Joyful Selling for Creative Professionals

Ep. 43: It’s Another Joyful Selling Success Panel

I'm taking an extended break from podcasting to pursue a different direction in my marketing which involves a deeper level of community and connection for myself and YOU whether you're a Joyful Seller or in the wider online Indie Roller community.

If you'd like to know more, join my mailing list HERE and you'll be the first to know all the exciting deets and once we're up and running receive invitations to join in the creative selling fun.

Until then, you have 43 incredible episodes to dive into at anytime you require some inspo with your marketing and selling plus today's very special final episode.

Our success panel of 3 Joyful Selling for Creative Professional program members includes a small batch skincare and soap maker, a designer/maker of vegan accessories and a lino cut artist.

We dive into the specifics of the thought work that has made an incredible difference to all of their businesses with actionable ways they are creating more cash.

***ENROLMENT IS OPEN***

Join us inside the Joyful Selling for Creative Professionals program between 7th and 13th June 2023.

At 10am on Wednesday 7th I'll be holding my signature workshop teaching our process and answering any question you have. If you miss the live, you'll be able to watch the replay on the Indie Roller website for 7 days.

Find out more HERE.

Ep. 42: The Simple Selling Cycle

I know you feel overwhelmed quite a bit and part of that is because of all the creativity that's bursting through your veins which you want to release to the world. How amazing!

Yet, if you want to run a sustainable business that creates customers and sales then please channel some of this awesome creative energy into the other areas that you might be labelling 'boring'.

Today I remind you of the Joyful Selling basics because anchoring into these 3 stages like a wonderful cycle will support you to build a balanced business that is supported by your unique creative flair.

Plus, a special announcement on today's episode!

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Ep. 41: Instagram Audit

In today’s episode I offer a 3 step process to audit your Instagram content over the past 7 or 30 days.

The steps:

1, Quantity

2, Quality

3, Expectation

Once audited you will have a series of specific actionable tasks to get on with to work towards creating the revenue you want to create with your social media marketing.

You can utilise these steps as an end of the month evaluation process that helps you decide what to do differently next month.

Pausing to reflect with an effective framework like this will help guide your actions as a creative professional who sells their work.

Enjoy!

***OPEN ENROLMENT IS COMING***

Join us inside the Joyful Selling for Creative Professionals program between 7th and 13th June 2023. At 10am on Wednesday 7th I'll be holding my signature workshop teaching our process and answering any question you have. Sign up for the free workshop on my email list HERE.

Ep. 40: The Number One Way to Increase Sales

Today we focus on selling.

I share with you an overarching mindset shift that will impact the words you write and the visuals you share that will hugely improve your ability to sell your work.

Rather than asking yourself ‘what do I need to do?’ or saying to yourself ‘I don’t know what to do’ you get the opportunity to ask yourself ‘What do THEY need right now?’

The trick is to redirect your brain away from YOU and over to THEM.

THEM being your audience and your customers.

I walk you through 10 mega useful prompts:

1, What do they need to hear today so that making their purchase is obvious?

2, What don’t they know about my best selling product?

3, I wonder if they’re worried about when the product will arrive, I’m going to walk them through exactly what happens after they’ve pressed the buy button.

4, They might not realise how easy it is to style/wear/put up/

5, Do they know this is what I actually sell and that it’s available right now?

6, Some of them might prefer to buy from me in person so I’m going to let them know where I’ll be selling at in-person events.

7, I’m going to let them know how they can customise/personalise their products today.

8, They might be finding it difficult to pick a colour so today I’m going to talk through the colour options and describe the shades and what they work well with.

9, Sizing is a tough one online so I’m going to help them visualise the sizes in the most useful way.

10, I think some of my people are _______-loveres - I’m going to talk directly to them today to show them everything I have that features __________.

Enjoy serving your people to an impeccable standard and see the sales flow in.

***OPEN ENROLMENT IS COMING***

Join us inside the Joyful Selling for Creative Professionals program between 7th and 13th June 2023. At 10am on Wednesday 7th I'll be holding my signature workshop teaching our process and answering any question you have. Sign up for the free workshop on my email list HERE.

Ep. 39: Movement May with Sam Bratby

In May, Joyful Selling member, artist and dance instructor, Sam Bratby is inviting us Rollers into her Kitchen Dance Club on Instagram to learn a series of micro-movements to boost up with whilst we work.

On today’s episode we decide to record one of our meetings on Zoom as we decide how to approach our social media collaboration, why it’s important to both of us and how to make it logistically work on social media.

If you enjoy a peek behind the scenes of creative business life and collaboration you’ll enjoy being a fly on the wall for this one.

Ep. 38: Tangled Thoughts

I know what it feels like to wear a lot of hats in creative entrepreneurship and feel like the head that’s wearing the hat has too much in it. Most of my members join us with a flavour of this happening so I help them empty it all out for focus and clarity.

You’ve probably heard of journaling and maybe even Thought Downloading which is the term coined by the coaching school I trained at.

Basically, it’s writing down the thoughts in your head as a way of releasing them from your brain and giving them some space and light to be seen and dealt with on purpose.

As perfectionists and/or people pleasers we can get stuck in our heads about getting the words out of our heads so today’s episode is going to show you there is no perfect way of doing it whilst offering useful guidelines to pick and choose from.

You’ll learn:

1, Thoughts are not facts. They are optional sentences where you are trying to make meaning of your life and keep yourself safe.

2, Writing down thoughts bring them more into your awareness so you can consciously choose or create the ones you want to take direction from.

3, You don’t have to act on every thought in your head.

4, Being in conversation with the thoughts in your head via writing on the page is how you can change your relationship with conditioned beliefs that don’t serve you in the here and now.

WANNA EXPERIENCE COACHING WITH ME?

I'm running a free group coaching session to my email list in May - you're not on screen and can ask Qs anonymously too in the Q&A box. Sign up HERE and you'll be the first to know when it's happening. I don't offer replays for these to create the most comfortable environment as possible for people who haven't experienced coaching before.

Ep. 37: What are you making your numbers mean?

What type of relationship do you currently have with the numbers in your business?

The two main groups of numbers are your sales and revenue figures and your social media and selling platform numbers.

What thoughts are you having right now when you think about these sets of numbers in your business and how do this thoughts make you feel?

What I’ve noticed is that so many of us humans have a dysfunctional relationship with the numbers because of how we relate to them.

In this episode I walk through the 3 phases of dysfunction:

1, Head in the sand phase.

2, Disappointed and discouraged phase.

3, Frustrated and confused phase.

Then you will learn how to ask different questions about the data in your business so you can move through these phases and into a more empowered role.

WANNA EXPERIENCE COACHING WITH ME?

I'm running a free group coaching session to my email list in May - you're not on screen and can ask Qs anonymously too in the Q&A box. Sign up HERE and you'll be the first to know when it's happening. I don't offer replays for these to create the most comfortable environment as possible for people who haven't experienced coaching before.

Ep. 36: Evaluate like eating a slice of pizza

If you sometimes think you don’t know what you’re doing or you think that nothing is working in your marketing and selling then I have a simple business tool for you today.

Now, when I say ‘simple’ it’s because it’s straight-forward with 3 steps to follow yet I’ve found creative professionals don’t do it because it may feel tedious.

Yet it’s this 60 minutes of tedious work once a month that can show you that you DO know what you’re doing and what IS working so you can do more of it.

The business tool is: evaluation.

Doesn’t sound all that fun does it!

So in today’s new episode of the #JoyfulSelling podcast I offer it to you in a jazzier way which is thinking about it like a pizza party.

A monthly pizza party in your creative business where you get to divide up the big pie of 2023 into separate monthly slices to make it more digestible.

Rather than letting each month roll on without really being sure where the money is coming from and letting stories about not having enough time and people not buying right now be the reason you’re not creating the cash you want - you get to take responsibility for it instead.

Taking responsibility for creating the sales is where you want to be, trust me.

It means that changing your current result is within your power which means the actions you take matter.

And all that action can easily be forgotten or misremembered over time so writing it down helps you know what you’re doing so you can make necessary tweaks.

WANNA EXPERIENCE COACHING WITH ME?

I'm running a free group coaching session to my email list in May - you're not on screen and can ask Qs anonymously too in the Q&A box. Sign up HERE and you'll be the first to know when it's happening. I don't offer replays for these to create the most comfortable environment as possible for people who haven't experienced coaching before.

Ep. 35: How to stop thinking it’s a fluke

Are you acknowledging the actions you’re taking and celebrating all the wins in your business?

Probably not, because we’re not taught how to effectively do this and why it’s so important.

In today’s episode I share why withholding acknowledgement from yourself or waiting to/forgetting to celebrate is fuelling the reasons you think you’re not a proper business owner.

What you will discover:

• Why setting a revenue goal gives you the opportunity to celebrate.
• 3 ways to acknowledge what you’re doing to create a culture of celebration.
• Generating the emotion of celebration to fuel action taking.
• Understanding you’re the person that created success and you can do it again.

Ep. 34: The Certainty Switch

I've been thinking a lot recently about how we break free from our default binary thinking when marketing and selling. 

Binary thinking helps us feel a sense of certainty because there are only two options: on/off. 

Yet it restricts our thinking and doesn’t allow space for our true creative selves.

What you will discover:

• How to give yourself more freedom in your marketing and selling
• What to do if you’re worried about too many ideas and not enough time
• Two simple questions to spark your creativity when making money

 

Enrolment is currently closed.

The Joyful Selling for Creative Professionals Lifetime Program will up for new members again from 7th to 13th June 2023.

Ensure you are on our mailing list HERE so you receive all the deets you need to know to join us with ease and increase your sales in 2023.

Ep. 33: Creating Time

This is my first episode about time so I’m taking us on a whistle-stop tour from one of my regular thoughts in 2014 whilst running my subscription box ‘I don’t have enough time’ to a thought that came to me last week when doing my VAT ‘I’ve created time.’

It’s been a bumpy ride of resistance and judgement to get to where I am now AND it’s all been so worth it so I can teach and coach on this topic to help you transform your relationship with time for good.

The bulk of today’s episode is sharing my journey with time blocking my calendar.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

1, Easing judgement is a useful first step.

2, Capture the magic of ideas in the moment and then develop them in allotted time slots.

3, Find your way through flexibility and experimentation.

4, How to be discerning with your tasks to create time.

5, Redefine what freedom means to you.

 

Enrolment is currently closed.

The Joyful Selling for Creative Professionals Lifetime Program will up for new members again from 7th to 13th June 2023.

Ensure you are on our mailing list HERE so you receive all the deets you need to know to join us with ease and increase your sales in 2023.

Ep. 32: Joyful Selling Success Panel 3

During open enrolment each quarter I record one of our most popular episodes which is the Joyful Selling Success Panel.

On the panel today are 3 members of our lifetime program:

Helen from Badger & Bobbins who teaches in-person sewing workshops in Sheffield. Helen shares how she has tripled her revenue in 6 months, sold out her February dressmaking course in December and self-coached when she made a mistake in her business that back in the day she would have spiralled from.

Kim from the Grunge Monkey, a fun and playful fashion label that is 10 years old this year. Kim shares how she allows space for her emotions and self-coaches to tend to her vulnerability around external validation and rejection. She leans on her Business Belief Plan to show herself she doesn't need permission from the outside world to be an artist.

Claire from Shine, a shop in Sale, Greater Manchester that is full of treats. Claire shares how she is proud to be herself in her marketing and selling and how that helped her sell 75 tickets to her Christmas event when the goal was 50. She's embracing different parts of her personality and has realised that different energies are required for different aspects of the job from feeling focused to sit down at the computer to feeling excited when recording reels.

A huge thank you to all three of our brilliant members who are actively working one sign overwhelm, enjoying selling and increasing their sales.

 

Enrolment is OPEN!

The Joyful Selling for Creative Professionals Lifetime Program is open for new members until 6pm on Monday 13th March 2023.

Enrol HERE.