How to succeed in artistic business – weaponise self knowledge, with your friends

Prosperity for sole trader artists is about some business knowledge pumped up with a good dose of empowerment. Enter Monica Davidson, expert and veteran.
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This artist is a sole trader. If something doesn’t change soon, he will explode. Image: Oh Yeah Wow.

Monica Davidson is one of those workers in the arts who claims to have never had a proper job. She has been a self-employed cub reporter, a cameraperson, a writer and a filmmaker for many years, and did a Masters in Creative Business at AFTRS which allowed her to reflect on her survival tactics, and the problem of prosperity. Or the lack of it. 

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