The 10 pillars of any successful creative business
They’ll help you earn more. Even if you don’t think of your art, your writing, your designs, your products as a business
Many creators don’t see their work as a business.
You’re a writer, an artist, a designer, a director, a maker, a musician, a performer, a photographer. If you don’t tend to see what you do as a business, that’s fine. Most of the time.
But if you want to make a good living from your work, you also need to think like an entrepreneur. At least some of the time.
Over more my many years of coaching creative professionals — and over a long career as a writer and magazine editor before that — I’ve noticed some general principles, attitudes and skills that successful creatives have in common.
The good news: these are skills we can all learn.
Develop habits and routines to strengthen each pillar, and keep going back to them, honing and improving. This isn’t a set of one-off tasks to tick off; it’s more a repeating, rising spiral.
Focus on these foundational pieces, and you’ll find your income grows, work flows more easily. Knowing that you can pay the…