A Bright New Future for CreativeLive
Fiverr Expands Online Education Offering With Acquisition of CreativeLive When I was 22 years old, I found myself at a crossroads. I had two choices, follow the “safe” path laid…
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How To Build Multiple Revenue Streams For Your Business
Most businesses nowadays have a website, but many business owners fail to utilize their website to generate *additional* revenue. Regardless of your industry, there are many ways to build multiple…
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Introducing Back to Biz
CreativeLive is a community full of makers, shakers, and risk-takers forging their own path. They are the creators, innovators and entrepreneurs, who build local economies, develop businesses and bring new…
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How Freelancers Can Navigate COVID-era Financial Challenges
While many creative freelancers have thrived during the pandemic, there are just as many if not more, who have not. Unemployment in the US reached an all time high last…
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The Cheaters Guide to Photographing Fireworks
Image by Derek Key on Flickr Regardless of where in the United States you might be, when the fireworks explode over the skies, you can bet that around you, there…
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7 Ways To Improve Creative Collaboration
We used to dream about what it would be like to work from home all the time. However, we learned it wasn’t what we all thought. A year after working…
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The Most Important Tech Tools For Creative Companies To Thrive Remotely
The current crisis has thrust rapid adaptation upon businesses as they quickly shift teams from offices to remote workstations. But perhaps no sector endured a culture shock as much as…
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Remote Working: Setting Yourself Up For Success At Home
Today, more people than ever are remote working for the first time in their lives. And with the work-from-home lifestyle comes new routines, new challenges, and new opportunities to go…
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How To Build Healthy Work From Home Habits
New year, same pandemic amirite? We are quickly approaching a full year in this not-so "new normal" and I that had me wondering how many of us actually set ourselves…
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How to Organize Your Creative Space To Maximize Productivity [Updated for Work From Home Life]
If 2020 taught us anything it was how to manage the unexpected hurdles of life (and a pandemic). One of those hurdles was learning how to balance our new work-from-home…
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Mindfulness: Your Key To Staying Productive This Holiday Season
It probably feels like mindfulness is an overused buzzword at this point. But 2020 have proven to be a year of unexpected hurdles for just about everyone, giving new context…
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8 Thanksgiving Photography Tips For Capturing Authentic Holiday Moments
Thanksgiving is full of turkeys — the actual one, and that weird relative every family somehow seems to have — and both types make excellent photographs. From capturing the food…
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Why Content Marketing is Important for Photographers
It is said that Content is King, and photographers know this better than anyone else. The imagery a photographer produces is perhaps their most valuable asset, but many aren’t using…
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Everyone Struggles with the F Words
So you started off 2020 right...You set your intentions. You did your goal-setting AND your personal KPIs. High fives 👋 But then March hit and let's be honest here, the…
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Uncertainty Drives Creative Innovation
Finding positivity amid a pandemic isn't easy, but creative innovation may just be the silver lining we all need. It is well documented that creative innovation comes from chaos and…
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Tips for Capturing Peaceful Protests with Street Photographer Steve Sweatpants
Street photographer, co-founder of Street Dreams Magazine and CreativeLive instructor, Steve Sweatpants on capturing Black Lives Matter protests, ethical storytelling and the feeling of seeing his photographs become part of…
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6 Must Have Food Photography Props to Give Your Images Something Extra
When it comes to photographing your food, it's all about setting the "right" scene. If you want your honey baked ham or apple pie to make your Instagram followers salivate with…
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5 Steps to Setting and Achieving Meaningful Goals in Life
As enthusiastic and consistent as we are in setting goals, we are often just as consistent in not following through on actually achieving those goals. I've always heard the advice that you'd…
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No New Year’s Resolutions Yet? Why It’s Ok To Take Your Time
If you were anywhere near social media on January 1, you absolutely saw two things: First, photos of whatever your friends, family, and colleagues did at the stroke of midnight;…
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4 Ways to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others Right Now
Teddy Roosevelt was right— comparison truly is the thief of joy. No matter which way you spin it, comparing yourself to other people is a slippery slope to misery and…
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How An Accountability Buddy Can Help You Meet Goals
Just because you work for yourself doesn't mean you're alone. Having an accountability buddy (AB) is like having a partner in crime, and it's a surprisingly powerful method that can…
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Searching for Soul in Portrait Photography
The most successful portraits take us well beyond the surface of how someone looks and show us the inner essence of who someone is. They reveal character, soul, and depth.…
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What Type of Creator are You?
Do you consider yourself a creator? Most people think you are “a creative” or you’re not. As kids we are taught that creativity is “fun” and “nice to have”, not…
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Lisa Congdon: The 7 Stages to Becoming an Artist When No One Knows Your Name
https://youtu.be/io4qS2jH3v0 Fine artist, illustrator, and author Lisa Congdon was named among 200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See The World -- but starting out, Lisa Congdon was just…
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6 Prompts to Encourage Authentic Lifestyle Portraits
Image by Elena S. Blair Elena S. Blair has built a mini-empire in under a decade by capturing authentic family moments. But the Seattle-based photographer didn't build a business delivering…
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5 Ways Your Social Media Efforts Are Failing
Watching that social media follower count is like fast-forwarding your favorite Netflix series just to watch the credits -- ineffective, and a complete waste of time. Most businesses get the…
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Kelly Brown: I Don’t Care What Other Photographers Think
If you're a photographer of any level, you definitely don't need anyone telling you that competition is steep in the industry. Even casual shooters feel the occasional burn as peers…
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Modern-Day Rosies: Deanne Fitzmaurice Re-Envisions the Iconic Symbol of Women Empowerment
Some ladies have all the luck drive. Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, filmmaker, and co-founder of Think Tank Bags, Deanne Fitzmaurice, is known for pushing the boundaries of what is typically expected…
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The Science of Creativity: What Happens In Your Brain When You Create
Could brain scans have predicted Albert Einstein's theories, the Sistine Chapels, or your latest creative thinking project? Not exactly, but a group of researchers recently used MRIs and artificial intelligence…
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Real Creative Lives: Coloring Outside the Lines with Delaney Brown
Only a few years into her career, commercial photographer, stylist, and producer Delaney Brown has established herself as a fresh voice in the world of photography with her swoon worthy…
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Adobe Photoshop vs Lightroom? When and Why to Use Each Program
At Mosaic, photographers often ask us to compare Adobe Photoshop vs Lightroom. They want to know which one they should use. The truth is, there’s no clear-cut answer – it depends…
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8 Sports Team Photography Tips For Getting A Winning Shot
The more people in a photograph, the more complicated the shot — which means that sports team photography is, well, a challenge for the rookies. Managing multiple players, getting multiple…
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How to Start Vlogging – 8 Steps to Get You Started
Google's latest YouTube user stats survey shows that, compared to 2016, there are now 75 percent more YouTube channels with over one million subscribers. Whether or not you want to…
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8 Body Language Tips to Make a Lasting First Impression
First impressions are everything. In most business situations, you only get one chance to sell your product or yourself. Whether you’re at a networking event, or you’re doing a sales…
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Turnaround 101: The Importance of Gross Profit Margins
Over the years, I’ve read a thousand plus business plans for business plan competitions, investment or client acquisition purposes. By habit, I scan the first few pages of an executive…
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Choosing the Right Social Media Platform for Your Brand
Finding the right social media platform for your business is part of creating an effective marketing strategy today. Regardless of your industry, using social media is an essential way to…
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8 Things Small Businesses Need to Know About Employee Wellness
Employee wellness is a vital part of human resource management for small businesses, especially after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The employee wellness conversation has also shifted recently, including…
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How To Attract New Talent to Your Workforce in 2021 (and beyond)
For a very long time, sourcing and recruiting top talent to your workforce was a long and tedious but fairly straightforward process involving a ton of time, money, and luck. Fortunately,…
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Get Used to It – The Pivot is Not Going Away
The return to bricks-and-mortar shopping is on the rebound, with consumer exuberance pushing supply chains to near failure and inventories for many goods to all-time lows. In fact, according to the…
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How a CDFI can provide loans and services to small businesses
When small business owners think of seeking small business loans, many think immediately of banks as the best sources for financing. However, depending on the needs and challenges a small…
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