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My Top 5 Apps for Artists and Creatives

February 4, 2015 by Steven Sparling 2 Comments

My Top 5 Apps for Artists and Creatives

I’ve just got a new iPhone 6 plus and I am wondering how I ever accomplished anything before I got it. It is literally becoming my portable brain. With 64 gb of memory, I’m sure it has more retention ability than I do, so I find myself leaning more and more on it to help […]

Filed Under: List, Marketing, Social Media Tagged With: Actor, Apps, Artist, creative, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, List, planning

Not sure what your business strategy should be? Ask Albert Einstein!

May 16, 2014 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Wise Words Tagged With: Actor, Artist, business, Dancer, entrepreneurship, Painter, planning, Poet, Writer

What Exactly Do You Need To Thrive?

February 28, 2014 by Steven Sparling 7 Comments

I met with a friend yesterday and he suggested that I needed a diagnostic tool – a way to know what my readers needed so I could point them to existing entries (there are over 150 posts already here at The Thriving Creative) but also so I can continue to target your needs. But I […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: Artist, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, diagnostic, planning

Why the Kaiser Chiefs got Fat and Lazy – and What You Can Learn from Them

January 9, 2014 by Steven Sparling 2 Comments

So last night I was out for a company meal with the cast of Scrooge. I was chatting with one my colleagues, who has been a reader of this blog (and who has also done his own PhD) and I was saying how my biggest fear is having nothing to say – nothing to say […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Planning Tagged With: art, Career, Change, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, music, planning

“Creatives Are Adept At Burying Their Dead”

November 13, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

“Creatives Are Adept at Burying Their Dead” This was a quote from Patrick McKenna, Ingenious Media, at a recent talk at Goldsmiths University Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship on Risk. He was discussing risk, the need to take risk and the outcome of risk. Sometimes (or often) the outcome of risk is failure. What […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Financial Tagged With: Artist, creative, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, finance, Money, planning, Risk, Risk Management

Guest Blog: Let the Numbers Tell the Story

October 23, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

We welcome back A. L. Michaels who catches us up on how her money diet is going… ———————————————————– Numbers tell a story, and as a writer, that’s the only thing that’s getting me through this necessary reigning in of my spending. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not an extravagant spender by any means (though I’m […]

Filed Under: Financial, Guest Post Tagged With: 20-something, Artist, creative, finances, Financial, Money, money management, planning, Writer

Money Makes the World Go Around?

September 5, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Here’s a classic moment from the film Cabaret where LIza Minnelli and Joel Grey ask the crucial question….

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Artist, creative, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, Money, planning

Does Money Matter?

September 4, 2013 by Steven Sparling 6 Comments

This may seem like a silly question – of course money matters! And yet, how often do our choices, as creative people, put money last?   No one became a creative to get rich. For a very few, this is a side benefit, but for the vast majority of creatives our motivation to pursue this […]

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Recap: How to manage a creative career – it’s possible to do this for a living!

August 31, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

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. […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Recap Tagged With: Artist, creative business, creative career, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, finance, planning

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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