Category: Business Models
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Selling on Ebay vs Facebook Marketplace
A former colleague of mine recently encouraged me to apply for a role at eBay. She’s very happy there and has a highly attenuated sense of cultural fit so I trust her judgment. I decided to experiment with selling on eBay as a way of exploring the company. While I used to buy and sell…
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6 Takeaways from PBWC 2015
Last year I shared sketchnotes from the 25th Anniversary of the Professional Business Womens Conference. It was my first time to attend and it was fantastic. I had the opportunity to go this year along with 5,499 other women:). Here are 6 Key Takeaways and sketchnotes from this year. 1. Sallie Krawcheck, Chair of the Elevate…
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5 Key Takeaways About Leading with Big Data
Professor Florian Zettlemeyer from Kellogg School of Management did a great job of teaching the Leading with Big Data & Analytics last week. I sketch noted the course and gleaned 5 key takeaways. 1. Analytics Requires Managerial Judgement While analytics itself can be performed by experts, the decisions that it drives and that are needed for it to thrive…
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Sell Your Work Online
Where’s a good place to sell your photographic (or other) work online? How do you evaluate those marketplaces? Recently, Molly Jacques, a freelance illustrator, wrote The Freelance Diaries: Supplementing Your Income. In this post she covers 3 things you can sell: sell the original product, sell a digital product and become an affiliate. Molly’s overview got me thinking…
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Portrait of the Artist in Red Ink
Things change. Eleven years ago I created a body of work called Portrait of the Artist in Red Ink. Each of 16 digital paintings showed a financial portrait of the income and expense trajectory for an individual artist based on his or her goals and dreams. The results at that time were not encouraging. Changes However, since then,…
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Captured Global’s New Business Model
The new business model behind Captured Global, a photography portal founded by outdoorsman, marketer and collector Peter Johnson (@capturedglobal) was the focus of this week’s evening lecture at Newspace Center for Photography (@NewspacePhoto) in Portland, Oregon. His new business model has definitely received some attention: “Fascinating new model for buying photographs on the web”. Stephen Perloff,…
