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Your price communicates your work’s value
Read more: Your price communicates your work’s valueWhen I held the Alignment Retreat last week inside Artists & Profit Makers, not surprisingly, we ended up talking a lot about price. I say not surprisingly because in all my years of working with artists and makers, I’ve found that when creatives are feeling burnt out in their businesses, it is often because they…
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Why Netflix should pay all the contestants on Blown Away
Read more: Why Netflix should pay all the contestants on Blown AwayI spent the last week binge watching both seasons of Blown Away, Netflix’s glass blowing competition show. (Yes, I did other work too. They are fairly short seasons!) Despite a few little quirks (it feels like they gloss over some pretty big parts of the process) it’s a fairly entertaining show that I think most…
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Why it takes more than passion and strengths to build a successful business.
Read more: Why it takes more than passion and strengths to build a successful business.One of my projects last year was to launch a book club with my friend Amber. Each month, we picked a book that we both loved and then developed resources to help other takes action on the themes of the book. It was a project we were both excited about, as it really hit our…
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Two pieces of business advice that just don’t apply to artists and makers
Read more: Two pieces of business advice that just don’t apply to artists and makersOne of the reasons I started Artists & Profit Makers, my online mentorship program and community, was that I was tired of seeing artists and makers get tripped up on business advice that they’ve been told they just have to follow. There are lots of culprits, but the two big ones that I want to…
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It’s ok to ease into the new year.
Read more: It’s ok to ease into the new year.There’s always so much pressure to hit the ground running when the year starts. And that’s especially true if the past year didn’t go exactly as planned. (Which lets face it, whose did?) So it’s not surprising if you’re feeling the pressure to do ALL THE THINGS in the next few days or weeks, in…