Corwin Hiebert Managing Creative People + Creative Projects
Category “Small Biz”
Stop Looking, Start Doing
“Finding success” assumes we’ve been looking for it. Looking assumes we’re searching for something we don’t yet have. I think it’s the hunt that keeps us from actually being successful. Stop looking for success and start doing the things that produce victories (small or large). Success will find you when you’re working hard and taking [...]
Events No More
You may not know this but… I’ve been turning down event management gigs for almost a year now. To some it may come as a big surprise and to others it may simply be an interesting factoid that I used to be an event manager for hire. But the scoop is that my business has [...]
Between the Lines
I’m feeling the need for a quick rave. Today I met with a fellow entrepreneur, someone who’s totally crushing it and making rain where there ain’t a cloud in sight! Cheesy metaphor, I know. This small business owner is a blue-sky thinker and doesn’t let anything or anyone come between them and their dreams. They’ve [...]
Clamorate Magazine – Vol.2
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 [...]
Freelancers
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 [...]
Your Photo Biz
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 [...]
Style This!
My dear friend, and client, Nadia Albano has knocked it out of the park! This once freelancing superstar has crossed the great divide and has opened up her own studio in downtown Vancouver! That’s right – brick and mortar kinda stuff! She’s throwing a party for the media (July 13) and is hosting an amazing [...]
Live the Dream!
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 – [...]
Making Meetings Not Suck
[Part 2 of 2] As a counter-post to my pissy rant about how much I think meetings suck, let me share with you some ideas on how you can make meetings not suck. The truth is I have very few traditional meetings. I prefer to process the details of project online – that’s what Smartsheet [...]
Steer a Moving Ship
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. It is a great book – my favourite of his for sure. In Blink he discusses “thin-slicing” – the idea that spontaneous decisions are often as good as, or even better than carefully planned ones. After reading that [...]
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