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Recently, photo editor Bronwen Latimer hired me to do an environmental portrait of a guy named Bob Dunn, who each year flies from his home in Delaware to play Santa Claus at a mall in Oklahoma. (Interestingly, I learned from him that there are three main companies who are in the business of representing professional Santas, and until recently Kodak was one of them.) The photo was for a story on seasonal workers and Bronwen asked me to make a picture of him at home in his Santa suit. I’m not sure how many photographers would think to put AARP on their list of dream clients, but I’ve always enjoyed working for them. Everyone there is really nice, they pay pretty well, they have a pretty reasonable contract and they have a massive audience. I’ve found that a small percentage of magazines I’ve worked with over the years have no contract at all.
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Thinking of trading in the same old, same old for a new gig in the New Year? Whether you're going after a new career or launching a business, here are some pointers for how to get started, culled from SecondAct's best advice for would-be career changers. 1. Follow your heart.
12 Tips for Trading Places in 2012 - SecondAct.com
Make Something 365 & Get Unstuck
Heidi Sabertooth in Brooklyn, New York is making a song a day for 100 days and she calls it 100 milkteeth ... Why did you decide to do this project? The idea for creating a track a day actually came from something I was in the habit of doing for many years – every time I would get into the studio with my band for rehearsal or just by myself, it was a rule of thumb to ALWAYS press the record button right away because in the course of getting warmed up, often a new song would be born – certainly some of the most magical moments would happen and we would be so glad we recorded because it was super fun to listen back and reflect on that shared experience – we were capturing a creative moment in time! And some of the charm about it was that they weren't perfect songs yet – they had the roughness of a pure creative idea coming out – I always found myself leaning into those recordings, even more than the official songs we made.
Make Something Every Day | The Etsy Blog
What will you make to greet the dawn of a new decade? Whether sketching self-portraits, welding wildebeest sculptures or baking banana bread, a daily project can be just the thing to break out of your routine while making creativity a part of your daily life. As Noah Scalin , the brains behind the Skull-a-Day project and author of 365: A Daily Creativity Journal , says, “A daily project is like a marathon.
You’ve flipped the calendar to 2012 and opened to a fresh blank page in your sketchbook. Now what? Are you feeling like you’re in a creative rut? Everyone gets stuck now and then, but when your livelihood requires creative output it can be truly devastating to hit one of these mental roadblocks. I know from personal experience: I’ve spent over 10 years running my own design and consulting firm, and a few years back I hit a wall.
How-Tuesday: Get (and Keep) Your Creativity Flowing | The Etsy Blog
Also if you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed so you're sent all the latest articles as we publish them by clicking here . You can also join me on Twitter here . Go on, you know you want to ;-) photo credit: Xelcise Open any self-help book and you’re bound to come across the topic of goals. From to-do lists to bucket lists, short term to long term, one key aspect of creating the lifestyle of your dreams is about knowing where you want to go and then figuring out how you’re going to get there.
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It helps you minimize overwhelm and maximize results, because that’s what this is all about: helping you get your lifestyle business up and running. You’ve taken in a lot of information. A niche doesn’t necessarily mean that you become an expert in a narrow area, such as growing bananas. You can also take people to a destination, like I do. I regularly receive emails from readers who want to know the best way to start doing work they love.There are only a few certifications available for editors, such as those offered by the Editors' Association of Canada and the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences , and many academic degree programs and courses are out there, lots of them offered by profession-related associations . But there are no national licensing boards for editors, and editing itself is still largely learned on the job, often as sort of an apprenticeship. And editing is a solitary occupation; we editors don't usually sit around in groups and edit, unless we're members of one of the rapidly disappearing newsroom copy desks.
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To help you with that, I enlisted 21-year-old professional speaker and leadership expert , Pedro De Abreu, to share seven mighty leadership characteristics that every entrepreneur should develop. If you want to be successful, or encourage others to be successful, you need to unlock your potential with these three keys to success (corny, I know, but I couldn’t pass on the pun). H ave you ever had a crazy customer? If you haven’t, it’s only a matter of time. And if you know how to deal with an angry customer, you can dramatically change how they feel about you and your business. E ntrepreneurship isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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Small Business
LinkedIn is the number one Business Social Networking tool available to business owners for two key reasons: its ability to exponentially grow your network through your connections, and its sophisticated data mining search engine. These capabilities, combined with the other tools LinkedIn offers, make it a powerful communications tool for engagement with online communities generating exposure, opportunity and sales. Viveka von Rosen is a nationally renowned LinkedIn speaker, trainer and consultant, working with business professionals sharing the secrets and strategies of using LinkedIn effectively. She helps clients create a more powerful presence on LinkedIn, grow a truly useful network, and build connection and relationship strategies unique to their company culture.
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{Image from Karin Dalziel on flickr} Unless you’re making lots of dough and thrilled with your earnings, you should add different income streams to your business plan. The more ways that you offer your product and services, the more money you’ll make. Many artists make the mistake of spending hours on their original art, selling it for less than they should, and not offering any other products. For some really famous artists, this might work out just fine.
8 Ways Artists Can Generate Additional Income Streams | Blacksburg Belle
Note: This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave yesterday at Broome Community College in Binghamton, New York. It’s a simple list of 10 things I wish I’d heard when I was in college. All advice is autobiographical. It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. This list is me talking to a previous version of myself.
How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon
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[Q:] I have an assignment and it is asking for a lot of figures relating to cost. Average Fixed Cost, Total Variable Cost, etc. Can you help me make sense of all these definitions of cost and help me figure out how to calculate them? [A:] I sure can. There are quite a few definitions relating to cost. We will consider the following seven terms: Marginal Cost, Total Cost, Fixed Cost, Total Variable Cost, Average Total Cost , Average Fixed Cost, and Average Variable Cost.