Creative Careers

If you’re planning to build a freelance career in an artistic industry, SOLO is the perfect field guide for creative entrepreneurs at every level. Whether you’re starting out, or a seasoned professional, this audiobook will give you the tools you need to push forward on your journey to building your brand and becoming a sought-after commodity. Complete with real-life examples, pre-written forms, and psychological business strategy, SOLO will be the audiobook you reference throughout your career for advice and inspiration as you turn your brand into an empire.

佐渡島庸平氏、推薦！創造力は運任せでも遺伝でもない。この本を読むと、学んで身につける力だと思えるだろう。---ベストセラー『直

You’ve got a creative business idea, now what? Has this ever happened to you? You come up with a brilliant idea for a business, and then...nothing happens. Your idea goes nowhere. It lives in your thoughts or you have some fun talking about it, but your idea dies along the way. Cause of death? Lack of action. That’s where Spark Click Go comes in.

The Work of Art is an essential 21st-century roadmap for turning your creative work into a thriving business. Featuring brass-tacks useful information for creative entrepreneurs of every skill set, this book covers topics from personal branding, budgeting, and mental health, to guidance on clearing the hurdles that come forth as you rise to steady success. Heidi Luerra is the founder and CEO of RAW:natural born artists, the world’s largest independent arts organization.

Written by Peter Daboll, one of the leading minds in ad creative measurement, ADitude discusses how using data effectively throughout every stage of the creative process produces ads that consumers choose to view from beginning to end, rather than ignore. Daboll draws from his vast experience, exploring lessons learned throughout advertising history to present day, identifying obsolete rules that wrongly guide many marketers, while warning against modern-day modeling pitfalls.

Whether it's the great American novel or a groundbreaking new app, many people want to create a Big Thing, but finding the motivation to get started, let alone complete the work, can be daunting. In The Big Thing, New York Times business writer and editor Phyllis Korkki combines real-life stories, science, and insights from her own experience to illuminate the factors that drive people to complete big creative projects - and the obstacles that threaten to derail success.

Avere tanti progetti e interessi non ci condanna affatto ad essere dei dilettanti inconcludenti. Una curiosità insaziabile non ci rende necessariamente degli eccentrici che disperdono le proprie energie, ma dei multipotenziali: persone che perseguono molteplici attività creative. E questa può essere la più importante delle nostre qualità. Diventa chi sei si propone di aiutarci ad incanalare positivamente le nostre passioni e le nostre doti.

Are you a creative person? An artist, cook, crafter, quilter, designer, web developer, or musician? Have you ever wished that you could quit your 9-5 job and work in your passion full time? Well, it's possible. In the past few years more and more people have been trying their hand at making a business out of their creative talent. But it is not as easy as it seems. Just because you can design a logo, or play a guitar, doesn't mean you can run a business.

Ever wondered where big breakthrough ideas come from? How do innovators manage to spot the opportunities for industry revolution that everyone else seems to miss? Contrary to popular belief, innovation is not some mystical art that's forbidden to mere mortals. The Four Lenses of Innovation thoroughly debunks this pervasive myth by delivering what we've long been hoping for: the news that innovation is systematic, it's methodical, and we can all achieve it.

Don't Panic will prepare you for legal issues you'll encounter as a creator or entrepreneur. Whether you are a start-up, a filmmaker, a musician, an author, or another creator, this book will help you understand what you need to know and how to avoid getting sued. The book covers a range of legal situations that may arise, from the inception of your business or the creation of your work to that dreaded moment (that hopefully doesn't happen) you get a nasty lawyer letter for the first time.

Tap directly into your creative mind...and easily access YOUR million-dollar ideas. Ideas are the lifeblood of success...and the best ideas originate with brainstorming. Brainstorming can help you successfully fix any problem, build any business, generate any plan, or develop any story. But the problem is that most people have no clue how to effectively brainstorm - either by themselves or with groups. You can waste a lot of time coming up with old, boring ideas that won't work...and the whole time you actually believe that you are brainstorming.

From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter - the social media platform that singlehandedly changed the way the world works. Now, Biz tells fascinating, pivotal, and personal stories from his early life and his careers at Google and Twitter, sharing his knowledge about the nature and importance of ingenuity today.

The Art of Starting guides you from the first step right through to the everyday running of a successful creative business. Whether your passion is in craft, photography, food, fashion or design, this audiobook is full of indispensable advice. Iona Mathieson and Romy St Clair are two entrepreneurs who learnt the hard way and are here to share everything they wish they’d known at the start. Their practical advice helps you to use what you already know and develop future proof skills in a fulfilling job that works for you.

On January 21, 2017, millions of protestors took part in the Women's March, and many of them created a "sea of pink" when they wore knitted pink "pussyhats" in record numbers. The pussyhat swiftly found its place on the cover of Time and The New Yorker, and it ultimately came to symbolize resistance culture. Creator of the Pussyhat Project, Krista Suh, took an idea and built a worldwide movement and symbol in just two months. But like so many women, Krista spent years letting her fears stop her from learning to live by her own rules.

How do you blow up your company's growth? Start with high quality training. Follow that up with thoughtful coaching by managers who refuse to rescue and value learning experiences. Implementing this proven algorithm creates a thinking company that generates exponential growth. Author Jill Young shares her vast experience in helping entrepreneurs discover and celebrate the creation of thinkers in their company, identify gaps in their system, and close those gaps.

Artists transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. All too often, the talent that brings so much beauty into our lives is poorly compensated. If you’re a creative entrepreneur and you want to take control of your career and start earning what you’re worth, this is the guide for you. In Blazing the Freelance Trail, Eric Holter shares insights from his three decades as a creative entrepreneur. He covers everything from the motivation to create to how to successfully manage the business and financial side of your creative enterprise.

This book is a conversational style how-to book that teaches you from personal stories and real life examples from the creative genius, Tommy Swanhaus. The digital marketing, social media, and branded content expert uses his own marketing and entrepreneurial career triumphs and defeats to give the listener a plan and strategy to grow their career and company. This is an action-oriented book that will allow you to walk away from it with “know how” to apply right away to either your new business, grow your existing business, or become a better employee at your company.

Whether it's learning ragtime piano, losing 30 pounds, or starting an organic jellybean company, award-winning musician turned communications expert Peter Himmelman's unique techniques to harness fear and take the steps to make goals a reality will give you the tools and confidence you need to stop listening to the negative thoughts holding you back and achieve professional and personal success.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Gândirea eficientă reprezintă cheia succesului în toate domeniile de activitate. Orice întârziere și orice ezitare pot însemna diferența dintre reușită și eșec. De la elevii de liceu la președinții unor mari companii, milioane de oameni din întreaga lume folosesc de peste trei decenii o metodă inedită de gândire creativă – metoda celor șase pălării gânditoare. Acest amuzant joc de roluri ne propune să împărțim felul în care gândim în șase categorii – fiecare simbolizată de o pălărie de altă culoare.

The ad apocalypse is upon us. Today millions are downloading ad-blocking software, and still more are paying subscription premiums to avoid ads. This $600 billion industry is now careening toward outright extinction after having taken for granted a captive audience for too long, a choice that has led to lazy, overabundant, and frankly annoying ads. Make no mistake, Madison Avenue: Traditional advertising as we know it is over.