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 […]
Why Artists Need to Be Adaptable (Madonna as a Creative Entrepreneurship Role Model)
Wise Words From Ernest Holmes
How to Fight Overwhelm in Your Creative Business
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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. […]
Recap: Selling for Creative People (without feeling icky)
Most creative people love to create – to make things or to provide creative services. Most creative people hate to have to sell their products or their creative services. But if you want to create a sustainable livelihood for yourself from your creative endeavours, then you must learn how to sell. It’s the only way […]
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 […]
Rejection Sucks – 3 Ways to Cope When the Gig Isn’t Yours
Image by Rebecca One of the hardest things about what we do as creative entrepreneurs is that we don’t produce widgets. I’m sure there are some widget makers who care very deeply about their widgets, who put loads of effort into making the best widgets they can, who invest deeply of themselves into their widgets. […]