Money Management for the Creative Person: Right Brain Strategies to Build Your Bank Account and Find the Financial Freedom to Create [Paperback]

Lee Silber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 25, 2002

Don’t Let Money Stall Your Creative Career!

Ask an artist, a musician, an actor, or a graphic designer, and each and every one will tell you the same thing: To have the money to create, you have to be creative with your money. If you’re lucky enough to have found the perfect career for you, one that lets you showcase your talents and keeps your creative juices flowing, congratulations! However, Lee Silber knows the dirty reality most of you are all too familiar with: Even when your creative juices are really flowing, that doesn’t necessarily mean that money is pouring in at the same pace. In Money Management for the Creative Person, Lee Silber offers a myriad of valuable advice for doing just that, including:

• How to know which of your creative talents are the most marketable and can earn you the most money
• How to take the “free” out of freelance and charge what you’re worth
• Why you should avoid the pitfalls of accumulating too much debt in
a lean time—and should always remember the importance of saving in a boom time
• Remembering that you can succeed in your endeavors without selling your creative soul
• How to find the funds to finance your dreams

Full of eye-opening facts, instructive anecdotes, and real-life examples from Silber’s own experience, Money Management for the Creative Person is your guide to getting a financial life—so you can maintain your creative one.

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Don?t Let Money Stall Your Creative Career!

Ask an artist, a musician, an actor, or a graphic designer, and each and every one will tell you the same thing: To have the money to create, you have to be creative with your money. If you?re lucky enough to have found the perfect career for you, one that lets you showcase your talents and keeps your creative juices flowing, congratulations! However, Lee Silber knows the dirty reality most of you are all too familiar with: Even when your creative juices are really flowing, that doesn?t necessarily mean that money is pouring in at the same pace. In Money Management for the Creative Person, Lee Silber offers a myriad of valuable advice for doing just that, including:

? How to know which of your creative talents are the most marketable and can earn you the most money
? How to take the ?free? out of freelance and charge what you?re worth
? Why you should avoid the pitfalls of accumulating too much debt in
a lean time?and should always remember the importance of saving in a boom time
? Remembering that you can succeed in your endeavors without selling your creative soul
? How to find the funds to finance your dreams

Full of eye-opening facts, instructive anecdotes, and real-life examples from Silber?s own experience, Money Management for the Creative Person is your guide to getting a financial life?so you can maintain your creative one.

About the Author

Lee Silber is the author of Time Management for the Creative Person, Career Management for the Creative Person, and Self-Promotion for the Creative Person, all published by Three Rivers Press. He conducts frequent workshops and seminars and hosts his own weekly radio program in San Diego, where he lives.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (June 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609806254
• ISBN-13: 978-0609806258
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,074,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE ADVICE YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR, June 21, 2003

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Chris Orcutt "Chris Orcutt" (Upstate New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Money Management for the Creative Person: Right Brain Strategies to Build Your Bank Account and Find the Financial Freedom to Create (Paperback)

As a novelist and short story writer, and as a college writing instructor, I have read--literally--hundreds of books on the writing craft, the writing life, grammar, inspiration, technique, biographies of writers, finding an agent, and on and on and on.

However, until now, no one--until Mr. Silber, that is--has spent any time talking about the four most important aspects of a creative life: career management, time management, self-promotion, and now, MONEY MANAGEMENT FOR THE CREATIVE PERSON. As someone who has read and seen remarkable results from his previous three books, I am equally excited about putting into practice the principles Silber describes in Money Management.

Too often among "creative" people, topics like self-promotion and money are considered dirty, somehow beneath them. "Leave us alone," they say, "we want to work on our art." If there is one principle or theme that runs through Money Management, it's this: in order to sustain a situation that will support your creativity, you have to earn money. From there, Lee gives us creatives dozens of new paradigms for how we can and should view money. While Silber's book provides excellent, practical examples on how you can begin attracting more money into your life, his main mission seems to be changing your thinking. Because he knows that if he can change your thinking process about money to a more productive one, the details will follow.

Do yourself a favor and buy all of Lee Silber's books. If you're temporarily short on cash (that is, until you finish Money Management), just buy MM and Self-Promotion for the Creative Person. Good luck.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the "Must Have" Book of the 21st. Century!, January 19, 2004

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Douglas L. Langelier (San Diego, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Money Management for the Creative Person: Right Brain Strategies to Build Your Bank Account and Find the Financial Freedom to Create (Paperback)

Little did I know that AFTER I thought I'd never see the "light of day" concerning my finances, that this book would come into my life. It's informative, funny, well written, and just a great book for everyone. I've given it out to a couple of friends and then I thought, "Hey, GO BUY YOUR OWN!" Lee Silber is an author that makes it easy for someone, like me, that doesn't read a great deal, to flash those pages quicker than the remote on my TV. Thanks Lee! I can now go to sleep feeling like I can use your guides and NOT have to worry about what the Hell is going to take place tomorrow!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as I thought it would be, April 1, 2009

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MK Writer "hedwig_owl" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Money Management for the Creative Person: Right Brain Strategies to Build Your Bank Account and Find the Financial Freedom to Create (Paperback)

I purchased this book after reading all the reviews and have to say that I'm a bit disappointed in it. Lord knows, artists could use a pep talk or two to keep going, but I found more pep talks than concrete advice in this book. I was hoping to get ideas on how an artist could practically apply artistic skills towards full-time or freelance employment. While the author gives many examples of now-famous artists and the low-paying jobs that they took before hitting the big time, he doesn't really give practical advice about using your artistic skills to get a decent-paying job that allows you to practice your art. He sometimes sort of starts with this: He talks about how some singers are living off song royalties, which is great, but how about filling in some steps as to how one might do that? Do you just copyright the sheet music and send it around? It sounds naive, but since his financial advice is geared towards beginners, why shouldn't his job/career advice be as well? His tips on frugal living are fine, but I have read them in books related to frugal living. I was hoping for a bit more practical career/finance advice from this book, as one who is working a low-paying job that gives me little time for my artistic endeavors.