Back on March 11th, creativeLIVE hosted its first-ever cL Spotlight - the ultimate search for the world's best undiscovered photography instructor. We gave 6 finalists 30 minutes to impress us and you, the cL audience, to win the right to teach a full course LIVE on creativeLIVE.  When the dust settled and competition had come to a close, there were two clear favorites. The judges, which included famed photographer Sue Bryce, picked pet photographer Arica Dorff while the audience choice went to professional photographer and business pro Rachel Brenke.

You have a camera, but does that make you a photographer? An artist? According to award-winning photographer and editor Aaron Nace, yes.

Sue Bryce challenged you to 28 days, now she's back at creativeLIVE for you to challenge her with your biggest marketing problems during Marketing and Promotion with Sue Bryce!

Sue is going to select marketing challenges from some of you and show you how to solve them with products created using the selected photographers' images and brands.

Tune in during Sue’s course to win some great prizes!

While commencement speakers shout “follow your dreams” from podiums around the country, creativeLIVE CEO Mika Salmi has more actionable advice: Just get in. In his first column as a LinkedIn influencer, Mika adeptly distills the fluffy cloud of advice targeting 2013 graduates in one fell swoop.

Marketing guru Michael Port divulged a few secrets during Day 1 of his Book Yourself Solid workshop. Namely, that marketing isn’t about booking clients; it’s about generating awareness. It’s what you do once someone becomes aware of you that generates clients, Michael explained, touching on a cornerstone of his tactical Book Yourself solid marketing system.

Michael also shared his own poignant definition of what marketing truly is. “It’s a love story disguised as a business system. We’re trying to have a love affair between us and our clients, between us and the whole concept of building and marketing the business, and of course between ourselves and ourselves.”

For more from Michael, tune in for Day 2 of his workshop, LIVE today from 9am-4pm PDT.