Creative Cartography Coaching

Creative Cartography™ Coaching
One-on-One Consulting with Marney K. Makridakis
Founder of Artella

"Marney is highly professional, brilliantly intuitive, a gifted business visionary and immensely skilled at distilling information and creating growth in every direction. I have the highest regard for her services and totally recommend her." - SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy), PlanetSARK.com

Message from Marney: ~ Welcome and thanks for your interest in personalized project consulting in a way that's designed specifically for Creative Individuals! As you may know, in less than a year, I went from publishing a small magazine just as a hobby to running a full-time, online business with a great staff and full network of support services for creative people.

After taking some time off from individual consulting to be with my baby son, I'm once again offering individual project development consulting…now enhanced for 2009 with a creative twist!

Have you ever just wished someone could hand you a literal map...with all the steps and paths mapped out to get directly to your creative dream? That's exactly what happens in Creative Cartography™ ! After hearing from you about your dreams and goals, I work with you to create a map from how to get from here to there...and how to remain inspired and creatively fulfilled while doing it.

One Cartography session is all you'll need to get re-oriented to know exactly what you need to do next for your business or creative goal.

How can all this happen in 30 minutes? Prior to your session, I'll send you some very specific guidance for how to prepare for the session, in terms of how to organize your needs ahead of time. It's an unconventional way to approach consulting, but if you can carry out your part ahead of time, this way we can work quickly and efficiently, and it's much less expensive than hiring me individually to go through each question.

Since creative folks are generally very visually oriented, I also follow up your session by designing just for you a Customized Creative Cartography™ ActionMap, based on your own journey, and completely customized for your goals. This is a fun, artsy, but very practical and resourceful visual map that you can download and print out to guide you on your journey and keep you inspired along the way!

"My personal creative cartography map is jam packed with all of my dreams, action steps and resources. Being a very visual person, I find it incredibly helpful to see my dreams in a map format! Marney went above and beyond the call of duty during her phone call with me. Her enthusiasm was positively infectious. I truly felt as though she was on "my team" and had my best interests at heart. During the phone call I sensed that Marney intuitively "knew" what i wanted. Like an alchemist of old, she has the ability to mine through all of the jumble of ideas and desires in order to extract the "gold". Thank you Marney for giving me some clarity around my artsy business!" Violette, artist and author of Journal Bliss: Creative Prompts to Unleash your Inner Eccentric

After running Artella for almost 7 years, I have learned a good bit about how to get things done. Granted, I learned a lot the hard way through experience, but I have learned them and enjoy sharing what I know. Here are a few of the specific ways that Creative Cartography™ might help you all geared for the 2009 online and offline environment, including:

• Creating/expanding a Web site
• Creating mission statements and business plans
• Brainstorming to solve problems of new businesses or projects (lack of money, time, etc.)
• Self-publishing magazines, zines, and books
• Publishing successful e-zines
• Creating e-Education products (e-courses, eBooks, virtual -workshops)
• Developing online and in-person communities
• Clearing blocks and resistances that impede success
• Pursuing a freelance writing career
• Devising comprehensive plans to bring projects to completion
• Rejuicing creative projects to make them FUN again

If you're feeling lost, you don't just need to be told "You are here" and here are the ways other people have done things. Much more useful is direct help to get THERE! Now just where is THERE? Lol. THERE is where your business is thriving, your creative dreams are alive and well, and you're feeling full of gratitude and joy because you're sharing your talents with the world.

If you'd love to finally get a map in your hand that is based on your life experience and goals and that lays out the path for what to do next to make your creative dream come true...I'd love to work with you!

My particular specialty is working with creative souls who would like inspiration and real hands-on guidance in growing artsy, creative ways of producing income. I've never agreed with the myth that creative people don't make good business people, because in my opinion, creative people are ideal in business, most especially in difficult circumstances, because they have the ingenuity and unique vision that is crucial to innovate and thrive.

"Your unique way of connecting with me and my ideas has made such an incredible difference in how my spirit approaches the practical side of developing my coaching practice. Your solid support and encouragement, truly constructive and caring in nature, has enabled me to maintain my excitement and move beyond those self-imposed stumbling blocks. I thoroughly enjoy "working" with you (although it never feels like work!), whether we're talking about developing my website, creating a teleclass series, or having a blast envisioning the future. I've learned so much from your experience of being on this path before me. It has made my own journey so much easier and more enjoyable!" Alicia Forest, ClientAbundance.com

"I know that in "art" and pursuits of passion, considerations of money are out of place. So at the risk of corrupting the purity of artistic endeavor, I must say that you helped me realize my Web site's potential! It was always considered a labor of love, which for some reason simply didn't "love me back". Following your gentle (yet firm when needed) encouragement, I'm finally seeing a profit online... and still loving what I do. I can't thank you enough, Marney, except to encourage others to experience your magic." -Joseph Porter, Higher-Self-Improvement-Pursuits.com

Each Live Creative Cartography™ Coaching session takes place with you and me on the phone and is about 30 minutes long. We'll get right to the heart of the matter and get you instantly moved in the right direction. If you need another session, you can always schedule a follow-up or do individual consulting on various specific issues you need guidance with, however your first session concludes with an attractive, detailed map of all the steps, including those all important realistic tiny first steps, that you can follow at your own pace as you see your dreams and goals begin to come to life!

To sign up, please make your selection below. You will be contacted within 48 hours (but usually much more quickly) with instructions.

Customized Creative Cartography ActionMap: $69

30 Minute Live Cartography Coaching with Marney
(includes Customized Creative Cartography ActionMap): $125