Your Business Hase You Telling It Right? | James Jackson

So for my artists out there, I just want to lay out because there's a difference between doing the thing and running a business do anything right and so the purpose of business is to make a profit right and um or and really when i do my i kind of put it on pause but i would do these small business i call them profit labs right so purpose is to make a profit for the owner to be rich Right.

So I know in this world where profit is evil, who said to me, I kind of want to smack them.

But that's the only reason, because you're putting out your money, your time to take a risk.

Right.

And so you're supposed to get a return on your investment.

So things like so this is for my, you know, artists, people that are listening.

Right.

That we talk to about finding clients.

People come out and they learn lawyers.

They'll come out of school.

They want to be a lawyer, but they want to hang on their own shingle.

Nobody showed them how to get clients to do the law for, right? Employees, contractors, managing projects, getting paid, marketing, pricing.

That's the business side.

And maybe you've got to partner with somebody that gets all that kind of stuff so you can do the art and you make sure that, like you say, you've got a partner that thinks about that kind of stuff.

Because if you don't make money, You can't be in business to help to do the arts.

You got to keep the lights on.

Can I tack on to that a little bit? Oh,

absolutely.

So I didn't mean to go there

that long.

No,

no, no.

This is great because you actually you made me think about a few things.

First, the the part where it's like you got to factor in the additional costs.

Yes, for a lot of us, especially when a lot of us filmmakers are starting out, we're thinking about, a lot of us think of it in the mindset, okay, of a salary.

So for my artists out there, I just want to lay out because there's a difference between doing the thing and running a business do anything right and so the purpose of business is to make a profit right and um or and really when i do my i kind of put it on pause but i would do these small business i call them profit labs right so purpose is to make a profit for the owner to be rich Right.

So I know in this world where profit is evil, who said to me, I kind of want to smack them.

But that's the only reason, because you're putting out your money, your time to take a risk.

Right.

And so you're supposed to get a return on your investment.

So things like so this is for my, you know, artists, people that are listening.

Right.

That we talk to about finding clients.

People come out and they learn lawyers.

They'll come out of school.

They want to be a lawyer, but they want to hang on their own shingle.

Nobody showed them how to get clients to do the law for, right? Employees, contractors, managing projects, getting paid, marketing, pricing.

That's the business side.

And maybe you've got to partner with somebody that gets all that kind of stuff so you can do the art and you make sure that, like you say, you've got a partner that thinks about that kind of stuff.

Because if you don't make money, You can't be in business to help to do the arts.

You got to keep the lights on.

Can I tack on to that a little bit? Oh,

absolutely.

So I didn't mean to go there

that long.

No,

no, no.

This is great because you actually you made me think about a few things.

First, the the part where it's like you got to factor in the additional costs.

Yes, for a lot of us, especially when a lot of us filmmakers are starting out, we're thinking about, a lot of us think of it in the mindset, okay, of a salary.