In less than a week creative entrepreneurs from all over the world will gather for the second annual Right-Brainers in Business Video Summit. We're having a virtual meeting of the minds from Monday, February 27th - Friday, March 9th and you're invited!

Join us live for FREE to learn about how to bring your right AND left brains together to make more moola in your creative business.

You'll learn from so many inspiring luminaries including Mark Silver, Jen Louden, Hiro Boga, and Tara Gentile.

To give you a little taste of what the summit will be like, below is an excerpt from the 2011 summit kick-off. You can watch me interview my mentor Andrea J. Lee about how to infuse your business with innovation.

The actual live summit will include chat and visuals so you can interact with me and other participants in real-time. It's invigorating and is just the thing to get you energized about taking your business to the next level.

I can't wait to see you there!

Sign-up for free at summit.rightbrainbusinessplan.com

Calling all right-brain entrepreneurs! Have you ever wondered what your fellow artists and creative business owners are doing in their business? What ways they get the word out about their work? What they find rewarding and challenging in their business?

You know you could learn a lot just be getting a peek at what others are up to and how that compares to your own entrepreneurial ventures.

In my book The Right-Brain Business Plan, I call this painting the picture of your business landscape (Chapter 3). It's about doing the research (a.k.a. "detective work") to understand your peers and the marketplace.

Take the Enterprising Artist Survey

Well, Dan Johnson of Right Brain Rockstar and Helen Aldous of Artonomy are doing something that will help make your detective work easier.

They're hosting the Enterprising Artist Survey and if you consider yourself part of the creative entrepreneurship community (and if you're reading this, I bet you are!), then you're more than welcome to participate.

(Note: when we say artists, that doesn't just mean people who draw and paint. Any kind of creative endeavor is fair game, be it photography, crafts, graphic design, music etc.)

You can take the survey here.

What's in it for you?

When you take the survey, you have the option of getting to see a summary of the survey results 30 days after the survey is closed (you just need to leave your e-mail address in your survey response). That means having access to some really great (and FREE!) market research (or what I call doing your "detective work"). What a great way to get a sense of your own business landscape.

Plus, if you leave your name, website and/or Twitter details, Dan will include you in a roundup post on his site Right Brain Rockstar shortly after the survey is closed. Why not take advantage of another way to help get your name out there!

I'm looking forward to seeing the results and gaining a deeper awareness of what this creative entrepreneurial community needs. Rock on you right-brain rockstar!

Thank you so much to those of you who voted! My book The Right-Brain Business Plan won a Top Category Award for Startups from The Small Business Book Awards.

"With so many books being published each year, we wanted to recognize those that made a difference to small business owners and managers and startup entrepreneurs," said Ivana Taylor, Book Editor at Small Business Trends, which produces the Awards. "Our annual Small Business Book Awards are a way to highlight the books that entrepreneurs are reading and learning from."

I'm so very grateful for your support and thrilled to see that we right-brainers made a great showing! Here's to pioneering a new way of doing work that values creativity and right-brain genius!

Want to connect with other creative entrepreneurs leading this right-brain revolution?

Join us at the upcoming Right-Brainers in Business Video Summit starting February 27th. It's free!

Here’s a great post about using Pinterest from my creative cohort Jamie Ridler. I have been resisting it, too, as I fear it is a time suck AND I can totally see the benefits since I am such a visual person. Thanks, Jamie for sharing your insights and tips as you get to know Pinterest.

My friend Christine Mason Miller, author of the beautiful book Desire to Inspire, just launched her Inspired By! The Desire to Inspire Force of Good Awards. It’s a fabulous way to recognize your mentors. Plus the winners will receive a copy of Christine’s book and one of her original collage creations.

One of my Right-Brain Business Plan® licensed facilitators, Jacqueline Lloyd Smith, created a new video for using Strategicplay. May it inspire you to bring more play and creativity into your work!

I am so impressed that Lauren Brownstein of PITCH: Fundraising and Philanthropy Consulting consistently creates her Right-Brain Business Plan (and from tropical locales, to boot!). The first one she made was back in 2009 when she did that cool paper plate mobile.

Lauren made her 2011 RBBP on the beautiful island of Moorea.

And this year she made her plan in Tulum, Mexico! The pictures in this post are from her 2012 plan.

For more details about the fabulous work Lauren is doing with non-profits, check out her 2011 RBBP Spotlight.

I think Lauren wins the award for most consistent creation of RBBPs in tropical locales! It’s cool to see how she’s fine-tuning her vision and plan each year AND how she’s making time for much needed getaways.

Last weekend, I led a Right-Brain Business Plan® workshop at the gorgeous Teahouse Studio in Berkeley. Wow, what a super inspiring and delightful group!! I’m so excited about what each of them are up to.

One of the themes of the weekend was around asking for help. That’s definitely something that can be challenging for entrepreneurs because we’re so used to doing things on our own. It was cool to see everyone practicing those asking for help muscles as they participated in various exercises together. So much more clarity and action comes from talking about your ideas with other like-minded peeps.

I can’t wait to see what else unfolds for these fabulous right-brain entrepreneurs!

One of my RBBP licensed facilitators Tammi Spruill of Fruition Branding participated with us. You can watch a video chat interview with us both here. Tammi showed us the RBBP she made during the workshop and shared with us some great tips on creating your brand.

I love this picture of coach and artist Tiffany Moore (she’s also one of the Teahouse Studio founders). She lights up any room like a vibrant ray of sunshine! Here’s what Tiffany had to say about the workshop, “I kept waiting for it to get scary and hard and it never did! If the thought of making a business plan causes terror, you will be surprised by how fun Jenn makes the whole experience.”

In addition to the fabulous group we had gathered at Teahouse, we had remote participants joining from all around the world via a live simulcast. They got to see and hear me via video and they were able to interact with me and each other through the chat. It was so cool knowing that other creative entrepreneurs were working on their plans right along-side us!

One of our simulcasters Coral shared with us, “I’m really glad that I was there for most of the first day, the chat was great. And being able to do the course from the comfort of my home and still connecting was lovely.”

Another simulcaster Stelladanza shared photos of her beautiful plan on our Facebook fan page.

You can see lots more fun pics from the weekend on our Right-Brain Business Plan® Facebook fan page.

If you’re wanting to be in community with other creative entrepreneurs, join us for the free Right-Brainers in Business Video Summit from February 27th-March 9th. It’s going to be a virtual meeting of the minds (both right AND left brains!). I’ll be interviewing 10 experts about business-building topics such as pricing, marketing, legal, social media, and technology. And since we’ll be using video chat, you’ll be able to interact with me and the other participants live. Hope to see you there!