Art Business

The Voice Over Blueprint: Get Found, Get Heard, Get Hired Break into the world of voiceover and build a thriving business with The Voice Over Blueprint—your step-by-step guide to success in the industry. Whether you're a beginner looking to land your first gig or an experienced talent ready to take your career to the next level, this book gives you the tools to get found, get heard, and get hired. Inside, you'll discover how to: Build a standout brand that attracts clients and sets you apart. Create high-quality recordings from a home studio that works for you.

Unveiling the ultimate roadmap to your musical success, "Song Launch Checklist" is an essential guide for independent artists navigating the complex world of music business and online advertising via social media marketing. This book is more than just a checklist. It's a comprehensive strategy to turn your musical aspirations into reality.

The Revolutionary Sales Approach Scientifically Proven to Dramatically Improve Your Sales and Business Success Blending cutting-edge research in social psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, The Science of Selling shows you how to align the way you sell with how our brains naturally...

In today’s world, we all experience some hectic days in our careers, family, and social lives. But if you are always stressed, then you need to closely examine how your busyness is affecting your quality of life. The solution is to adopt the Hygge lifestyle that encompasses the positivity and enjoyment that one can get from simple everyday things. By incorporating Hygge into your life, you’ll discover how to put down the phone, pick up that mixing bowl, paint brush, or other dream you’ve been putting off and immerse yourself in the present with warmth and connection.

A long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself shows us how to cultivate joy within the context of our fast-paced lives and explains why it is critical to creativity, innovation, confidence, and ultimately success in every arena. In Joy on Demand, Chade-Meng...

From one of America’s leading educators, a timeless approach for education that cultivates intelligent, happy, purposeful, and morally grounded young people. In The Well-Educated Child, Dr. Deborah Kenny offers an inspiring vision for American education. Drawing on decades of experience in...

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener...

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time—and the only book written by someone who knew him. In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from...

「本業は何？」謎に包まれた著者の仕事術に迫る！「仏像ブーム」を牽引してきた第一人者であり、「マイブーム」や「ゆるキャラ」の名付け親としても知られるみうらじゅん。

Nos relations personnelles et professionnelles sont gouvernées par notre capacité à communiquer et transmettre nos idées. Pour ce faire, des moyens plus ou moins "nobles" peuvent être utilisés, comme celui de manipuler l'autre (avec le recours à la tromperie) ou de le convaincre (dans le cadre d'un rapport de force). Au contraire, la persuasion se révèle plus délicate et sophistiquée pour faire changer le prisme d'observation de son interlocuteur et l'amener, sans contrainte et en douceur, à adopter un positionnement dont résulteront des avantages réciproques.

“Teams succeed to the degree that there is a free flow of ideas. Read this book to learn how to bring out the best in others—and in yourself.” —Scott Galloway, bestselling author of The Four and Post Corona Ideaflow: the number of ideas you or your team can generate in a set amount of...

A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts “The definitive book on 1950s Hollywood.” —Booklist...

The Online Business Blueprint Bundle is a series of books that will empower you with the knowledge and skills to kickstart your entrepreneurial dreams. Each book in this series is designed to guide you through different facets of entrepreneurship, offering valuable insights, practical advice, and inspiring stories to fuel your ambitions.

The subject of “design thinking” is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press—due in large part to work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of...

Using stories from his time at Netscape, Apple, and Slack, Michael Lopp presents a series of small but compelling practices to help you build leadership skills. You’ll learn how to create teams that are highly productive, highly respected, and highly trusted. The essays in this book examine the practical skills Lopp learned from exceptional leaders - as a manager at Netscape, a senior manager and director at Apple, and an executive at Slack. You’ll learn how to apply these lessons to your own experience.

We live, say Edgar and Peter Schein, in a culture of “tell". All too often we tell others what we think they need to know or should do. But whether we are leading or following, what matters most is we get to the truth. We have to develop a commitment to sharing vital facts and identifying faulty assumptions - it can mean the difference between success and failure. This is why we need Humble Inquiry more than ever.

Are you ready to start sharing your artwork with the world? This book, Start Selling Your Art: A Guide to Starting a Professional Art Business, will help you create a plan to sell your artwork. Topics covered include envisioning your dream art career, marketing, pricing your work, tips for selling in-person and online, art fairs, galleries, commissions, finding your perfect clients, and more!

Today, even as so many of us spend hours in front of screens and in the virtual world, there is a growing movement that recognizes the power in the personal, the imperfect, the handmade. Eric Gorges, a metal shaper, taps into that hunger to get back to what's "real" through visits with the fellow artisans he has profiled for his popular public television program. In this book, he tells their stories and shares the collective wisdom of calligraphers, potters, stone carvers, glassblowers, engravers, wood workers, and more while celebrating the culture they've created.

In February 2011 John Galliano, the lauded head of Christian Dior, imploded with a drunken, anti-Semitic public tirade. Exactly a year earlier, celebrated designer Alexander McQueen took his own life three weeks before his women's wear show. Both were casualties of the war between art and commerce that has raged within fashion for the last two decades.

A paradigm-shattering exploration of how we disagree and how we can do it more effectively, from the author of The Art of Gathering Every day, everywhere, people fight. They disagree -- at home, at work, in school. They argue -- face to face and online. Whether it's a billion-dollar lawsuit or...