Episode 42 - In this episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, I (Elke) am doing a solo episode on why you may be scared of sales and how you can overcome that fear. Being scared of sales might sound odd at first. Why would you be afraid of something you want? But being scared of sales is actually very common. Entrepreneurs are afraid of rejection if no one buys their products and also afraid of coming across as too “pushy” or “sales-y.” This mindset unfortunately hurts the chances of selling products and can keep people stuck. Today, I’ll unpack why this fear happens and what you can do about it so you can make more money! 

Points I’ll discuss include:

• What’s really behind the fear of sales
• Lies you tell yourself because of these fears
• What happens when you lie to yourself
• How to overcome the fear of rejection and stop being scared of sales

It’s so important to overcome the fear of sales because your mindset is the foundation for everything else in your business. The details of your business (e.g. how many products to make, what kinds of products to make, etc.) can all be answered. But you can’t handle the little stuff if you don’t fix the big stuff first. When you stop being scared of sales, you’ll have a solid foundation for everything else in your business!

To hear all my tips for overcoming the fear of sales, tune in to episode 42 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast!

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke

Love it? Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!

CONNECT WITH JEN & ELKE:

Join The Profit by Design Academy®

Official Website

Jen’s Instagram

Elke’s Instagram

Episode 41 - In this episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we’re discussing how you can make more sales on Zazzle with Zazzle Editors’ Picks. If you’re not familiar with Zazzle Editors’ Picks, its products featured on the Zazzle platform with a gold star next to them and the words “Editors’ Pick” under the title. These products stand out to customers and let them know that Zazzle approves them and recommends these as good products to buy. 

If your products are selected as Editors’ Picks, this can really help increase your sales! Today, we’ll share how the Editors’ Picks work, how you can get your product to receive one, and what the benefits are for you.

Key points we discuss include:

• What an Editors’ Pick is
• How you can get your product to receive an Editors’ Pick
• The benefits of your product receiving an Editors’ Pick

A little gold star can make a huge difference! The Editors’ Pick designation helps customers find and trust your products, AND it also helps increase your confidence as a designer! When you know that Zazzle likes your products, you know you’re headed in the right direction with your designs, and you can keep creating more and more products like that. All of this leads to you making the sales you deserve!

To hear all the ways you can increase your sales with Zazzle Editors’ Picks, tune in to episode 41 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast!

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke

Love it? Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!

CONNECT WITH JEN & ELKE:

Join The Profit by Design Academy®

Official Website

Jen’s Instagram

Elke’s Instagram

Episode 40 - In this episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we’re sharing our personal stories about opening our online businesses and the top 5 reasons you should start one too! If you’ve ever thought about starting your own online business, this episode is for you! While the prospect of owning your own business can feel exciting, it can also feel scary because it’s unknown. We want to show you that NOW is the time with the least amount of risk, the most amount of help, and the most amount of possibility for success in e-commerce. 

Key points we discuss include:

• Our stories of starting our businesses
• Points you should consider before starting an online business
• The reasons you need to start your own online business

Because of our businesses, we are living lives we never could have imagined. The same can be true for you. Starting an online business may provide a different future for you than you thought possible for yourself. It just might be what allows you to live your dream life! You just have to believe it’s possible.

To hear all the reasons why you need to start an online business, listen to episode 40 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke

Love it? Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!

CONNECT WITH JEN & ELKE:

Join The Profit by Design Academy®

Official Website

Jen’s Instagram

Elke’s Instagram

Episode 39 - In this episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we’re excited to have Audrey Jeanne Roberts joining us! Audrey Jeanne was one of the people we looked up to as a successful Zazzle designer when we first started on Zazzle. She is a Platinum Zazzle ProDesigner ($250,000+ in earnings) and is very close to becoming a Diamond ProDesigner ($500,000 in earnings). So she thought she knew all she needed to know about how to succeed on Zazzle. Professionally, Audrey Jeanne has gained national recognition for her elegant, vibrant watercolors and gouache that are often combined with original heart-touching sentiments. And today, she’s joining us to tell her story of how she overcame the COVID earnings slump and skyrocketed her sales on Zazzle.

Here are the key points of our interview that you will want to hear:

• Audrey Jeanne’s background and how she got started on Zazzle
• How the pandemic affected Audrey Jeanne’s sales --- yes even successful Zazzle designers can be caught off guard if their business is not set up properly ☹️
• How The Profit by Design Academy™ changed Audrey Jeanne’s business to be resilient to change and thrive on it

Audrey Jeanne encourages us that it’s never too late to learn something new. In fact, if you’re not consistently learning and evolving, you’re going to get left behind. The world is constantly changing. We can either let that scare us or excited us. Anyone can empower themselves by investing in their learning. 

To hear all of Audrey Jeanne’s story and learn how to overcome the 2020 COVID sales slump, listen to episode 39 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast. 

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke

Love it? Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!

CONNECT WITH JEN & ELKE:

Join The Profit by Design Academy®

Official Website

Jen’s Instagram

Elke’s Instagram

CONNECT WITH AUDREY JEANNE:

Audrey Jeanne’s Zazzle Store

Episode 38 - In this special episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we are excited to have one of our top student success stories, Christine Factora, joining us! When she first started on Zazzle, she only made $130 in two years. After she invested in our training, Christine’s sales increased dramatically. In 2020 (during the pandemic!), she sold over 1 million dollars-worth of Zazzle products! We are incredibly proud of Christine and excited that she is joining us to tell her story today. 

Here are the key points of our interview that you will want to hear:

• How she tried to make Zazzle work on her own
• What difference it made when she got our help to grow her Zazzle business
• Christine’s feelings about owning her own business
• How Christine balanced her full-time job and Zazzle business
• What freedoms her Zazzle business has given Christine

Christine’s success was possible because she wasn’t afraid to ask for help and invest in herself and growing her business. Asking for assistance can feel scary, but Christine has a great attitude about it. She says, “Just ask the question!” 

There’s nothing wrong with needing some guidance. It truly can make all the difference! 

Like a 1 million dollar in sales difference!

To hear all of Christine’s story and learn how to sell 1 million dollars-worth of Zazzle products in one year, listen to episode 38 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast. 

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke

Love it? Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!

CONNECT WITH JEN & ELKE:

Join The Profit by Design Academy®

Official Website

Jen’s Instagram

Elke’s Instagram

Join our upcoming 5 Day Scale Your Zazzle Business Challenge from April 12-18th! 

EPISODE RESOURCES:

The Profit by Design Academy™ Bootcamp

Episode 37 - It took me, Elke, several years to earn 6-figures consistently year after year, on the Zazzle platform. Zazzle is not a get rich quick scheme. In fact in our first year we, Jen and Elke, only made $90 each. It takes time to build a long term passive online business on Zazzle. Now that we have been teaching people for over 3 years, we are proud to share with you proof that our students are also making 5- and 6-figures on Zazzle using our 5 Strategies™ that we teach in our signature course. 

In this episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we’re on DAY 5 of our 5 Day Scale Your Zazzle Business Challenge sharing the successes of our students who believed in us even when there was no proof and still signed up for our training and coaching. 

This episode will inspire you to believe in yourself and encourage you to follow your dreams of owning a thriving passive income online business on the Zazzle platform.

Be sure to check out all the episodes, that’s episodes #33 through #37, for the complete 5 day challenge experience.

Some points we discuss include:

• 5- and 6-figure Zazzle success stories of our students who will inspire you to say...I can do this!
• What steps did these Zazzle success stories take to reach their dream earnings goals
• What is needed to achieve specific earnings goals on Zazzle

Since this episode was recorded live with participants in the challenge, you will also hear us answering questions and doing critiques. If you want to see what critiques we did or see the slides we used in the presentation, you can watch the replay, for a limited time, in our private FB community Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Facebook Community which is free to join.

To hear inspiring Zazzle success stories and what these Zazzle designers did to achieve their success, listen to episode 37 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast. 

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke

Love it? Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!

CONNECT WITH JEN & ELKE:

Join The Profit by Design Academy®

Official Website

Jen’s Instagram

Elke’s Instagram

EPISODE LINKS

The Profit by Design Academy Bootcamp™

Join The 5 Day Scale Your Zazzle Business Challenge to get access to the replay before April 23, 2021

Episode 36 - Isn’t it great if someone tells you what mistakes to avoid so you don’t have to waste time and be frustrated making the same mistakes on your own? In this episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we’re on DAY 4 of our 5 Day Scale Your Zazzle Business Challenge discussing the 3 mistakes, we recommend you avoid making when scaling your Zazzle business. 

We have made many mistakes in our Zazzle journey to success, but these 3 mistakes that we will share with you in this episode are crucial to avoid if you want to save yourself time and heartache.

Be sure to check out all the episodes, that’s episodes #33 through #37, for the complete 5 day challenge experience.

We are purposely avoiding telling you what the mistakes are because we want you to listen to the episode. Make sure there are no distractions when you listen and you have a notepad to write things down because you won’t want to miss any detail. 

Since this episode was recorded live with participants in the challenge, you will also hear us answering questions and doing critiques. If you want to see what critiques we did or see the slides we used in the presentation, you can watch the replay, for a limited time, in our private FB community Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Facebook Community which is free to join.Or join us live on the 5 day challenge if you are listening to this between April 12 to 16, 2021. The link to join is below.

To discover the 3 crucial mistakes to avoid when scaling your Zazzle business, listen to episode 36 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast. 

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke

Love it? Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!

CONNECT WITH JEN & ELKE:

Join The Profit by Design Academy®

Official Website

Jen’s Instagram

Elke’s Instagram

EPISODE LINKS

The Profit by Design Academy Bootcamp™

Join The 5 Day Scale Your Zazzle Business Challenge from April 12-16, 2021! 

Episode 35 - Another way to promote passively on Zazzle is to use the Zazzle collections feature. Many Zazzle designers either don’t use collections at all and others don’t know how to use them effectively to generate multiple sales from one customer.In this episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we’re on DAY 3 of our 5 Day Scale Your Zazzle Business Challenge discussing what to do to leverage Zazzle collections to make more sales. 

Be sure to check out all the episodes, that’s episodes #33 through #37, for the complete 5 day challenge experience.

Some points we discuss include:

• What is a collection
• What makes a collection an effective passive sales tool

Since this episode was recorded live with participants in the challenge, you will also hear us answering questions and doing critiques. If you want to see what critiques we did or see the slides we used in the presentation, you can watch the replay, for a limited time, in our private FB community Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Facebook Community which is free to join.

Or join us live on the 5 day challenge if you are listening to this between April 12 to 16, 2021. The link to join is below.

To discover what you need to do to use collections effectively to drive sales of your Zazzle products, listen to episode 35 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast. 

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke

Love it? Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!

CONNECT WITH JEN & ELKE:

Join The Profit by Design Academy®

Official Website

Jen’s Instagram

Elke’s Instagram

EPISODE LINKS

The Profit by Design Academy Bootcamp™

Join The 5 Day Scale Your Zazzle Business Challenge from April 12-16, 2021! 

Episode 34 - The easiest and free way to passively attract more customers to your Zazzle store and products is through online searches. In this episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we’re on DAY 2 of our 5 Day Scale Your Zazzle Business Challenge discussing how to add the correct keywords to your product title and tags before publishing into the Zazzle Marketplace. 

If you do this correctly you will maximize the sales opportunities of your Zazzle products.

The titles and tags of each of your Zazzle products are important because each product URL on Zazzle is a web page. That’s why SEO (search engine optimization) is crucial for searchability on the Zazzle marketplace and on Google.

Some points we discuss include:

• What you can do to optimize searchability (SEO) of your Zazzle products
• What are the guidelines for proper titles and tags of Zazzle products

Since this episode was recorded live with participants in the challenge, you will also hear us answering questions and doing critiques. 

If you want to see the critiques we did or see the slides we used in the presentation, you can watch the replay, for a limited time, in our private FB community Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Facebook Community which is free to join.

Or join us live on the 5 day challenge if you are listening to this between April 12 to 16, 2021. The link to join is below.

Be sure to check out all the episodes, that’s episodes #33 through #37, for the complete 5 day challenge experience.

To discover how to improve the SEO of your titles and tags of Zazzle products so that you can sell more on Zazzle, listen to episode 34 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast. 

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke

Love it? Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!

CONNECT WITH JEN & ELKE:

Join The Profit by Design Academy®

Official Website

Jen’s Instagram

Elke’s Instagram

EPISODE LINKS

The Profit by Design Academy Bootcamp™

Join The 5 Day Scale Your Zazzle Business Challenge from April 12-16, 2021! 

Episode 33 - Every successful business has a brand. No matter how small or new your business is, it needs a brand. A brand may start with a name and a logo but there is much more to branding. Plus, you can use your brand to generate sales effortlessly if done right. 

In this episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we’re on DAY 1 of our 5 Day Scale Your Zazzle Business Challenge discussing what to do to have bulletproof branding. 

Branding is key to a successful online Zazzle business. Be sure to check out all the episodes, that’s episodes #33 through #37, for the complete 5 day challenge experience.

If you want more sales, you need to have a bulletproof brand. Customers need to feel confident purchasing from your Zazzle store. They become confident when your store has a professional brand.

If you don’t have a professional brand, then you are losing out on sales and your chance of scaling your business to 6-figures and beyond..

The key points we discuss include:

• What is a brand
• How a brand can help you sell without selling
• How to effectively brand your Zazzle homepage

Since this episode was recorded live with participants in the challenge, you will also hear us answering questions and doing critiques. 

If you want to see the critiques we did or see the slides we used in the presentation, you can watch the replay, for a limited time, in our private Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Facebook Community which is free to join.

Or join us live on the 5 day challenge if you are listening to this between April 12 to 16, 2021. The link to join is below.

To discover what is required to #crushit with branding your Zazzle business for success, listen to episode 34 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast. 

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke

Love it? Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!

CONNECT WITH JEN & ELKE:

Join The Profit by Design Academy®

Official Website

Jen’s Instagram

Elke’s Instagram

EPISODE LINKS

The Profit by Design Academy Bootcamp™

Join The 5 Day Scale Your Zazzle Business Challenge from April 12-16, 2021!