Last week I suggested that if you’re serious about achieving your creative ambitions, you need to think in terms of projects, not tasks. Because if you get up every morning and ask yourself ‘What …
Career Advice for Creatives: Start Creating Assets (Video)
I hope this finds you as well as can be. Here in the UK we’re bracing for what we are assured will be a large wave of Omicron. I know things may be very different for you, depending on where …
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Systems Can Set You Free
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 …
Make the Most of Your Creative Assets
Back in 2016 I outlined a fundamental strategy for your career as a 21st century creative professional: forget the career ladder, start creating assets. The argument I made, and that I make …
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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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Two Essential Factors in Signing the Right Clients for Your Creative Business
If you’re a creative service provider of any kind, then to sign the right kind of clients -- for the right kind of projects at the right kind of fees -- then you basically need to do two things. …
Forget the Career Ladder: Start Creating Assets
When you follow a creative path, you won't find any of the usual milestones of success. Unlike your friends who enter traditional jobs, with clear routes to promotion, finely calibrated pay grades …
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The Art of Emotional Pricing
How much should I charge? I hear this question a lot from coaching clients wrestling with the perennial question of how much a unique piece of art, or a stylish design, or an engrossing story, or a …