Intro­duc­tion

Unless you’re intent on liv­ing on the streets, work­ing side jobs, or are for­tu­nate to have the sup­port of wealthy par­ents and bene­fac­tors, most of us at one point or another have to ask our­selves — “what prices should I charge?” Pric­ing out and valu­ing your work is a great mys­tery.  If you look […]

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Small Claims Court for Artists

On February 25, 2010 By

Intro­duc­tion

First, I have to state that I am not an attor­ney. Any­thing you read here is not to be con­sid­ered legal advice as I am only speak­ing from my own per­sonal expe­ri­ence. I can­not say that this arti­cle would even apply to other coun­tries, let alone indi­vid­ual states within the U.S. I hope that […]

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Think Different

On February 24, 2010 By

“Think dif­fer­ent.” Two words which con­jures up the imag­i­na­tion, and some­what unfor­tu­nately Apple’s mar­ket­ing strate­gies. If you’re able to strip out the prod­uct place­ment and mar­ket­ing aspects of this cor­po­rate behe­moth, then these words remain a sim­ple yet effec­tive ideology.

I went to bed last night and habit­u­ally put on the TV to relax a […]

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Valuing Your Work

On February 23, 2010 By

I have a few tips and advice that is applic­a­ble to most peo­ple run­ning their busi­nesses, free­lancers, pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­phers, and artists alike. I thought I’d put it down in writ­ing as I think it would help every­one ben­e­fit from devel­op­ing bet­ter work­ing philoso­phies, strate­gies, and standards.

Giv­ing Discounts.

I woke-up from a much needed power-nap […]

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Current Schedule

On February 22, 2010 By

I’ve said it a few times in other posts — I’ve been slammed with work recently and there doesn’t seem to be any stop­ping the onslaught. They’re not the huge, mul­ti­ple ren­der­ing and ani­ma­tion projects that I had a cou­ple years back. They don’t pay nearly as hand­somely, but they’re small and there’s tons of […]

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