Overview
In this invaluable guide to making a living doing what you love, bestselling author and seasoned entrepreneur Christopher Duncan teaches creative solopreneurs all the real-world skills—from marketing to sales to networking—they need to become their own business.
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About this book
Maybe you’re working to build a sustainable, full-time creative career. Or perhaps you're happy in the corporate world but would like to turn your love for music, dance, painting, or programming into a steady stream of extra income. Either way, if you’re like most creative souls, you tend to focus on your passion to the exclusion of all else—and you may scorn the details of business and promotion. Yet as Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity shows, developing business skills couldn’t be more important for those who want to achieve success and generate steady income from their work.
With decades of professional experience in creative fields such as music, software, writing and speaking, bestselling author Christopher Duncan demystifies the path to getting paid for your artistic talents. With lighthearted stories and down-to-earth advice, he starts with the basics and shows you how to build a solid, dependable career. All that’s required is consistent effort and a bit of commonsense. In Have Fun, Get Paid you will learn how to:
- Find paying work and get the gigs
- Market your talent without selling your soul
- Build an image as a highly sought after professional
- Manage the business details of your creative career
- Harness the power of relationships for long term success
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Have Fun, Get Paid
Book Subtitle: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity
Authors: Christopher Duncan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6101-8
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Christopher Duncan 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-6100-1Published: 28 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-6101-8Published: 26 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 232
Topics: Business and Management, general