One of the reasons I started Artists & Profit Makers, my online mentorship program and community, was that I was tired of seeing artists and makers get tripped up on business advice that they’ve been told they just have to follow. There are lots of culprits, but the two big ones that I want to …
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Clearly celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Designing an MBA has me feeling a little nostalgic. But it also has me curious to see what’s resonated with readers over the years. So today, I thought I’d share the ten most popular posts on DMBA, based purely on number of views. (I’m also going to share …
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When I was a teenager, I spent one summer working in the office of my dad’s machine shop a few afternoons a week. It was a horribly boring job that mostly entailed shredding pay stubs that were more than seven years old. But one memory does stick with me vividly: My dad walking into the …
Read more “the challenge of cash flow, or why does my business never seem to have any money?”
Over at The Creative Empire, people have been talking about all the reasons why we haven’t hired someone to help out in our business yet. It seems like, for many of us, we make hiring help into a much bigger deal than it has to be. And yet every day, plenty of businesses, SMALL businesses, …
Seth Godin talked about it. (Someone must have told him it was Profit Week.) Meredith mentioned it in the comments yesterday. You hear people say it all the time: You gotta spend money to make money. And while this is true, it’s actually much more complicated than that. It’s not just about spending money. It’s …
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