As small businessmen and women, whether we like it or not, we have to be incredibly organized to do our jobs.  As creatives, that may or may not be our biggest strength, but we have to find strategies to be as professionally organized as we possibly can in our entrepreneurial careers.

We wear so many hats as small creative business owners that it can sometimes feel completely overwhelming, exhausting, and even demoralizing.  There’s just so much to do, and so little of those duties actually involve the creation of art, or the furthering of my craft.  And I mentioned this before, I’m not doing this alone, I have a spouse in the business with me.  How much harder it must be for those of you who are doing all of this alone?

Whether you address your business needs with paid online subscriptions, hired consultants, or do it all by hand in a ledger book, realize that you do need to be hyper organized in running your creative entrepreneurial business.  Remember that it’s the creative part of your business that is your passion, not the record keeping.  Find effective strategies that can remove some of the barriers to doing that work you love, and get back to making beautiful things, because that’s what will sustain you after all.

In our quest to branch out seriously into social media marketing, Bogdan and I are starting something new.  I already do a weekly blog (as you may have guessed), but I also do a weekly vlog, and a video podcast.  We’ve now started a weekly live show called Art Chat with John & Bogdan.  It’s 30 minutes every Thursday morning at 11:00 central time on Zoom.  Stop by and visit sometime, we’d love to meet you in person.  If you can’t make it at 11am, don’t worry, we record the sessions and post them on my YouTube channel.   I’ll put the link below. 
https://youtu.be/fCAcksQff3I
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John Bishop Fine Art's "Conversations for Freelance Creatives" is a weekly blog/vlog/podcast that creates a community, a conversation, between creatives in all sorts of fields at all sorts of levels.  We want to discuss what we’re learning, what we’ve experienced, and whom we’ve met in our journey of running a freelance creative business. John Bishop is a visual artist living in Houston, Texas. His work is largely abstract, and explores how to turn mythic, archetypal symbols into individual experiences allowing us to see them in a new way, with fresh eyes. His work can be seen online, or at his studio at Silver Street Studios, 2000 Edwards Street, Studio 108, in Houston.

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