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How Adobe Express is empowering content creators of all stripes

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Designer/founder Aseil Amgheib and 'small biz babe' Angel White explain why it's an essential tool in their workflow. It seems like everyone from content creators to marketing professionals, photographers to animators, are discovering that they can use it to create professional content, quickly and easily, and without a big learning curve.

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Six books to supercharge your creative business in 2023

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Image licensed via Adobe Stock As the year starts to get into its stride, get a jolt of inspiration and fresh ideas to drive your business forward. And this seasonal shift can be especially motivating for entrepreneurs and small business owners who've made it through a tough period and have lived to fight another day.

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10 essential books to help creatives master work-life balance

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Elsewhere on Creative Boom, we've shared our top tips for achieving work-life balance. The Creative's Guide to Starting a Business by Harriet Kelsall Starting a creative business can be scary, so here's a manual to follow. The book offers various practical strategies for incorporating effective rest into daily life.

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Creative freelancers reveal their rates and share top tips for pricing your work

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On the one hand, you need to pay the rent and bills and don't want to price yourself out of the market. To help you out, we've gathered tips and advice from creative freelancers who've been kind enough to share their process and – even more helpfully – the actual amounts they charge.

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How to pivot your freelance creative business in 2023

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So you've launched your freelance creative business: congratulations! A pivot is a tried-and-tested strategy whereby you take a business that just isn't working and turn it in a completely different direction. Often, this involves taking one small aspect of it and making that the focus instead. Then it's time to pivot.

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Six ways artists can set up a successful stall at an art fair

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As more of us get back to live events, in-person markets are returning as another brilliant place to meet people and showcase and sell your work. Eager to help those newbies who need some advice on selling work at art fairs, Jane and Kaye approached Creative Boom with many helpful tips from themselves and some of their printmakers.

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Tips from a marketing expert on how to sell yourself as a graphic designer

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Creative industry expert Laura Carrick offers six invaluable tips to help you promote yourself and boost your career opportunities and earnings. But either way, you may well be thinking in frustration: "I'm a graphic designer, not a marketing expert!" If you're in a job, you must sell yourself to your managers and colleagues.

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