Give To Get
I home school myself many hours per month listening to tele-seminars, watching and participating in webinars and watching videos at ted.com and 99%.com. These presenters have helped me become better…
Use The Web For Your Own Good
New technologies that compress time and space in how we communicate or conduct business changes us profoundly, especially in business. This is the main posit from the book Giants Of…
The Process Of Becoming Successful Is Success Itself
Catchy title isn't it? Catchy titles garner attention and I use them to get peoples' attention. After they have paid attention, I begin the process of selling myself. This creates…
Invoice & Get Paid
From 1989-1991 I taught a class covering professional business practices for artists at ACCD. An important area covered was on developing an invoice that wouldn't stall as it moved through the clients'…
Giving Back
Hello folks, how is everybody? Things are picking up; my first book will be in stores early next month (pre-sales have exceeded expectations), my rep Wendi and I are lining…
Creatives & Self-Employed: Be Your Own Best Friend
As the month of September begins and I've paid my end of August/beginning of September bills, I got a bit nervous about my dwindling bank account. In the past, the…
Parlaying Sales Through Good Karma
So today's entry is about leverage, more specifically how to parlay one job into the next. For this discussion I will review one of my latest projects, a group portrait…
One Self-Employed Success Measurement
These days, one of the tasks I relish is when former students who are now in the workforce (as self-employed individuals), reach out to me for advice. They are finally…
Group Portraits and all that Schtick
So yesterday I photographed the 600+ people who work for Disney Animation Studios in Burbank. As some of you know, I was one of the main outside photographers doing business…
Time & Flexibility & Patience
In the past when a client issue, vendor problem or business opportunity made its way onto my radar, I wanted to resolve the issue, problem or opportunity immediately if not…