Today I want to persuade you that systems can set you free. You might not associate systems with freedom, but bear with me while I explain. This morning I’m writing this article for you. The …
Naomi Dunford on Marketing for Creatives
Naomi Dunford has been helping unconventional business owners sell their work online since 2006, long before content marketing was a household term. In this episode she shares her contrarian …
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Making Music Sustainable with Steve Lawson
How do you build a thriving music career when you make ‘wonky electronica’ on a six-string bass and refuse to stream on Spotify? British solo-bass pioneer Steve Lawson has spent two decades …
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John T. Unger (Rachael Que Vargas): 21st Century Artist
The 21st Century Creative returns with an extraordinary tale of reinvention – meet sculptor-mosaicist Rachael Que Vargas, formerly known as John T. Unger, whose fire-and-stone artworks have …
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Bat-Signal Marketing for Creatives with Ilise Benun
However brilliant your craft, it will languish in obscurity if the right people never discover it. Yet marketing can feel baffling – or downright distasteful – to many creatives. Enter Ilise Benun, …
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Stop Marketing – Start Sharing Your Work
When I started out as a self-employed psychotherapist and coach, in the mid-nineties, I was completely clueless about marketing. I thought it was the antithesis of my work - something commercial and …
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The Freelance Way with Robert Vlach
What does it really take to thrive as a one-person business? Czech business consultant Robert Vlach has spent two decades answering that question for thousands of independent professionals across …
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Peleg Top on Fear, Love, Money and Creativity
Peleg Top built a thriving Los Angeles design agency creating album covers for the likes of Capitol Records – then walked away to discover what success really means. In this conversation he traces …
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Brian Clark’s Career Advice for the Unemployable
Remember the first time you realised you could never be happy clock-watching in someone else’s office? Brian Clark had the same epiphany – and turned it into a series of eight-figure ventures built on …
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