A short YouTube video ("Which one are you? #shorts") by Eric Deeran arguing that artists and entrepreneurs have different core skill sets: artists create aesthetically pleasing work, while entrepreneurs know how to run and scale businesses. The speaker advises artists who want to scale their income to learn entrepreneurial skills (sales, marketing, operations), and suggests staying a freelancer if one prefers to focus solely on creative work.
If you're an artist who doesn't necessarily know how to run their business and you're not making the money that you want to make, it's because you're lacking a specific it's because you're lacking a specific skill set in entrepreneurship. And so there are two different things. There's artists and there's entrepreneurs. There's people who know how to run and scale a business, and then there's people who know how to create beautiful looking things. And you can have both skills, but you have to admit that if you want to scale a business, you're going to have to learn how to be an entrepreneur as well. If you want to be just artistic and creative, then that's something where you should just go become a freelancer and work in someone else's company. If you don't want to deal with the sales, the marketing, and the operation side of running and scaling an actual business.
