Wow! It’s now 2008 and it has been 27 days since I wrote my last blog, oh well, as I always say to myself, keep it updated on a daily basis, wow, 27 days is one long shot! Well things are about to change, with all the mobile blogging available and my new blackberry, I have not excuse not to update my blog as often as possible.

CUB 2008 – Catching Up with Business 2008 Part 1

This is my little journal in the business side of Creative work to see how fast I can catch up with my own business and produce a better year. If you have read my past blog for 2007, my start was a little rough, losing $75,000 worth of my gear was the biggest obstacle I had encountered. I survived and still trying to cope up with the loss.

As of 2008 I have started my new production company, ARO Media Productions, with new partners and crew, this project of mine really gets me pumped up for 2008, it has always been my dream to start my own creative production company, so now I have the chance and opportunity to do so.

Speaking to photographers/creative people who run there own businesses know it is not easy to joggle a lot of stuff and we all know not all succeed on a 1 shot try. Running / starting our own business can sound easy, but when you get down to details thats where all the headaches start to unfold.

We all know business is not just all about getting a DBA (Doing Business As) or just getting a business account, it is so much more than just that. It’s about setting up what you want to be and where you want to be.

Once you got all the legalities done, its down to your business ethics, your standard contracts, and standard business practices, once you get past through those, one of the important aspects of it all is the $$$ side…accounting issues, making sure everything is well accounted for, cause us creatives it is very easy to come up with a number, a price or a fee, but when we are asked to explain or breakdown those fees what do we get in our faces. Yup you got it… duh…

So from time to time what ever I experience or whatever I go through I will make sure I post it up here for anyone who may benefit from it and maybe get some pointers and help them improve or go the right way.

I also welcome comments and suggestions, who wouldn’t even huge fortune 100 companies take advice, so send them over, email them directly to me! Let’s trade ideas if you got some!

Finally the new year is in! I wish everyone had a good 2007 and all the best for 2008. We all get excited when the new year comes, we always want a good year, well who wants a bad one anyway. Every year we all have our goals, we all have our resolutions, no matter what it is it is to make our year better than the last.

Things do happen, things do change, all we can do is to make sure we do make the best of it. Positiveness will always get you good results, so I wish all of you the best for 2008 and the years to come!

Happy New Year!