The Well-Paid Creative

About this podcast

Running a profitable creative business doesn't have to mean a constant hustle or the choice between paying your bills and loving what you do. Discover the best methods to attract quality clients and charge what you're worth so you can create portfolio-worthy work you love while avoiding burnout. For access to free resources, live trainings and a community of creative pros just like you visit wellpaidcreative.com

The Well-Paid Creative

Episodes

2021
How to Change Your Mindset and Build a Successful Business as an Introvert
Yes it's possible to run a successful business if you're an introvert. In fact, our guest on this episode, Jesse Martin, talks about how you can not only work with your introverted tendencies but turn them into one of your superpowers. Jesse also shares the tips from his story on how to become a successful business owner as an introvert. Listen in to learn how to charge your worth with your business without letting your insecurities get in the way. Full show notes at http://wellpaidcreative.com/19
March 3, 2021
33 min
Aiming for 92% and Reaping the Rewards in Your Creative Business
This is the chapter of the book that started it all - my rant on why the "Just ship it" mentality had destroyed my own industry. It went on to spark the idea that some creatives are better than others - and the search for WHY they were different started. In this episode I'm reading a chapter from "Secret Weapon: Attract the best clients, charge what you're worth and fall in love with your work again." Full show notes at http://wellpaidcreative.com/18
February 24, 2021
14 min
How to Delight Clients by Being Invested in the Outcome of Projects
What separates a hired gun from a Secret Weapon? The biggest difference is that a Secret Weapon is invested in the outcome of their client's projects. And with that investment comes trust, better relationships, increased revenue and raving testimonials from client's who love working with you. In this week's episode we're reading a chapter from "Secret Weapon: Attract the best clients, charge what you're worth and fall in love with your work again." and we see if it still holds up one year later. Spoiler alert: it does :)
February 17, 2021
32 min
Find Your Freedom with the 3-Day Work Week with Cailen Ascher
In this episode we're chatting with Cailen Ascher, who shares how to have a schedule that allows you to leverage your skills and schedule and have your own version of a 3 Day work week (say what?) Full show notes can be found at: http://wellpaidcreative.com/16
February 10, 2021
28 min
Building a Referral Engine for Your Creative Business
Did you know you can grow your creative business completely through referrals? It's totally possible! For years, my business was completely referral based. I didn't do any advertising and I didn't do a lot of marketing. I was getting all my new clients from my existing clients. But it wasn't by accident - I created a referral engine in my business that kept chugging along day after day. For compete show notes and links head to: http://wellpaidcreative.com/15
February 3, 2021
29 min
How to Start and Scale a Niche Creative Business with Andy Cabasso
In this interview with Andy Cabasso, we talk about how he built a niched-down, productized creative business so good he ended up selling it to start another! Find the full show notes at http://wellpaidcreative.com/14
January 27, 2021
30 min
How Resilient is Your Creative Business?
Would your business survive an unthinkable event? In this episode I'm going to share what I discovered in 2020 when the unthinkable happened to me and how my business not only survived, but actually came out stronger and in a better place than before.
January 20, 2021
25 min
Welcome to the Well-Paid Creative Podcast
2020 was a doozy. I know it hit everybody differently and we all had to deal with our own set of unique challenges. I wanted to give an update in this episode about just what happened to me and why I fell off the radar for several months plus what's happening in 2021 and what we can expect moving forward from the Well-Paid Creative podcast. For complete show notes and links visit wellpaidcreative.com/12
January 13, 2021
11 min
2020
Why that discovery call didn’t become a client and how you can fix it for the next one.
Another prospect ask you to send them a proposal? Ouch. If you’re struggling with turning your discovery calls into paying clients for your creative business then there are a few things that you can tweak to start seeing a higher signing rate. I made these mistakes time and time again and so I want to make sure you’re not making them too. Check out the four reasons that yoru discovery calls may have been falling flat and how you can make sure that the next one is crazy successful.
March 11, 2020
17 min
Three Tips to Supercharge Your Discovery Calls
Ever go into a discovery call with sweaty palms, stammering voice and the feeling you've made a big mistake? We all know discovery (or sales) calls are a necessary thing to grow our creative business - but that doesn't make it any less scary! Take a watch for the three biggest tips I can give you that will help you get over your fear of discovery calls and how you can make sure you're seen as the expert you are - while also increasing your conversion rates!
March 4, 2020
17 min
The BEST Technique for Dealing With Difficult Clients in Your Business so You Can Get Back to Your
Having one of THOSE days with your clients? Feel like you need to reset and get back on track after dealing with a difficult client? This week's episode is all about the technique I use to get myself back on track so that a bad 20 mins doesn't turn into a bad day and ruin my productivity.
March 3, 2020
17 min
The Compelling Way to Attract More Clients to Your Web Design Business
You’ve probably heard of using storytelling in your marketing - but how do you do that when you’re trying to attract new clients to your web design business? In this week’s episode I go over the 2 main rules of storytelling and how you can avoid the mistakes I made when I first started using it. Using stories is such a natural way to express yourself and increase the know, like, trust factor of your brand - doing it right will have soon to be clients loving you and wanting to work with you even
February 5, 2020
11 min
What I would do today to get web design clients if I was first starting out
This week's episode is inspired by a question I got in my DMs from Megan - what would I do to get clients if I had to start all over again? If you're struggling to get clients in your web design business I definitely recommend you check this out - you might save yourself some time and headache. I know I wish I had known this when I first started out!
January 29, 2020
15 min
Leverage these two things to get more hours in your day and avoid burnout in your business.
As web designers and service providers we don't have a lot of resources to leverage - so what we DO have, we need to know how to get the most out of! In this week's episode I talk about how you can leverage the two most important resources any web designer has - your time and your energy. Get some great time management tips and a new way way of looking at how you refill and keep your energy stores topped up so you can avoid burnout and never feel as though you're 'running on empty'
January 23, 2020
16 min
How to stop the cycle of undercharging in your web design business
I undercharged for years in my web design business - and it left me on a constant hamster wheel of playing catch up. But when I switched my focus to making sure I was charging enough to not only break even - but to be profitable, everything changed. In this week's episode I talk about how you can stop this cycle of underearning by going through a process to determine exactly what you need to charge for every project moving forward.
January 15, 2020
16 min
Increase the ROI on your web design business investments with these four guidelines
Looking to make the right investment decisions for your web design business? Wondering if you'll get a high ROI from the investments you do make? Whether it's a new course, program, tool or software - we want to make sure you're getting your money (and time) worth out of it. In this week's episode we'll go over the four guidelines I use to guide my decision making process when it comes to investing and how it helps me make the best decisions, guaranteeing a higher ROI for my business.
January 8, 2020
21 min
Planning Your 2020 Business Goals - Avoid These 3 Mistakes I Made in Years Past
Tired of constantly setting goals and never hitting them? Or even worse, not even coming close? In this week’s episode of the Secret Weapon Diaries I go into the three big mistakes I’ve made with goal planning in the past and how you can avoid them moving forward. Once I stopped making those mistakes amazing things started happening in my web design business and you can see the same calibre of results in yours too!
January 4, 2020
13 min
2019
How to magnetically attract the perfect clients to your creative business.
In this week's episode of the podcast we talk about how you can magnetically attract clients to your creative business with some simple shifts and consistent application of some very powerful techniques.
December 19, 2019
17 min
Grow your creative business exponentially by overcoming these three tricky mindset patterns
In this premiere episode of The Secret Weapon Diaries I talk about the three mindset patterns that I’ve dealt with time and time again in my creative business and how you can overcome them to see growth in yours! The Secret Weapon Diaries is a weekly video show and podcast that helps creatives attract the best clients, charge what they’re worth and fall in love with their work again.
December 11, 2019
13 min
How sitting on my floor crying led me to publishing the Secret Weapon book
Gabrielle talks about the pivotal moment 4 years ago that led to her transforming her business and the eventual writing of her book - Secret Weapon. It all comes down to being brutally honest.
November 29, 2019
9 min

The Well-Paid Creative

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The Well-Paid Creative

Episodes

How to Change Your Mindset and Build a Successful Business as an Introvert

Aiming for 92% and Reaping the Rewards in Your Creative Business

How to Delight Clients by Being Invested in the Outcome of Projects

Find Your Freedom with the 3-Day Work Week with Cailen Ascher

Building a Referral Engine for Your Creative Business

How to Start and Scale a Niche Creative Business with Andy Cabasso

How Resilient is Your Creative Business?

Welcome to the Well-Paid Creative Podcast

Why that discovery call didn’t become a client and how you can fix it for the next one.

Three Tips to Supercharge Your Discovery Calls

The BEST Technique for Dealing With Difficult Clients in Your Business so You Can Get Back to Your

The Compelling Way to Attract More Clients to Your Web Design Business

What I would do today to get web design clients if I was first starting out

Leverage these two things to get more hours in your day and avoid burnout in your business.

How to stop the cycle of undercharging in your web design business

Increase the ROI on your web design business investments with these four guidelines

Planning Your 2020 Business Goals - Avoid These 3 Mistakes I Made in Years Past

How to magnetically attract the perfect clients to your creative business.

Grow your creative business exponentially by overcoming these three tricky mindset patterns

How sitting on my floor crying led me to publishing the Secret Weapon book