You’ve build a stellar portfolio but you don’t know how to build a business from it. Design schools don’t teach you about business. Popular learning platforms don’t give you the whole picture. Your options are to learn through and trial and error, or to learn from someone who’s done it and avoid as much trial and error as possible. In this inspiring guidebook, veteran freelancer Alvalyn Lundgren makes the case that our work as entrepreneural designers, illustrators, and photographers is vital to culture and the economy, and we support our creativity and serve others through the transactional and transformational relationships of doing business. Beginning with why and how your creative work matters, she leads you through a proven  framework of mission, mindset, mechanics and messaging to empower your ongoing success as a freelance creative. From budgeting and legal structures, to copyright protection and branding, to client management and changing technologies, you can be set up to thrive as a creativepreneur in the expanding freelance economy.