33 Ways Not To Screw Up Creative Entrepreneurship
33 Ways Series
by Saudia A. Davis
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Pub Date Nov 15 2021 | Archive Date Feb 02 2022
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Description
When it feels like it's going wrong, here's how to pick up the pieces, get back on track, magically manifest and check in with your circle of success.
The creative sector along with creative entrepreneurs had to shift rapidly due to the 2020 Covid Pandemic. For the first time, collectively, creative industry professionals' work was missed by the public. Concerts came to a halt. Theaters and museums closed. Tour buses stopped and creatives had to re-create new ways to earn income. New legislation was written to capture a sector of the workforce, for creatives that historically were 1099 gig workers.
Now is the time to learn how to reimagine your business and make it sustainable during uncertain times.
Enter a book that focuses on your life as a creative . . . now. “33 Ways Not to Screw Up Creative Entrepreneurship” is a conversational short read that I hope provides a bit of light on your journey along the path that is a road less traveled. I offer you 33 insights, filled with personal stories, techniques and some lived experiences from other entrepreneurs for sustainable growth of your creative business.
Here are the first five chapter titles:
* Relationships Are Resources
* Organization Skatterization
* Hardstop
* High Touch in High Tech
* Intuition Inspiration
Each chapter has been strategically numbered like guideposts helping you continually grow your creative business acumen. As a creative entrepreneur myself along with other seasoned experts on the subject, you will receive a large number of strategies and tactics to help you become the best creative entrepreneur possible.
Advance Praise
1. Read this and get inspired!
Saudia Davis is a force to be reckoned with, a woman who makes things happen. And her energy and support comes through in spades in this book on creative entrepreneurship. If you want inspiration to do something big and bold, look here. You’ll come away energized, inspired, and with solid advice to shore up your efforts.""
2. Practical Tips That ANY Entrepreneur Can Apply
The way this book is written makes it SO easy to get through and APPLY which is where I usually don’t do so good and it’s like the author KNEW that.
I really appreciate the helpful tips to use immediately at the end of each chapter and even the way the book is structured made it not only a logical read but something I wanted to continue with. I can’t wait to read other books in the series.""
3. Such an Important Read for Anyone Looking for that Next Level
Saudia finds a way to take you to the next level in her advice, strategies, and personal stories. Saudia also draws on the experience of others to bring out the major points of the book. I learned new tools that I can incorporate immediately, and I will be coming back to this book again and again. As a creative entrepreneur, I found Saudia's writing style so accessible, and infused with creativity all around!""
4. This book got me motivated!
I was instantly drawn in to Saudia Davis' book by her welcoming and personable voice in the introduction. From there, Davis goes on to not only offer the 33 perspectives promised by the title, but to delve into the complexities of each one. Davis also asks the reader to reflect in each section—for me, I had to get honest with myself about whether I'm truly organized or actually just ""skatterized,"" as she puts it. Great insight! This book has insights and practical applications throughout.""
5. Best Entrepreneur Tips At Work in this Read
If you are a business person or Entrepreneur looking for day to day tips that can inspire you to go to the next level of success, this 33 Ways is a must read. I’ve read various chapters several times and walk away with a renewed sense of understanding and motivation. Jay K
Featured Reviews
Sage S, Reviewer
Saudia Davis sounds like a really fun person to have lunch with. This volume is chatty and as much memoir as collection of advice, which, while engaging, has some pitfalls. The organization of the chapters bugged me, as well as the extreme CV jargon of the first and last. I was most especially annoyed, as a creative entrepreneur with ADHD (as well as other disabilities) that she appears to say that creative people don't have ADHD and to imply that people with ADHD cannot be entrepreneurs. "Scattered" thinking is an impediment, from her perspective, as well as a messy desk. Which, um. Sounds pretty hardline proscriptive and ableist from my pov, but then my brain clearly works differently from hers.
Pitfalls aside, I liked that she gives time to self-care issues like sleep, grounding, and doing the kind of meditation that allows new ideas to flow. I also appreciated that she encourages people to identify their strengths and outsource their weaknesses to people who can do those things better. (I wish there were a way to outsource networking.) What I found most helpful about this book though was its motivational impact. I remembered the lessons of small business entrepreneurship I learned back in high school. I still have those skills, even though the world is very different now. I'm glad for this book's encouragement to think about what I want to do, given the givens, and to embrace interests in as many different fields as I want.
(ARC from NetGalley)
Darya Y, Reviewer
How can you be creative and organized? This book gives the answers on building a business and keep your creativity up. I like the structure of 33 short chapters that have a piece of advice in each based on author's experience. What else can help better than evidence from someone who went through some things and can tell you what worked better? The book is to the point and consise. It was easy to read and even "yes" to many things for me.
Andrew B, Reviewer
I really enjoyed this book a great deal, it offered lots of insight into how to be an "organized creative" and it was a fun read, to boot. I would recommend this to any other creative spirit or "content creator". Very well done, hightly readable, lots of valuable stories and, overall, a very positive experience for me as a reader.
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