If your thinking of starting a business in the creative industry or if your already have a business I want you to know that automating your design business can be the best thing that you will ever do to grow your company.
Can you imagine making your creations once and having them sell over and over again with having to produce it ever again. This is called automation! There are so many creative people in this internet world who are successful in their own right. They have a routine in place and they follow it daily in order to produce beautiful products for their customers. These creative people are designers, graphics artist, crafters, painters, sculptors, and so many more that I can't think of them all. The thing about creators is that when you search the internet there in to much information about automating your business. Most everything that you come across is about making money online, MLM business, let's just say everything besides design marketing. As creative people we have to be smart and we have to think of our health especially if you are an artist like a glass blower dealing with fire, or a iron sculptor who forges iron in to beautiful creations. These and other types of artist work can be hard on the body and that's why it critical of all of use to think of more ways to produce income. What ever your talents are always think in the mind of automation. This will help you start a profitable business instead of turning your passion into a chore. Making any hand creation day in and day out can cause your quality of work to suffer. You must for the sake of your business think of more creative ways to bring in more money. One of the main advantages of thinking in the form of automating your business is that you make or produce something once and you can sell it over and over again. This will help your business grow even when your not making products. How is that? Easy! Let's say you have figured out how to improve upon something that's already in the market and now you have a better product for it. The best thing to do is write an eBook or make a video about the techniques used to make this product better. And presto you have a part of your business that is automated. Now when you decided to go on vacation, or if having a sick day, you don't have to shut down your business completely and the money will continue to roll in. I Know what your saying, I really love what I do. I understand that, my point is you never want to make your passion feel like it's a chore by always having to produce to see income. By figuring out different ways to automate part of your business you can see a vast improvement in your companies growth as well as an improvement in your creativity. Not automating your design business can put a limit on your earnings. You are human and you can only work so many hours in a day and produce so much in a particular time frame. It is critical that you brain storm ways where at least 30% of your business can be automated. It's not all about the money! When you start adding things like eBooks and tutorials, you are helping someone better them selves and maybe even their business. Again automation is not only about money, it's smart business and your adding value to your business which can also increase sales. I guarantee once you start helping others in your business you will see a continue grown in your company. Remember in order to get what you want you have to help someone else get what they want. To see more of my designs visit my gallery! Do forget to follow me on Facebook! Please leave a comment below.......see you next time.
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As you might have read in the previous post "Missing In Action". I told you how I spent the last 2 years chasing a shinny apple. As you see from my gallery pictures that I love creating beautiful accessory pieces but that's not the only part of my creativity. I have a love for interior decorating and I'm not to bad at it either (not barging or anything). So I have decided to start sharing some of my creations to let others see what I can do. Now every morning I am waking up to my passion and I'm loving it.
The secret to finding your passion is this. Let's say you won the lottery and you never had to work again. What is it that you would still do and didn't have to worry about making money. If you know the answer then you have found your passion. I love decorating! I would create rooms all day if I could but I have to work on the business side of things like writing this blog. I have been designing, creating, and decorating for over 20 years. I learn though reading a lot of books and magazines. Then a wonderful network was created called HGTV. I watch just about every program. And if you haven't notice on HGTV Design Star, the majority of the winners are self taught designers. Creativity can't be taught it's something that you already have and you must create more and more everyday to enhance that creativity. I realized this after taking classes from the Art Institute. I learn how to recreate looks of expensive pieces that I couldn't afford otherwise out of hand-me-downs, second had stores and of course Craigslist the mecca of cheap furniture finds. I have studied home staging and understand what a home should look like in order for it to sale. I have redesigned rooms using clients current furnishing to create a new look. I'm am building a portfolio of my work through mood boards. I had pictures of previous work that I had done but they all got destroyed. So I have found the next best thing and now I am able to help others create beautiful rooms without the expenses of hiring a designer. I am not only doing something that I love I am helping others as well, and to me that makes all the difference. It's a blessing to waking up to my passion knowing I have the opportunity to create beautiful spaces and share it with others. Go here if you would like to see my gallery of interiors! Remember you will never become wealthy in life unless you help someone else. I have been away from this site for such a long time. Yes I have been missing in action and I'll tell you why!
The past two years of my life has been up and down. I have been trying to make this internet marketing thing work by trying everything in sight and then I realize it was time to stop chasing the shinny apple. There is so much information out there that you become so over whelemed and not sure of what to do. I came to the realization that I was not happy trying to do a business for money when I had no interest in the system. So I have decided that I no longer wanted to get involved in any programs that required me to make monthly payment in order to stay a member. Now don't get me wrong some of the programs really do work and no they are not schemes but it just wasn't for me. I've been in MLM programs and started out doing very well until my entire team that recruited me decided to quit. I know I could have kept going but it actually meant having to drive even further to team meetings. I live in Atlanta and when I say further I mean like 2 hours out of my way. So it was best to let it go. Then I tried Motor Club of America thought the product was great but I joined under a knuckle head who said that you can call or email him any time. I called and emailed him several times to ask a few question. That was back in February 2013 I still haven't received that call or email. Now when I join him there ever several other programs that you needed to join in order to make the maximum profit. And one of the programs that was included in this the blogging platform was Empower Network! The concept of Empower Network is brilliant but in order to get ahead in this type of business you needed to fork out $2000..........monthly. That just wasn't for me I spent so much money doing these business and I never made any real money! No it's not because the business doesn't. For me is was just too much. Too much to pay monthly, too much to do with all the businesses that I had jointed, way too much information, and not sure where or how to apply it. Since then I tried another business and of course it was set up like Empower Network in the form the monthly payment but not as much. This one had to do with Amazon Dropshipping program on Ebay. My problem with this for me was that every time someone inquired about a product I had listed, I would go back to Amazon to get the information and they were either out of stock or no longer carried that particular product. This happen to me 6 times and that was it for me I was finished. It wasn't worth the headache. I felt like I was listing bogus products for others to buy and I did not want to take anyone's money for a product that was no longer available. Do then I started analyzing everything. Some things I can have stick with and some of them were just entirely too expensive for my blood. So why wasn't I sticking with the products? Because I wasn't passionate about any of it and I was doing it all for the wrong reason. I have stop chasing all the programs and systems. I am no longer missing in action!. I have decided to do what I am passionate about and rededicate myself to this site but with more of my true passions. Check out my next blog post to see how I decided to change my life. Flollow your dream |
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