Creative Career Paths and Industry Strategy

Here’s Why You Need Graphic Illustration For Your Business Brand Identity

January 31, 2022February 1, 2023 by Pat Fraser

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Sometimes, people often used the words ‘graphic design’ and ‘graphic illustration’ interchangeably. However, both words mean different things. One or the other or both are what businesses need to establish their brand identity. This might go without saying, but your business’ brand identity is very important. How do you separate…

The 3 Steps Of The Drug Dealer Business Model And Why It’s So Dope

January 28, 2021January 29, 2021 by Pat Fraser

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Drug dealing might be destructive and immoral but the drug dealer business model might not be. When really broken down in its simplest form, the drug dealer is a capitalist, trader, and entrepreneur, and the business would not survive without effective marketing strategies. Successful drug dealers follow principles to promote…

4 Creative Businesses You Can Start With No Money

November 5, 2020February 1, 2023 by Pat Fraser

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Creativity doesn't always require money to start a business since there are many creative businesses out there. Once you know how to define your most reliable niche, you can start a good-paying business without any start-up capital. Starting a business of your own has always been on your mind. You're…

Race, Color And Politics In Branding That Isn’t Race, Color And Politics

April 9, 2020February 1, 2023 by Pat Fraser

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Why Does Everything Have To Be About Color? This isn't the discussion that you think this will be, so take a deep breath and relax. This won't be the uncomfortable race conversation. There'll be no need to assert any type of "All Lives Matter" rhetoric in this discussion. The only…

13 Things WordPress Web Developers Can Tell People Who Say “It’s Just A Template”

March 12, 2020July 22, 2024 by Pat Fraser

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The Difficult Task Of Convincing Clients That Web Design Is Much More Than A Template The current website design marketplace is one that is crowded with different choices for clients (and web designers and developers). We're not the only talented creative designers competing for space, nor are we spared by…

Top 3 Reasons Why The Belief That Crowdfunding Is Begging Is Nonsense

October 22, 2019February 17, 2020 by Pat Fraser

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Crowdfunding: Lost In The World Of Man’s Translation And Confusion It was only several years ago that crowdfunding stormed the financial scene as a non-conventional means of sourcing funds for worthwhile projects and startups. Thanks to its less complex nature, crowdfunding soon became the “new Jerusalem” through which boot-strapped and…

3 Reasons You Will Always Be Disposable As An Employee

September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 by Pat Fraser

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1. Offshoring/Outsourcing jobs overseas. If you have been feeling so fly thinking you are very valuable in your organization, read these points very well, perhaps it would stick to your reasoning and change it for good. Some variables usually determine what, if anything, a firm will outsource. Outsourcing occurs within…

indie artists need money more than exposure

Indie Artists Need To Demand Money Instead Of Exposure

July 2, 2019August 11, 2020 by Pat Fraser

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The Blurred Mindset Of The Working-Free Indie Artist Music is an art, and a quality art is worth all the investment—to get the necessary exposure and create a market for the art, and to reap financially from that market as compensation for the investment and quality put into the art.…

Authoritarian surveillance figure representing social media censorship and narrative control

Get a Website or Accept Narrative Control

June 21, 2019April 28, 2026 by Pat Fraser

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The Illusion of Free Speech in a Platform Economy You don’t lose your voice all at once. It gets narrowed, nudged, deprioritized—until what remains barely resembles what you meant to say. That’s the part most people miss. The modern conversation about “social media censorship” is usually framed as a dramatic…

4 Reasons Why Creatives Need To Stop With The “Starving Artist” Crap

June 7, 2019July 11, 2024 by Pat Fraser

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The Underlying “Fear Complex” That Deters Creatives Let’s ask ourselves: should we describe creativity as a vehicle for commerce or something entirely divorced from reaching the marketplace? Is the concept of art for art’s sake an exercise in futility or a noble pursuit? The whole thing looks complicated at some…

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