Money Management For The Creative Person

Don't Let Money Stall Your Creative Career! Ask an artist, a musician, an actor, or a graphic designer, and each and every one will tell you the same thing: To have the money to create, you have to be creative with your money. If you're lucky enough to have found the perfect career for you, one that lets you showcase your talents and keeps your creative juices flowing, congratulations! However, Lee Silber knows the dirty reality most of you are all too familiar with: Even when your creative juices are really flowing, that doesn't necessarily mean that money is pouring in at the same pace. In Money Management for the Creative Person, Lee Silber offers a myriad of valuable advice for doing just that, including: - How to know which of your creative talents are the most marketable and can earn you the most money - How to take the "free" out of freelance and charge what you're worth - Why you should avoid the pitfalls of accumulating too much debt in a lean time--and should always remember the importance of saving in a boom time - Remembering that you can succeed in your endeavors without selling your creative soul - How to find the funds to finance your dreams Full of eye-opening facts, instructive anecdotes, and real-life examples from Silber's own experience, Money Management for the Creative Person is your guide to getting a financial life--so you can maintain your creative one.

The Affluent Artist invites artists from all walks of life to throw out the stereotypes about art and money and allow financial abundance into their lives. Whether you've been learning to train dolphins for SeaWorld, working as a Broadway dancer or as an Imagineer for Disney, chances are you've been learning about the craft, not about personal finance. This book offers business and financial planning wisdom to creative individuals who find themselves in the roles of the Starving Artist, the Corporate Artist, the Self Employed Artist and the Affluent Artist. The book includes stories and interviews with artists in each of these roles as well as "Financial Stuff You Just Gotta Know," a humorous and necessary primer on financial terms and situations, as well as a how-to on avoiding financial pitfalls along with a business fable based on Rick DiBiasio's years of experience helping artists find their financial footing.

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Creative folks often know all too well that the muse doesn’t always strike when you want it to, or when the deadline for your next brilliant project is creeping up on you like an ill-fitting turtleneck. Originality doesn’t follow a time clock, even when you have to. While conventional time management books offer tons of instruction for using time wisely, they are traditionally organized in a linear fashion, which just isn’t helpful for the right-brain mind. In Time Management for the Creative Person, creativity guru Lee Silber offers real advice for using the strengths of artistic folks—like originality and resourcefulness—to adopt innovative time-saving solutions, such as: * Learning to say no when your plate is just too full * How to know when a good job, not a great one, is good enough * Making “to do” lists that include fun stuff, too—that way you won’t feel overwhelmed by work * Time-saving techniques around the house that give you more time to get your work done and more time to spend with your loved ones * The keys to clutter control that will keep your work space and your living space neat With these and lots of other practical tips, Lee Silber will help anyone, from the time-starved caterer rushing to prepare for her next party to the preoccupied painter who forgets when the electric bill is due, make the most of their time and turn the clock and the calendar into friends, not foes.

HOW TO COLLECT THE MONEY PEOPLE OWE YOU is a complete credit and collections guide for the small business and individual – an invaluable resource that will help you establish effective credit policies, collect overdue bills quickly, and increase the money available to you. The book includes sample scripts for collection phone calls, sample collection letters, and important legal guidelines so you avoid the pitfalls of trying to collect. The book shows you when and how to: - Send polite reminder notices and stronger letters - Make a collection phone call - Hire a collection agency or attorney - Determine whether to extend credit and how much - Collect overdue account and maintain good will - Work with customers facing hard times - Collect from impossible deadbeats

Whats holding you back? Be honestYOU. Yes, thats who is holding you back. So how do you get out of your own way? In this book youll learn how to stop procrastinating. You will do simple exercises to help you overcome your fears so you can achieve those goals long hidden and forgotten. Its okay to want it all, dont feel guilty about achieving because the better you are for yourself the better youll be for others. This book will show you the way to seek what you want and to give yourself permission in obtaining it. We all encounter challenges, but with goals, a clear plan and a positive perception anything is attainable. Follow me, Ill show you how.

Beginning with wonderful tips and advice about the art and presentation of storytelling, this is a complete resource about how to build a storytelling career. Storytellers come to their careers centered on the stories they love and soon realize that in order to make a living at what they love, they must build a business. This in-depth book tells them just how and what to do in every detail, from choosing a sound system to building a website to using podcasts and setting up an office. Resource lists and tried and true ideas abound as the author shares her marketing and business success story throughout. Each chapter is a story in itself, beginning and ending with different traditional folktale openings and closings. There is even a chapter on how to plan for retirement.

Fortuna Page is a practicing witch in Massachusetts USA and has dabbled in poetry,the craft, Eastern meditation, song,acting, vegetarian cooking.and world travel. She loves to spend time with her familiars, cats, Gatto and Barnabus and her meditation groups. A few years back she visited a witchcraft shop in Salem MA .She experienced a vision of sights and sounds of nature there. This particular visit the nature phenomenon did not occur but something else did. Leaving the shop Her companion bought a pen in the next shop and then dropped it. She bent down to help him reassemble it. It was then poetry poured into her head. When she got home to the North end of Boston. She sat at her computer and wrote and wrote. She studied and practiced the craft. This series of small books is and will be the result. We hope you find it inspiring,entertaining and useful.