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Year 1 - Season 1
Author Lisa Bolton share her best tips on how to get a non-fiction book deal when you don’t have a big audience or social media following and nobody really knows who you are.
Is it a good idea to take on a business partner in your creative business? What could go wrong? What are the keys to a successful partnership? We answer all of those questions for you!
Taking some time off from your business, whether it’s a few days, a few weeks or even a few months doesn’t have to be scary if you plan far enough in advance and follow these tips!
Figuring out how to price your work is one of the hardest things you’ll do as a creative business owner. Whether you’re pricing a product or a service it’s a constantly moving target that changes with time and circumstance. We share our best tips for figuring out how to price your work in part one of this two part podcast.
Batching your tasks and using time blocking are two effective ways to up your productivity while making sure you build in time to get deep creative work done and still take care of the day to day tasks of running a creative business.
After 10 years of working from home for both of us, we share our best tips for working from home… productively!
Working from home comes with a lot of distractions! Here’s some of the most common ones you’ll face and our best tips to manage distractions when you run your business from home.
After 10 years of working from home for both of us, we share some of our best tips for setting up a workspace at home for your creative business.
Giving back to your community, your peers or your audience are all powerful ways to inspire others, which in turn has a tendency to turn around and inspire you right back. And it can be a powerful way to grow your creative business.
What’s the difference between inspiration, imitation and plagiarism and how can you avoid copying somebody else’s work? We share some tips to help you in your daily work
Cultivate inspiration daily! For working creatives, cultivating inspiration needs to be part of our regular business routines - just like bookkeeping and social media and actually creating art. Here’s some of our tips to help.
We share 20 of our favourite sources of creative inspiration to help you get your creative juices flowing - 10 online and 10 offline.
We share tips for mitigating both creative risks and entrepreneurial risk for working creatives.
Self-doubt can be crippling for working creatives and artistic entrepreneurs. We share our best tips for managing your creative self-doubt
This week’s episode focuses on how so many of use perfectionism and procrastination to mask fear - the fear of hitting that "publish" button on our creative work and sharing it with the outside world. This episode is a must listen to for any artist or creator who lets perfectionism get in the way of production, sharing or just doing the work.
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Being bored can be very beneficial - if only we could let ourselves embrace boredom! Our tips to help you be bored and let in the creative energy that comes out of it!