Your Business Isn’t Your Profession
The difference between doing what you love and making a real business out of doing what you love.
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” -Andy Warhol
Your profession and your business are two different things.
I wrote this article for creative professionals, but we can define that term broadly to include anyone with a profession, artistic or otherwise. That can mean artists, architects, attorneys, actors, authors, acupuncturist, or anything in between.
Ultimately, I am talking about anything that requires special skills. Those practicing these skills typically invest a good deal of time, money, and energy to gain them.
Creating a business involves an entirely different set of skills.
The skills to run a business differ entirely from the skills used in rendering professional services. The most skilled do not necessarily have the best company.
For instance, you might have a reasonably good chef who has a very successful restaurant. Alternately, you might have an excellent chef whose…
