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Cash Flow for Creators: How to Transform your Art into a Career
People want to give you money for your art? Congratulations!
Now what???
Business is all about cash flow, and cash flow is just a game. A game with simple rules. A game you can win, with the ultimate prize: a life doing what you love.
Ask that helpful cousin with the business degree for advice and they’ll gleefully prattle on about LLCs and deductions and accountants and the tax tactics of C versus S corporations. It’s entirely accurate and completely unhelpful. Books about businesses like pet shops and burger franchises? Even less useful.
You need advice from a creator who pays the mortgage with his craft.
Cash Flow For Creators provides a map and a flashlight for building an artistic business from the ground up. Do you need a business bank account, and why? Should you incorporate, or make an LLC? How do you cope with accountants, regulations and deductions? Can you get your family on board? How do you pay taxes? What about keeping a business going, not just year after year but decade after decade? In the bewildering torrent of business rules, which matter to a creator—and which don’t? Cash Flow for Creators has you covered, and tells you the secret no other business book will:
Business is easier than art.
Once someone explains the rules, and tells you how to win.
Now what???
Business is all about cash flow, and cash flow is just a game. A game with simple rules. A game you can win, with the ultimate prize: a life doing what you love.
Ask that helpful cousin with the business degree for advice and they’ll gleefully prattle on about LLCs and deductions and accountants and the tax tactics of C versus S corporations. It’s entirely accurate and completely unhelpful. Books about businesses like pet shops and burger franchises? Even less useful.
You need advice from a creator who pays the mortgage with his craft.
Cash Flow For Creators provides a map and a flashlight for building an artistic business from the ground up. Do you need a business bank account, and why? Should you incorporate, or make an LLC? How do you cope with accountants, regulations and deductions? Can you get your family on board? How do you pay taxes? What about keeping a business going, not just year after year but decade after decade? In the bewildering torrent of business rules, which matter to a creator—and which don’t? Cash Flow for Creators has you covered, and tells you the secret no other business book will:
Business is easier than art.
Once someone explains the rules, and tells you how to win.
137 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 3, 2020
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Michael W. Lucas
48 books76 followersMichael W. Lucas is the author of fifty-odd critically-acclaimed nonfiction books. As Michael Warren Lucas, he's written several novels.
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May 16, 2020
Creative types' beginning guide to business.
If you're thinking about starting a side hustle in any creative field, this book is worth your time. Learning how to run a business is a big shift for anyone, and as creative types, we were often taught to think that we were "bad at math" and "bad at being practical." Even if you are actually bad at those things, here's a good place to start looking for how to improve on that.
Recommended if you're a creative type just beginning to go into business for yourself, or if you've been doing this for a while and it seems like you're constantly having to start over.
If you're thinking about starting a side hustle in any creative field, this book is worth your time. Learning how to run a business is a big shift for anyone, and as creative types, we were often taught to think that we were "bad at math" and "bad at being practical." Even if you are actually bad at those things, here's a good place to start looking for how to improve on that.
Recommended if you're a creative type just beginning to go into business for yourself, or if you've been doing this for a while and it seems like you're constantly having to start over.
October 25, 2020
If you told me that I would not only enjoy a book about finances but actually laugh out loud (literally), I would have thought you had lost your mind. The fact that the book is designed specifically to help creatives learn how to run their finances? Super Bonus.
With Cash Flow for Creators, Lucas describes numerous easy to understand techniques which artists of all types can use to navigate the difficult maze of making a living through their art. If you are an artist, especially one who is looking to give up their day jobs and live off of the art, then you must read this book.
With Cash Flow for Creators, Lucas describes numerous easy to understand techniques which artists of all types can use to navigate the difficult maze of making a living through their art. If you are an artist, especially one who is looking to give up their day jobs and live off of the art, then you must read this book.
July 2, 2020
A book with practical ideas on how to handle the business side for a creator. I also believe the insights work for any small business, not limited only to creators.
September 27, 2020
This is an excellent, practical guide for anyone looking to make money with their creative endeavors!
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