The How of Business is a great podcast, that focuses on detailed education and relevant interview content hosted by a well knowledgable host. This podcast delivers well structured content, that is of relevance to all small business and solo entreprenuers. Read our review.

The Anxious Achiever Podcast is the next in our series of Creative Battles reviews. Looking at the best resources to help carry the load of working solo or in small teams with all the pressure that entrepreneurship brings on.

Is this podcast worth a follow, find out in our review today.

The Imposter Files Podcast is an interview based podcast that focuses on conversations with coaches, careers experts and corporate experiences. The discussions they have help give ideas on how to deal with a more traditional employed career and changes related to these. With a focus on how imposter syndrome developes and impacts careers, performance and results in these environments, the podcasts covers a lot of relevant area for those in this space. Read more of our review to find out if this is worth your time to follow.

The Small business sessions Podcast is our first Podcast review in our Creative Battles series. This podcast is a raw conversation with small business owners and founders in the United Kingdom and lets the owners tell their own story about how and what led them to start their small business. With a wide range of businesses discussed see what we feel about this podcast and if it´s worth following in our review here.

Own your Greatness is a workbook that supports your journey understanding your own Imposter Syndrome. Working through a range of interconnected exercises you will build up through the workflow outlined in the book your own story and your own resolutions. The book is a great compliment to any of the existing more fleshed out books on Imposter Syndrome. Read more in our review here.

The Start Up way by Eric Reis, is a book for a different audience then that we try to reach. This looks for a corporate audience to impress, and the content has no real application for small or medium business or creative industries.

We Find so much of our information and ideas on Social media and as it is a goal of mine to ensure that you get the best information available we will review a second set of instagram art business influencers that we found in our for you page.

See here who you should be following and why!

The Get things Done book takes a lot of great ideas models and methods that have been supporting businesses big and small for years and boils them down to bite size simple tangible models for the average reader to pick pup and benfite from with just the right amount of training and guidence.

Read more on our review here.

The Gift of Imperfection by Brené Brown is the next book in our collection of Creative Battles Reviews. We are looking at the best books to support the creative entrepreneur as they go through the challenges and issues of running and setting up their own businesses, while doing so alone and in doubt.

Does this book help us or not, read our review to find out.

The Secret Thoughts of Succesful Women by Valerie Young, is a great resource for those that are stuggling with Imposter Syndrome, to both understand their internal experiences and concerns, along with the very relevant and often not discussed perspective of the environmental and external forces that help manifest and perpetuate the conditions that specifically impact women in professional spaces. These male create and dominated spaces have a clear impact on creating and fostering the conditions for why imposter syndrome is not just a personal issue but a contextual one as well.

Looking to understand Imposter Syndrome, and how it impacts the vast majority of our solo entrepreneurs, artists, and professionals is key focus for Department45. We are seeking to learn how to help our clients and supporters and Imposter Cure has been a great resource to expand our own knowledge on what defines imposter syndrome and tools for dealing with it, which we are now using daily to share and work with our clients.

Read our review for more details, and perspectives.

The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield, gives us a great villian and hero story to outline the challenges of creating and being creative, with this famous authors own framing of the overall challenges as a collective personification. The book is often set as a good illustration of the challenges in creating, read our review to see if it holds water.

Relationships are huge for our businesses and reaching the point of being not just someone that solves problems but supports your client in working through the challenges they face by becoming an advisor as the book calls it. This book seeks to show you how to build yourself into that for your clients and how. Does the book do that well and is it helpful, find out in our review.

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss, is a top recommendation for all manner of business professionals and gives a wide range of examples, tips and tricks to consider in your next negotiation, we review this book in our Business Book review series two.

Show you work is the second book by Austion Kleon that we review. Steal like an Artist, is one of our favorites from the last round of reviews and was a simple and effective way to communicating in a visual and thought provoking way. Is Show your work the more of the same clever messaging or something different. Read our review to learn more.

Selling online is an important market for most small businesses and choosing the right strategy will have a huge impact on your businesses early success when resources and time are limited. Department45.eu has reviewed the current vendors and gives strategies for how to approach online retail. See here our method and process for our analysis.

Selling online is an important market for most small businesses and choosing the right strategy will have a huge impact on your businesses early success when resources and time are limited. Department45.eu has reviewed the current vendors and gives strategies for how to approach online retail. Read our article to find the best strategies and options for your business.

As part of the second book review series here on Department45.eu, we tackle another common small business recommendation in Mike Michalowicz’s Profit First. A book that presents the reader with an interesting way to manage their money in their business that may change the way you see your companies finances. Is it worth a read we review both the book the content and the model presented within, in our latest review.

The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber, is one of the most commonly recommended Small business books when you google for recommendations. An institution and flagship of an empire that Gerber has built around his flag ship this book is written in the 1995 and still remains well recommended. Considered something of a cornerstone of small business guide books does this book live up to the hype as well as the test of time? Find out in our review up now.

Department 45 Does a lot of reviews of knowledge resources, podcasts, books services and tools that are relevant for our Small business creatives. On their behalf we will look for the best, most relevant and supportive products out there. As part of these reviews we feel having a clear and transparent review policy is important and critical to guide you the audience and us the reviewer. this is to ensure the most fair and clear analysis of the reviewed subject.