How to Staycation During COVID
Vacationing from home (AKA Staycation) is what you make of it. One must understand that a staycation and a vacation are NOT the same things. When you leave your home, not only are you leaving the …
Category Archives: Creative Business
5 accountability articles for your creative business
We use accountability to reach goals, to inspire, motivate, and follow a path to grow and expand their businesses. These articles offer great ideas on how accountability can help your business. 1) Creating accountability through your marketing …
5 Tips to Get the Most Out of Online Learning
The internet provides - unlimited access to anything you would ever want to learn about. Google’s initial decision to brand itself as a spin-off of the term “googol”, defined as a digit with one hundred …
Accountability Makes Your Creative World Go ‘Round
The Help You Need As a creative entrepreneur do you spent a ridiculous amount of time working IN your business that leaves no time at all to work ON your business. Then you need the Creatives …
I’m Over It
Processing our world right now is unique to each of us. After six weeks of riding the uncertainty emotional roller coaster, I shed the weight of worry and whining and loving shook myself awake. I have an opportunity …
Design: A Commodity or a Critical Asset?
Should you go to a freelance crowdsourcing marketplace when looking for a designer? When you don’t really care, yes, but if you do care, you are taking a risk. Recently, I was listening to Ilise Benun of …
How important are happy clients?
“I love it!” I’ll bet hearing that from a client makes your day. Don’t you love it when they love it and are “happy” with your work? But what if your client is not a good judge of …
Nurture Your Fans
As designers, there are so many little things we do for our clients that may seem small. These are things we might not even think about—they just come naturally. We forget that not every designer …
What is Your “Why”?
Why do you do what you do? That's the big question, right? As designers, we love design! Maybe you loved to draw as a kid, and you were really good at it, and a career …
Does your contract include these items?
Before I dive into what every creative's contract should include, I first want to ask, "You do have a contract, right?" It continues to amaze me that so many service professionals don't use a contract. …