The Creative Hat – includes:
- Product creation and development
- Marketing and brand identity creation,
- And craft development (improving your creative skills).
- Audio Acrobat - Easy Audio! Create Audio for your website, record teleclasses, testimonials, podcasts - quickly, easily, and inexpensively. No equipment to buy. No special skills necessary. I've built my entire membership site based on this tool!
- Blue Ocean Strategy Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean metaphor elegantly summarizes their vision of the kind of expanding, competitor-free markets that innovative companies can navigate. Unlike "red oceans," which are well explored and crowded with competitors, "blue oceans" represent "untapped market space" and the "opportunity for highly profitable growth."
- Copyright and Trademark Basics an Interview with Jeff Fabian Trademark and copyright protection are fundamental components of a sound business strategy for all artists and professionals in the Music Business, Visual Arts or Film and Television Industry. But do we have to be lawyers to understand the basics? Jeff Fa...
- Creator's Block Whether you are writing words, writing songs, painting, taking photographs, sculpting, designing jewelry or in any way creating on a regular basis, creator's block can happen. So, in this month's newsletter, I'm going to look at creator's block, give you an overview of possible causes (which I'll be writing more about in my blog) and a technique to help you break through your block.
- Embrace Your Unique Voice as an Artist This is primarily directed to artists, but really, it applies to all of us. Being a unique voice in a world that values sameness can be a rough row to hoe. As children, we're taught, encouraged, sometimes even bludgeoned and beaten into sameness. Do...
- How to Embrace Your Unique Voice as an Artist As children we are taught, by our parents, our teachers, our siblings and our peers, that in order to be loved, we must blend in. We must conform our uniqueness to be "appropriate". And its an important skill to have - to know society's rules and be able...
- How to Use Feedback and Criticism Constructively The most successful artists (and people) have made an art of receiving and implementing feedback. But for the rest of us, feedback can be really hard to hear. It can be painful. It can trigger all of our negative beliefs both about our own worth and about the probability of our success.
- How to Use Feedback and Criticism Constructively To find out where Debra Russell is appearing, check the Workshops and Events page. Bring Debra in to speak to your group or conference of 40 or more people. The most successful artists (and people) have made an art of receiving and implementing feedba...
- I Am A Professional Artist My dear friend, Gilli Moon, brings a level of reality to this topic filled with illusions and lies. And she does it with great humor and compassion. A fellow TAXI Road Rally speaker, she created Songsalive! and several other resources for musicians. I've also interviewed her for the Artist's EDGE Membership.
- Step 4: Develop Your Product Funnel Most people create products haphazardly - this step was about how to use your Vision of your business and career to create products that lead your customers deeper into relationship with you and create lifelong fans.
- The Artist’s Way - How to Recover Your Creativity Working through the Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron got me through one of the most challenging times of my life - dealing with a 10 year bout of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. And later, leading Artist's Way groups led me to coaching - the most satisfying career of my dreams!
- Transform Your Inner Critic into Your Staunchest Ally Are you plagued by internal doubts and self-criticism? Think you're not good enough, or don't deserve the success you long for? Do you find that even when you know what to do, you find all sorts of reasons not to do it? We all carry an internal critic ...
- Unblock Your Creativity As professionals in the field of creativity, we rely on accessing our creativity to create success. That creativity needs to be engaged, not just in creating your product, but also in your marketing, your systems, every aspect of your business. But ou...
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