Thinking about making the leap from a full-time job with a steady income and benefits to running your own creative business? While it's thrilling to think you could be making…
Don’t quit, don’t actively look for jobs, and don’t be a freelancer—but really. We’re good at the diagnosis: “My job is making me miserable.” We’re bad at the prognosis—accurately predicting…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3q-CbkgMek Dear CreativeLive students, fans, and friends, I’m today incredibly excited to announce the next step in the evolution of CreativeLive — something that’s been a long time coming: the…
Award winning photographer and CreativeLive CEO Chase Jarvis closed out our In Focus speaker series at Photo Week 2016 and dropped serious insights and inspiration bombs on the in studio…
It’s often the case that as budding entrepreneurs start making serious progress towards building the kind of business we’ve long envisioned, we’re shocked to discover that certain negative, unconscious beliefs…
Here is what I knew about working as a full-time freelance writer before I actually did it: Yoga pants and working from my bed. I have a feeling this is…
Leaving your day job and launching your own freelance business is a dream that many of us creative professionals share. If you've spent time thinking about going down this road, you'll…
Freelancers are most often one person businesses, which means they’re responsible for everything. Not just designing, or coding, or writing. They're solely responsible for finding new clients, creating contracts, sending invoices,…
Every entrepreneur working one-on-one with a paying client, quickly discovers the many joys and pitfalls of running your own business. As a freelancer, you learn very early on how crucial it is to…
Even if you’ve managed to find a full-time job you truly enjoy, it’s tempting to imagine another life you could live. When I was freelancing full-time, I heard it from…
