027: Networking for Feast, Not Famine
The feast or famine cycle is a vicious thing. If you’re not familiar with that term, “feast or famine” refers to the awful roller-coaster-like situation when your business vacillates between months with tons of work, and tons of income, to months with almost no work and almost no income. There’s no doubt about it: riding the feast or famine roller coaster is an awful place to be. But you, my dear friend, are not helpless. You can do something about it. You can take steps to get off that roller coaster and find a place of more peace and stability in your work schedule and in your business income. And networking – reaching out to your peers and colleagues within your creative industry – is a perfect place to start. Let’s look at how you can network for feast, not famine.
In this episode, you will learn:
- What role your mindset plays in making networking easy (or not).
- How sharing your experience as a creative entrepreneur can help you and those around you.
- Why developing a relationship with an accountability partner or accountability group can be one of the most important business decisions you ever make.
- What factors to consider when you’re looking for that accountability partner or group.
- Why being kind matters in business (and in life).
In this episode, I mention that registration is now open for the summer 2023 session of my Taming the Muse Group Workshop. I refer to the Merriam-Webster definitions of "marketing" and "networking," and the Wikipedia definition of "accountability partner." I also reference two previous episodes of this podcast:
A full transcript of this episode can be found here. Full transcripts of every episode will always be available at the Starving Artist No More Blog.
Thank you for listening. Please feel free to reach out to me at www.StarvingArtistNoMore.com, with any questions, comments, or feedback. I'd love to hear from you.
