Arthur Breur is a composer & business owner in Portland, Oregon. He has been composing for more than three decades & received his degree in piano performance from Millikin University. He started his web design & development company in 2001 in Tampa, Florida, & has helped hundreds of customers plan, build, & maintain their online presence. Prior to starting his company, his experience included working as a senior graphic designer in the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Visual Communications Department.
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Composer, entrepreneur, and web designer Arthur Breur discusses website must-haves and having an online presence.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Being in the moment
- Mindfulness
- Announcing yourself as a composer to the Chamber of Commerce
- Deciding to be a composer
- You are what you do
- Valuing what you do
- Receiving money for the value you bring to the world
- Websites
- Communicating to your audience
- Website must-haves
- Online presence
- Websites ARE your marketing plan
- Audio/visual servers
- CMS (content management system) and WordPress
- Domains
- Shopping carts
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Recommended Reading:
- Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
- Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.
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Thank you, Garrett! It was a pleasure to do the interview and a pleasant trip back in time to listen to it again!
I enjoyed speaking with you, too! Thank you for sharing so much great information on websites and how to composers can improve their online business cards. I’ll get you back for a round two at some point. 🙂
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Thank you both for this episode. It was inspirational and made me want to finish my website I started building some time ago (also WordPress template), but never got to “release” it since I didn’t have enough content to put there in the first place. Arthur, I am at very similar point a you were describing in the interview….I know I want to compose, I feel good when doing it and things go right and fit into places the right way, but after a while I realize I haven’t done any music for a shameful long time. And your words hit the right ground and I want to do the work, because it makes me feel good and useful, even if get discouraged by someone or something. I still want to do it. Thank you, I am coming back.
Hi, Jan! I’m so glad this episode was inspirational for you. Thank you for listening and congrats on doubling down and finishing your website!
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