Real Business Support. Real Community Building.

Name: Creative Collective
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Creative Collective connects 350+ Essex County entrepreneurs, makers, nonprofits, and small businesses with active promotion, practical support, consulting, advocacy, and a regional network amplified by nine social profiles with more than 95,000 combined followers. Members learn from one another—and have real people in their corner when the work gets complicated.

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350+ members • 95K+ combined followers • Essex County-wide connections

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Creative Collective Explores

Find what’s happening across Essex County—events, city guides, local stories, and the small businesses that make each community worth exploring.

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How We Help

Creative Collective helps small businesses get seen, brings the right people together, and carries ideas from strategy through execution.

Work With Us

Consulting, event production, partnerships, sponsorships, and hands-on execution for municipalities, organizations, and businesses.

Membership

Active promotion, practical guidance, shared resources, and a 350+ member network ready to help.

Markets & Opportunities

Find vendor opportunities at Creative Collective markets, festivals, and community events across Essex County.

SEE HOW WE WORK

Salem Arts Festival

Salem Arts Festival shows what our consulting and community work looks like in action. Since 2019, Creative Collective has co-produced this free, three-day downtown festival with Salem Main Streets—supporting 150+ artists and performers and welcoming more than 10,000 people each year. We lead fundraising, sponsorship, marketing, vendor and artist coordination, production logistics, and on-site execution.

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Mass Poetry Festival

With their resources, connections, creative spirit, and unwavering support, Creative Collective has been invaluable to the growth and development of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem. Their outreach is phenomenal. Poets and writers typically work alone, so the festival brings together this community for a glorious weekend of words in Salem. John Andrews and his team know the landscape—digitally and locally. They have the strategies and skills to build and maintain a diverse and inclusive following, and to help a grassroots org like ours achieve national prominence. We wouldn’t be where we are today without the innovation and creative vision that Creative Collective brings to the table. Every. Single. Time.

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