Building Your Business the Right-Brain Way: Sustainable Success for the Creative Entrepreneur
Autor Jennifer Lee Michael Port Ilustrat de Kate Prentissen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2014
If you’ve started a business, you know that the journey toward success can be both invigorating and confusing, so where can you find advice that is practical and focused but still as playful and passionate as you are? Look no further than this book, which combines solid business expertise with a right-brain perspective that inspires creativity and innovation. Jennifer Lee’s fresh, empowering approach emphasizes taking action and continually improving to achieve extraordinary long-term results.
Building Your Business the Right-Brain Way offers real-world-tested techniques that can benefit all sorts of businesses, whether you’re a sole proprietor running a coaching practice, a crafter looking to license products, a wellness professional with a team of employees, or any creative soul making a meaningful difference with your work. You’ll discover how to:
* assess your business’s unique “ecosystem”
* build your brand and attract, engage, and keep ideal customers
* develop new income streams that better leverage your time and resources
* promote your products and services with authenticity and ease
* grow your team (virtual and in-person) and manage staff and vendors
* establish infrastructure and procedures to keep operations running smoothly
* carve out vital white space to pause, reflect, and celebrate
Building Your Business the Right-Brain Way offers real-world-tested techniques that can benefit all sorts of businesses, whether you’re a sole proprietor running a coaching practice, a crafter looking to license products, a wellness professional with a team of employees, or any creative soul making a meaningful difference with your work. You’ll discover how to:
* assess your business’s unique “ecosystem”
* build your brand and attract, engage, and keep ideal customers
* develop new income streams that better leverage your time and resources
* promote your products and services with authenticity and ease
* grow your team (virtual and in-person) and manage staff and vendors
* establish infrastructure and procedures to keep operations running smoothly
* carve out vital white space to pause, reflect, and celebrate
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781608682560
ISBN-10: 1608682560
Pagini: 235
Ilustrații: Color illustrations throughout, Worksheets
Dimensiuni: 178 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: NEW WORLD LIBRARY
Locul publicării:Canada
ISBN-10: 1608682560
Pagini: 235
Ilustrații: Color illustrations throughout, Worksheets
Dimensiuni: 178 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: NEW WORLD LIBRARY
Locul publicării:Canada
Cuprins
Contents
Foreword by Michael Port
Part I. The Lay of the Land
1. Your Creative Business Is a Work of Art
Defining Your Own Success
2. Tending Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Is Your Business Blooming and Booming?
Part II. Setting the Stage for Yourself and Your Right Peeps
3. Taking a Stand and Making an Impact
What’s Your Core Message?
4. Attracting, Engaging, and Learning from Your Right Peeps
Cultivate Connection, Community, and Customers
Part III. Getting Down to Business
5. Packaging Your Gifts and Crafting Your Offer
Switch from Selling to Serving
6. Let’s Do Launch
Campaigns, Communications, and Calendars to Promote Your Offers
7. Making More Moola
Optimize Opportunities for Ongoing Earning
Part IV. Sustaining Your Success
8. In Good Company
Growing Your Team and Getting Support
9. Smooth Sailing Systems
Make Day-to-Day Operations a Breeze
10. Embracing Ease
Creating Calm amid the Chaos of Life
Conclusion
Optional Right-Brain Business Plan Exercises to Reference
Resources
Featured Right-Brain Entrepreneurs
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Join the Right-Brain Business Revolution
Foreword by Michael Port
Part I. The Lay of the Land
1. Your Creative Business Is a Work of Art
Defining Your Own Success
2. Tending Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Is Your Business Blooming and Booming?
Part II. Setting the Stage for Yourself and Your Right Peeps
3. Taking a Stand and Making an Impact
What’s Your Core Message?
4. Attracting, Engaging, and Learning from Your Right Peeps
Cultivate Connection, Community, and Customers
Part III. Getting Down to Business
5. Packaging Your Gifts and Crafting Your Offer
Switch from Selling to Serving
6. Let’s Do Launch
Campaigns, Communications, and Calendars to Promote Your Offers
7. Making More Moola
Optimize Opportunities for Ongoing Earning
Part IV. Sustaining Your Success
8. In Good Company
Growing Your Team and Getting Support
9. Smooth Sailing Systems
Make Day-to-Day Operations a Breeze
10. Embracing Ease
Creating Calm amid the Chaos of Life
Conclusion
Optional Right-Brain Business Plan Exercises to Reference
Resources
Featured Right-Brain Entrepreneurs
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Join the Right-Brain Business Revolution
Recenzii
“Shows you how to put your right-brain strengths to work in a successful business, and does it in a way that’s playful and fun.”
— Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind
“This book shines a brilliant light onto HOW to make it all REAL. Jennifer Lee’s book is an inspiring combination of kindness, fun, and extremely practical wisdom. You’ll be able to engage meaningfully with your perfect customers and create unique products and programs — and make real money from your very real unique gifts.”
— SARK, author and artist of Succulent Wild Woman
“You’ll walk away from this book feeling empowered, motivated, and ready to accomplish your biggest creative business goals.”
— Kari Chapin, author of The Handmade Marketplace
“Many creatives get tripped up when it comes to the tactics of running and growing a business. Good news: they can now turn to Jennifer Lee’s refreshing new book for practical guidance that speaks their own language. Her visual approach makes even the more left-brain activities — like sales and marketing — achievable and even fun.”
— Chris Guillebeau, New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup
— Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind
“This book shines a brilliant light onto HOW to make it all REAL. Jennifer Lee’s book is an inspiring combination of kindness, fun, and extremely practical wisdom. You’ll be able to engage meaningfully with your perfect customers and create unique products and programs — and make real money from your very real unique gifts.”
— SARK, author and artist of Succulent Wild Woman
“You’ll walk away from this book feeling empowered, motivated, and ready to accomplish your biggest creative business goals.”
— Kari Chapin, author of The Handmade Marketplace
“Many creatives get tripped up when it comes to the tactics of running and growing a business. Good news: they can now turn to Jennifer Lee’s refreshing new book for practical guidance that speaks their own language. Her visual approach makes even the more left-brain activities — like sales and marketing — achievable and even fun.”
— Chris Guillebeau, New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup
Notă biografică
Jennifer Lee is the founder of Artizen Coaching and the bestselling author of The Right-Brain Business Plan, which has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs around the world launch their creative businesses. Before pursuing her own passions full-time, she consulted for ten years for Fortune 500 companies such as Gap Inc., Accenture, and HP, helping leaders and organizations manage change. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.