This Week's Articles and Tutorials Business & Marketing 12 Things I Know About Business at 55 That I Wish I'd Known at 25 "12 Things I Know About Business at 55 That I Wish I'd Known at 25" is one of Creative COW Magazine's most popular articles. In this magazine reprint, COW leader, contributing editor, and Senior Business Adviser to Creative COW Nick Griffin shares wisdom he's learned the hard way in over 26 years in business. His experience will help you to avoid mistakes, manage clients, and prepare yourself to achieve your greatest success. Editorial, Feature, Business   10/04/2007 Author: Nick Griffin Business & Marketing Want to get paid? Make sure your client can see your work! With a nearly infinite variety of possibilities to deliver your final project to your client, there are an almost infinite numger of ways to mess it up. Get it right, and the client is happy. Get it wrong, and nobody's happy: the job's not done, and you're not getting paid. No matter what kind of work you do, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz tells you everything you need to know about output and media formats before you get to work...and before you can get paid. Feature, Business   10/03/2007 Author: Aharon Rabinowitz Business & Marketing Your Own Business, Part 2: Setting Up Shop In Part 1 of this series, Creative COW leader and contributing editor Walter Biscardi laid out the issues you need to address before you can aswer the question, "Are you ready to start your own business?" If you've thought long and hard and your answer is "Yes," then join Walter to explore setting up your company and getting ready to open those doors! Feature, Business   10/03/2007 Author: Walter Biscardi Autodesk Combustion Writing a Logo with Light In this video tutorial, CreativeCOW leader Ayman Abdel-Basset demonstrates a quick, easy way to use the eraser of the paint operator and the particle system of Autodesk Combustion to create a nice writing logo effect -- complete with shining rays. This tutorial is for advanced users of Combustion, but also has some useful tips for new users. Tutorial, Videotutorial   09/28/2007 Author: Ayman Abdel-Basset View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library

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