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Wise Words From Joni Mitchell

June 8, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

You wonder about people who made a fortune, and you always think they drank it up or they stuck it up their nose. That’s not usually what brings on the decline. It’s usually the battle to keep your creative child alive while keeping the business shark alive, too. You have to develop cunning, shrewdness, and […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: creative career, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship

New Look

May 26, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

It was time for a bit of a new look around here. Tell us what you think?

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Wise words from George Bernard Shaw

May 19, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Workspace Tagged With: C, creative business, creative career, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, Creative Industries, George Bernard Shaw, risk taking, Space, sustainable creativity

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

How Our Desires Can Blind Us

February 22, 2013 by Steven Sparling 7 Comments

Photo by poolski This has been a challenging couple of months for me on a professional front. Before Christmas I was offered an acting job (yay!) only to lose it because I couldn’t do the dates they needed me for (boo). Then I was thrilled to get another job offer – for something shiny and […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Planning Tagged With: creative career, Creative Entrepreneurship, Negotiating, planning

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