It’s here! My new eBook is available! CROWD CONTROL takes an in-depth look at generating demand and eliciting curiosity in your creative work. I use examples from my management consulting business, and personal projects like CREATIVEMIX, to illustrate how you can promote your creative endevour and grow your business by engaging with people instead of [...]
It’s been three days since CREATIVEMIX – man what a ride! It was a home run and I can’t begin to thank all the people that helped make it happen – though I’ll try my damnedest on the conference blog throughout the week The conference planning fits into the margins of our world (which makes [...]
Last week Dave Seeram and I published our 2nd Clamorate magazine and it’s awesome! This 34-page PDF is full of articles that hardworking creatives will totally dig! It’s packed with content covering topics like: collaboration, branding, marketing, social media, tax planning, engaging with clients, project planning, social networking, and public relations! When it comes to [...]
I can’t believe it! CREATIVEMIX is three weeks away! Crap! I guess we better get to work! The 2011 CREATIVEMIX Conference is shaping up to be the best one yet! As always, it features some of Vancouver’s most creative minds (speaker roster below) and to say we’re honoured to have these top-dogs involved is a [...]
Last weekend Dave Seeram and I attended Freelance Camp Vancouver – an un-conference for indie workers. I’m really glad I went. It’s a volunteer-run event run by The Network Hub – I can’t say enough about how great those folks are. Of course there’s some marketing spin by them as they hope for new clients [...]
The folks at creativeLIVE have a killer workshop coming up for all you photographers. Tamara Lackey is running a workshop called: Taking Care of Business and it should be a homerun. Check-out the promo video below re: scoring a seat in the live session. And, make sure you register for this FREE, LIVE workshop on [...]
I’m involved in two new publications that have both launched today and all I can do is sit here and hope for the best. It’s fun and freaky at the same time. Your Creative Mix: Growing Your Photography Business Through Creativity & Collaboration This ebook takes an in-depth look at the value of growing your [...]
Holy crap! Every once and awhile I have a personal project that just seems to take forever and the process of creating this latest ebook has felt like an eternity. I’ve never worked so hard on a writing project and I’ve never before put so much gut-wrenching, soul-searching effort into a project whose only boss [...]
This is a short promo video I did using Keynote and Garageband. It’s pretty campy, I know, but how else will the A-Team know that I’m available to do all their voice-overs?! Today is the prelaunch of a NEW project that’s been in the works for 8 months: it’s called clamorate! It’s a collaboration – [...]
Next Tuesday I’ll be kickin’ around the Canadian Special Events & Meetings Expo (Rocky Mountaineer Station, Vancouver) and at 9:30am I’ll be giving a one-hour talkie-talk called Inspired Event Management Through Creative Thinking & Collaboration. Here’s a bit of a synopsis: Organizing an event requires careful planning and hard work, but in today’s competitive market [...]