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August 6, 2009

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Media Artist Secrets TV #2 – Creative Career and Being Shameless

Franklin McMahon Show #2 – Creative Career And Being Shameless..this episode is about being OK with being shameless, not being humble and ramping up your creative career by being confident.

Are you shameless? Leave a comment!

You can also watch the show in HD on YouTube or on Facebook (podcast version coming soon)

This show is all about the business of being creative, advancing your creative career and ramping up your empire.

Each episode will feature creative career development advice and inspiration, cool guests, new thoughts and ideas. Join the conversation by leaving a comment, let me know what you think.

I will also be looking for guests to interview in the coming weeks, if you are interested, please leave a comment with your links. The show will be a work in progress, but I plan on making it informative and fun.

Thanks for checking it out. :)

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  • http://www.brucemctoose.com Josh Hrehovcik

    This was a very informative episode and I intend on taking your advice on sharing my passion for what I am doing.
    I am looking forward to your next show. Well done.

  • Franklin McMahon

    Awesome Josh..that’s what it is all about. We’re all learning and all in this together, so any suggestions or topics, let me know :) Thanks!

  • http://www.iquantum.tv Mathieu

    I really liked the show. I do believe you are right about attracting, even magnetizing people when you are showing of your passion for a work.
    Therefore I would add that even with passion and time you can end up with some average work and mediocre artwork etc… So I would recommend anyone in the business to ask himself first if he/she match the market expectations. But once again I do agree with the fact that by being shameless and getting the right attitude at the right time might help clients or else to digest your work.

  • Franklin McMahon

    One of the best debates I like is which is more important, talent or drive? If someone could have one or the other, which would they pick?

    An example I see all the time is actors. I work with talent and actors, models, I know a lot of talent agents. The people who get the most work are not the best looking and most talented, it’s the people who are out there hustling, going to every audition, promoting themselves to everyone they meet, networking, working social media networks. And so often the most talented and best looking talent are “waiting”, waiting for opportunities or waiting for their agent to call. They often feel that because they are so good, the world owes them a career. Often it never comes. The people who are hustling are always striving to get ahead and as such are in 10 times more scenarios when it comes to opportunities.

    The harder you work at your career, the luckier you get.

    I do agree it is more of an uphill battle if your craft is not that good, but that does not stop so many people these days.

    Glad you liked the show..thanks for checking it out!

  • http://techvertising.com Jeremy Bloom

    Hi Frank,

    As always, your advice is top notch, and I agree with all of it. In my career, I have found something a little different.

    I am passionate about what I do, which is websites, blogging and e-commerce. To the point where friends think I’m crazy, and I think prospects often feel the same and are a little scared, or maybe intimidated. I am finding a better niche for myself these days, but overall, I’ve found that my passion has scared people away more often than not. I have determined this simply by people approaching me, and then never talking with me again on a business level once we start talking about the details of a project. I had always thought that the passion would attract, but I think it is too much for many, or maybe it’s just who I’m talking to, or maybe I’m just too insistent on doing things a certain way when a client sees it very differently, much to the point of them shooting themselves in the foot which I can’t deal with. Everyone is an expert on websites these days. In the end, that experience has made me much more shy about my passions, and has hindered how to sell myself.

    Maybe the answer here is trying to do business with the wrong people? There are times when I feel connected, and still many times when I can see it in their eyes that they will not do business with me and they think I’m nuts.

    On another hand, I worry pricing is not right. So with all the worry, I sometimes just don’t get off the ground and struggle at times with the balance of passion and business.

    Does anyone think you can be over-passionate?

  • Franklin McMahon

    As for pricing, I always try to find out a clients budget and work it from there. Pricing and money is often the toughest thing to discuss and it is sometimes better that it be handled up-front. A client is more at ease with the discussion first, as opposed to the churn of thought through the whole process thinking “OK..how much is this going to cost me”.

    Also it may be time to move on: http://www.franklinmcmahon.com/letting-clients-go-to-grow-your-creative-career

    As for passion…I feel it’s important to be on the same wavelength. The example I use all the time is years ago I was one of the first people in the area to get a DSLR camera. I shot digital and I put that in all my marketing materials, website, etc. “The Digital Advantage”, etc. I would tell clients about megapixels, dynamic range, etc.

    I discovered that, they just wanted great pictures.

    As passionate as I was about the technology aspect, the clients just wanted to make sure the pictures were great, they did not care how we got there.

    I applied that lesson to everything I do now. I really work not to get into the stuff that I am passionate about (usually the tech side) and focus on what the clients are passionate about. It’s a shift that can really make a difference, the common ground is there, it is just speaking the client’s language instead of my own.