the time, space, and energy to focus on creating, Mark comes in as your right-hand pal + flow finder, focusing on all things operations, systems, and process. This can include a wide array of options, such as weekly planning + collaboration, systems overhaul, project + process management, communications, invoicing + expense tracking, and whatever else folks may need to focus on their own creative avenue.

Outside of The Creative’s Flow, Mark is a creative himself, spending multiple months out of the year as a choreographer and clinician, traveling the country creating with high school theater and show choir programs. Prior to TCF, Mark spent 10 years working across education, event operations, and creative services, supporting students and creatives on projects large and small. Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Communication + Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a Master of Arts in Servant Leadership-Nonprofit Leadership from Viterbo University. Mark lives in Fargo with his husband, Nick, and a pack of old lady pets- Nora, Molly, and Minnie.

get your creative juices flowing

A big thank you to all of the creatives who attended, learned, collaborated, laughed, brainstormed, and implemented new ideas with us!! We plan to do it all again next yearand hope to bring new creative business strategies to the Fargo area for years to come- send us a message if you have any questions on last years workshop, if you are interested in attending next April, or if you are interested in being a sponsor for the creatives in the Fargo/ Moorhead area!

Sponsors:

Food: Bernies

Coffee: TwentyBelowCoffee

Floral: LoveAlwaysFloral

Cocktail Hour: Wild Terra

DJ: Fuze Entertainment

Venue: The Ivy and Rose Warehouse

Styling: The White House co

Photos: Studio Freshly

Speakers: Maria Rue, Mark Quamme, Morgan Allora