There are many ways you can use creativity to make money. For example- the most obvious way is to use your creative skills to make something, like a piece of pottery or a painting, and sell it. Then you can also use creativity to think of new and unusual ideas for increasing the sales, money, and customers. On the other hand you can use creativity to improve upon the ideas and innovations.
Thinking about innovative ways gave a new word called "lateral thinking" (most sources attribute it to Edward De Bono). Lateral thinking is using creative, right-brained thought to come up with different solutions and ideas. Lateral thinking avoids the usual thinking process and finds way to think out of box ideas.
The following are some ways to use your creativity to make money -
(1) Pack your special brand of creativity into a product or service so that
(2) It makes the targeted niche of people love them because you use your passion and knowledge to make their lives a lot easier and less frustrated by
(3) Sell something that solves a problem of your customers. Unless you make their life happy they will not part with money.
Many businesses are successful because someone took an approach to make a difference in the lives of their customers. Look at a pack of anti acne creams. They all sell because they remove acne. That is a need. Creativity is to change the formulation and give more benefits.
One can add moisturizer to acne cream. One can use anti aging agents to the acne cream. One can prepare different formulations for different skins. One can make the cream more absorbent. There are many ways in which the cream can be changed and benefits added to the cream so that the consumers feel great about it.
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