Tara Gentile – Fresh From the Vault

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Digging deep into the archives today with this one, but still one of the best conversations I've had with anyone about creative business. Today, I'm sharing my chat with creative business specialist, Tara Gentile, and aside from the original gangster audio quality of this episode, I think you'll enjoy this one quite a bit. Tara Gentile is blowing up with, among other things, her deep immersion classes on Creative Live, one of which I going through right now, and like those courses, Tara brings a legitimacy to doing business online that a lot of would-be business coaches can't touch. So, enjoy this throwback and absorb the awesome. I promise, you will walk away smarter. I did, and this is my second time around. Relative Links Life After Christmas Pre-Order Tara Gentile's home base Tara on Creative Live Music - Jogalong by Rozi Plain Rate and Subscribe to the Fresh Rag Show Sign up for juicy stuff right in your inbox … [Read more...]

Flying Business Class with Natalie Sisson, The Suitcase Entrepreneur

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Please Rate and Subscribe to the Show in iTunes! Many of us entrepreneurs have this dream of living a lifestyle that allows us to go where we want, travel to an fro, making tracks in any direction that we deem necessary, but very few of us seem to make the jump. We have 'responsibilities' like families, bills, a business that's rooted, and the idea of picking up stakes to head off into the next green pasture seems like a near impossibility. Lord knows I've wanted to travel more, spend more time abroad, and see wonders that I will never find her in the States, but then reality sets in and we always find reasons why we can't; I find reasons why I can't, but there are other options. Today I brought on Natalie Sisson, the Suitcase Entrepreneur to talk about such problems because she is living the life she wants, and it's not just because she gets to travel wherever her whims might take her. In fact, she does have dreams of settling down a little bit, but don't tell all her reader's … [Read more...]

Kristi Soomer Promises to Bring You Retail Bliss

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Don't forget to rate and subscribe to the show in iTunes I've got a special guest on the show today, Kristi Soomer of Retail Bliss and Encircled. The conversation revolves around the idea of starting your own shop on your own e-commerce site, specifically Shopify.com. I've mentioned Shopify several times in the past as a viable option for those of you who might be looking to take yourself away from marketplaces like Etsy and others, but I do not have any personal experience with Shopify, so it's been tough for me to talk about. I had been casually looking for someone to talk to about the site, but honestly not putting too much energy into seeking them out. In a moment of serendipitous discovery, I saw a post in a Facebook group from Kristi about how she was hosting a free webinar on the subject of Shopify, and it's happening soon, so I wanted to get this conversation out to you so you could take advantage of that opportunity. Even if you're not looking to start your own Shopify … [Read more...]

Michael Oneal of the Solopreneur Hour Kicked Me in the Right Place

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Make sure to rate and subscribe to the show via iTunes In the immortal words of ICE-T, "I'd rather be a New Jack Hustler," which is the overarching theme to this episode of the Fresh Rag Show, featuring podcaster, car nut, musician and entrepreneur, Michael O'Neal of the Solopreneur Hour. I had the pleasure of meeting Michael at a podcasting conference back in August of 2014 and his keynote had a profound effect on me because it took what I thought I knew about my business model and turned it on it's head. After my his speech, and the follow-up Q&A session, I hopped in the car and headed back to the airport to head home from the conference. With time to kill in the airport, I spent the next few hours working out the future game plan of FreshRag, and I have Michael to blame for more of it. In this conversation we talk about many thing, and we diverge into some interesting areas, but here's a few items to tantalize you. What We Discuss How artists can use their voice to … [Read more...]

From the Vault, The Pugilist Designer, Hollywood Mark Brickey

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I've decided to start bringing back some older interviews from the past and reintroducing them in a new segment called From the Vault. I'll be reintroducing some of the best interviews we've had in the past that some of you may have missed or forgotten about. Just like wine in the cellar, these interviews might be a bit dusty, but they can still be just as good now, if not better, so why not dust it off and crack this sucker open. Let's get drunk on some new, creative ideas. Today's conversation is with one of the show's most popular guests, digging back to his very first time coming on the show, and I promise you will laugh and learn your way through finding your passion in a creative business. You'll also get your fill of 4-letter words, because we get a bit rowdy with the language. Relative Links Hero Handmade Adventures in Design Rate and Subscribe to the Show Sign up to get juicy tidbits in your email inbox   … [Read more...]

Starving Artist vs. Hungry Artist – Which Are You?

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Welcome back, Folks! I'm glad you came around to find us at our new address. If you don't know what I mean, recently I switched up the RSS feed for the podcast and it's now in a new location on iTunes, so if you were a subscriber, now is a good time to go back into iTunes and resubscribe to the new address so you don't miss a single episode. Click Here to make that happen. If you use a different app for your podcast enjoyment, you'll have to go back in and search for the show again. Hopefully you won't have any issues, but if you do, please give me a shout below, or email me direct: dave[at]freshrag[dot]com. On this episode, I talk about the future of the season, what guests I have coming on, along with some snippets of some upcoming episodes. I have a laundry list of amazing guests coming, including Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Co., Janine Vangool of Uppercase Magazine, and Michael O'Neal of the Solopreneur Hour, just to name a few. There's going to be a lot more episodes … [Read more...]