These creative business blog posts and articles are written to help creative entrepreneurs become even more successful by combining their creative talent with smart business thinking. They complement my books, guides, videos and a range of free resources for creative business development.
In addition to this list of recent blog posts, there is also a complete index of all blog posts in alphabetical order.
A selection of the most popular marketing blogs for creative, digital and cultural enterprises.
And here is a list of travel blogs.
Exploring Galicia as a Teenager
¿Se permite acampar aqui? This was one of the first Spanish phrases I learnt, parrot fashion, from a phrase book, before going abroad for the first time, aged 17. I figured that “Is it permitted to camp here?” would be a useful thing to be able to ask, since we were going to be hiking ...
Climbing above the Clouds in the Arctic Circle
I was awoken early by my alarm that Sunday morning in September, but when I looked out of the window, the weather was grim and low clouds sat heavily on the silent buildings of the city. Tromsø was still sleeping and anybody who peeped out from their cosy home to check the weather probably went ...
Ikigai for Success in Creative Business
Ikigai (生き甲斐, lit. 'a reason for being') is a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living. It can be used by creative entrepreneurs to design your unique business formula to achieve both creative and commercial success. Everyone wants to be successful. And when I ask creative ...
Customers Have The Answers
For any creative entrepreneur, success comes from creative talent combined with smart business thinking. Sophie Nzinga Sy is successful both creatively and commercially. Because she's not only a talented fashion designer, but she's customer focused too. Many businesses claim to be 'customer-focused' and it has become a cliché. But what does it mean in reality? ...
Don’t Sell It; Rent It!
Guilherme Marconi makes money while he sleeps. This Brazilian artist has designed his creative business so that he is truly a creative entrepreneur rather than a creative labourer. It’s his business policy never to sell his intellectual property but always to rent it. By licensing his work for commercial use in this way, his art ...
Crowd-Test, Improve, Sell!
Listening pays. Listening to customers leads to extra sales and profits. That’s the experience of fashion designer and consultant Diana Carolina Yanes. Diana is the designer behind the innovative and stylish FlyOn Jacket. With its 14 internal pockets, the FlyOn Jacket can carry as much as a standard carry-on (up to 15.4 lbs / 7 ...
