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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

Are your small business marketing messages landing?

January 28, 2015 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Are your small business marketing messages landing?

Getting your marketing messages heard is critical for any creative small business owner. Most creative entrepreneurs are on board with social media and are using many of the modern marketing tools to get their messages out there. But are you repeating your messages often enough? Here’s where I see a lot of small business owners […]

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: creative, creative business, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, small business

Social media listening

November 21, 2014 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Social Media Listening

Your potential customer is chattering away. Are you taking the time to listen? It’s always so great when you have a wonderful social media experience. And I just had one I’d like to share with you because it shows what is possible. This one happened to me on Twitter. Backstory So I’m fortunate to live […]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, customer outreach, propspecting, Risk, social media, social media listening, Twitter

Is Your Business Model Up to Date as a Creative Entrepreneur?

November 5, 2014 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Illegitimi non carborundum – Don’t let the bastards grind you down. It seems like an apt way to kick off this post. There are three incidents/factoids floating around in my head as I sit to write this. 1. My agent dropped me last week after just 8 months because I wasn’t available enough to audition […]

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: art jobs, Copyright, creative career, Creative entrepreneur, Iggy Pop, intellectual property, Longevity

Is your ‘to-do’ list threatening to do you in?

October 7, 2014 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Is your to do list threatening to do you in?

  I grew up in the Canadian Prairies, in the 1970’s, so this might be ‘of an era’ but I distinctly remember a regular event at Beavers, Cub Scouts, Church picnics and School sports days was a race where we had to push peanuts across the gym floor with our nose. Does anyone else have […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Work Tagged With: Artist, business, Career, Creative Business Planning, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, Persistence, Time management

How Many Books Could You Sell by Christmas?

September 21, 2014 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Whether you’re able to attend our London workshop or not, I want you think about what you could achieve by Christmas? How many books could you sell? How many chapters could you write? How many paintings could you complete? How many drafts of your play? How many grant applications could you complete? How many casting […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Writers Tagged With: Creative Business Planning, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, marketing, writers

Books Don’t Sell Themselves (or 5 Ways to Get Your Books Into Readers’ Hands)

September 8, 2014 by Steven Sparling 1 Comment

Books Don't Sell Themselves. Blog Post

With nearly 150,000 new books published per year in the UK there is a flood of new titles clamouring for attention all the time. And that’s before we get to all the titles that are self-published. Whether fiction or non-fiction, there is an enormous amount of competition for the eyeballs (and wallets) of readers. Here’s […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, List, Marketing, Workshop, Writers Tagged With: Authors, books, bootcamp, Creative entrepreneur, marketing, writers

At a loss about what to write? Go fishing!

April 30, 2014 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Do you blog, or have a newsletter? Or perhaps you use Twitter or Facebook? I bet at one time of another you’ve wondered what to write about. I know I often feel stumped by what to write about here on the Thriving Creative. Sometimes I have an abundance of ideas and I have to scribble […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: Actor, Artist, creative business, creative career, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Industries, Dancer, marketing, Musician, Painter, Writer

Sustainable Marketing (The Secret for Artists & Creatives)

April 28, 2014 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Marketing Bite Tagged With: Actor, Artist, business, creative, creative business, creative career, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, Creative Industries, Dancer, marketing, Musician, Painter, Singer, sustainable creativity, Writer

Wise Words from Charlie Parker

April 25, 2014 by Steven Sparling 1 Comment

Filed Under: Wise Words Tagged With: Actor, Artist, creative business, creative career, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, Creative Industries, marketing, Musician, Painter, Singer, sustainable creativity, Writer

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