A4F archives: Interview w/ Michael Gerber of E-Myth Worldwide and In The...
This episode is a repost from our classic Answers for Freelancers feed that we felt highly impacted the decision to start Creative Independence. This episode is #8 from the first season. Michael...
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This episode is a repost from our classic Answers for Freelancers feed that we felt highly impacted the decision to start Creative Independence. This episode is #9 from the first season. In episode 8,...
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A4F Archives: The Final Episode, in which Bob and Chris set out on new...
This episode is a repost from our classic Answers for Freelancers feed. This episode is #4 from the third season, and is officially our final episode of Answers for Freelancers. With this episode, we...
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CI 101: Chris Ventures Forth
Welcome one and all to the first ever episode of Bob Ostrom’s and Chris Wilson’s new show, Creative Independence! The goal of the show is to explore and highlight the many and varied ways that...
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CI 102: Experiencing Technical Difficulties
Welcome to the second episode of illustrator Bob Ostrom’s and multimedia designer Chris Wilson’s new show, Creative Independence! The goal of this show is to explore and highlight the many and varied...
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CI 201: Fries in a Cup
Just a catch up show with a little mail bag, some catch up of how things are going with Chris’ new business and a few other odds and ends. We hope you enjoy it! Opening: Chris blows the opening by...
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CI 202: Chris and Bob learn about licensing with artist Tara Reed
Chris and Bob learn about licensing with artist Tara Reed Tara Reed. Artist Tara Reed followed a twisting and turning path to where she is today: a mom, an artist who has her own business licensing her...
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Chris and Bob catch up on old times. Seems the guys have been pretty busy with Chris launching his new site intelligentacnetreatment.com and Bob hard at work on his (bobostromstudio.com). Bob talks...
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CI 204: Mind Mapping and More
Chris and Bob cut the fluff and get right down to it. Chris kicks off with an update on his site Intelligent Acne Treatment.com. He talks about rebuilding his credibility with his costumers when a...
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CI 205: Personal Influences & Business Models
Following up on last week’s assignment to find and start playing around with Mind Mapping software, Bob and Chris start putting your newfound Mind mapping skills to use. We go over two fundamental...
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CI 206: What’s In a Name?
Bob and Chris conclude the discussion on Mind Mapping your business before you start working on it by asking you to start thinking a bit outside the actual business and start thinking about the type of...
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CI 207: An Interview with Carlos Castellanos
This is an interview you will not want to miss. Bob sits down with Carlos Castellanos the co-creator of the syndicated comic strip Baldo. A big fan of Michael Gerber, Carlos talks about his experiences...
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CI 208: Getting Social
This episode, Bob and Chris talk about the business applications of social media: promotion, networking, community and lead generation. The social media scene is so big that there’s no way we can touch...
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CI 209: Favorite Podcasts
Chris and I talk a little bit about some of our favorite podcasts and what we like to listen to when we’re not up to our eyeballs working on Creative Independence. We hope you’ll check out these out if...
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As Bob and I continue to roll out the new Creative Independence Network, we’ve reached a point where if we wanted to split the Creative Independence feed from the Answers for Freelancers! feed, that...
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CI 211: Learning Linked In- Part 1
Chris and Bob take a look at Linked In. This episode is the first in a two part series showcasing the many features available on Linked In. Once you’ve listened to the show please visit Linked In and...
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CI 212: Learning Linked In – Part 2
In this episode, we conclude our discussion of LinkedIn by leaving the realm of the personal profile and looking into the many features that Linked In offers for network, for promoting yourself, for...
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CI 301: Interview with John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing
Small Business Marketing Expert John Jantsch A few years ago I had the good fortune of finding John Jantsch‘s podcast, Duct Tape Marketing Radio. John is an expert in small business marketing. His...
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CI 302: Bob visits Wake Tech
Short show this week. Bob does a quick recap on his way to visit a group of art students at Wake Technical Community College. Home work assignments for this week will be collected with the release of...
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CI 303: A Twitter Episode
140 Characters So, maybe if you’ve been living on a deserted tropical island or under a rock you haven’t heard of twitter. This episode, Bob and Chris talk about the basics of Twitter and go through...
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CI 304: This Episode is NOT about James Cameron’s Avatar
Hey, guys, just a short one this week to keep things moving along in a positive direction while Chris and Bob play Skype Tag. In this episode, Bob takes a quick breather and Chris steps in to talk...
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General Text Messaging definitions There are scores of places on the web to find the definitions for this texting shorthand that is developing around short-form messaging, but here’s a decent on to...
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CI 306 An Interview with Dani Jones
If you’ve been on twitter, Ustream or any of Dani’s many websites you know what an amazing and talented artist Dani Jones is. Chris and I had the privilege of interviewing Dani a little while back. It...
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CI 307: Creative Independence goes Haywire! Rip Haywire, that is.
This episode is full of comedy and adventure! Come along for thrills, chills, explosions, guns, fisticuffs and hilariously sarcastic retorts. Join us as Dan Thompson, creator of the syndicated cartoon...
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CI 308 An Interview with Sparky Firepants.
David Billings AKA Sparky Firepants Bob and illustrator Sparky Firepants (AKA David Billings) talk about marketing. David shares some of his surefire marketing techniques including, slowing down,...
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CI-309 An Interview with Carlos Castellanos
Bob welcomes Carlos Castellanos back to the show. Carlos is a wealth of great business and marketing information. Whenever we have Carlos on the show we make it a point to get out out our notebooks and...
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CI 310: an Interview with Cedric Hohnstadt.
Bob interviews professional illustrator Cedric Hohnstadt. In this episode Cedric and Bob discuss marketing techniques, networking, social media and self promotion. Cedric is an extremely talented...
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The Wireless Generation
Drew and Cole, apparently in the midst of a festival of color. My guess is in India, somewhere. In 2000, Drew Gilbert worked at Funnybone Interactive alongside Bob and myself. And like Bob and I,...
View ArticleAnswers for Freelancers: Re-release
Hi, everyone! Just wanted to let you know that Bob and I have just released a new episode of Answers for Freelancers. No doubt this comes as a surprise to many of you who have been with us from early...
View ArticleCI 401: Kickstarting our Kickstarter Maxi-Series
After a 3 year hiatus, Bob and Chris are producing new episodes of Creative Independence. Both of us have been very busy for the past few years, and we’re both involved in some cool new projects....
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CI 402: He’s Back! – Interview with Cedric Hohnstadt, 4 years later!!!
You may recall several years ago the very last interview we did was with our good friend Cedric Hohnstadt. In this episode Chris, and I jump into the CI time machine and flash forward to today where we...
View ArticleCI 403: Kickstarting YOUR Dream! With Richard Bliss
In this third installment of our Kickstarter Maxi Series, we speak with Richard Bliss, host of the podcast, Funding the Dream On Kickstarter. Richard has, as of this writing, posted over 183 episodes,...
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