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LJ Idol Season 9 Week 2 The Missing Step
Mar. 23rd, 2014 07:28 am Step One: Collect Underpants
Step Two: ?
Step Three: Profit
From the South Park Episode entitled “Gnomes”
I swear this is the business model of a lot of start up businesses. They have an idea be it goods or service and they kind of try to skip step two and get onto step three. For every Facebook or Twitter there are a myriad of other businesses that were like that but that didn’t work out. Some were too early and some created too late.
Google is a good example of something that caught lighting in a bottle and worked. Their competitors, at the time, are either gone or have reinvented themselves so many times it is really absurd (I am looking at you Microsoft Explorer). Google as a business worked hard to get where they are today. It was not dumb luck (OK maybe a little) but a good business plan with some seriously careful planning that brought Google to the top of the search engine heap.
I know a lot of artists of all kinds of disciplines. I know some that have gone on to make money with their talents and others who never really got off the ground with what they could do. It is not that one group is more talents than the other. It is more that one group has a better business sense and ability to promote than the other. Or they have someone to manage them and promote them. I know a husband and wife team where the wife got tired of having her husband’s good nature taken advantage of so she became the hard ass you had to go to before her husband put pencil to paper. Now he is making a decent living as an artist and lets his wife take care of the business side of things.
A lot of people start a business with high ideals and hopes for what they want to accomplish but if they haven’t figure out that second step, they are pretty much doomed to failure (Yes, I know there are exception but there are always exceptions to various business models). Many times this takes the form of biting off more than one can chew or taking on too much work and then realizing that one has taken on too much work. I have seen artists burn out doing what they once loved because they tried to do too much to earn a decent living. Or they do one thing or style, it is popular for only so long and either others copy them but are cheaper or the style goes out of vogue. Andy Warhol even stated that Pop Art had a limited life span.
Without that vital missing step, a business goes under and they are left wondering what they missed.
This has been my entry for the LJ Idol this week. Personally I can promote others til’ the cows come home but have a sucky time at promoting myself. I hope I have convinced you to vote for me in the next poll. Thank you.
Step Two: ?
Step Three: Profit
From the South Park Episode entitled “Gnomes”
I swear this is the business model of a lot of start up businesses. They have an idea be it goods or service and they kind of try to skip step two and get onto step three. For every Facebook or Twitter there are a myriad of other businesses that were like that but that didn’t work out. Some were too early and some created too late.
Google is a good example of something that caught lighting in a bottle and worked. Their competitors, at the time, are either gone or have reinvented themselves so many times it is really absurd (I am looking at you Microsoft Explorer). Google as a business worked hard to get where they are today. It was not dumb luck (OK maybe a little) but a good business plan with some seriously careful planning that brought Google to the top of the search engine heap.
I know a lot of artists of all kinds of disciplines. I know some that have gone on to make money with their talents and others who never really got off the ground with what they could do. It is not that one group is more talents than the other. It is more that one group has a better business sense and ability to promote than the other. Or they have someone to manage them and promote them. I know a husband and wife team where the wife got tired of having her husband’s good nature taken advantage of so she became the hard ass you had to go to before her husband put pencil to paper. Now he is making a decent living as an artist and lets his wife take care of the business side of things.
A lot of people start a business with high ideals and hopes for what they want to accomplish but if they haven’t figure out that second step, they are pretty much doomed to failure (Yes, I know there are exception but there are always exceptions to various business models). Many times this takes the form of biting off more than one can chew or taking on too much work and then realizing that one has taken on too much work. I have seen artists burn out doing what they once loved because they tried to do too much to earn a decent living. Or they do one thing or style, it is popular for only so long and either others copy them but are cheaper or the style goes out of vogue. Andy Warhol even stated that Pop Art had a limited life span.
Without that vital missing step, a business goes under and they are left wondering what they missed.
This has been my entry for the LJ Idol this week. Personally I can promote others til’ the cows come home but have a sucky time at promoting myself. I hope I have convinced you to vote for me in the next poll. Thank you.
