Creative Careers

Gravity is a practical and inspiring guide for creative professionals who are done chasing opportunities and ready to start attracting them—through clarity, alignment, and inner momentum. Tony Baker shares hard-won lessons from decades of leading creative teams and mentoring talent at the world’s top companies. Drawing from lived experience—not hype—he reveals how to build a body of work, a way of thinking, and a presence that naturally draws the right projects, collaborators, and clients.

Harness your creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to build a flourishing freelance graphic design business. This comprehensive guide equips aspiring designers with the knowledge and tools to enter the freelance world, manage projects effectively, and attract a steady stream of clients. Whether you're transitioning from a full-time job or starting fresh, this book provides actionable insights, from setting up your workspace to marketing your services and handling logistical concerns like contracts and billing.

This step-by-step guide is your key to boosting email open rates, increasing engagement, and turning subscribers into loyal customers. Packed with proven strategies, personalization techniques, and optimization secrets, this book will help you craft compelling emails that get noticed—and acted upon.

Being creative doesn’t always come easy. That’s why this guide provides tried and true solutions like meditation, cold showers, and exercise to keep you motivated and energized throughout the day. What’s more, Productivity for Creatives also offers advice on how to detach from technology—like switching off the net for two hours a day—while recommending nature walks and incorporating methods of exploration like YouTube's search engine.

Unlock the secrets to achieving success in character entertainment licensing with this comprehensive guide. Learn effective strategies for maximizing revenue, utilizing intellectual property, and successfully navigating licensing agreements. Our focus is mastering brand licensing, creating captivating consumer products, and staying at the forefront of industry trends.

Whether you're a complete beginner or have some experience with digital products, this guide provides everything you need to create, launch, and scale your digital product business.

Whether you’re a leader or a follower, your role is vital… and these incredible stories will show you why. When you hear “leadership,” you might picture CEOs or politicians. But leadership is everywhere—at home, in schools, in communities—and you may be leading without even realizing it. Teachers, parents, coaches, activists—ordinary people take on leadership roles every day. But no leader can create change without followers. It’s the leader-follower relationship that drives real transformation.

How to Master Public Speaking for Introverts is a gentle, practical guide to help you speak up in meetings, presentations, classrooms, or on stage while staying true to your natural communication style. No pressure, no hype, just real tools that work for quiet minds. This audiobook honors your quiet strengths. Whether you are preparing for your first big presentation or simply want to speak up more often, the tools here are designed with your energy, pace, and personality in mind.

We all know Wonder Woman, but have you ever heard of energy superheroes? These are the women who are leading the energy transition from our national labs to renewable energy farms. In this book, meet 34 real-life energy superheroes powering our planet. This book series is relatable and inspiring, demonstrating the limitless possibilities for girls and the next generation of STEM superheroes.

Are you tired of the daily commute and dreaming of a flexible career that lets you work from anywhere in the world? Perhaps you've tried applying for remote positions but keep getting rejected, or you're overwhelmed by the countless online job platforms and don't know where to start. This comprehensive guide breaks down the exact steps successful remote workers have used to land high-paying virtual positions, teaching you how to stand out in a competitive market and build a thriving location-independent career.

We are terrible at managing creativity and innovation. But we're trying our best. Just beneath the ceiling of meeting rooms at night, everywhere around the world, from London to Lahore, Honolulu to Ho Chi Minh City, there is something sad happening. Above the long table and strewn chairs, amid the fluorescent light that has been left on despite the energy saving directive on the wall, there are a million little ideas just floating amongst the dust particles, drifting in the air.

Jumpstart Your Creativity gives you proven, specific, effective tools and great tips to use, to both generate ideas and evaluate them effectively. Are you ready to tap into your creativity? This book will show you how, and you will be amazed at the results!

In BoxBreakers!, author and innovation consultant Fredda McDonald shares her experiences and insight gained from working with some of the world's most innovative companies, such as The Coca-Cola Company, MasterCard, and the International Olympic Committee, to name a few. You'll hear about the challenges many of the new industry disrupters have faced and the creative ways they have met them.

This audiobook is the second half of a journey you already began. As most creative agency owners soon find, no matter how great your skill is, there will be a point where your agency doesn't grow anymore. You have to step outside of your creative side, and build practical agency systems to simplify and scale your business. You have to step outside of your creative side and build practical agency systems to simplify and scale your business. This audiobook was recorded as a guidebook to help creative agency owners.

In this important audiobook Joe Buzzello and Tom Healy identify many of the most common - and sometimes fatal - mistakes made by entrepreneurs. The authors carefully walk listeners around these dangerous landmines, teaching them how to avoid these costly errors. Entrepreneurial Landmines is loaded with critical micro lessons that have been gleaned from the thousands of hours of work Tom and Joe have done with the successful entrepreneurs they've consulted for. It will be hard to find an audiobook that is more impactful than this one for any serious entrepreneur.

In her book Selling in a Skirt, Judy Hoberman offers invaluable and proven insights into how gender differences can affect sales outcomes, and the tools and strategies to drive real results in today's marketplace. Judy offers a suite of workshops, seminars, and coaching programs that compliment her highly successful book. Her 30 years in sales has given her both the knowledge and sense of humor about the gender differences that we should all understand and embrace instead of feeling unable to communicate. Judy's humorous stories about how men and women sell, manage, recruit, and supervise differently will enlighten you in learning how both genders can support each other's successes in a more productive way.

Unleash the power of words to sell.It's easier to attract potential customers and persuade them to buy when you understand your audience and respect the nuances of language. Discover how to select tone, details, imagery, numbers, facts, verb tenses, punctuation, pronouns and more to create rapport and inspire an opt-in, an inquiry or a sale.

Foreword by Futurist Davide Houle. It delivers strategic insights on how brands can navigate this new consumer-controlled environment. Written by tenured PR professional and president of a Los Angeles/New York PR and marketing firm, Stefan Pollack, Disrupted focuses on the iGen generation, the generation born between 1994 and 2004 (often called Gen Z).

Become the master of your business fate.With proper attention to marketing strategy, success is no accident. Time spent planning where you want your business to go and the customers you prefer to serve pays off. Discover also how to earn and keep trust, build a reputation, amplify sales and set your course for profit.Despite today's world of fierce economic, competitive and technical challenges, defining goals and maintaining your intended direction does not require an MBA or high-level number crunching.

Through heartfelt anecdotes, relatable insights, and thought-provoking reflections, this audiobook showcases the beauty and power of combining two seemingly distinct approaches. Discover the potential that emerges when data meets dreams, and pragmatism dances with passion. For the analytical thinker, the creative soul, and everyone in between, this is more than just an audiobook—it's a journey. A journey that promises growth, understanding, and a celebration of the infinite possibilities that arise when we embrace both sides of our brain.