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Recap: Defining Your Customer – why you don’t want to sell to everyone

August 17, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Here’s a summary post of week two of the 31 Days to Kick Start Your Creative Business Series focussing on defining your customer. The clearer you can be on who you are trying to sell to, the easier it will be to find them, talk to them, and ultimately convince them that your creative service […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Recap Tagged With: Artist, creative business, creative career, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, Creative Industries, marketing

Recap: Defining Your Product – what exactly are you selling?

August 10, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

As August is a quiet month, we are going to recap some of our previous posts that maybe you missed or either didn’t get a chance to properly digest. The first recap is about a really important step for all Creative Entrepreneurs: Defining Your Product. The clearer you can get about WHAT your product is […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Recap Tagged With: Artist, business, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, Product

David Gandy’s Perfectly Proportioned Plan

June 7, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: Artist, branding, creative, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, David Gandy, marketing

Idols, Mentors, Colleagues and Fans – It takes a village to support a Creative Entrepreneur

May 15, 2013 by Steven Sparling 10 Comments

Welcome! We are trying something different this week. After an interesting lecture I attended about engaging different learning styles, and how much of our learning is actually visual, I have created the next blog post using PowerPoint. You can see it all below in the Slideshare. I highly recommend you use the ‘full screen’ viewing […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Planning Tagged With: Artist, Colleagues, creative career, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, Mentors, planning

The Value of Differentiation (and the Added Value of a Sense of Humour)

April 11, 2013 by Steven Sparling 7 Comments

Today I stumbled across this awesome video on Youtube – Rolling Clay With Keith. Check it out: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMzL1T8MjWQ?rel=0] I love this video for all kinds of reasons. Let’s look at some of them… 1. It’s funny Let’s face it, we all take ourselves too seriously sometimes and this seems to often come out when […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Artist, branding, creative, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, humour, marketing, potter

J. S. Bach and the Value of Getting On With It

March 28, 2013 by Steven Sparling 7 Comments

Last night I attended a very good performance of Bach’s St John Passion at The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. I find it terribly relaxing to sit for 2 hours just listening to music – my average day is so scattered and all over the place that the focus of two hours on music […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: Artist, Artists, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, J S Bach, work habits

Cost Should Never Be An Excuse – the $1.99 App used to complete Oscar nominated film!

February 27, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Check out this video (it starts after the advert at the beginning). It’s interesting because the film maker Malik Bendjelloul discusses how when he was making his documentary film “Searching for Sugar Man” he ran out of money and thought he was going to have to abandon his project because he couldn’t afford to continue shooting […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Planning Tagged With: Artist, business, Creative Entrepreneurship, obstacles, risk taking

7 Ways to Still Be Productive When You Really Can’t be F*cked

January 31, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

I’m having one of those days today where I really just feel like shutting off the computer, fishing out the Love Film DVD’s which have been waiting to be watched, putting on my pj’s, making some tea and flaking on the sofa. A proper slobby day. Isn’t that what we think of actors doing a […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: Actor, Artist, creative, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, Persistence, planning

Letting Go, Moving On

June 7, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

The whole point of being an artist is to let things go. Our job is to create something and then let it go, send it out into the world and allow it to have a life of its own. This applies whether we make a pot, a play or give a performance. It is something […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: Artist, creative, Creative Entrepreneurship, Letting go, moving on, music, spiritual, teacher, Teaching

6. Follow the leaders in your field

February 6, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

In your quest to keep your ear to the ground, you should be following all of the leaders in your field on social media. Set up bookmarks for their blogs, follow them on Twitter, or follow their fan pages on Facebook. You may decide you want to try and connect with them directly on LinkedIn, […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: Actor, Artist, Creative Entrepreneurship, Facebook, Musician, Painter, social media, Twitter, Writer

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