"Earning a living as an artist, writer or performer is notoriously challenging—and many people end up giving up on their dream, worn out by the pressures of keeping a day job, too.
Kelly Tsai, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based spoken-word performer, filmmaker, musician and activist has beaten the odds."...
"One secret to building a career where she has achieved both artistic success and financial stability, she says is focus: “You have to do something you love enough to do it all of the time,” she says." ...
"Embrace the idea of running a business....Tsai also learned, and applied, valuable entrepreneurial lessons from other spoken word performers. “A lot of my pragmatism is shaped by the early days of being in spoken word and hip hop communities where certain artist-entrepreneurs were very practical,” she wrote in an email after we met. “A rapper friend of mine used to say, ‘Business is simple. You make one mixtape for $1 and sell it for $2. Then, you take that extra dollar and make more mixtapes.’"
“As rudimentary as this sounds, it's been fascinating and baffling to me when I've met people who work in different industries who don't operate off the simple principles of spending less than you earn and reinvesting earnings in your business,” says Tsai.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepofeldt/2017/11/29/how-thinking-like-an-entrepreneur-helped-one-artist-build-a-thriving-career/2/#2d092b594440
Kelly Tsai, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based spoken-word performer, filmmaker, musician and activist has beaten the odds."...
"One secret to building a career where she has achieved both artistic success and financial stability, she says is focus: “You have to do something you love enough to do it all of the time,” she says." ...
"Embrace the idea of running a business....Tsai also learned, and applied, valuable entrepreneurial lessons from other spoken word performers. “A lot of my pragmatism is shaped by the early days of being in spoken word and hip hop communities where certain artist-entrepreneurs were very practical,” she wrote in an email after we met. “A rapper friend of mine used to say, ‘Business is simple. You make one mixtape for $1 and sell it for $2. Then, you take that extra dollar and make more mixtapes.’"
“As rudimentary as this sounds, it's been fascinating and baffling to me when I've met people who work in different industries who don't operate off the simple principles of spending less than you earn and reinvesting earnings in your business,” says Tsai.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepofeldt/2017/11/29/how-thinking-like-an-entrepreneur-helped-one-artist-build-a-thriving-career/2/#2d092b594440