BizCraft: Professional Practices for Creative Entrepreneurs

These posts are organized around the five topics of Money, Minutes, Marketing, Management, and Motivation as they are applied in creative entrepreneurship. If you find them helpful, please share them with your colleagues.

What’s Your Real Hourly Rate?

Whether you’re a freelancer or an agency principal, setting your firm’s target hourly rate is...

03
Nov
Five Reasons Creative Service Firms Should Not Hire Salespeople

Over the 15 years I owned Newfangled, I made the mistake of hiring a salesperson...

27
Oct
5 Reasons Why Marketing to Everyone Will Kill Your Creative Business

Millo, a website dedicated to helping creative service freelancers improve their business practices, published one...

24
Oct
Is Your Balance Sheet Making You Dizzy?

Dealing with your creative services firm’s financial reports is probably not the most enjoyable part...

13
Oct
The Key in Ecclesiastes

The key to maintaining joy in work is set forth in the ancient, time-tested book...

06
Oct