how to get a dream job for creatives

1.suit up ....show up ....don't give up
no matter what


2.stop when you see a job site ask if there are opportunities for you to bid


3 20 calls a day 100 calls a week


4 informative emails...show photos of current work


5 blog... show work


6 use facebook.
set up a page
add photos of work
ask questions
find new FB friends in your biz
publish your website
share info about your friends small biz... they might share YOU back
answer questions


7 use twitter
you need followers... the best content twittered to nobody is twittered to nobody
you need followers IN YOUR BUSINESS
following competitors doesn't bring biz... always ask
can this person buy from me
help somebody
RT good content
thank people
notice people
and
TWITTER IS ABOUT THE LINKS... link photos, blogs and interesting articles


8.blog write often. short articles... link it


9 linkenin. yup it's like homework but that's how you find people who are doing something.
call them tell them you saw their website and are impressed with their work ( if you are) and
ask to be considered for their bid list


10 suit up .... show up... don't give up... no matter what
there is opportunity for everyone who hasn't given up

art design ideas

today was about creating opportunity

ideas...recession

what makes do you think about the recession.?
what is it?
how were you affected?
student loans
foreclosures
unemployment cash for clunkers stores closing
for lease
debt
housing bubble
maddof
stock market collapse

recharge

It seems like 2012 is a fresh line in the sand.
other years rolled over one into another
but this one seems
different
something shifted.
My ideas are more outer directed than in the past...
I have new energy.
I feel recharged.
I guess for awhile I was thinking that i was getting
a little older and I wasn't gearing up for new things and new ideas...
but now i am

painting

For a long time... it's been about work.
work for money 
and a nagging feeling that I wish i had time to paint a painting...
but I had a secret. 
i didn't know what i wanted to paint.
now I do

postcard

I prospect for work ALL THE TIME.

i have a 30+ year career as an artist, designer, and finisher. I have always been way busier than I can handle. The econami has changed some of the elements. Many design firms that ALWAYS used me are slow and some out of biz. Some of my contacts are layed off or had to find work in other fields. 

I've created a postcard that i use.

1  empty spaces

I put one in EVERY for rent for lease or empty space. regardless of if it is going to be a restaurant, salon, retail or unknown. The cards are often picked up by prospective lessees...perhaps not even of that space.

I know that sooner or later somebody is going to do something and it's my best shot at a chance to bid.

2 restaurants

I give 50 or a 100 postcards to restaurants we have done work in. i ask the manager or owner for their approval and ask the servers or hostesses to hand them out if people compliment any of the work. i don't want a tip dependent server to have to go in the office scramble for my number and lose momentum. people often ask who did this floor.

3business cards

I keep them with me and hand them out instead of business cards as I go through my day.

4  job sites 

i ask other tradespeople for THEIR CARD. i say it's been a pleasure to get to know them and I look forward to working with them again...in fact i'd reccomend them to my future clients...at that point they always ask for my card. the best place for a tradesman to have my card is in his truck. fabulous source of leads

5  tradeshows 

i am an exibitor at one tradeshow a year. of course I give them out at the hospitalikty design show in las vegas. but I always get their card and follow up.

6 attending tradeshows

as an attendee. i take my postcards because you never know what small company will be opening a showroom and need stained concrete or finishes

7 contact i use them as mail peices to jog old customers memory...we are still here, I sent them to prospective clients and after I've made an intro phone call

chairs

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this is a collection of chairs we painted. I took photos as we worked so the client could see the progress