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Instagram for Business: A Guide for Creative Entrepreneurs

April 20, 2015 by Steven Sparling 2 Comments

Instagram for Business: A Guide for Creative Entrepreneurs

Continuing our theme of: snuffling out the best of the internet, so you don’t have to this week we bring you the best of the internet on using Instagram for business – specifically for artists, writers, actors, musicians and other creatives. Why should I use Instagram? Here’s a handy list of Pros and Cons to […]

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Being strategic with free, finding happiness, and getting up off the couch – Internet Truffles Week 8

April 15, 2015 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Internet Truffles Week 8

Welcome to this week’s edition of Internet Truffles – my picks of the best for artists and creatives. Help me celebrate this week as it’s been 4 years that I’ve been blogging at The Thriving Creative. The time has flown by. I’m glad you’ve shared in this time with me. I look forward to what […]

Filed Under: Best of the Web Tagged With: Artist, best of, creative, Entrepreneur, List

Painful truths about acting talent, a real-world marketing case study & strategies to get sh*t done – Internet Truffles week 7

April 9, 2015 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Internet Truffles Week 7

  1. Talent may have less to do with it than you hope   It pains me to share this, but I fear in my bones it’s probably true. It’s doubtable how much acting talent actually has with acting success. Some will read this and think ‘that’s just in America’ but I suspect the world […]

Filed Under: Best of the Web Tagged With: Actor, Artist, creative business, creative career, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, marketing, sustainable creativity

Working 9-5, Making Magic, & Drinking from the Levant – Internet Truffles Week 6

April 1, 2015 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Internet Truffles Week 6

1. Practice better We know that practice makes perfect but do you actually know how to practice? Often I see students do something over and over in the hope that repetition will take care of problems… What’s missing is awareness. It’s awareness of problems and strategising how you’ll fix them that true practice is about. […]

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Leave Behinds, Portable Portfolios & Portfolio Careers. Internet Truffles Week 5

March 25, 2015 by Steven Sparling 1 Comment

Portfolio Careers

1. How will they remember you when you leave? This idea of a ‘leave behind’ is a new one to me. I mean, everyone knows they should have a business card and maybe a brochure or flyer you can leave with clients or hand to people who are interested in your work, but a leave […]

Filed Under: Best of the Web Tagged With: Artist, creative careers, Creative entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, List, Portfolio, portfolio careers

Internet Truffles – Week Four – The Best of the Best for Creatives

March 17, 2015 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

  Welcome to our fourth roundup of the ‘best of the internet.’ I’m really starting to enjoy searching out and sharing these wonderful ‘truffles’ with you. I hope you’re finding good stuff here that maybe you might have otherwise missed. Without any further ado, let’s get started with something a little bit personal… 1. Viewing […]

Filed Under: Best of the Web Tagged With: best of, Creative Business Planning, creative career, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, curation, internet, sustainable creativity

Internet Truffles – Week Three

March 10, 2015 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Here’s the latest roundup of my favourite goodies from the world wide web. Hand-picked to enlighten, educate or amuse creative entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes. Like what you see? Let me know! Want to see something else? I’d welcome your feedback.   1. Getting your music out into the world Musicians, what does it […]

Filed Under: Best of the Web Tagged With: Artist, arts, best of, creative, Curating, Entrepreneur, List

Internet Truffles – Week Two

March 4, 2015 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Last week’s Internet Truffles was quite a hit, so here we are for week two. Hope you enjoy these gems that I’ve snuffled out for you…. snort, snort….. 1. All Hail The Introvert Introverts are getting a lot more attention at the moment.  Hallelujah! Starting with the book Quiet and gaining steam there is a new […]

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Internet Truffles – Week One

February 25, 2015 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

    We’re trying something new this week. Not sure about you, but I’m getting overwhelmed with things to read online. But I’m not prepared to ignore it all because I know there is really good stuff out there. HOWEVER, it takes a lot of weeding to get through the dross and find the good […]

Filed Under: Best of the Web Tagged With: Artist, creative, Curating, Entrepreneur, List

Are you getting noticed?

February 13, 2015 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

For artists, the greatest problem to solve is how to get noticed

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