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5 Minutes on Creative Entrepreneurship
by Eric HolterThis audio guide helps you accelerate the mastery of business skills for your creative services practice. We discuss business concepts, systems, principles, and practices so you can maximize the time you have to create. Episodes are organized around the five business themes of Money, Minutes, Marketing, Management, and Motivation.
Copyright: Copyright Eric Holter. All rights reserved.
Episodes
Do You Have a Prospect Education Problem?
5m · PublishedThis week we wrap up our Shark Tank series by considering a flaw that the Sharks often point out to founders as they seek an investment—the serious challenge of customer education that can present barriers to effectively marketing their products.
Partnerships, Part 2: Ownership Versus Employment
5m · PublishedIt’s common for partnerships to fail. And so considering the kind of partner you’re looking for, what their buy in costs will be, and working out how you’ll handle a possible future dissolution is critical before you make a deal.
Partnerships, Part 2: Ownership Versus Employment
5m · PublishedIt’s common for partnerships to fail. And so considering the kind of partner you’re looking for, what their buy in costs will be, and working out how you’ll handle a possible future dissolution is critical before you make a deal.
To Partner or Not to Partner
5m · PublishedWith the investor path closed, creatives sometimes look for help in the form of a business partnership. Not only can a partner provide business or marketing skills that we may be lacking, partnerships often appeal to creatives simply because of the loneliness of being a solo-prenuer—but before you go down that path you might want to think about this major decision like a Shark.
To Partner or Not to Partner
5m · PublishedWith the investor path closed, creatives sometimes look for help in the form of a business partnership. Not only can a partner provide business or marketing skills that we may be lacking, partnerships often appeal to creatives simply because of the loneliness of being a solo-prenuer—but before you go down that path you might want to think about this major decision like a Shark.
How to Stay Competitive as a Creative
5m · PublishedCreative entrepreneurs can’t patent their talent. We simply have to contend with the reality that the creative marketplace will always be offering up young new talent that’s willing to work for rates that established creatives can’t match. So how will you protect your creative practice from the competition?
Feeling the Burn of Your “Burn Rate”
5m · PublishedKeeping a careful eye on your burn rate can make the difference between managing growth on your way to success, or crashing spectacularly when you reach the end of your runway, never having gained sufficient momentum to take off.
Are You Ready to Scale?
5m · PublishedIf you have ambitions to grow your freelance practice into a small firm, or even into a larger agency, then you need to be aware of the costs associated with scaling a creative practice.
Are You Experiencing “Time Debt”?
5m · PublishedWhen creatives enter into business they often fail to consider the longer-term soft-costs involved in running their businesses, which can end up dragging them under.
How to Measure Your Creative Practice’s Costs
5m · PublishedFor creatives establishing the value of your business can be quite difficult, especially since the biggest cost center is your own time. And what’s that worth? In today’s episode we’ll consider how to calculate this critical part of the valuation equation—and some of the serious consequences that result from getting it wrong.
5 Minutes on Creative Entrepreneurship has 113 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 10:43:51. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 20th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 5th, 2024 02:14.