Creative Entrepreneur Podcast

I started to kick out new creative entrepreneur shows again. I hope you will join mean as we talk about how creatives can market and grow their business. 

To grow your creative business you need new clients. Not all prospects will hire you. However, understanding why can be a big help. Knowing why clients will not hire you can help guide toward the people who do appreciate your work, trust you and will hire you. 

Marketing is an important part of our business, yet, many creatives don't think much about it. In this show I share some foundation ideas which will help you grow your creative business with marketing activities. 

Are you a creative professional? Are you a lazy creative or do you have a professional creative business? What is the difference. Does it mean you work harder as a professional and a lazy entrepreneur does nothing. Let's explore this idea. 

How can creative entrepreneurs use Facebook to build an audience, create a community and grow a business.

Video has become an important part of our marketing plan. It's not just for marketing and social media. Here is the link post at roshsillars.com

Creatives have many choices when managing social media. Channel building is a big part of our combination code platform. In this show, I share some tips and approaches to running and managing your social media to help drive traffic and become an expert in your field.  More information here.

Goals don't have to dominate our lives, they help guide us. In this show, I share some of my experience and insight in to creating and achieving goals to make your creative life what you want it to become.  More at the blog: http://www.roshsillars.com/make-your-goals-happen-in-2021/

Many of us are busy, yet, busy is not necessarily productive. Productivity moves us forward to grow our creative business which allows us to do what we love to do for a living. http://www.roshsillars.com

How to start your creative business. In this show, I share some of the basics of starting your business, develop a plan and how to keep your business going for the long term. 

Restarting your creative business in 2021 could be the scariest, yet, most important thing you can do to kick the new year off.  I have a series of content on this topic beyond the podcast, including a blog and YouTube video listed below.  Blog: Restart your creative business 2021 YouTube: Restart Routine - How To Begin Again In Life 2021

Balance is a difficult but important concept for creative entrepreneurs. It's necessary for long term survival otherwise you just might burn out or completely fail. Understanding balance offers creatives a better quality of life. 

Google is a powerful suite of tools which can help you grow your creative business. In this show I share a few ideas on different areas of Google that you can use to find new business

Increasing your prices is tough. How do you go about it? In this show, I share some ideas how to go about increasing your creative prices and to establish your pricing strategy for the long term. 

Creative Entrepreneurs know a little about processes. However, they don't dig deep to improve the processes which run and make their business better. In this show, I talk about processes and how you can apply them to grow your creative business.  http://www.roshsillars.com

Modern social media has been around almost 15 years. We are well past the days of Facebook and Twitter being the core of most social media activity. In this show, I explore where we are and the secrets to social media success today. 

Creatives, including my photography friends make this mistake regularly. Many of my photography friends went out of business around the year 2000 because of this, many more during the great recession and more creative entrepreneurs are falling now. What is this mistake? Find out. 

Everything has changed since the last podcast. In this show, I share some of the first steps to surviving what is about to hit us as creative entrepreneurs.

In this show, I share some helpful insights for creative entrepreneurs. I talk about customer acquisition costs, augmented reality how we grow our business in 2020.

This show I lay down some of the groundwork and concepts you need to consider if you want to go full time as a photographer or up your current photography business game.   Photography Pricing information

There is a crazy story going around about a bride asking to be paid to photograph her wedding.  Is it true? It got ugly, what would you do about it? Plus, I talk about preparing for 2020

There is more than one way to earn new photography clients. In this show, I share some of my favorite ways I've gained new clients through the years.

Photography technology is changing, will you have to create fake photographs to survive or may you already do! In this show, I dive into the topic of fake photographs and your business.

How do you get out there is a common question when it comes to starting a photography business. In this show, I expand on a topic with a few brainstorming ideas and concepts to get you started.

How Much Should Photographers Charge? How does a photographer figure out their pricing? I break down photography and what it takes to increase your prices. http://www.roshsillars.com/much-photographers-charge/

The photography business is always changing. In this podcast, I share my thoughts about the topic of the photography industry. Is it dying, is it dead? or is there hope?

In this episode of the Creative Marketing show I share some SEO insight. Should you take what Google says at face value.

You can learn from big brands. They leave clues with their actions. As a photographer, we need to consider how to leverage similar ideas which can benefit our business. Target has created a new brand called Good & Gather. This got me thinking about the smaller brands within our photography business brand.

We are in the hay day of photography and new opportunities in the visual industry. However, not everyone is exploring the new opportunities available to photographers. In this podcast, I share a few ideas to help get your wheels turning.

How do you know if you have a successful photography business? This is the last of my series on the combination business scale.

In this show, I talk about the five people you need to support your photography business. How do you select them and why do you need people to support your photography business.

In this show, we talk about earning photography sales. Sales is often a dirty word, however, if you want to be a professional photographer, then you must understand sales.

Processes help you improve your photography business in many ways. As photographers we think of processing our images, however, processes for our business expand well beyond Photoshop.

What is holding you back from starting or rebooting your photography business? Do you have a product or service which can support your photography business, what is stopping you?

I have a scale which I use to help me understand where a creative business is in their journey and what goals they need to focus on to take their business to the next scale level.

There are common mistakes which photographers make starting their business or running their longtime photography business.

A Creative Entrepreneur must have some skill sets to grow a business. I believe every successful photographer is a creative entrepreneur.

Social media is a big part of a photographers business. However, your social media needs to evolve. In this show, I ask what are you doing with your social media assets, how are you adjusting them and what are you going to do moving forward?

Working through my next moves in multimedia social media.

I share why I like Freelance, why it's important to be active in your creative community. I share what they really want from a freelancer and what to do when times are slow.

We often feel the market is too saturated with people trying to do the same work we do.

31 Days That Will Change Your Life is about a series of videos launching in May 2019 for photographers and the business of photography.

I share ways to create a more profitable creative business.

What Can Make Your Business More Valuable To Others?

Quarterly checkup. How's your business doing, I'm sharing my results.

What processes do you use to grow your business? In this show, I share some ideas about processes and how they can grow your creative business.

In this live video, I share some of my best social media insights and I announce my YouTube strategy which I will officially release April 5th that I call the YouTube Video Suggestion Ladder (VSL). The podcast is edited however, I'll share the strategy again in two weeks on both the channel and podcast.

It's important to develop multiple sources of income for your creative business. We explore some ideas which can help strengthen your business.

Pricing is a big topic for any business. In this video, I share pricing strategies which might make you rethink how you price your work, product or service. Share

How to educate your clients, should you? are there some best ways to approach educating your clients?

How To Get A Big Client There are many factors to consider when trying to land a big client. In this video, I share some of the key ideas you need to consider to attract the next client of your dreams.

What is your And?

How to get clients There are three way to get clients that I talk about in this show. All three have helped me get clients and I look forward to sharing more ideas in future episodes as I transition my podcast to this channel.

How To Grow A Business. Growing your business from a marketing perspective is important. Marketing is communication. If you can't communicate on many levels of your business, you may have trouble growing your business.

Social media truth and lies. Social can be a powerful tool for your business. However, there is also a disappointment in store for many. What are the truths and lies of social media? What do you need to be made aware of for your business? Is it a good idea to add social to your combination mix?

It's important to understand how to improve your sales. Not everyone feels they are cut out for sales, however, everyone is in sales at some level. If you want to grow your business, you need to understand sales. The understanding will help others sell your product and services too.

Do you understand your business core. What are you about? What is your business about? To understand your core skill, talent and offering is the foundation to developing innovative ideas.

Here are 5 marketing skills which are important to help you succeed and grow your business. Some might say you could pick one and do just fine, however, I think you need all five to do it right and make marketing work for you.

Success in 2019, what does it take to be successful in your business. How do you grow a company next year? In this show, I share insight for your growing a business and what to expect.

What happened in 2018 and how did I navigate through? The end of the year is an excellent time to review what is working and what is not working. This end of 2018 show is a good stepping stone to the 2019 kick off show, which will see some changes. I'm looking forward to supporting you in the next year.

We need to think about tactics for your business. Digital marketing strategies and tactics are always changing. It's good to review what you are doing to grow your business. In this live video, I share what have been doing in the previous year and what I'll do in 2019.

It's important to create multiple income sources for your business. It's important to know your core, but what can you add to your business model to make it recession proof or at least to get hit with big swings in the day to day business world.

What business tools are you using for success? What tools are you going to use in 2019. In this video, I share some of my tools and some of the tools I may get rid of in the new year

My guest Sean Adams shares how photographers and creative professionals can use LinkedIn to grow their business. LinkedIn has improved from the old days. There are more opportunities than ever. Are you taking advantage of them?

You can achieve your business goals. In this show, I share some insight on how to achieve your goals. Should you write goal lists? Do goals make you feel bad - what are the best practices of goal achieving?

Social Media Algorithms are a mystery to many people, yet, there are a few things which you can do or strive to help you succeed at growing an audience. In this live show, I share how you can satisfy the algorithms of your favorite platforms.

Is there too much competition? In this live show recording, I share ideas about how to spy on your competition and ways to separate yourself from the competition. There is more than one way to do it. We also had an excellent question and answer session about branding, being vulnerable, and separating yourself from the competition.

Fear stops many people from living their dream and starting a business. This week I share some ideas about how to overcome fear and what you can do to move forward.

How did I find my first customers for 4 different businesses? In this show, I share how I got my first customers. Some were online and some customers were earned offline. It's good to have a plan for both when trying to find new or your first customer.

Growing a creative business is hard. In this video, I share how I've done it multiple times. I share some stories related to what worked for me. I look forward to hearing your stories.

It's important to know what you want from your creative business and why you are in business. In this show, I share the 3 things you want to gain from a business which you work so hard to grow.

A positive cash flow is an important gage for your business success. How do you get there, and why is it important? This live video is about best practices which lead to a growing company. Tips and questions from the audience.

When it comes to marketing, we are entering what we can call a video first world. A video is the starting point for our marketing. If we start where we can create more content pointing us in the right direction, we'll find more success. Video is often the answer.