http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-the-price-of-creativity Opinions. Commentary. News. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:23:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35251 Rick Short Tue, 27 May 2008 21:45:32 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35251 You have posed a good question, Jonathan, which begs similar questions: What is the price of: -PROFITABILITY? -EFFICIENCY? -CAPITALISM? -EMPLOYEE BENEFITS? -etc. As "creatives" we must muse on your original question, but, as business professionals, we must also exlpore the full compliment of the balance we strike. And we must do this almost daily if we are to truly acquire that proper shade of gray that indicates the full and proper existence that we all desire. It's not easy, but it sure beats cutting off an ear. You have posed a good question, Jonathan, which begs similar questions:
What is the price of:
-PROFITABILITY?
-EFFICIENCY?
-CAPITALISM?
-EMPLOYEE BENEFITS?
-etc.
As “creatives” we must muse on your original question, but, as business professionals, we must also exlpore the full compliment of the balance we strike. And we must do this almost daily if we are to truly acquire that proper shade of gray that indicates the full and proper existence that we all desire.
It’s not easy, but it sure beats cutting off an ear.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35250 Michelle Carter Fri, 23 May 2008 16:49:30 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35250 I very much identify with this post. Being creative in itself is being vulnerable and it's hard to open yourself up to that on certain days, weeks, months, years of your life. I've certainly found that, the more "noise" there is going on in my life, the harder it is to be truly creative. I don't think that's because I suddenly lose whatever talents I had yesterday but more because my soul is tired of dealing with something "elsewhere" and has nothing else to give. Every creative act or work requires giving up or revealing something of yourself, which in turn requires bravery... and energy! I very much identify with this post. Being creative in itself is being vulnerable and it’s hard to open yourself up to that on certain days, weeks, months, years of your life. I’ve certainly found that, the more “noise” there is going on in my life, the harder it is to be truly creative. I don’t think that’s because I suddenly lose whatever talents I had yesterday but more because my soul is tired of dealing with something “elsewhere” and has nothing else to give.
Every creative act or work requires giving up or revealing something of yourself, which in turn requires bravery… and energy!

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35249 Shekar Prabhakar Sun, 18 May 2008 10:29:35 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35249 After 22 years in the corporate world of marketing, I am embarking on changing my career to collegiate teaching. I know exactly what your wife is going through, but the excitement of learning and getting to do what I am passionate about is overshadowing the price I am paying and the financial risk I am taking. Thankfully, I have a supportive spouse. After 22 years in the corporate world of marketing, I am embarking on changing my career to collegiate teaching. I know exactly what your wife is going through, but the excitement of learning and getting to do what I am passionate about is overshadowing the price I am paying and the financial risk I am taking. Thankfully, I have a supportive spouse.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35248 Search Engine Optimization Journal Fri, 16 May 2008 18:32:22 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35248 It's a shame people with so much experience have to market themselves endlessly to get by these days. It’s a shame people with so much experience have to market themselves endlessly to get by these days.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35247 Ann Handley Thu, 15 May 2008 13:32:40 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35247 Nice post, Jonathan. Very true that's it's the price we pay for being creative: <a href="http://www.annhandley.com/2008/05/14/when-a-bear-is-not-a-bear/" rel="nofollow">http://www.annhandley.com/2008/05/14/when-a-bear-is-not-a-bear/</a> Nice post, Jonathan. Very true that’s it’s the price we pay for being creative:
http://www.annhandley.com/2008/05/14/when-a-bear-is-not-a-bear/

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35246 Alexa Ronngren Thu, 15 May 2008 00:12:02 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35246 Fear is just one part of the price of creativity. Time and efficiency is another. As a creativity addict, I sometimes have to stop and ask myself if I am putting my creative juices to good use or just feeding my ego. I love to come up with new ideas. One of my favorite activities is a game we used to play in improve class: take an everyday object, then come up with new uses for it. For example, a role of toilet paper can be used to as a flower pot for silk flowers or as a door stop to keep door handles from hitting a wall. This is a great game to get the mind back on creativity mode if I'm in a slump. But, if I am already in the mood, it can be hard to focus and not jump from one interesting new idea to another. Good luck to your wife and her book. Between work I've done for clients and working on my own book, I've read countless books on book marketing. I highly recommend "Plug Your Book" by Steve Weber. "1001 Ways to Market Your Books" by John Kremer is also an excellent resource, but can be overwhelming. "Guerrilla Marketing for Writers" by Jay Conrad Levinson, Rick Frishman, and Michael Larsen has easy to follow advice. Fear is just one part of the price of creativity. Time and efficiency is another. As a creativity addict, I sometimes have to stop and ask myself if I am putting my creative juices to good use or just feeding my ego. I love to come up with new ideas. One of my favorite activities is a game we used to play in improve class: take an everyday object, then come up with new uses for it. For example, a role of toilet paper can be used to as a flower pot for silk flowers or as a door stop to keep door handles from hitting a wall. This is a great game to get the mind back on creativity mode if I’m in a slump. But, if I am already in the mood, it can be hard to focus and not jump from one interesting new idea to another.
Good luck to your wife and her book. Between work I’ve done for clients and working on my own book, I’ve read countless books on book marketing. I highly recommend “Plug Your Book” by Steve Weber. “1001 Ways to Market Your Books” by John Kremer is also an excellent resource, but can be overwhelming. “Guerrilla Marketing for Writers” by Jay Conrad Levinson, Rick Frishman, and Michael Larsen has easy to follow advice.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35245 Levon Wed, 14 May 2008 21:58:08 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35245 Creativity is responsible for every achievement and progress ever made in anything and everything. Its the foundation of evolution. The risk is with those that refuse to embrace ideas and therefore stunt growth. Creativity is responsible for every achievement and progress ever made in anything and everything. Its the foundation of evolution. The risk is with those that refuse to embrace ideas and therefore stunt growth.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35244 Lieca Wed, 14 May 2008 21:40:46 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35244 I have to tend to agree. I feel less threatened by change and trying new things than my peers because quite frankly I am younger than them and haven't really earned my stripes yet. Many times I can throw new ideas out only to have them shot down because no one wants to take the time to learn to do these new things. As you said no one wants to be the newbie. I couldn't agree more with your article Jonathan. I have to tend to agree. I feel less threatened by change and trying new things than my peers because quite frankly I am younger than them and haven’t really earned my stripes yet. Many times I can throw new ideas out only to have them shot down because no one wants to take the time to learn to do these new things. As you said no one wants to be the newbie. I couldn’t agree more with your article Jonathan.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35243 Dusan Vrban Wed, 14 May 2008 20:55:34 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35243 So it isn't just about the price of creativity. It is also about the outcome of it? So it isn’t just about the price of creativity. It is also about the outcome of it?

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35242 Dusan Vrban Wed, 14 May 2008 20:53:42 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35242 That's why we have named our agency Kainoto. It means change. It is what we do every day. No project is the same, no task has the same content as any previous. But you need to love this. You must have it in you. And it feels great, to do something I have never done before. If I had to do it twice the same, it would loose that feeling. :-) That’s why we have named our agency Kainoto. It means change. It is what we do every day. No project is the same, no task has the same content as any previous.
But you need to love this. You must have it in you. And it feels great, to do something I have never done before. If I had to do it twice the same, it would loose that feeling.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35241 Harry Hallman Wed, 14 May 2008 13:58:45 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35241 Over the years I have somehow gravitated to the newest marketing techniques and always having to learn something new. It stared with photography, then audio visuals, then producing extravaganza events using multiple slide projectors on large screens, then interactive media, then Internet and now Social Network marketing. Was it the right approach? I really don't know. I sometimes envy people who get to do one thing over and over again. Then I remember the excitement of finally "getting it" and making the new approach work. Is it hard to change, but harder to not adapt and pay the price? Life changes, business changes, best to adapt and find the excitement in it instead of the dread. Over the years I have somehow gravitated to the newest marketing techniques and always having to learn something new. It stared with photography, then audio visuals, then producing extravaganza events using multiple slide projectors on large screens, then interactive media, then Internet and now Social Network marketing.
Was it the right approach? I really don’t know. I sometimes envy people who get to do one thing over and over again. Then I remember the excitement of finally “getting it” and making the new approach work. Is it hard to change, but harder to not adapt and pay the price?
Life changes, business changes, best to adapt and find the excitement in it instead of the dread.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35240 Harry Hallman Wed, 14 May 2008 13:58:40 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35240 Over the years I have somehow gravitated to the newest marketing techniques and always having to learn something new. It stared with photography, then audio visuals, then producing extravaganza events using multiple slide projectors on large screens, then interactive media, then Internet and now Social Network marketing. Was it the right approach? I really don't know. I sometimes envy people who get to do one thing over and over again. Then I remember the excitement of finally "getting it" and making the new approach work. Is it hard to change, but harder to not adapt and pay the price? Life changes, business changes, best to adapt and find the excitement in it instead of the dread. Over the years I have somehow gravitated to the newest marketing techniques and always having to learn something new. It stared with photography, then audio visuals, then producing extravaganza events using multiple slide projectors on large screens, then interactive media, then Internet and now Social Network marketing.
Was it the right approach? I really don’t know. I sometimes envy people who get to do one thing over and over again. Then I remember the excitement of finally “getting it” and making the new approach work. Is it hard to change, but harder to not adapt and pay the price?
Life changes, business changes, best to adapt and find the excitement in it instead of the dread.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35239 Jonathan Kranz Wed, 14 May 2008 12:21:22 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35239 Lewis, Regarding your client experience: I know that look -- that crestfallen expression a client has when, at the bend in the trail, he sees miles of more trail ahead. But you're right. First, you empathize with the pain. Then, step by step, you move beyond it. There's no other way. Lewis,
Regarding your client experience: I know that look — that crestfallen expression a client has when, at the bend in the trail, he sees miles of more trail ahead.
But you’re right. First, you empathize with the pain. Then, step by step, you move beyond it. There’s no other way.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-35238 Lewis Green Wed, 14 May 2008 11:54:45 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/whats-the-price-of-creativity/#comment-35238 Jonathan, Excellent article. I saw the price first hand in the face of a client yesterday. Although he has been in business nearly 20 years, he has allowed marketing and sales to slide and has not reinvented his operations so that they became outdated, requiring layoffs to remain profitable. When I explained some of what he needed to do to return his business to profitability, his face showed frustration and weariness. I understood his pain. That was yesterday. Today, we began righting his ship. Jonathan,
Excellent article. I saw the price first hand in the face of a client yesterday. Although he has been in business nearly 20 years, he has allowed marketing and sales to slide and has not reinvented his operations so that they became outdated, requiring layoffs to remain profitable.
When I explained some of what he needed to do to return his business to profitability, his face showed frustration and weariness. I understood his pain. That was yesterday. Today, we began righting his ship.

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