Tag: business feasibility

Creative Business Feasibility

Creative Business Feasibility asks the question: It’s Creative – but is it a Business? Creative business feasibility combines creative passion – and a business focus. A creative passion is at the heart of every creative or cultural enterprise, and many entrepreneurs have developed their creative talents into successful businesses in the visual arts, music, design, …

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Be your own kind of entrepreneur!

Business doesn’t have to be about being the biggest, fastest or strongest. Entrepreneurs don’t have to be short-sighted, aggressive and unfair. “Entrepreneurialism has nothing to do with hardwired personality traits.” This is what Robert Kelsey says in this article in the journal of the Royal Society of Arts. I agree totally. Unfortunately, the popular image …

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Freedom, Money, Time

‘Freedom, Money, Time – and the Key to Creative Success’ is the title of an excellent new free eBook from Mark McGuinness. Download this free ebook here. You can also distribute it to friends, colleagues and contacts. Mark reckons that creative people need three things to be happy: Freedom – to do what you want, …

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The Creative Business: 12 Modules

The Creative Business is a series of 12 modules of information about developing creative enterprises, written especially for people running businesses in the creative industries. The information is particularly relevant to creative businesses and cultural enterprises in the fields of Advertising, Literature and Publishing, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Design, Cultural Heritage, and Crafts. Written …

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Art is not what you see…

“Art is not what you see, it’s what you make others see” – Edgar Degas, French artist (1834-1917) I agree with this statement, which switches things around nicely, so that instead of thinking only about our own point of view as the creator, we also look at things from the point of view of the …

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