Sometimes, despite all your best preparations, you get thrown a curveball. It’s whether you swing the bat anyway that separates the amateurs from the pros. I’ve been talking about some of the ways to taking your creative business to a more professional level on my monthly newsletter (if you’re not on my list then sign […]
Can You Turn On A Sixpence? Why Creative Entrepreneurs Need to Learn to Be Adaptable
The Artistic Paradox – Finding Space to Hold Both Faith and Pragmatism
Since my last post where we talked about Karl Marx and getting closer to the means of production, I have been looking for examples of this around me. This morning, while catching up on recorded TV, the above credits flashed up on my screen. I was watching a recent episode of Season Four of Suits and […]
What the heck IS a creative entrepreneur, after all?
I was writing a funding application the other day for my PHD and in my opening sentence I referred to creative entrepreneurs. Andrew challenged me: What exactly do you mean by that? How would you define that? I struggled. Which is funny because I have an MA in Creative Entrepreneurship, I write a blog about […]
Recap: How to manage a creative career – it’s possible to do this for a living!
Making art is not the same thing as making a living. Many creative people struggle with this. But there are ways of managing a creative career to keep yourself fed, happy, solvent and fulfilled without having to ‘sell out.’ It largely comes down to planning. A sustainable, long-term creative career is one that is planned. […]
Guest Post: The Post University Blogger (P.U.B) is…a Networking Newbie
“Take action every day. It doesn’t have to be dramatic action, but every day, stick with it. Spend time on things that make you proud, that stretch and strengthen you.” – Phillip Humbert I’m pretty new to this making-it-alone thing, when you put it into perspective. I’m two years out of university, and while it’s […]
Recap: Defining Your Customer – why you don’t want to sell to everyone
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 […]
Wise words from George Bernard Shaw
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing George Bernard Shaw Do you think it’s a coincidence that Shaw wasn’t frightened about making mistakes and also managed, in his lifetime, to write more than 60 plays, 5 novels, reams of music and literary […]
In the evening …
In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by. Georgia O’Keefe Routine. Sustainable actions. Repetition. Enjoyment of life. These […]
First Steps to Setting Up a Creative Business
At a recent Creative Entrepreneurship workshop I lead at the Red Door Studios in East Ham a lot of people had questions about the nuts and bolts of setting up their own businesses, so I promised a kind of check list as to the first steps to consider. These are logistical steps and are kind […]