Obtain The Creative Entrepreneur: A DIY Visual Guidebook For Making Business Ideas Real Authored By Lisa Sonora Shown In Edition

recommend it to any rightbrained person who is thinking of starting a business, An excellent resource. A creative approach to business, I got new insight into my goals, business vision, and skills through the gathering of images, I don't think I could've realized these things through a classic writing approach, Mixed thoughts on this book it's beautiful but not a big valueadd for those with a business or analytical background as the concepts are fairly straightforward.
The journal pages are gorgeous, and I like that they are about concepts that we don't always see in art journal pages.
Reading right now . Pretty good info in the book, I will def. be renewing this one for the remainder
of the summer, I will need this time to follow this process and get ready for SUCCESS Good for thought process and interesting prompts.
A good push when feeling stuck, I took Lisa's workshop in Mexico in NovemberI cannot recommend her book and especially her workshops highly enough! Reading about the financial hurdles of an art business always makes me a bit queasy.
I am not one for vision boards and journals to help clarify it, they seem more like busy work than helpful guidelines to me.
Lovely images and some good concepts though, fluffy Perhaps I'm not the right creative for this book, It invited the reader to take standard business terms and journal it, Adding collage materials and pretty pens didn't help me think differently about this very linear, constrictive business model.
I so hoped for an alternative model, Great visual journal for creatives and their businesses, Motivating

This is a highly motivating book that gives wonderful directions and inspiring photos that guides one to developing their business in the best possible way.
Super excited about getting started This book outlines a great approach to thinking about business, whether it's one you're already running or just thinking about.
Notice I said "thinking about business, " This book isn't about the mechanics of starting or running a business, So, no checklists, no discussions of branding or legal issues, and no marketing tips, This book is far more esoteric than that, which is helpful if you've lost your way in your business or you just know you want to strike out on your own but you're not sure what's at your core, creatively.
Although the book is aimed at "creatives" rightbrainers, essentially, analytical types like myself will find the journaling prompts very helpful as thinking exercises.
I'd probably go as far as to say "meditative" given the level of introspection that's required to answer each prompt.


I've read through it once and found it delightful, I'm going to read through it again later, and do all the exercises, to give things some time to percolate.
This is one of those books that seems like it was made by someone like me, for me, and I found it at just the right time.
I'm a writer that's working on a tshirt line, and I don't know why I never thought of creating a visual business plan for my apparel company.
. . when I created one for my book outline, I suppose when it came to shirts I was all business, like, "Okay, gotta get a business plan, gotta set deadlines.
. . " and now I realize why I felt so stuck, I sucked ALL the fun out of it!

I was so afraid of spending and wasting money with so many bills that I became scared of making any bad decisions, and then I started procrastinating.
I think once I mix up all the inspiring pictures, business ideas, etc, into a notebook, like I did for my other hobbies, I'll be motivated to go through the next steps of obtaining a trademark, business license, etc.


This book may not be for everyone, but if you know anyone who can't seem to make the next logical steps forwardtell them to put the business plan books aside for a moment, and start a journal.



Started out very different, Using visual business planing, creating drawings and pictures to represent were you want your business to go.
Then the second half starts to get into the nuts and bolts of working your business, Which means using those artistic documents you put together in the first part of the book, In the end weather you use your FranklinCoveyhabits stuff and add pretty flowers and stuff to the pages or you use the ones Lisa has you create, you still must be organized and use the materials correctly and often or it just wont work.
For most creative types discipline and consistency are not high on our lists of personal goals outside of the per suite of our art itself.
lots of fun Regular reading. Carl jung, creativity page. I am really interested in visual journaling now and have read a handful of books on the topic.
This book is different than most, Beam has a biz background so she uses business strategies and art journaling to help cultivate your business plan.
It's very different to what's out there for collage and artist's sketchbooktype books, This is NOT a book for those wanting to use visual journaling for hashing out personal issues.
There are plenty of other books out there for that,

Beam is very selective of where she is guiding you and what her objectives are.
Furthermore, there is no real collage howto like in many other books, She really is just using art journaling as a method to help you make your business ideas become tangible and grow into real or more productive businesses.
This was an excellent resource for writing a business plan, Many of the exercises were geared toward visual exercises that could then be left for further introspection later.
The key is to get the ideas down on paper which I was hindered by anytime I approached the idea of writing a business plan.


Highly recommend! I actually worked through it with a group of artists and we blogged

about it over on sitelink creativebizmarathon. blogsp
It's not for me at the moment, but this is a guide to helping creative people visualize and carry out the "hard facts" of business creation and marketing.
It gives tools to help them basically access the left side of their brain, : I really enjoyed this book, Ms. Beam provides an alternative to the traditional written business plan via visual journaling, Her template follows the traditional categories of a written plan but she demonstrates with many pictorial examples of visually demonstrating the content her examples and those of other individuals.
If you don't like writing, you will love this approach!

I have longed to begin my own business.
I found this book, not looking for anything in particular and loved the idea of visually journaling/writing my business plan.
I began my visual journaling following her format, Then I gave my copy to my sister to read and use with the caveat I wanted it back, so I could finish.
But, haven't seen it. Sigh!

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