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The Creative Professional's Marketing Plan and Calendar
| August 23, 2010
Having Marketing Mentor’s Start Anytime Marketing Plan + Calendar is like having your marketing “to do list” already filled out for you for the entire year! You’ll know how much time to spend on your marketing every week, how many prospects to contact, how much time to spend on the phone, when to launch an e-mail campaign…and when to reward yourself for a job well done.
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Seawall: Responsible Developers for Baltimore's Artists and Educators
Eric Bos | July 23, 2010
It’s not often that a development company is talked of fondly.  They have a history of being the bad guys in everything from made-for-TV movies to real life, but in the last few years Seawall Development Company has made its mark as a developer actively seeking to do good by the community and environment.
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Eco Citizen Reveals the Allure of Organic Fashion
Contributing Writer | July 12, 2010
Story contributed by Polina Selyutin.“It’s about finding your truth” says Joslin Van Arsdale, owner of Eco Citizen, a green apparel boutique in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood. Joslin’s path to Eco Citizen passed through London for fashion design, NYC as a stylist/designer, researching textile trends in Paris, London for grad school at Goldsmiths College, and Santa Fe, New Mexico working as a gallery director before landing in San Francisco to launch Eco Citizen 3 1/2 years ago.
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3rd Ward Builds a Space for Urban Creative Professionals to Work, Learn, and Play
Scott Ballum | June 28, 2010
Nestled in between vacant warehouses and bustling industrial yards, 3rd Ward offers both a playground and a serious workshop for creative professionals in Brooklyn, NY. The space houses photo studios, professional wood & metal shops, a fully loaded digital media lab, office space, and an interdisciplinary art education program. Co-founder Jason Goodman talked to us about getting people to 'get it', and the sometimes harsh realities of relying on beer money.
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Sew LA Teaches Fun and Fashion for the Modern Seamstress
Tiffany Swift | June 21, 2010
Awhile back, I decided to stitch up some throw pillows. Armed with the free pattern I found online, I headed to a JoAnn’s Fabrics in search of cheap pillow stuffing. A few overworked employees were struggling through a growing line of customers, so I wandered fruitlessly around the store for a while. When I finally found the pillow stuffing, I took a look at their fabric section - a tired hodgepodge under a sign warning something about formaldehyde and cancer.  So I hopped in my car and drove across town to Sew LA.
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Alive Structures: A Green Roof Grows in Brooklyn
Scott Ballum | June 15, 2010
Alive Structures is a unique landscape design firm, grown out of the recent interest in increasing green spaces in urban environments and the long-term benefits of green roofs. We talked with the business owner, Marni Majorelle, about seeing an opportunity to contribute to her city, hiring her first employee, and the determination to make it all work.Video not loading correctly? Watch it here on the Sheepless.org Vimeo Channel.
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Eco Chic: The Slow Fashion Movement
Kate Bryant | May 5, 2010
What does it take to get consumers to transition from buying disposable "fast fashion" to heritage pieces? How about transparency in the supply chain? Does knowing the history of a piece make it more compelling and special? How about quality textiles? When something costs more, does it make it more precious — something to cherish? Or maybe it doesn't have to cost more. Can innovation create textiles that are both sustainable and mass-market affordable?
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REWORK: The new business book from 37Signals
| April 4, 2010
Finally, someone's saying what we've all been thinking. Don't throw out all the lessons you've heard from a previous generation of business-makers and owners, just remember you're not running their kind of business. This is the new way of approaching work, the future of entrepreneurship, and a massive call to believe in yourself. Brief, to the point, and fantastically illustrated... with a Sharpie.
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Space for the Creative Entrepreneur in Brooklyn's 3rd Ward
Scott Ballum | March 31, 2010
Those in creative cultural centers like parts of New York and Brooklyn might take for granted the community of artists and designers around them, and the opportunities for networking and collaboration that they create. We sometimes forget the blood, sweat, and tears of people who pulled these centers together, not to mention a region's history that opened the possibility for such a neighborhood and space to exist.
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A New Start Finds Sustainability Through Architecture
Scott Ballum | March 26, 2010
When Damian Possidente was laid off from the architecture studio he worked at one year ago this week, he took it as an opportunity. The main focus of his work had been affordable, sometimes sustainable housing, primarily in the South Bronx, when the firm had several large projects in the pipeline shelved or canceled altogether due to budget cuts and client hesitation.  Damian remembered wanting to work on his own since college, so while the layoff was unexpected it seemed like a message was being sent to take the leap.