Meet Jackie

Jackie B. Peterson has been an entrepreneur, a teacher and a creative for over 30 years. Jackie began her entrepreneurial life with a CPA firm that served small businesses and many creative clients.

Jackie currently teaches business skills and entrepreneurship skills for hundreds of small businesses at the Small Business Development Center of Portland Community College. She has also been a corporate trainer for numerous organizations who wanted to learn how to communicate, work in teams, develop problem solving skills and become more financially successful.

Jackie is well known in the Portland Area by hundreds of entrepreneurs, particularly those with creative endeavors, like photographers, artists, graphic designers, fashion designers, potters, and performing artists. She has helped many of them find their focus and become financially independent.

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“Your knowledge of the craft of entrepreneurship is so woven into your being that it just flows out of you. Your classes are full of so much more than the materials you present. Thank you!” - Marian Spadone

"As a fine art painter I struggled with finding focus in my work and using traditional business tools to turn what I love to do into my livelihood. Jackie has a positive, common sense way of teaching business that is truly unique to creative entrepreneurs. With her guidance, she helped me build a sustainable and profitable business!" - Rebecca Shapiro

"Jackie taught me how to see my time as part of my business. She helped me charge exactly what I'm worth when I work with clients and truly helped me get clear on how to make money doing what I love. I used to give away my talents and then felt resentful of my clients! Jackie said, "What are you thinking!" and helped me change. My belief in my work has always been strong, but I know I was not working to my full potential financially. It's truly amazing to feel good about the business side of my career!" - Julie Fast

"I really enjoyed your book and learned so much about being a creative entrepreneur. Really think it should be required reading for all writers, artists, screenwriters, etc., and only wish I'd had access to it years ago!" - Braiden Rex-Johnson

"Thanks so much for the wonderful presentation on Focus today. I had several “aha” moments and I appreciate how much it felt like you were simply inside my head. Your insights were and will continue to be very helpful as I move toward focusing on the right things." - Deb Irwin

“If you are that right-brained, creative entrepreneur with limited business knowledge and your one desire is to do what you do best - focus on your art, this is the ONE business book that is a must read. Jackie B. Peterson’s, Better, Smarter, Richer, pursues one continual, crucial point; determining and recognizing the profit of doing what you do best while appreciating the practical necessity of performing basic business tasks. This book will show you how to be creatively fulfilled, creatively established, and financially stable.” - Victor C. Pavona, Director, Small Business Development Center, Kent State University

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