Description

Are you sick of being a freelancer with an irregular income?

Do you ask yourself every single month how much you'll earn?

Worried you won't have any new upcoming clients at all?

My Creative (Side) Business is a book for smart creatives who desire to focus on their creative output and monetize their work. Whether you're trying to figure out a slow strategic way to become a creative freelancer and want to kick off a real plan, or whether you're determined to find ways to create regular income streams doing what you enjoy, this book will help you do just that.

Inside, you'll learn about the business objectives and marketing decisions that drive your creative work. The curtain's been pulled away as marketing-speak and business jargon are translated into tools to help you:

• Understand client requests from a business perspective
• Build a strategic framework to inspire visual concepts
• Increase your relevance in an evolving industry
• Redesign your portfolio to showcase strategic thinking
• Win new accounts and grow existing relationships

You already have the creativity; now it's time to gain the business insight. Once you understand what the people across the table are thinking, you'll be able to think how they think to do what we do.

This practical guide offers stories of entrepreneurial women within the creative industries who turned their side projects into full-time businesses with multiple income streams. Filled with tips, tricks, stories, and interviews, it's a book you'll go back to multiple times in the future.