Business of Being Creative with Sean Low: Recent Episodes
Sean Low
I’m Sean Low, and I’ve been lending practical business advice to those in the business of being creative since the early 2000s, including accomplished notables such as Preston Bailey, Vicente Wolf, Nate Berkus, Sawyer Berson, Style Me Pretty, Marcy Blum, Michelle Rago, and Sylvia Weinstock--to name a few.
The key to my own success has been my ability to help artists build their businesses in a way that most honors the art that is behind them. I’ll give you straight up, no holds barred advice on handling what happens from deal to done. The journey with your client begins when they first connect with you, whether digitally or in real life. And from that moment until the project is finished, you have the power to manifest an experience and journey with them that’s transformative for all.
Everyone should be creative. Whatever your art is, it should invigorate you and bring you joy. And if it happens to be your business, it should bring you the money you need to KEEP being creative. Hopefully, I will challenge you each week to do just that.
So, let’s not just think outside the box… Let’s erase it!
Too often creative businesses devalue themselves and overvalue client relationships. Case in point: giving a discount to repeat clients. It goes against having better clients pay more. Let's talk about the automatic stay in bankruptcy in the United States.
Original Episode Number: 79 | Original Air Date: 12/14/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
Production House: Flint Stone Media
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What happens when there is a lull when it seems like everyone else is busy? What does it mean for your creative business and what should you do?
Original Episode Number: 99 | Original Air Date: 5/17/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
Production House: Flint Stone Media
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We are at an inflection point. The public recognizes the value of design and is willing to pay for it. To what end leverage then? What are you willing to do to earn that value and will you become the provider or the product? Let us talk Facebook and Theexpert.com.
Original Episode Number: 51 | Original Air Date: 5/11/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
Link: Join Sean's Collective of Business Creatives
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
Production House: Flint Stone Media
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It is fifty degrees one day, ninety the next. On average it is seventy degrees so no need to buy a coat or a swimsuit. You can use information to justify your complacency or you can determine what matters to you and act accordingly.
Original Episode Number: 132 | Original Air Date: 8/29/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Sean or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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Why does your business exist? To serve you, your clients? Or for you to serve it? My guess is you think the former but act like the latter. No better time to change than today.
Original Episode Number: 84 | Original Air Date: 1/25/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Sean or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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Fairness matters and if your client is acting poorly, you do not get any brownie points for sucking it up. Only adults in the room please.
Original Episode Number: 121 | Original Air Date: 2/21/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Sean or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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When you think about it, the statement "I hope…" is almost always about something external happening that may or may not directly affect you, but is certainly in your universe. You have no control over "I hope". The results of "I hope" are as random as a flip of the coin. In the context of your art and your creative business, please, pretty please, kill hope and find your faith.
Original Episode Number: 93 | Original Air Date: 3/29/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Sean or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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Creative business is about being vulnerable. Vulnerability is the fuel for trust. The question is where, when and why should you be vulnerable?
Original Episode Number: 98 | Original Air Date: 5/10/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Sean or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Knowing what you need to live the life you wish is the key to your success as a creative business. How much do you need and how much do you want to work? If you set your business up to be greedy, you will be. The result will be the illusion of success and failure. Let's talk about The Giving Tree.
Original Episode Number: 68 | Original Air Date: 9/21/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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When you see what it all costs to create, it is very easy to say, why? When the world demands crisis, how can you talk about things that are not in crisis? How do you navigate the responsibility of living as opposed to surviving? It is called being an artist and appreciating the timing of it all will always lead back to you.
Original Episode Number: 136 | Original Air Date: 10/24/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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There is always a better way, better than what I might offer, what you might offer. Who cares? There is no end to better, only the work to get to the very place you will never reach. When the delusion of better resides at your fingertips, we give up the search and the meaning of the search itself. Let's talk about a dog swimming in the ocean.
Original Episode Number: 83 | Original Air Date: 1/18/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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Where were you a year ago? What has changed? What will you do with 2023? Are you willing to add a zero?
Original Episode Number: 117 | Original Air Date: 12/20/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Art is impactful to the patron as they find themselves in it. We enjoy art from our own worldview. The ultimate Rorschach Test. Artistry, on the other hand, is a singular journey. How you, the artist, take us from here to there is idiosyncratic. Can you choose to be a chameleon? Let's talk Bernie Madoff.
Original Episode Number: 48 | Original Air Date: 4/20/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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The difference between those rising and those who know is professionalism. What does it mean to be a professional? Simple. When you know who you are you will no longer need to dodge bullets. To level up means you have to ignore the stairs.
Original Episode Number: 95 | Original Air Date: 8/3/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Sean or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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I will be taking some time off after this episode (airing August 3rd) and will be back on August 24th. Yep, 21 days. So a 21 Day Challenge is in order. Let's talk about three radical changes, the problem with incremental change and an opportunity from me to you.
Original Episode Number: 63 | Original Air Date: 8/3/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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Knowing where you are, where you are going and, most important, where you would like to go is all about the life of an apple tree.
Original Episode Number: 128 | Original Air Date: 7/4/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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What do you get paid for and why? What you do not define will be defined by others. Let's talk about the Flux Capacitor.
Original Episode Number: 82 | Original Air Date: 1/11/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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What was is no longer. What is has to be redefined with history in mind but also ignored. The question is whether you will be willing to share your voice to a new chorus or if you will allow vestiges to remain your North Star.
Original Episode Number: 111 | Original Air Date: 9/27/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Unless you really value the next thing you do, you will be unaware of the margin. When you misprice your margin you will find yourself doing everything you do not want to do. Self-inflicted pain. Let's talk about unintended consequences.
Original Episode Number: 77 | Original Air Date: 11/30/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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If you are in creative business, your voice matters. Pretending it does not is an illusion. Truth may not be palatable to some and that is okay. They just cannot be your clients. To make it so though, you have to go first.
Original Episode Number: 106 | Original Air Date: 7/19/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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We tell ourselves stories. Our memories are shaped by our own biases. We live in the definition we have given ourselves. Why? For the most part, for your creative business it ultimately becomes about choosing to be the Sun or the Moon.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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The essence of humanity is to be seen and heard. It is pervasive in all things and for all endeavors, none more so than for creative business. The reason is that creative business is the ultimate expression of self. Live there and make it your culture.
Original Episode Number: 140 | Original Air Date: 12/19/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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We are at a moment in time when your ability to tell your own story is more important than having someone else tell it for you. The real question though is what is the aim? Celebrity? Opportunity? Growth? Legitimacy? Let's talk Marcy Blum and Rishi Patel.
Original Episode Number: 70 | Original Air Date: 10/5/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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The axiom that the client is always right is not true for creative business. If you let someone's wallet dictate the limits of your power to do what you do, it will be lesson in self-inflicted pain. Let's talk about how to make sure you do not do that. The show is yours to run.
Original Episode Number: 135 | Original Air Date: 10/10/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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We all rely on our intuition to drive us forward. Intuition is a function of experience, natural gifts, education and maybe even just age. We use intuition to form opinions on just about everything. However, when the world changes, so too our intuition. Let's talk photography.
Original Episode Number: 55 | Original Air Date: 6/8/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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At a certain point change in circumstance demands change in behavior and we need to appreciate what leverage means to all of us. Especially those who have never been here before.
Original Episode Number: 126 | Original Air Date: 6/6/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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Art is impactful to the patron as they find themselves in it. We enjoy art from our own worldview. The ultimate Rorschach Test. Artistry, on the other hand, is a singular journey. How you, the artist, take us from here to there is idiosyncratic. Can you choose to be a chameleon? Let's talk Bernie Madoff.
Original Episode Number: 48 | Original Air Date: 4/20/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
Link: Join Sean's Collective of Business Creatives
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Nothing ever goes according to plan. What happens when things happen? How do you handle the turmoil? Let's talk Chinese Finger Traps.
Original Episode Number: 104 | Original Air Date: 6/21/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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This is not school and your employer is not your parent, teacher or even your friend. Now is the time to invest in yourself and be willing to be wrong before you are right. Let's talk about Lego's.
Original Episode Number: 86 | Original Air Date: 2/08/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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I am just around the corner. Be there soon. An hour later you ask: Which corner? And what does soon mean? Time is all you have and leaving its definition to negotiation, or worse, to the decisions of others is self-inflicted pain you can no longer endure.
Original Episode Number: 133 | Original Air Date: 9/12/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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The line between personal and creative is blurry at best. You are professional but you are also an artist required to move beyond the technical. Trust is sacrosanct and incredibly fragile. Be intentional, purposeful but not indulgent. The arrogance of opinion is defined when there is no humility. Let's talk about July 7th.
Original Episode Number: 60 | Original Air Date: 7/13/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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We have all been trained to think that the customer is always right. For creative business though, they are always wrong. It is a distinction with a VERY big difference.
Original Episode Number: 113 | Original Air Date: 10/25/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Try harder. Pay more attention to detail. Focus. None of these are helpful to creative business employees. It truly is not about you as a person, it is about the system even if you are the only employee. Let's talk about the Blue Angels.
Original Episode Number: 87 | Original Air Date: 2/15/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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To move forward, you need a strong foundation. Something you can return to again and again. Enter the four transitions: Potential to actual client, idea to design, design to production, production to execution.
Original Episode Number: 124 | Original Air Date: 5/9/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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The absurdity of what resonates with our culture is never lost on me. I wanted to have a little bit of fun today to illustrate the point that the difference between legacy and a whimsical moment is often nothing more than a conviction to the absurd. Lets talk Beanie Babies And The Pet Rock.
Original Episode Number: 69 | Original Air Date: 9/28/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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You know how you treat your clients. You know the promises you make and how you intend to keep them. Yet you do not consider yourself a super client. You do not demand the level of excellence, expertise, and attention your clients demand of you. Why? Let's talk Netflix.
Original Episode Number: 44 | Original Air Date: 3/23/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Stefanie Klempau of Fabrics Tattoo (Hand Pained Leather Jackets For Weddings And Events)
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The key to sustained value, important clients and great work? Proaction. If you do not go first, there will be no story, no spark only reflection. Fluency not brilliance. If it really matters to you and your creative business, you have to go first.
Original Episode Number: 137 | Original Air Date: 11/7/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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The idea that your clients understand what you do is like most people in the United States appreciating how awesome Virat Kohli is. So let's talk contract.
Original Episode Number: 90 | Original Air Date: 3/8/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!
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All creative businesses are in the information business. You are provided information — what is the project, you provide information and then you act on that information. How you handle the flow of information is what makes your creative business go. The real question then is where do you fall on the Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan spectrum? Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 37 | Original Air Date: 2/2/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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All clients are not the same. You have to do the work to decide who is right for you. It boils down to are they twos or eights?
Original Episode Number: 97 | Original Air Date: 5/3/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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We are all in it now. The world has reopened (in the U.S. anyway) and the thrush of work is there. More then ever you are called upon to reinvent your creative business. Enter Dick Fosbury…
Original Episode Number: 59 | Original Air Date: 7/6/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Why are clients choosing you, your art and your creative business? Price? Past work? What does it mean to you and how does it impact how your run your business? It really is a conversation about chameleons and totem poles. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 22 | Original Air Date: 10/6/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Valerie Gernhauser of Sapphire Events
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Building your name is not the same thing as making promises and keeping them. Confusing them costs you. The trick is to understand intentionality.
Original Episode Number: 134 | Original Air Date: 9/26/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Know your client. Are they beginners or enthusiastic amateurs? Meaning are they 1's or 5's? And where will you take them? If you cannot fully understand who you serve, you cannot serve them. Building your business to serve everyone means you serve no one. Let's talk knives. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 80 | Original Air Date: 12/21/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Know your client. Are they beginners or enthusiastic amateurs? Meaning are they 1’s or 5’s? And where will you take them? If you cannot fully understand who you serve, you cannot serve them. Building your business to serve everyone means you serve no one. Let’s talk knives. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 13 | Original Air Date: 8/4/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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We spend all of our time making sure we are checking all the boxes, doing things as expected and then trying to finish well. We measure efficiency, profitability, sales. What if instead we measured engagement, satisfaction, happiness. It is all about placebos.
Original Episode Number: 123 | Original Air Date: 4/25/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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We should all chart our own course much deeper than simply a strategy to find uncharted territory. Be true to your soul as an artist, where there are no boundaries of possible only the imagination of what could be. What would your creative business look like then? Who says you have to charge any way that someone tells you to. Fifty years next year. Let's talk HBO.
Original Episode Number: 62 | Original Air Date: 7/27/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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What does it really mean to only do work for those that care? To really be the best at what you do? To know your range and to stay there? To really know why you are trusted? Most important, what happens when you allow yourself to do the work you simply do not do well? It is about assumptions, bias and the refusal to believe in the power of your lane. Not everyone knows how to spend a million dollars well and let’s talk about why that matters. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 40 | Original Air Date: 2/23/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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For creative businesses, the value of time is not linear. There is intrinsic value that has nothing to do with physical effort. Ahem, creativity. You are not lawyers or accountants. So please stop acting like them.
Original Episode Number: 110 | Original Air Date: 9/13/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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You are hungry, scrappy, do whatever it takes to get your big break. You never want to lose that. It feels arrogant if you do. And yet you know what got you here will not get you there. Let’s talk Kate Winslet.
Original Episode Number: 56 | Original Air Date: 6/15/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Today we are going to talk about the value of the subjective, the emotional component that is critical to the success of every creative business. It is knowing the difference between drawing birds and clouds and when you might share each. It is also knowing that the language of emotional and its return dwarfs anything rational. In the end, what it means is that you have to stop playing the game you are not very good at and start (or only) play the one you are. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 5 | Original Air Date: 6/9/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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We all grew up and are taught the value of a factory. Efficiency. Low cost. Scale. And you have tried to force your creative business into the paradigm. You measure volume of work, hours, effort, not ideas, emotional intelligence or really anything reflecting the value of relationship. Your creative business is not a factory so stop acting like it is.
Original Episode Number: 129 | Original Air Date: 7/18/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Most of us grew up learning about business through the eyes of the factory model. We all need factories and their models to live our lives. Creative businesses, on the other hand, are needs and have to leave that model behind. Let’s talk about Justo Thomas.
Original Episode Number: 72 | Original Air Date: 10/19/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Remind yourself why you do what you do. You create joy and you do it with intention. When things go awry it is all too often because the singular purpose has been misformed by ego, by manipulation and by a loss of connection. Finding your way back means two things: tantrums and foundation. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 30 | Original Air Date: 12/01/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Unless you are committed to making it look like yesterday. Evolution requires letting go to embrace what could be. It means knowing when you speak of something new, it has to be with a different mindset. Let’s talk about the Phoenix once more.
Original Episode Number: 115 | Original Air Date: 11/22/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Change sucks. It is hard, really hard and the inertia to change is a powerful mistress. The decision to change has to be with intention and an ultimate endeavor to reset your foundation without regard to result. Let's talk The Dip.
Original Episode Number: 52 | Original Air Date: 5/18/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Every creative business takes a journey with and for its clients. The points along the way are its value. No doubt, the goal is inevitable if the journey is profound. In this episode, will will talk about the importance of value delivery, subjective and objective and getting paid what you need. The implications will result in the 3W’s — where were you, where are you and where are you going. Of course, there is a story to help. Let us talk about Sandals Resorts and Wonder Woman. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 3 | Original Air Date: 5/26/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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At the end of the day, you need permission to do what you do as you would do it. The one thing you have to have to create. Let’s talk about Sunday dinner.
Original Episode Number: 103 | Original Air Date: 6/14/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Since the dawn of the industrial age, if we can measure it, we will. For creative business, those standards are and will always be amorphous. How do you value an idea? Let’s talk trains and clocks.
Original Episode Number: 61 | Original Air Date: 7/20/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Just like governments do not run like businesses, so too does creative businesses not look like other businesses. All too often what would be expected in business, is not true for creative business — say the customer is always right, being hungry and scrappy always works and, of course, price matters above all else. Enter the intention/reception paradox. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 24 | Original Air Date: 10/20/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Kevin Isbell of Kevin Isbell Design
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Integrity means getting paid to ask better questions and being willing to live with the answers. Sound cryptic? It is not. Listen in for my explanation.
Original Episode Number: 114 | Original Air Date: 11/8/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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What does it mean to be proactive? How often do you practice being, well, you? Let’s talk brain surgery.
Original Episode Number: 49 | Original Air Date: 4/27/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Art does not see color or sex; clients do though. As with all things creative, how can the business story compel your art to move beyond bias? To do that though you will need to allow conversations to happen as you see them and remove the “get to yes” mentality. Maybe not a solution, but it is a start and definitely worth a conversation. Listen in…
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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If you start a line of reasoning with a presumption, you can only go one way. For most creative businesses, the presumption makes no sense so you can only go the wrong way. The old saying is true, when you assume, you make an…oh you know the rest.
Original Episode Number: 127 | Original Air Date: 6/20/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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I define entrepreneurship as being convicted enough to be relentless in having others believe as you do. This permeates everything a creative business is all about. Let’s talk about Chobani Greek Yogurt.
Original Episode Number: 73 | Original Air Date: 10/26/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Every creative business has four transitions: Potential Client To Actual Client, Idea To Design, Design To Production, Production To Reveal. As with all one-way valves, if they are leaky, things are going to go afoot, often drastically so. Enter Diana Prince. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 14 | Original Air Date: 8/11/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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A contract is when your business talks. Do you want to shout? Whisper? Or pretend you are not talking? How about you just tell a story?
Original Episode Number: 101 | Original Air Date: 5/31/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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The impact your work as a creative business will have and the places you might take it depend on your core and consistency between your business and your artistry. The frog and the scorpion comes to mind.
Original Episode Number: 91 | Original Air Date: 3/15/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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You would not think an operations management book would be so critical to the success of a creative business. After all creative businesses do not produce widgets. Process is process though and if you are not appreciating bottlenecks and motion, you will likely invest in the wrong solution. Enter Herbie and the cub scout hike. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 29 | Original Air Date: 11/24/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Matthew Myhrum Event Visualization, Inc.
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The world is upside down so I better react by screaming louder and compromising more. Except you only want ten clients. How about you become more specific, not less?
Original Episode Number: 120 | Original Air Date: 2/7/2023
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As a creative professional, you see what others do not. It is why you get paid. You try to lead those you seek to serve with a guiding hand. And yet. When those around you refuse your direction what are you to do. Let’s talk about Leona Helmsley.
Original Episode Number: 88 | Original Air Date: 2/22/2022
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We live in a world of validators, franchises and even networks. Duncan Hines, McDonald’s and The St. Regis. What if we created a different kind of consortium for creative business? Would we all be able to play nice in the sandbox and change the way clients make their choices? What would the world look like if we did?
Original Episode Number: 47 | Original Air Date: 4/13/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Guest: Carl Clemetson of Hometown Elegance Events and Catering
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So you want to start something new or continue going on a new endeavor. How do you go about thinking about whether it makes sense to start and/or keep going? Remember The Perfect Egg.
Original Episode Number: 139 | Original Air Date: 12/5/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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All artists want to leverage their creative business. Most use influence and/or product to get where they want to go. They all want to be the next mega brand, the next unicorn. What if, instead, it was about community, connection, and intimate relationships? Let’s talk Marth Stewart and Shop My Porch.
Original Episode Number: 54 | Original Air Date: 6/1/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Delivering Happiness shows what it means to change thinking and to solve a different problem. It also shows the power of scarcity, relationship and purpose. Zappo’s is the story that resonates louder today than ever. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 31 | Original Air Date: 12/8/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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A slinky stretched out down the stairs is the same toy as the one sitting on the shelf unless you bend or break a rib. So too your creative business. Structure is everything.
Original Episode Number: 130 | Original Air Date: 8/1/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Creative businesses are busy. Many are seeking new employees as they grow. The question is what do you do when they show up? Teach tasks or show culture. Let’s talk Herbie, Think Again, Loonshots and video diaries.
Original Episode Number: 76 | Original Air Date: 11/23/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Creative business is all about the irrational, the ephemeral, the desire for other. It is the business of hope and transcendence. How you get from challenge to solution is of course a trek through the unknown. Welcome to Wonderland.
Original Episode Number: 45 | Original Air Date: 3/30/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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Clarity. Nuance. Exposition. Chameleons can do any of these because they are too busy being Chameleons. Let's explore what it means to dig deeper holes.
Original Episode Number: 116 | Original Air Date: 12/6/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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The fluency of creative business is ever on order today. Design, Production, Installation/Reveal are the stages every creative business inhabits. The path forward remains with the opportunity for exposition. Simply, how do you get better at being memorable. Let’s talk Blow Pops.
Original Episode Number: 57 | Original Air Date: 6/22/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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In today’s world, we are what we measure. We hear it all the time now — data analysis, big data, consumer preferences, artificial intelligence and computer learning to show us what we see, feel and even touch. What does that mean for your creative business? Umm, everything. If experience is what you truly sell, then making sure that you define the success of that experience in your own iconic way is crucial. Enter metrics of success, the coffee table idea and Zappo’s. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 6 | Original Air Date: 6/16/2020
Links & Resources: Link to Sound File for Visually Impaired: Click Here
Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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We have all experienced the utter toxicity of an out of control client. What makes for great client management? Easy — Knowing the 4 transitions and living the 3Ws.
Original Episode Number: 96 | Original Air Date: 4/26/2022
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Storytelling requires engagement and imagination. If you lay it all out there you rob me of my ability to dream. Let’s talk about fairness, no more no less and being the adult in the room.
Original Episode Number: 85 | Original Air Date: 2/1/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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All creative businesses are actually in the information and communication business far more than they are in the making stuff business. Understanding how communication tools have grown — from hieroglyphics to Zoom is critical to recognize the future that awaits for creative business. A quick trip through the past century of communication tools is a great place to start. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 23 | Original Air Date: 10/13/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Courtney Wolf of Invision Events
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Most people think about their creative businesses as singular not communities. What a missed opportunity. Let’s talk about JazzWire and Shop My Porch.
Original Episode Number: 107 | Original Air Date: 7/26/2022
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Bernadette and I discuss all things DEI and its impact on all business, creative and not. We talk about opportunity and change and the desire to be human. We also talk about forgiveness and being anti-cancel culture.
Original Episode Number: 71 | Original Air Date: 10/12/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Guest: Bernadette Smith
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To be successful in creative business, you have to get paid for your talent, wisdom and experience. But what does that mean? In fact, what does each of talent, wisdom and experience mean? And why do they need to go together with the glue of resilience, conviction and faith? The answer is in the question, Is it art or the creation of art? Listen in… Original Episode Number: 36 | Original Air Date: 01/26/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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If someone asks you which you like better — chocolate or vanilla when you like strawberry, what does your answer really mean? Comprehension requires definition not explanation. Listen in and I will explain what it all means for your creative business.
Original Episode Number: 108 | Original Air Date: 08/16/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Fall is upon us and the instinct is to race ahead. What if you did one thing less? What would you have to charge to do it? Can you choose not to chase the shiny penny. Let’s talk The Perfect Egg.
Original Episode Number: 64 | Original Air Date: 08/24/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Change is painful. It just is. Nobody wants to change, we are compelled to because we hope the future is brighter if we do. For creative businesses, this is about telling a deeper story, not a better one. To tell the deeper story, you need to know your community and the history of seatbelts in the U.S. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 11 | Original Air Date: 07/21/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Intentionality and singularity require purpose. It means you have to fish with a spear.
Original Episode Number: 122 | Original Air Date: 04/11/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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To be effective, you have to communicate well. Translate senses. Explain even better. Let’s talk bond math.
Original Episode Number: 74 | Original Air Date: 11/9/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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We are on the precipice of emergence. We can feel it — the demand for creative business is exploding as people search to express what they have not been able to express for the last year. Savor the responsibility and slow down. Let’s talk about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Original Episode Number: 46 | Original Air Date: 4/6/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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If you build your business on the next project, then the pressure to take what comes next is overwhelming. Digging deeper holes does not mean only one thing. It is all about skimming the cream off the top…
Original Episode Number: 131 | Original Air Date: 8/15/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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The world can create a lot of noise and chaos today. It becomes ever harder to see the forest for the trees. Do one thing less and return to your play with better defined characters. Original Episode Number: 92 | Original Air Date: 3/22/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Contracts are the lifeblood of any business, creative business especially. And yet 99 times out of a 100, they are gobbledy gook that you paid a lawyer to write for you in a way that protects you but does little to define the relationship your business will have with your client. It does not have to be that way. Enter the Trip Tik. Listen in… Original Episode Number: 21 | Original Air Date: 9/29/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Maria Maxit of Maxit Flower Design
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When you hit the wall, find yourself unable to rise to the responsibilities in front of you, you are burning out. The question is why and what to do about it. Let’s talk about free diving. Original Episode Number: 109 | Original Air Date: 8/30/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Link: Kimi Werner Podcast
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Marketing or meaning? Emotion. Storytelling. Design. Luxury. Beautiful. Tasteful. Elegant. Sophisticated. None of these words really mean anything without context. It is up to you to make them valuable or banal, rich or colloquial, layered or trite. Let’s talk Crazy Eddie… Original Episode Number: 78 | Original Air Date: 12/7/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Work Smarter, Breathe Deeper, Have The Courage To Fail And The Conviction To Try Again. Enter the difference between illusion and delusion, The Blue Angels and The Goal. Listen in… Original Episode Number: 10 | Original Air Date: 07/14/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Price connotes value and the number itself tells a story. Your price has to align with your story or you have nowhere to go. Let’s talk about your favorite fancy restaurant.
Original Episode Number: 100 | Original Air Date: 05/24/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Just because you cannot see the air you breathe does not make it any less necessary for you to live. Same goes for risk. If you do not know what risk you are taking, when and how in your creative business, you are just gambling. More like playing Russian Roulette. Let’s talk arbitrage.
Original Episode Number: 53 | Original Air Date: 5/25/2021
Links & Resources: Link to Sound File for Visually Impaired: Click Here
Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Great clients are made not born. The better you define your process and what is expected of them and your creative business, the better the experience will be for everyone. That said, there are three overarching characteristics that help define clients and allow for true alignment: Motion In Fear, Resolute Decision Making and Patronage. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 28 | Original Air Date: 11/17/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Amy Serridge of WoodsEdge Farm
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Artificial Intelligence is not the stuff of science fiction any more. It is here and will become part of our lexicon forever more. What it means for you and your creative business is fascinating. Being human has never been more important.
Original Episode Number: 119 | Original Air Date: 01/24/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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COVID has caused major disruptions and required alternate ways of doing business. It means that your business model needs to account for risk and perhaps change altogether. Let’s talk 3 point baskets.
Original Episode Number: 66 | Original Air Date: 09/07/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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You tell two stories. The first is why we should believe in your work as an artist and the second is why we should believe the story of your business. The story of your art is ephemeral, your business grounded. Two voices that must each speak for you to be successful. Enter Frederick The Mouse. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 16 | Original Air Date: 08/25/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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We have all been frenetic and now Summer is here. What does it mean to take a break? The gift of rest is not just for you.
Original Episode Number: 105 | Original Air Date: 06/28/2022
Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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New year. New opportunities. The 21 day challenge. Change one thing. Let’s talk about the marshmallow test. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 81 | Original Air Date: 01/04/2022
Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Michael Beneville is a remarkable futurist with a firm understanding of what tomorrow might be. This is one you are probably going to have to listen to over and again because the pearls of wisdom are mind boggling (to me anyway). Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 42 | Original Air Date: 03/09/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Guest: Michael Beneville
Links: Area 15 | The Spatial Web | Beneville Studios
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Tis the season for selling. How do you describe what you do? Beyond your why? Let’s talk about journaling and what to do with it.
Original Episode Number: 118 | Original Air Date: 01/10/2023
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Your ideal project — the one that gives you the best chance of success has to be known. What this timeframe, thought process, looks like has to be known to everyone. It is from there that you leap. Let’s talk Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
Original Episode Number: 65 | Original Air Date: 08/31/2021
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Doing work you hate never leads to the work you love. And skill is a commodity, passion is everything. What do these things mean? Do they matter? Let’s discuss…
Original Episode Number: 41 | Original Air Date: 3/2/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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If you are making a change in your business, you have to have everyone be ready. If you are fortunate enough to need to hire a team or have a team, you have to understand The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt. Let’s talk about Herbie one more time.
Original Episode Number: 102 | Original Air Date: 6/7/2022
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Perfectionism lives within so many artists. Cliches abound: “Perfect is the enemy of good”, “Be the best”, “Profit and perfect are mutually incompatible.” Really it is a conversation about Creation versus Craft. Enter Jiro Loves Sushi.
Original Episode Number: 50 | Original Air Date: 5/4/2021
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Creative business is built on the microscopic. For so many creative businesses, the very idea of serving more than 500 customers in a year is silly. Most are built on less than 50. And yet we speak in platitudes and generalities not radical authenticity. We do it because we have framed the conversation in terms of fear and rejection. How about we consider being grateful as we shun the non-believers. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 26 | Original Air Date: 11/3/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Maria Maxit of Maxit Flower Design
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Emotional resonance is what separates you, the artist, from the rest of us. While you have a gift at your craft, that is not why you are paid. You are paid to be professional, to make us feel and to feel while not getting lost in the emotion of the moment. Simultaneously, engaged and removed from the situation. Enter stillness, a flashlight and generosity. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 8 | Original Air Date: 6/30/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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As we come to Fall, so many creative businesses are confronted with the challenge of whether it is worth it to keep going. There are no easy answers but there is a framework to think it all through. No story today, just straight talk. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 18 | Original Air Date: 9/8/2020
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Margarita Oudalova of Oudalova Events & Design
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Transparency is not Saran Wrap. It is being secure in what you charge and then knowing how you are going to earn it. As clients get smarter, value is not about being relative to competition, it is about knowing what you earn and when. Let’s talk bananas. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 34 | Original Air Date: 1/12/2021
Links & Resources: Link to Sound File for Visually Impaired: Click Here
Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Carl Clemetson from Hometown Elegance Event Catering And Production
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I am going to talk about a story that is near and dear to me. I have told this story and its importance to creative business many times. I have even told it at a college commencement speech I was so honored to give a few years ago. It is the story of Dick Fosbury and his path to winning the gold medal for the high jump in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. You might say, huh? What does this have to do with my business? Well, close your eyes, jump over the bar backwards and lets find out if you will land safely. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 1 | Original Air Date: 5/26/2020
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Most creative businesses are caught in the new client trap. They take on a project and then use the success of that project to get another (and another). Very little is ever offered to the great client to treat them better. It does not have to be this way. Let’s talk about Soul Cycle and Peloton. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 25 | Original Air Date: 10/27/2020
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Every business takes a risk, that is the very nature of business. The question is whether you are properly paid for that risk. If risk is being vulnerable then the choice to be vulnerable has to be yours. Otherwise, you turn singular risk into exploding risk. Defining risk requires purpose and purpose requires intentional idiosyncracy. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 32 | Original Air Date: 12/15/2020
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When we contemplate what is next, too often we want to be derivative of what has come before. Sure, we need to acknowledge the benefit of history, ultimately though we have to stretch beyond the realm of possible. Let’s talk about the movie War Games. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 19 | Original Air Date: 9/15/2020
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In the midst of the existential crisis we find ourselves in, all creative business is being upended. Sure, some are busy, but most are suffering from a prolonged winter — actors, musicians, event professionals, chefs, just to name a few. So the house is coming down.
To rebuild it, design first. For design to come first, you must be judged, you must take concentrated risk. Enter a discussion about placebos and Ralph Lifshitz from the Bronx. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 9 | Original Air Date: 7/7/2020
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We all might say that we want to make real change, but the inertia to change is real. We hope that yesterday will carry us forward and doubling down on the old will prevail against the new. Let’s talk about solar lamps in rural India, the Phoenix and the outliers of success. Listen in…
Original Episode Number: 27 | Original Air Date: 11/10/2020
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COVID has shifted our culture and forced us to rethink what and how we do what we do. The question is what will you take with you. Let's talk Zoom, Project Management, Cash Flow and Marketing.
Original Episode Number: 43 | Original Air Date: 3/16/2021
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Art is shaped and shapes culture. If you are in the business of creating art, what does that exactly mean for you? How are you to incorporate this responsibility into touchstones of your work? Defining a market is nothing new, but defining culture with the market? Getting paid to honor culture and shift it? That is new. Enter Loving v. Virginia, The Ivory Trade, and End of Life Services. Listen in...
Original Episode Number: 15 | Original Air Date: 8/18/2020
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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What does the long tail, scarcity and niche have to do with your creative business? Umm, everything. Oh, and if you are not sure what the long tail, scarcity and niche even mean in this context, that is ok, I will just tell you the story of Blue Bottle Coffee and it will all make sense. Listen in...
Original Episode Number: 2 | Original Air Date: 5/26/2020
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The story of your art and your business are not the same but they rely on each other. The key components of story is trust, tension and resolution. How you hold each component is what sets the path for your success as both an artist and a business. The real question is that if I scratched your name off of your contract would I know it is you?
Original Episode Number: 35 | Original Air Date: 1/19/2021
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Managing the client experience is a singular challenge for every creative business. For the most part, projects are for an extended period of time with many ups and downs both for activity and emotion. The key to success is vision and grit. It is also a deep understanding of sunk costs. Enter the story of Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill. Listen in...
Original Episode Number: 20 | Original Air Date: 9/22/2020
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Constraints are nothing new. Creative businesses have always operated in a window. I have never met a designer who is perpetually free to create as she sees fit without regard to budget, style or even geography. The new reality we all find ourselves in is that a new constraint has been foisted on all of us. The price of every physical human interaction is now perpetually present. It means the intrinsic nature of art has become ever more indelible. Enter the underneath, an apple tree and horses for courses. Listen in...
Original Episode Number: 4 | Original Air Date: 6/2/2020
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Who controls your fate as a creative business? How you do attract business without standing on the street corner and screaming? Who chooses you, helps you get chosen and what do you owe them when you do? What value gatekeepers? Let's talk Duncan Hines. Listen in...
Original Episode Number: 17 | Original Air Date: 9/1/2020
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Creative business is literally about creating a world that has never existed. To imagine. Too often though we get trapped into the curse of knowledge, and lose the humility to know that you do not know. History has shown that failure to imagine the future is the curse of intelligence and the demise of the well intended. For creative business, it is the road to commodification and irrelevance. So let's talk about how to avoid tunnel vision. Listen in...
Original Episode Number: 39 | Original Air Date: 2/16/2021
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By all accounts 2021 will be a rebirth for creative business. We will hopefully put the pandemic behind us and art will reemerge. The question will be how to handle it. My advice, race to the top. To do so you will have to be radically, unapologetically, idiosyncratic. You will need to convince yourself that best is indeed a verb, not a noun because when you do you will invest in the best of you, you art and your creative business. And from there you will justly reap the rewards of being on the top. Listen in...
Original Episode Number: 33 | Original Air Date: 1/5/2021
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Pricing is a fraught subject no matter the time. Through in a global pandemic and cultural upheaval in the United States and the rubber band stretches ever thinner. As with all things foundation is everything. What "it" costs is not the same thing as what you cost. Oh and cost is for toothpaste, investment is for art. Let's talk Mercedes and leather seats and speaking of leather seats, let's talk Bentley.
Original Episode Number: 12 | Original Air Date: 7/28/2020
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Faith is the courage of conviction. Faith is the prerequisite to courage and integrity. Faith is facile and simultaneously hopeful and hopeless. Faith is what you need to see your creative business through. Enter the story of the swimming dog, Craigslist and letting kids have cake for breakfast. Listen in...
Original Episode Number: 7 | Original Air Date: 6/23/2020
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So the time has come for me to say goodbye to the podcast. I feel like the thoughts are complete and I am compelled to focus on writing. A few thoughts on what it means for me to have shared as I have for the past 140 episodes.
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The essence of humanity is to be seen and heard. It is pervasive in all things and for all endeavors, none more so than for creative business. The reason is that creative business is the ultimate expression of self. Live there and make it your culture.
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So you want to start something new or continue going on a new endeavor. How do you go about thinking about whether it makes sense to start and/or keep going? Remember The Perfect Egg.
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Holiday season is upon us. Maybe rest is in sight and a moment to reflect on what is necessary for you and your business. Start with abundance.
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The key to sustained value, important clients and great work? Proaction. If you do not go first, there will be no story, no spark only reflection. Fluency not brilliance. If it really matters to you and your creative business, you have to go first.
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When you see what it all costs to create, it is very easy to say, why? When the world demands crisis, how can you talk about things that are not in crisis? How do you navigate the responsibility of living as opposed to surviving? It is called being an artist and appreciating the timing of it all will always lead back to you.
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The axiom that the client is always right is not true for creative business. If you let someone's wallet dictate the limits of your power to do what you do, it will be lesson in self-inflicted pain. Let's talk about how to make sure you do not do that. The show is yours to run.
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Building your name is not the same thing as making promises and keeping them. Confusing them costs you. The trick is to understand intentionality.
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I am just around the corner. Be there soon. An hour later you ask: Which corner? And what does soon mean? Time is all you have and leaving its definition to negotiation, or worse, to the decisions of others is self-inflicted pain you can no longer endure.
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It is fifty degrees one day, ninety the next. On average it is seventy degrees so no need to buy a coat or a swimsuit. You can use information to justify your complacency or you can determine what matters to you and act accordingly.
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If you build your business on the next project, then the pressure to take what comes next is overwhelming. Digging deeper holes does not mean only one thing. It is all about skimming the cream off the top...
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A slinky stretched out down the stairs is the same toy as the one sitting on the shelf unless you bend or break a rib. So too your creative business. Structure is everything.
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We all grew up and are taught the value of a factory. Efficiency. Low cost. Scale. And you have tried to force your creative business into the paradigm. You measure volume of work, hours, effort, not ideas, emotional intelligence or really anything reflecting the value of relationship. Your creative business is not a factory so stop acting like it is.
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Knowing where you are, where you are going and, most important, where you would like to go is all about the life of an apple tree.
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If you start a line of reasoning with a presumption, you can only go one way. For most creative businesses, the presumption makes no sense so you can only go the wrong way. The old saying is true: when you assume, you make an ... oh, you know the rest.
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At a certain point change in circumstance demands change in behavior and we need to appreciate what leverage means to all of us. Especially those who have never been here before.
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Sometimes nature can teach us all we need to know. Let's talk butterflies and bulls.
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To move forward, you need a strong foundation. Something you can return to again and again. Enter the four transitions: Potential to actual client, idea to design, design to production, production to execution.
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We spend all of our time making sure we are checking all the boxes, doing things as expected, and then trying to finish well. We measure efficiency, profitability, and sales. What if instead we measured engagement, satisfaction, happiness? It's all about placebos.
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Intentionality and singularity require purpose. It means you have to fish with a spear.
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Fairness matters and if your client is acting poorly, you do not get any brownie points for sucking it up. Only adults in the room please.
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The world is upside down so I better react by screaming louder and compromising more. Except you only want ten clients. How about you become more specific, not less?
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Artificial Intelligence is not the stuff of science fiction any more. It is here and will become part of our lexicon forever more. What it means for you and your creative business is fascinating. Being human has never been more important.
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Tis the season for selling. How do you describe what you do? Beyond your why? Let's talk about journaling and what to do with it.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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Where were you a year ago? What has changed? What will you do with 2023? Are you willing to add a zero?
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Clarity. Nuance. Exposition. Chameleons can do any of these because they are too busy being Chameleons. Let's explore what it means to dig deeper holes.
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Unless you are committed to making it look like yesterday. Evolution requires letting go to embrace what could be. It means knowing when you speak of something new, it has to be with a different mindset. Let's talk about the Phoenix once more.
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Integrity means getting paid to ask better questions and being willing to live with the answers. Sound cryptic? It is not. Listen in for my explanation.
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We have all been trained to think that the customer is always right. For creative business though, they are always wrong. It is a distinction with a VERY big difference.
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We have all been trained to think that the customer is always right. For creative business though, they are always wrong. It is a distinction with a VERY big difference.
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Design is creation. Easy enough. Now put teeth to it to make it a business. Why does it matter? Which would you rather have: the straw house or the brick house?
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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What was is no longer. What is has to be redefined with history in mind but also ignored. The question is whether you will be willing to share your voice to a new chorus or if you will allow vestiges to remain your North Star.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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What was is no longer. What is has to be redefined with history in mind but also ignored. The question is whether you will be willing to share your voice to a new chorus or if you will allow vestiges to remain your North Star.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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For creative businesses, the value of time is not linear. There is intrinsic value that has nothing to do with physical effort. Ahem, creativity. You are not lawyers or accountants. So please stop acting like them.
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For creative businesses, the value of time is not linear. There is intrinsic value that has nothing to do with physical effort. Ahem, creativity. You are not lawyers or accountants. So please stop acting like them.
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When you hit the wall, find yourself unable to rise to the responsibilities in front of you, you are burning out. The question is why and what to do about it. Let's talk about free diving.
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When you hit the wall, find yourself unable to rise to the responsibilities in front of you, you are burning out. The question is why and what to do about it. Let's talk about free diving.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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If someone asks you which you like better -- chocolate or vanilla when you like strawberry, what does your answer really mean? Comprehension requires definition not explanation. Listen in and I will explain what it all means for your creative business.
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Most people think about their creative businesses as singular not communities. What a missed opportunity. Let's talk about JazzWire.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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If you are in creative business, your voice matters. Pretending it does not is an illusion. Truth may not be palatable to some and that is okay. They just cannot be your clients. To make it so though, you have to go first.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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We have all been frenetic and now Summer is here. What does it mean to take a break? The gift of rest is not just for you.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Nothing ever goes according to plan. What happens when things happen? How do you handle the turmoil? Let's talk Chinese Finger Traps.
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At the end of the day, you need permission to do what you do as you would do it. The one thing you have to have to create. Let's talk about Sunday dinner.
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If you are making a change in your business, you have to have everyone be ready. If you are fortunate enough to need to hire a team or have a team, you have to understand The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt. Let's talk about Herbie one more time.
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A contract is when your business talks. Do you want to shout? Whisper? Or pretend you are not talking? How about you just tell a story?
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Price connotes value and the number itself tells a story. Your price has to align with your story or you have nowhere to go. Let's talk about your favorite fancy restaurant.
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What happens when there is a lull when it seems like everyone else is busy? What does it mean for your creative business and what should you do?
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Creative business is about being vulnerable. Vulnerability is the fuel for trust. The question is where, when and why should you be vulnerable?
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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All clients are not the same. You have to do the work to decide who is right for you. It boils down to are they twos or eights?
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We have all experienced the utter toxicity of an out of control client. What makes for great client management? Easy -- Knowing the 4 transitions and living the 3Ws.
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The difference between those rising and those who know is professionalism. What does it mean to be a professional? Simple. When you know who you are you will no longer need to dodge bullets. To level up means you have to ignore the stairs.
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When creative business owners stop and think about where they want to go with their art and their creative businesses most start with money, then talk about the effort required to get that money and maybe then think about the kind of work they want to be doing. Here is the thing: it is exactly backwards.
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When you think about it, the statement “I hope…” is almost always about something external happening that may or may not directly affect you, but is certainly in your universe. You have no control over “I hope”. The results of “I hope” are as random as a flip of the coin. In the context of your art and your creative business, please, pretty please, kill hope and find your faith.
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The world can create a lot of noise and chaos today. It becomes ever harder to see the forest for the trees. Do one thing less and return to your play with better defined characters.
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The impact your work as a creative business will have and the places you might take it depend on your core and consistency between your business and your artistry. The frog and the scorpion comes to mind.
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The idea that your clients understand what you do is like most people in the United States appreciating how awesome Virat Kohli is. So let's talk contract.
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We are all obsessed with something. Your obsession is why you are who you are both as an artist and business owner. We can get caught in the moment. The arrogance is to be defined by it. Tomorrow is always another day. Let the choice of perspective be yours.
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As a creative professional, you see what others do not. It is why you get paid. You try to lead those you seek to serve with a guiding hand. And yet. When those around you refuse your direction what are you to do. Let's talk about Leona Helmsley.
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Try harder. Pay more attention to detail. Focus. None of these are helpful to creative business employees. It truly is not about you as a person, it is about the system even if you are the only employee. Let's talk about the Blue Angels.
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This is not school and your employer is not your parent, teacher or even your friend. Now is the time to invest in yourself and be willing to be wrong before you are right. Let's talk about Lego's.
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Storytelling requires engagement and imagination. If you lay it all out there you rob me of my ability to dream. Let's talk about fairness, no more no less and being the adult in the room.
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Why does your business exist? To serve you, your clients? Or for you to serve it? My guess is you think the former but act like the latter. No better time to change than today.
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There is always a better way, better than what I might offer, what you might offer. Who cares? There is no end to better, only the work to get to the very place you will never reach. When the delusion of better resides at your fingertips, we give up the search and the meaning of the search itself. Let's talk about a dog swimming in the ocean.
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What do you get paid for and why? What you do not define will be defined by others. Let's talk about the Flux Capacitor.
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New year. New opportunities. The 21 day challenge. Change one thing. Let's talk about the marshmallow test.
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Here are some last minute Christmas Wishes for all of you. Hint -- they all ask you to take a leap. What got you here will not get you there and there is where you need to go.
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Too often creative businesses devalue themselves and overvalue client relationships. Case in point: giving a discount to repeat clients. It goes against having better clients pay more. Let's talk about the automatic stay in bankruptcy in the United States.
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Marketing or meaning? Emotion. Storytelling. Design. Luxury. Beautiful. Tasteful. Elegant. Sophisticated. None of these words really mean anything without context. It is up to you to make them valuable or banal, rich or colloquial, layered or trite. Let's talk Crazy Eddie...
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Unless you really value the next thing you do, you will be unaware of the margin. When you misprice your margin you will find yourself doing everything you do not want to do. Self-inflicted pain. Let's talk about unintended consequences.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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Creative businesses are busy. Many are seeking new employees as they grow. The question is what do you do when they show up? Teach tasks or show culture. Let's talk Herbie, Think Again, Loonshots and video diaries.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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You thrive on your number of Instagram or TikTok followers. The likes on your posts, how many times you or your work is featured, well, anywhere. But the phone is not ringing. You (start to) panic. Let's talk about fishing.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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To be effective, you have to communicate well. Translate senses. Explain even better. Let's talk bond math.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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I define entrepreneurship as being convicted enough to be relentless in having others believe as you do. This permeates everything a creative business is all about. Let's talk about Chobani Greek Yogurt.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Most of us grew up learning about business through the eyes of the factory model. We all need factories and their models to live our lives. Creative businesses, on the other hand, are needs and have to leave that model behind. Let's talk about Justo Thomas.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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Bernadette and I discuss all things DEI and its impact on all business, creative and not. We talk about opportunity and change and the desire to be human. We also talk about forgiveness and being anti-cancel culture.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Guest: Bernadette Smith
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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network
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We are at a moment in time when your ability to tell your own story is more important than having someone else tell it for you. The real question though is what is the aim? Celebrity? Opportunity? Growth? Legitimacy? Let's talk Marcy Blum and Rishi Patel.
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The absurdity of what resonates with our culture is never lost on me. I wanted to have a little bit of fun today to illustrate the point that the difference between legacy and a whimsical moment is often nothing more than a conviction to the absurd. Lets talk Beanie Babies And The Pet Rock.
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Knowing what you need to live the life you wish is the key to your success as a creative business. How much do you need and how much do you want to work? If you set your business up to be greedy, you will be. The result will be the illusion of success and failure. Let's talk about The Giving Tree.
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We all give lip service to the idea that you are interviewing a potential client as much as they are interviewing you. But are you really? Do you know what you need? Let's talk the legacy of Karen Ann Quinlan.
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COVID has caused major disruptions and required alternate ways of doing business. It means that your business model needs to account for risk and perhaps change altogether. Let's talk 3 point baskets.
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Your ideal project -- the one that gives you the best chance of success has to be known. What this timeframe, thought process, looks like has to be known to everyone. It is from there that you leap. Let's talk Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Fall is upon us and the instinct is to race ahead. What if you did one thing less? What would you have to charge to do it? Can you choose not to chase the shiny penny. Let's talk The Perfect Egg.
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I will be taking some time off after this episode (airing August 3rd) and will be back on August 24th. Yep, 21 days. So a 21 Day Challenge is in order. Let's talk about three radical changes, the problem with incremental change and an opportunity from me to you.
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We should all chart our own course much deeper than simply a strategy to find uncharted territory. Be true to your soul as an artist, where there are no boundaries of possible only the imagination of what could be. What would your creative business look like then? Who says you have to charge any way that someone tells you to. Fifty years next year. Let's talk HBO.
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Since the dawn of the industrial age, if we can measure it, we will. For creative business, those standards are and will always be amorphous. How do you value an idea? Let's talk trains and clocks.
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The line between personal and creative is blurry at best. You are professional but you are also an artist required to move beyond the technical. Trust is sacrosanct and incredibly fragile. Be intentional, purposeful but not indulgent. The arrogance of opinion is defined when there is no humility. Let's talk about July 7th.
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We are all in it now. The world has reopened (in the U.S. anyway) and the thrush of work is there. More then ever you are called upon to reinvent your creative business. Enter Dick Fosbury...
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We tell ourselves stories. Our memories are shaped by our own biases. We live in the definition we have given ourselves. Why? For the most part, for your creative business it ultimately becomes about choosing to be the Sun or the Moon.
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The fluency of creative business is ever on order today. Design, Production, Installation/Reveal are the stages every creative business inhabits. The path forward remains with the opportunity for exposition. Simply, how do you get better at being memorable. Let's talk Blow Pops.
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You are hungry, scrappy, do whatever it takes to get your big break. You never want to lose that. It feels arrogant if you do. And yet you know what got you here will not get you there. Let's talk Kate Winslet.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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We all rely on our intuition to drive us forward. Intuition is a function of experience, natural gifts, education and maybe even just age. We use intuition to form opinions on just about everything. However, when the world changes, so too our intuition. Let's talk photography.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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All artists want to leverage their creative business. Most use influence and/or product to get where they want to go. They all want to be the next mega brand, the next unicorn. What if, instead, it was about community, connection, and intimate relationships? Let's talk Marth Stewart and Shop My Porch.
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Just because you cannot see the air you breathe does not make it any less necessary for you to live. Same goes for risk. If you do not know what risk you are taking, when and how in your creative business, you are just gambling. More like playing Russian Roulette. Let's talk arbitrage.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Change sucks. It is hard, really hard and the inertia to change is a powerful mistress. The decision to change has to be with intention and an ultimate endeavor to reset your foundation without regard to result. Let's talk The Dip.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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We are at an inflection point. The public recognizes the value of design and is willing to pay for it. To what end leverage then? What are you willing to do to earn that value and will you become the provider or the product? Let us talk Facebook and Theexpert.com.
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Perfectionism lives within so many artists. Cliches abound: "Perfect is the enemy of good", "Be the best", "Profit and perfect are mutually incompatible." Really it is a conversation about Creation versus Craft. Enter Jiro Loves Sushi.
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What does it mean to be proactive? How often do you practice being, well, you? Let's talk brain surgery.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Art is impactful to the patron as they find themselves in it. We enjoy art from our own worldview. The ultimate Rorschach Test. Artistry, on the other hand, is a singular journey. How you, the artist, take us from here to there is idiosyncratic. Can you choose to be a chameleon? Let's talk Bernie Madoff.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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We live in a world of validators, franchises and even networks. Duncan Hines, McDonald's and The St. Regis. What if we created a different kind of consortium for creative business? Would we all be able to play nice in the sandbox and change the way clients make their choices? What would the world look like if we did?
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Guest: Carl Clemetson of Hometown Elegance Events and Catering
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We are on the precipice of emergence. We can feel it -- the demand for creative business is exploding as people search to express what they have not been able to express for the last year. Savor the responsibility and slow down. Let's talk about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Creative business is all about the irrational, the ephemeral, the desire for other. It is the business of hope and transcendence. How you get from challenge to solution is of course a trek through the unknown. Welcome to Wonderland.
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You know how you treat your clients. You know the promises you make and how you intend to keep them. Yet you do not consider yourself a super client. You do not demand the level of excellence, expertise, and attention your clients demand of you. Why? Let's talk Netflix.
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Stefanie Klempau of Fabrics Tattoo (Hand Pained Leather Jackets For Weddings And Events)
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COVID has shifted our culture and forced us to rethink what and how we do what we do. The question is what will you take with you. Let's talk Zoom, Project Managment, Cash Flow and Marketing.
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Michael Beneville is a remarkable futurist with a firm understanding of what tomorrow might be. This is one you are probably going to have to listen to over and again because the pearls of wisdom are mind boggling (to me anyway) Listen in...
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Guest: Michael Beneville
Links: Area 15 | The Spatial Web | Beneville Studios
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Doing work you hate never leads to the work you love. And skill is a commodity, passion is everything. What do these things mean? Do they matter? Let's discuss...
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What does it really mean to only do work for those that care? To really be the best at what you do? To know your range and to stay there? To really know why you are trusted? Most important, what happens when you allow yourself to do the work you simply do not do well? It is about assumptions, bias and the refusal to believe in the power of your lane. Not everyone knows how to spend a million dollars well and let's talk about why that matters.
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Creative business is literally about creating a world that has never existed. To imagine. Too often though we get trapped into the curse of knowledge, and lose the humility to know that you do not know. History has shown that failure to imagine the future is the curse of intelligence and the demise of the well intended. For creative business, it is the road to commodification and irrelevance. So let's talk about how to avoid tunnel vision.
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Art does not see color or sex, clients do though. As with all things creative, how can the business story compel your art to move beyond bias? To do that though you will need to allow conversations to happen as you see them and remove the "get to yes" mentality. Maybe not a solution, but it is a start and definitely worth a conversation.
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All creative businesses are in the information business. You are provided information -- what is the project, you provide information and then you act on that information. How you handle the flow of information is what makes your creative business go. The real question then is where do you fall on the Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan spectrum?
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To be successful in creative business, you have to get paid for your talent, wisdom and experience. But what does that mean? In fact, what does each of talent, wisdom and experience mean? And why do they need to go together with the glue of resilience, conviction and faith? The answer is in the question, Is it art or the creation of art?
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The story of your art and your business are not the same but they rely on each other. The key components of story is trust, tension and resolution. How you hold each component is what sets the path for your success as both an artist and a business. The real question is that if I scratched your name off of your contract would I know it is you?
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Transparency is not Saran Wrap. It is being secure in what you charge and then knowing how you are going to earn it. As clients get smarter, value is not about being relative to competition, it is about knowing what you earn and when. Let's talk bananas.
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Carl Clemetson from Hometown Elegance Event Catering And Production
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By all accounts 2021 will be a rebirth for creative business. We will hopefully put the pandemic behind us and art will reemerge. The question will be how to handle it. My advice, race to the top. To do so you will have to be radically, unapologetically, idiosyncratic. You will need to convince yourself that best is indeed a verb, not a noun because when you do you will invest in the best of you, you art and your creative business. And from there you will justly reap the rewards of being on the top. Listen in...
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Every business takes a risk, that is the very nature of business. The question is whether you are properly paid for that risk. If risk is being vulnerable then the choice to be vulnerable has to be yours. Otherwise, you turn singular risk into exploding risk. Defining risk requires purpose and purpose requires intentional idiosyncracy.
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Delivering Happiness shows what it means to change thinking and to solve a different problem. It also shows the power of scarcity, relationship and purpose. Zappo's is the story that resonates louder today than ever.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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Remind yourself why you do what you do. You create joy and you do it with intention. When things go awry it is all too often because the singular purpose has been misformed by ego, by manipulation and by a loss of connection. Finding your way back means two things: tantrums and foundation. Listen in...
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
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You would not think an operations management book would be so critical to the success of a creative business. After all creative businesses do not produce widgets. Process is process though and if you are not appreciating bottlenecks and motion, you will likely invest in the wrong solution. Enter Herbie and the cub scout hike.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Matthew Myhrum of Matthew Myhrum Event Visualization, Inc.
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Great clients are made not born. The better you define your process and what is expected of them and your creative business, the better the experience will be for everyone. That said, there are three overarching characteristics that help define clients and allow for true alignment: Motion In Fear, Resolute Decision Making and Patronage. Listen in...
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Amy Serridge of WoodsEdge Farm
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We all might say that we want to make real change, but the inertia to change is real. We hope that yesterday will carry us forward and doubling down on the old will prevail against the new. Let's talk about solar lamps in rural India, the Phoenix and the outliers of success.
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Andy Kushner of Kushner Entertainment
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Creative business is built on the microscopic. For so many creative businesses, the very idea of serving more than 500 customers in a year is silly. Most are built on less than 50. And yet we speak in platitudes and generalities not radical authenticity. We do it because we have framed the conversation in terms of fear and rejection. How about we consider being grateful as we shun the non-believers.
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Maria Maxit of Maxit Flower Design
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Most creative businesses are caught in the new client trap. They take on a project and then use the success of that project to get another (and another). Very little is ever offered to the great client to treat them better. It does not have to be this way. Let's talk about Soul Cycle and Peloton. Listen in...
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Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Brooke Palmer Kuhl of RSBP Events
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Just like governments do not run like businesses, so too does creative businesses not look like other businesses. All too often what would be expected in business, is not true for creative business -- say the customer is always right, being hungry and scrappy always works and, of course, price matters above all else. Enter the intention/reception paradox. Listen in...
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Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Kevin Isbell of Kevin Isbell Design
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All creative businesses are actually in the information and communication business far more than they are in the making stuff business. Understanding how communication tools have grown -- from hieroglyphics to Zoom is critical to recognize the future that awaits for creative business. A quick trip through the past century of communication tools is a great place to start. Listen in...
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Courtney Wolf of Invision Events
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Why are clients choosing you, your art and your creative business? Price? Past work? What does it mean to you and how does it impact how your run your business? It really is a conversation about chameleons and totem poles. Listen in...
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Valerie Gernhauser of Sapphire Events
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Contracts are the lifeblood of any business, creative business especially. And yet 99 times out of a 100, they are gobbledy gook that you paid a lawyer to write for you in a way that protects you but does little to define the relationship your business will have with your client. It does not have to be that way. Enter the Trip Tik.
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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Maria Maxit of Maxit Flower Design
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Managing the client experience is a singular challenge for every creative business. For the most part, projects are for an extended period of time with many ups and downs both for activity and emotion. The key to success is vision and grit. It is also a deep understanding of sunk costs. Enter the story of Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill. Listen in...
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Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Matthew Wengerd of A Fine Press
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When we contemplate what is next, too often we want to be derivative of what has come before. Sure, we need to acknowledge the benefit of history, ultimately though we have to stretch beyond the realm of possible. Let's talk about the movie War Games.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Andrea Eppolito of Andrea Eppolito Events
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As we come to Fall, so many creative businesses are confronted with the challenge of whether it is worth it to keep going. There are no easy answers but there is a framework to think it all through. No story today, just straight talk.
Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative
Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Margarita Oudalova of Oudalova Events & Design
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Who controls your fate as a creative business? How you do attract business without standing on the street corner and screaming? Who chooses you, helps you get chosen and what do you owe them when you do? What value gatekeepers? Let's talk Duncan Hines. Listen in...
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You tell two stories. The first is why we should believe in your work as an artist and the second is why we should believe the story of your business. The story of your art is ephemeral, your business grounded. Two voices that must each speak for you to be successful. Enter Frederick The Mouse.
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Art is shaped and shapes culture. If you are in the business of creating art, what does that exactly mean for you? How are you to incorporate this responsibility into touchstones of your work? Defining a market is nothing new, but defining culture with the market? Getting paid to honor culture and shift it? That is new. Enter Loving v. Virginia, The Ivory Trade, and End of Life Services. Listen in...
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Every creative business has four transitions: Potential Client To Actual Client, Idea To Design, Design To Production, Production To Reveal. As with all one-way valves, if they are leaky, things are going to go afoot, often drastically so. Enter Diana Prince. Listen in...
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Know your client. Are they beginners or enthusiastic amateurs? Meaning are they 1's or 5's? And where will you take them? If you cannot fully understand who you serve, you cannot serve them. Building your business to serve everyone means you serve noone. Let's talk knives.
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Pricing is a fraught subject no matter the time. Through in a global pandemic and cultural upheaval in the United States and the rubber band stretches ever thinner. As with all things foundation is everything. What "it" costs is not the same thing as what you cost. Oh and cost is for toothpaste, investment is for art. Let's talk Mercedes and leather seats and speaking of leather seats, let's talk Bentley.
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Change is painful. It just is. Nobody wants to change, we are compelled to because we hope the future is brighter if we do. For creative businesses, this is about telling a deeper story, not a better one. To tell the deeper story, you need to know your community and the history of seatbelts in the U.S.
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Work Smarter, Breathe Deeper, Have The Courage To Fail And The Conviction To Try Again. Enter the difference between illusion and delusion, The Blue Angels and The Goal.
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In the midst of the existential crisis we find ourselves in, all creative business is being upended. Sure, some are busy, but most are suffering from a prolonged winter -- actors, musicians, event professionals, chefs, just to name a few. So the house is coming down. To rebuild it, design first. For design to come first, you must be judged, you must take concentrated risk. Enter a discussion about placebos and Ralph Lifshitz from the Bronx.
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Emotional resonance is what separates you, the artist, from the rest of us. While you have a gift at your craft, that is not why you are paid. You are paid to be professional, to make us feel and to feel while not getting lost in the emotion of the moment. Simultaneously, engaged and removed from the situation. Enter stillness, a flashlight and generosity.
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Faith is the courage of conviction. Faith is the prerequisite to courage and integrity. Faith is facile and simultaneously hopeful and hopeless. Faith is what you need to see your creative business through. Enter the story of the swimming dog, Craigslist and letting kids have cake for breakfast. Listen in...
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In today's world, we are what we measure. We hear it all the time now -- data analysis, big data, consumer preferences, artificial intelligence and computer learning to show us what we see, feel and even touch. What does that mean for your creative business? Umm, everything. If experience is what you truly sell, then making sure that you define the success of that experience in your own iconic way is crucial. Enter metrics of success, the coffee table idea and Zappo's. Listen in...
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Today we are going to talk about the value of the subjective, the emotional component that is critical to the success of every creative business. It is knowing the difference between drawing birds and clouds and when you might share each. It is also knowing that the language of emotional and its return dwarfs anything rational. In the end, what it means is that you have to stop playing the game you are not very good at and start (or only) play the one you are.
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Constraints are nothing new. Creative businesses have always operated in a window. I have never met a designer who is perpetually free to create as she sees fit without regard to budget, style or even geography. The new reality we all find ourselves in is that a new constraint has been foisted on all of us. The price of every physical human interaction is now perpetually present. It means the intrinsic nature of art has become ever more indelible. Enter the underneath, an apple tree and horses for courses.
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Every creative business takes a journey with and for its clients. The points along the way are its value. No doubt, the goal is inevitable if the journey is profound. In this episode, will will talk about the importance of value delivery, subjective and objective and getting paid what you need. The implications will result in the 3W's -- where were you, where are you and where are you going. Of course, there is a story to help. Let us talk about Sandals Resorts and Wonder Woman.
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What does the long tail, scarcity and niche have to do with your creative business? Umm, everything. Oh, and if you are not sure what the long tail, scarcity and niche even mean in this context, that is ok, I will just tell you the story of Blue Bottle Coffee and it will all make sense. Listen in...
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I am going to talk about a story that is near and dear to me. I have told this story and its importance to creative business many times. I have even told it at a college commencement speech I was so honored to give a few years ago. It is the story of Dick Fosbury and his path to winning the gold medal for the high jump in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. You might say, huh? What does this have to do with my business? Well, close your eyes, jump over the bar backwards and lets find out if you will land safely. Listen in...
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Thanks for finding The Business of Being Creative! I’m Sean Low, and I’ve been lending practical business advice to those in the business of being creative since the early 2000s, including accomplished notables such as Preston Bailey, Vicente Wolf, Nate Berkus, Sawyer Berson, Style Me Pretty, Marcy Blum, Michelle Rago, and Sylvia Weinstock--to name a few. The key to my own success has been my ability to help artists build their businesses in a way that most honors the art that is behind them. I’ll give you straight up, no holds barred advice on handling what happens from deal to done. The journey with your client begins when they first connect with you, whether digitally or in real life. And from that moment until the project is finished, you have the power to manifest an experience and journey with them that’s transformative for all. Everyone should be creative. Whatever your art is, it should invigorate you and bring you joy. And if it happens to be your business, it should bring you the money you need to KEEP being creative. Hopefully, I will challenge you each week to do just that.
So, let’s not just think outside the box… Let’s erase it! Links & Resources: Link to Sound File for Visually Impaired: Click Here
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