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Your Best Creative Tool (Is You) with Paul Jarvis

By Jeff Goins Podcast, Writing
Your Best Creative Tool (Is You) with Paul Jarvis

One question I keep hearing is: What’s your favorite writing tool? It’s always good to ask what’s working for someone, but this question represents a popular misconception about creative work.

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Product Launch Failure: How to Avoid It by Testing Before You Build

By Jeff Goins Podcast, Writing
Product Launch Failure: How to Avoid It by Testing Before Your Build

So many people set out to create a product—whether it’s a book, a coaching service, or an online course—and assume they know what people want. Don’t do that. Instead of assuming, just ask.

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How to Make Something & Sell It in 7 Days: Your First Digital Product

By Jeff Goins Podcast, Writing
How to Make Something & Sell It in 7 Days: Your First Digital Product

People don’t typically buy what they need. They buy what they want. Which is why I love the saying: Sell them what they want, give them what they need. But how, exactly, do we do that?

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3 Reasons Why Your Writing Sucks

By Jeff Goins Podcast, Writing
3 Reasons Your Writing Sucks

Learning how to be unapologetically ourselves in our writing and creative work is the first step to becoming effective at what we do. If we don’t do this, our writing will not resonate with our audience.

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The Secret to Creating Work That Lasts: Why The Great Gatsby Endured

By Jeff Goins Podcast, Writing
The Secret to Creating Work that Lasts: Why The Great Gatsby Endured

Is your work timely or timeless? That is, is it something that is relevant to your current place in history, or does it transcend the limitations of its context? You may be thinking that the goal of every artist is to do work that lasts, but this is a myth.

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Being a starving artist is a choice.

Bestselling author and creativity expert Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is, in fact, a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

For centuries, the myth of the starving artist has dominated our culture, seeping into the minds of creative people and stifling their pursuits. But the truth is that the world’s most successful artists did not starve. In fact, they capitalized on the power of their creative strength. In Real Artists Don’t Starve, Jeff Goins debunks the myth of the starving artist by unveiling the ideas that created it and replacing them with fourteen rules for artists to thrive.

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