Make Your Art Your Creative Business: A Five Step Strategy

What is the best way to turn your creative pursuits into a creative business? Set yourself up in business! In this book, you'll learn the initial actions to start your creative business: how to set up your business structure, how to name your business, how and where to locate your creative business office or workspace, how to open your creative business bank account, and how to set up your creative business website. This is the most basic information you will need to start your creative freelance business. As with all of the information in this book, you can complete each item on your own as described in each chapter, or you can sign up for optional one-on-one consultation hour(s) to receive more detailed and hands-on assistance in setting up your own creative business. This information and activities in this book are expanded in the companion self-paced online training for this introduction book to the Your Business Your Brand Creative (YB2C) Marketing System for Creative Professionals, detailed in the book.