A Framework For A Creative Career

Mat Zucker
5 min readSep 27, 2021

This is not advice on writing a Linkedin profile or choosing a platform for your portfolio. With nearly 30 years across marketing in creative and strategy roles, what I can share is the strategic toolkit for how to market and present yourself.

There are eight components. While each may have a distinct role at different points and for different objectives, one should understand them all-and how they work together-to build a creative career.

Framework for a Creative career — a bullseye with Values at the center, then Craft, then everything else.
Framework for a Creative Career. Created by Mat Zucker and Stephen D’Urzo

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Mat Zucker

Marketing + content leader. Host: Rising & Cidiot podcasts. Author of career guidebook and memoir: Bronze Seeks Silver. linktr.ee/matzucker