How to Run a Business as a Creative Person
Running your own business sounds great on paper: you are your own boss, you make your own hours and you get all of the money instead of having to give the lion’s share of profits to someone else. But that’s just the good things. The bad part of it is that you have to find all of your own leads, develop all of your sales, and handle all aspects of the business.
As a creative individual, this can be difficult. After all, your main focus is on the content or product, not on the actual structural aspects of running a business. Thankfully, there are a few things to keep in mind that could help.
No Matter What, Keep Working
There will likely be a few unfriendly opinions out there; don’t let them stop you from doing what you have been driven to do. Make sure that you keep your eye on the prize and keep working hard on your craft. If you let detractors get to you, it will take you off your game.
When you stop working, your business fails. There is no other way around it. Keep your nose to the grindstone and success will come to those who are patient.
Have Goals
Owning a business is all fine and well, but what is the purpose of your business? Is it to make you enough money so that you can stop working daily? Is it to get rich? Whatever the goal, you need to have something tangible to work towards.
Without a goal, you have no focus and only your drive and passion for your work to go off of. Having those goals can let you work incrementally towards something, giving you the drive to “complete” that goal even if it just branches into another goal.