by Mike Roy | Jul 19, 2016 | Business, Marketing, Mindset
How “Unfair” Can Work In Your Favor I learned pretty quickly how life can be unfair. I was a skinny, uncoordinated kid growing up. That meant I was usually near the last to be picked in the dog-eat-dog arena of spontaneous childhood playground sports. There I was,...
by Mike Roy | Jul 4, 2016 | Blog, Business, Creativity, Mindset
What Creative Freedoms Are Important To You? History is full of inspiring stories about heroes who made incredible sacrifices for a thing called freedom. William Wallace, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the award winning film Braveheart, is a stirring example of someone...
by Mike Roy | Dec 28, 2015 | Blog, Business, Creativity, Mindset
Click Here to Get the Workbook for this article. Generally, I try to avoid clichés. That includes writing year-end posts with titles like “How to Have The Most Creative Year Ever In [ insert year here. ]”. But since I’m so fond of irony, i’ll...
by Mike Roy | Oct 22, 2015 | Blog, Business, Marketing, Mindset
I’m writing this in the waning hours of one of those impromptu cultural “holidays” that sometimes emerge from the grassroots of our culture… “Back To The Future Day.” This quasi-holiday is named Back to the Future Day because in the second movie of the series,...
by Mike Roy | Jul 6, 2015 | Blog, Business, Marketing, Mindset
It’s easy to get wrapped up in the product we are creating, at the expense of recognizing its end result. What sells is not pixels, posters, or paint. What people want is the outcome. In sales circles, they frequently talk about a person selling drills. To sell...
by Mike Roy | Dec 27, 2014 | Blog, Business, Marketing
We all could use some more eyeballs on our work. But like a busy city, the internet is crammed full of noise and lots of people clamoring for relevant attention. There are a lot of opinions and ideas about how to get more internet based traffic to your online gallery...
