Creative Business Handbook

Author : Alicia Puig,Ekaterina Popova
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781797223094

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Creative Business Handbook by Alicia Puig,Ekaterina Popova Pdf

Offering veteran insight and friendly, actionable advice from two self-made women who manage three six-figure businesses, this practical handbook acts as a roadmap to guide anyone wanting to build a profitable venture out of their creative passion. Figuring out how to make a living from your creative work poses unique challenges and obstacles. From choosing the right business model to building a brand, from managing your time to scaling up your production—starting your own creative business often means doing it all yourself. Enter The Creative Business Handbook by Alicia Puig and Ekaterina Popova, the dynamic duo behind Create! Magazine. With its conversational tone and accessible advice, this handbook lays an essential foundation for anyone wanting to earn a living with their art—no fancy business degree required! In addition to nuts-and-bolts advice based on the authors' real-life experiences, each chapter of the book includes an interview with a creative entrepreneur from a different background and craft, and ends with action steps that will help keep you on track. Written by creative business owners for creative business owners, this is the perfect book for anyone with a vision who is ready to hit the ground running. EXPERT AUTHORS: Informed by the authors' decades of experience founding and managing three successful creative businesses—as well as the lessons they learned from some projects that didn't stand the test of time—this book offers tried-and-true advice for artists looking to get their creative enterprises off the ground and achieve real financial success. Popova and Puig have also included interviews with other self-employed creatives across a variety of fields, giving you a window into the myriad paths available to you as you embark on your entrepreneurial journey. FOR ALL CREATIVES: This book offers real wisdom for starting and sustaining your unique creative business no matter your passion, whether you are a career artist looking to make a living outside of the gallery space, an experienced freelance writer interested in mentoring your peers, or a podcaster who dreams of sustaining yourself by making content that you genuinely care about. From advice about best marketing practices to striking the ever-elusive work-life balance, this guide will help you to understand the business side of your creative practice. Perfect for: Artists, designers, makers, illustrators—recent graduates and budding professionals—looking to start their own businesses Creative people exploring career ideas and looking for practical advice and inspiration Graduation, birthday, or holiday gift for artistic and entrepreneurial friends and loved ones Readers of Create! Magazine, Steal Like an Artist, Big Magic, and Untamed

Author : Doug Richard
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446360743

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How to Start a Creative Business by Doug Richard Pdf

A guide to starting and sustaining creativity-based businesses—from culinary to crafting to film to fashion and beyond. Many “creative types” don’t think they’re cut out for business—but Doug Richard, founder of School for Creative Startups, believes entrepreneurs are made, not born. In this user-friendly guide he shows how artists, chefs, designers, musicians, and others can turn their hobbies and passions into sustainable lifestyle businesses. Based on a unique ten-question formula, the book provides comprehensive start-up business advice in jargon-free style, brought to life with real-life case studies from a range of creative start-ups—and online resources that help you to develop your own business goals and plans. “This book helps debunk the myth that creative people and business don’t mix.” —James Boardwell, cofounder, Folksy

Author : Chris Griffiths
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749484675

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The Creative Thinking Handbook by Chris Griffiths Pdf

More than 82 per cent of companies believe creativity directly impacts results, yet few of us understand how it comes about or how to put it into practice. Some people say that creativity is about thinking outside the box, while others believe it is about being creative inside the box; but what if there is no box? The Creative Thinking Handbook argues that we need to identify and remove the 'box' around our thinking, so we canunlock unlimited streams of creativity for professional and business success. This book offers an integrated system of personalized insights, along with clear, practical tools and strategies - including the tried-and-trusted Solution Finder model. The authors show you how to develop your creative problem-solving skills to make better decisions with an individualized step-by-step strategy. Based on long-term research and testing of the creative thinking process, The Creative Thinking Handbook helps you generate more ideas and find brilliant solutions for any professional challenge.

Author : Cameron S. Foote
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780393732993

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The Creative Business Guide to Running a Graphic Design Business (Updated Edition) by Cameron S. Foote Pdf

The go-to guide for graphic designers who want to run their own shop and improve their bottom line. First published in 2001, The Creative Business Guide to Running a Graphic Design Business set long-needed standards as the first comprehensive management manual for the graphic design industry. Now brought up-to-date, it describes current, best-practice procedures for firms of all sizes operating in an industry that is both fast-evolving and increasingly competitive.

Author : Alison McNicol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-02
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1908707011

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The Craft Business Handbook by Alison McNicol Pdf

Wish you could turn your talent for making lovely things into cash? Bored of the 9 to 5 and dreaming of starting your own crafty business, but not sure where to start? Then this is the book for you ! The Craft Business Handbook has ALL the information you need to get started making money from your crafts - NOW ! From setting up as a proper business, producing and pricing your goods for maximum sales and profit, to the various options for selling online, at craft fairs, trade shows and getting your products into retailers, right through to gaining magazine coverage, promoting your business online and managing your business as it grows, this is THE essential guide for any would-be crafty entrepreneur! Whether you're just considering getting started with a crafty business idea, or already selling your wares and looking for ways to grow your business ( think sales reps, fulfillment houses and more!), this handy book - written by craft business expert Alison McNicol - shares tons of insider tips, practical information, and shows how you too can achieve Craft Business success! PLUS - some of the most successful crafty business people around share their stories - how they started and grew their successful craft businesses - prepare to be inspired with in-depth interviews from some of your favorite crafty entrepreneurs around! About The Author Alison McNicol is a serial crafty entrepreneur who has launched several successful craft businesses, selling her products in stores worldwide. She is also the author of several successful craft and craft business books, and founder of The Craft Business Community.com, an online community that provides resources and networking opportunities for crafty entrepreneurs from all over the world. Alison is also author of Craft Business Heroes: How We Did It ( 30 Creative Entrepreneurs Share the Secrets of Their Success)- a companion book to the Craft Business Handbook, featuring 30 more interviews from leading craft entrrepreneurs - Amy Butler, Amy Karol, Sublime Stitching's Jenny Hart, Subversive Cross Stitch founder Julie Jackson and tons more !

Author : Ian Grais,Tom Shepansky
Publisher : Figure 1 Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781773271385

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Rethink the Business of Creativity by Ian Grais,Tom Shepansky Pdf

If you think doing consistently great creative work inevitably leads to long hours, chaos and burnout, we have just one thing to say: Rethink. Rethink your priorities. Rethink your approach. And rethink your product in the process. Rethink is a one-word business plan for any company in the creative arts—from advertising, to design, to publishing, architecture or software development. Rethink is also one of the world’s most consistently awarded advertising and design agencies. Headquartered far off the beaten track in Vancouver, Rethink has been radically breaking rules for two decades, proving that you can do work that gets the world’s attention, without sacrificing efficiency and a balanced life. Now, for the first time, Rethink offers you a how-to manual of their 55 best tools for creating a sustainable, successful creative culture—tools that will help you inspire your people, boost your bottom line and take your creative product to the next level. Tried, true, constantly tweaked and consistently proven, these tools are simple and effective ways to inspire teams, boost creativity and cut through the bullshit at every stage of the process. Rethink’s step-by-step plan is radical, refreshing and relatable to any business striving for creative excellence.

Author : Harriet Kelsall
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781472141088

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The Creative's Guide to Starting a Business by Harriet Kelsall Pdf

'A book to devour from start to finish - easy to do as it is accessibly-written and oh so fascinating - and then to dip into later for reference.' - Joanna Reeves Do you have a passion for making beautiful objects? Are you wondering whether you can take the next step and turn your creativity into a career? This inspirational guide offers easy-to-follow advice from talented and creative industry experts. There are practical exercises that will help you sell your creations, choose the right time to start your business, and guide you through as you do so. With The Creative's Guide to Starting a Business, you will discover the best way to: Create pieces that sell Write a business plan Identify and reach customers Research the competition Price products and test the market Promote the business successfully Packed with interviews, encouraging real life stories, and tips from successful entrepreneurs who started with a passion and turned it into their own successful, creative business, this practical guide will take you through the very first steps of defining creative and financial success to ultimately establishing a rewarding start-up.

Author : Ruth Towse,Christian Handka
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781781004876

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Handbook on the Digital Creative Economy by Ruth Towse,Christian Handka Pdf

Digital technologies have transformed the way many creative works are generated, disseminated and used. They have made cultural products more accessible, challenged established business models and the copyright system, and blurred the boundary between

Author : Molly Suber Thorpe
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Calligraphy
ISBN : 1545300496

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The Calligrapher's Business Handbook by Molly Suber Thorpe Pdf

The Calligrapher's Business Handbook is a guide to best business practices and pricing strategies for calligraphers and lettering artists. Whether you're starting out in creative freelancing, transitioning from a different profession, or running a lettering business that just needs a boost, you will welcome the invaluable ideas in this handbook. Award-winning graphic designer, renowned calligrapher, and bestselling author of Modern Calligraphy, Molly Suber Thorpe shares her hard-earned insights to answer your most pressing business questions. Molly has packed these pages with advice you won't find anywhere else, covering a range of topics for freelance calligraphers and hand lettering artists: How professional calligraphers charge for their services Whether to charge flat rates or hourly rates When - and how - to offer discounts or freebies How to charge for commercial work, such as logo designs How to get the most bang for your advertising budget What goes into a fair project contract How to navigate copyright licensing and know your rights!

Author : D. E. Andersson,E. Andersson,Charlotta Mellander
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857936394

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Handbook of Creative Cities by D. E. Andersson,E. Andersson,Charlotta Mellander Pdf

With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the 'creative city' became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist Åke E. Andersson and the psychologist Dean Simonton are the other members of this 'creative troika'. In the Handbook of Creative Cities, Florida, Andersson and Simonton appear in the same volume for the first time. The expert contributors in this timely Handbook extend their insights with a varied set of theoretical and empirical tools. The diversity of the contributions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of creative city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics, economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology, and urban planning. The stated policy implications are equally diverse, ranging from libertarian to social democratic visions of our shared creative and urban future. Being truly international in its scope, this major Handbook will be particularly useful for policy makers that are involved in urban development, academics in urban economics, economic geography, urban sociology, social psychology, and urban planning, as well as graduate and advanced undergraduate students across the social sciences and in business.

Author : Rolf Sternberg,Gerhard Krauss
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781004432

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Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Creativity by Rolf Sternberg,Gerhard Krauss Pdf

This book will appeal to researchers and scholars interested in entrepreneurship and creativity issues, coming from a wide range of academic disciplines. These readers will find an up-to-date presentation of existing and new directions for research in

Author : Candace Jones,Mark Lorenzen,Jonathan Sapsed
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191062278

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The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries by Candace Jones,Mark Lorenzen,Jonathan Sapsed Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries is a reference work, bringing together many of the world's leading scholars in the application of creativity in economics, business and management, law, policy studies, organization studies, and psychology. Creative industries research has become a regular theme in academic journals and conferences across these subjects and is also an important agenda for governments throughout the world, while business people from established companies and entrepreneurs revaluate and innovate their models in creative industries. The Handbook is organized into four parts: Following the editors' introduction, Part One on Creativity includes individual creativity and how this scales up to teams, social networks, cities, and labour markets. Part Two addresses Generating and Appropriating Value from Creativity, as achieved by agents and organizations, such as entrepreneurs, stars and markets for symbolic goods, and considers how performance is measured in the creative industries. Part Three covers the mechanics of Managing and Organizing Creative Industries, with chapters on the role of brokerage and mediation in creative industry networks, disintermediation and glocalisation due to digital technology, the management of project-based organzations in creative industries, organizing events in creative fields, project ecologies, Global Production Networks, genres and classification and sunk costs and dynamics of creative industries. Part Four on Creative Industries, Culture and the Economy offers chapters on cultural change and entrepreneurship, on development, on copyright, economic spillovers and government policy. This authoritative collection is the most comprehensive source of the state of knowledge in the increasingly important field of creative industries research. Covering emerging economies and new technologies, it will be of interest to scholars and students of the arts, business, innovation, and policy.

Author : John O'Connor
Publisher : London : B. T. Batsford ; New York : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN : 0823025586

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Introducing Relief Printing by John O'Connor Pdf

Author : Chris Griffiths,Melina Costi,Caragh Medlicott
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781398607071

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The Creative Thinking Handbook by Chris Griffiths,Melina Costi,Caragh Medlicott Pdf

Creativity directly impacts results and productivity, yet few of us understand how it happens or how to put it into practice. This book shows you not only how to get things done, but how to do them better and more creatively. The Creative Thinking Handbook provides the correct application for creative thinking and action, by offering clear, practical tools and strategies so that you can develop creative thinking skills and help find brilliant solutions for any professional challenge. Based on research and proven-to-work creative thinking models, Chris Griffiths and Melina Costi present a clear introduction to what creative thinking is, explain why we all need to do it and will help you generate ideas and make better decisions. The Creative Thinking Handbook gets you to think differently by thinking creatively.

Author : Tudor Rickards,Susan Moger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351931786

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Handbook for Creative Team Leaders by Tudor Rickards,Susan Moger Pdf

Every worthwhile organization strives continuously to improve. What the authors of this groundbreaking book offer is nothing less than a system for achieving peak performance. As a result of their work with more than 2000 teams, in some 40 countries across the globe, the authors identified the 7 factors that distinguish what they call ’dream teams’ and on that basis they developed the structured approach described in the Handbook. Part I sets out the principles that underlie team performance. Part II shows how to train teams to become more creative. Finally, in Part III, the authors demonstrate their ideas in action with real-life examples from a wide variety of organizational settings. They emphasize throughout the role of leadership in stimulating creativity and innovation, and they explain how to inject new dynamism into existing organizational systems and practices. Anyone involved in teamworking would profit from a close study of the Handbook. It will be especially valuable to team leaders and facilitators, to project managers and to HRD practitioners and consultants.