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 […]
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Can You Turn On A Sixpence? Why Creative Entrepreneurs Need to Learn to Be Adaptable
What the heck IS a creative entrepreneur, after all?
I was writing a funding application the other day for my PHD and in my opening sentence I referred to creative entrepreneurs. Andrew challenged me: What exactly do you mean by that? How would you define that? I struggled. Which is funny because I have an MA in Creative Entrepreneurship, I write a blog about […]
5. Listen first, then talk
Good face-to-face conversation involves listening more than you talk. Likewise in social media. You want to spend more time listening to what it already being said, and seeing where you can contribute to the dialogue, rather than shouting overtop of existing conversations or trying to monopolise the bandwidth. This is true at all times, but […]
3. Define your goals
This is part Three of my series ’65 Social Media Strategies for Performing Artists’ What do you hope to achieve with social media? Who would you like to meet? Without goals, you will be floundering around not really making any impact. You will also have no idea if the time you are spending on it […]
2. Stake your claim
The first thing you want to do is to stake your claim by registering with all the major social media platforms in order to capture your name, or a close to your name as you can get, on the popular sites. Even if you don’t use them all, or don’t want to set them up […]