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Idols, Mentors, Colleagues and Fans – Build a Team in 2015

December 31, 2014 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Build your team, Find a Mentor

I have two professional colleagues who are always talking about ‘their team.’ How ‘their team’ advises they do this, or ‘their team’ has plans to do this, etc. Every time I hear it I experience a pang of jealousy. I don’t have a team. It’s me. My computer. My ‘cup of joe.’ And that’s it. […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Sustainable Creativity, Uncategorized Tagged With: Artist, Colleagues, creative, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Fans, Idols, Mentors, Team, Teamwork

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

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