Hey! Welcome to Toward Creativity -  a podcast by Benjamin Harding - that's me. You can find me on instagram at bhardingmusic and on my website https://www.benjaminharding.net.

This is a podcast where I explore the immense world of creativity. I hope to also serve as a guide in conversations centered around tips, tools and strategies towards building a sustainable creative career. 

Let’s get to it!

This episode is brought to you by - well - me! I don’t have any sponsors yet but I do belong to affiliate programs that you can find on my website at benjaminharding.net under the tab gear. I love these companies and have benefited greatly from their products and services. So go to Benjaminharding.net and click on gear and take a look at some great products from Skillshare, Cunningham Piano and Open Studio Jazz. Let’s get into today’s episode.

In this episode, I am going to outline three areas where you can make money through your creative work right now. 

The three areas are as follows:

1. Affiliate Marketing (blogging, and promotion on social media) 
2. Services and Products (you need a website where you can sell things) 
3. Social Media Following (so many ways to make money here)

In all of these areas if you have an open mind to them - again, in other episodes we will talk about the need for a mindset shift among musicians, artists and creatives - but, if you have an open mind to these ideas, you can apply all of the transcendent values and virtues that you have worked on as an artist - capacity to learn new things, discipline, focus, training for hours and hours, problem solving, perseverance, etc. - you can take these virtues and apply them to these areas and do very well.