John Bishop Fine Art

We’ve been talking about marketing, and how that’s the larger term that includes: advertising; publicity and probably things like...

We have to wear so many hats when running a small business, it’s a little wonder we feel overwhelmed for a good portion of the time.  One...

How many times have you been told that the secret to success in business is marketing?  If you’re like me, I was sold on the need for...

Last week we talked about the importance of organizing your business processes, and hopefully you’ve gotten all that under control by...

As small businessmen and women, whether we like it or not, we have to be incredibly organized to do our jobs.  As creatives, that may or...

Last week we talked about the importance of self reflection.  The process of knowing ourselves well enough to recognize our own...

We’ve been talking a lot about the skills and traits we all need to run a creative business.  We’ve talked about planning, setting goals,...

Comedian Judy Tenuda used to tell one of my favorite jokes in her act.  She says: “My mom came to me and said: 'Judy you’ll never amount...

As creatives, many of us spend a lot of time working on our art alone.  That’s often the nature of the beast. We're all different, so...

There are three elements to managing risk: risk perception, risk assessment, and risk management.  Last week we talked about risk...

Bogdan and I spent the whole of our adult lives working for a living, me as a librarian, and Bogdan as a producer in Romanian...

As small business owners, we’ve taken the time to plan our strategic overarching Vision statements, build good solid goals, objectives...

It's funny, because the more I read about entrepreneurship, the more people seem to conflate it with small business in general. While it...

It's January, and you know what that means; you join a gym with a promise to work out enough to sport the body of your dreams by...

So I'm still reading "The Comic Toolbox" by John Varhaus... I get it, I'm a slow reader. It's not that it's a difficult read or anything,...

I'm really enjoying John Vorhous' book "The Comic Toolbox" more and more. It's really well written, and he's obviously an expert in so...

Man, I've left writing this blog until awfully late, and feel like I'm falling asleep. This may not be a very long entry. Then again, I...

OK, today is the first day of the month. I've paid my rent, and plotted out what I want to achieve this month. I've even strategized as...

It's a new week, and I must say it appears to have started with a bang. Mom seems to have had a good day, though she spent most of the...

So Bogdan and I have been busy making sure that we're posting often, creating the right kinds of content, and posting it all on a variety...