Collaboration is a beautiful thing – but it can sometimes get messy. As an independent artist who is their own manager I’ve certainly been at the centre of certain clashes. The director wants to do one thing when the creative director is wanting to do something else, the stylist doesn’t have the shoes to match for the look. It all starts getting personal and as a manager, artist and/or client this gets super stressful.

As an independent artist/creator, it’s your job to manage a whole team. Miscommunication and misunderstandings happen. Big personalities clash with other big personalities – or even smaller ones! Here is a guide to how to avoid issues.

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Instagram continues to push ahead with its plans for a new in-app Media Kit creation option for talent, which would guide creators through the process of building their own pitch to brands, with a view to securing more influencer marketing deals. 

So what exactly does this kit contain? According to Alessandro Paluzzi, it is a list of things that would help brands build and prepare their pitches. It consists of tools that would help you add text to showcase your work and select your favourite posts to display. It also provides an option to show the people and brands you're working with and show your Instagram insights.

This new kit will make your Instagram profile into a perfectly presentable package for all possible collaborators or clients. You can write in your bio, showcase your top posts, and point to previous collaborators. It will also add key analytics and audience stats.

Is it just me or is everyone a creative these days? Maybe it’s just because I swim in those circles and like attracts like and all that but oftentimes many of us feel pressure to really stand out from the crowd. There’s a lot of creative competition out there and getting the work requires…well, work! Let’s unpack how best to stand out from the crowd as a modern day creative.

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What is good design? To help us define this, we can use a set of principles that date back almost 60 years. In the 1960s Dieter Rams, an industrial designer for Braun, introduced 10 iconic principles that were his framework to identify good design. The list included such principles as that good design is innovative, makes a product useful, is aesthetic, makes a product understandable and so forth. However...

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The YouTuber is now on track to make $45,600 in 2022 from at least five revenue streams.

Kelsey Rodriguez, an aspiring impressionist painter, loves using oils. In May 2020, while Rodriguez was a junior in college, she started a YouTube channel that served as an outlet for her artistic pursuits. Her initial videos were a mix of vlogs ("Where I've been…") and painting tutorials ("Oil painting without toxic solvents").

Rodriguez created a website, which includes samples from her portfolio, as well as an online shop that sells seven items, including an $80 audit of the purchaser's YouTube channel (in which the creator offers a frame-by-frame critique of the buyer's videos), channel-wide strategy tips, and technical feedback on improving titles and thumbnails. Rodriguez also sells a $35 digital and printable workbook aimed at the artist YouTuber to help them create an art-focused YouTube channel, and a $7 creator content calendar template.

For the month of August, Rodriguez earned $9,346 in total: 

• $4,542 through Google AdSense, or ads placed on Rodriguez's YouTube channel.
• $2,898 through goods purchased from her online shop.
• $1,500 from YouTube sponsorships.
• $381 from Patreon, where Rodriguez sells three membership levels: $5 a month for a monthly audio newsletter/podcast; $15 a month for the audio newsletter plus one to three exclusive videos; and $75 a month for all the previously mentioned perks, plus monthly group meetings with the creator.
• $25 through affiliate marketing, where she gets a cut of sales she drives for brands

Thinking ahead to the future, Rodriguez plans to continue with her YouTube channel — "I love it so much" — but she also wants to expand her business by partnering with a distribution company to offer prints and originals of her work. The YouTube creator would also like to offer an online course and explore the possibility of a book.

- Business Insider

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