Creatives Making Money with Jamie Jensen

Jordan Gill, operations consultant and founder of Systems Saved Me, helps overworked one-woman shows become streamlined solopreneurs. Her jam is creating a cohesive operating system for managing your tasks, files and inbox. She’s been on podcasts like What Works and CEO Vibes sharing her love of replacing monthly retainers with one day virtual intensives. She currently lives in Dallas TX with her cavapoo Vivienne and collection of 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzles.

Listen to this episode to learn:

• How to embrace operations and systems as a creative business owner
• Why VIP Days, or Intensives, are the answer to your entrepreneurial burnout
• Jordan's top three tips to surviving (and thriving) during your launch

Learn more about Jordan at www.systemssavedme.com or Instagram at www.instagram.com/systemssavedme 

Creatives Making Money is here to help you level up in your life, finances, love, and health.

This is the therapy session you didn’t have to pay for.

Create like you mean it,

Jamie

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• Continue the conversation inside the Creatives Making Money community
• Connect with Jordan on her website at www.systemssavedme.com
• Connect with Jordan on Instagram at www.instagram.com/systemssavedme

Grace Hayden is a Shopify seller and educator with 15+ years of retail experience. Her expertise is in email marketing and creating irresistible promos that keep money flowing into her businesses. She's truly an e-commerce expert and is here to talk all about how you can take a product you love and make money selling it online.

• How Grace leveraged a single blog post to bring in consistent sales

• Why Shopify is the best ecommerce platform for small businesses who are looking to scale

• Grace’s favorite tips for selling successfully on Shopify

If you’d like to learn more about selling on Shopify, be sure to join Grace’s Shopify Cocktail Club Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ShopifyCocktailClub.

Creatives Making Money is here to help you level up in your life, finances, love, and health.

This is the therapy session you didn’t have to pay for.

Create like you mean it,

Jamie

• Subscribe to the podcast + leave a 5-star review here
• Continue the conversation inside the Creatives Making Money community
• Connect with Grace Hayden on her website at http://itsgracehayden.com
• Connect with Grace Hayden on her Instagram at http://instagram.com/thebalimarket
• Join Grace’s Shopify Cocktail Club Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ShopifyCocktailClub

Joel and Regis Arzu grew up in a rough neighborhood in the projects, in South Bronx, where the mindset of most was, “to dream big is to dream foolishly.” Well, they’ve debunked that way of thinking. It’s been roughly 10 years since they’ve left New York. Regis works in finance and lives in Colorado where he just purchased his third home, and Joel is a creative at a large advertising firm in Chicago. Both are entrepreneurs and have been working together on Pain To Progression, a podcast to teach minorities how to control money so it doesn’t control them.

• The trap of Instant Gratification versus Long-Term Financial Planning 
• Why your money mindset is the true key to financial (and life) success 
• Planning for retirement in the midst of an uncertain future

Listen to the Pain to Progression Podcast at https://www.paintoprogression.com/podcast, and check out Regis and Joel’s invention SinkArmor, a 100% biodegradable plastic to use as a sink guard when trimming hair or putting makeup on over the bathroom sink at https://www.sinkarmor.com/. Be sure to use code JAMIE20 to receive 20% off your order!

Creatives Making Money is here to help you level up in your life, finances, love, and health.

This is the therapy session you didn’t have to pay for.

Create like you mean it,

Jamie

• Subscribe to the podcast + leave a 5-star review here
• Continue the conversation inside the Creatives Making Money community
• Listen to the Pain to Progression podcast at https://www.paintoprogression.com/podcast
• Connect with Joel and Regis on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/pain2progression/
• Save your sink and sanity with SinkArmor at https://www.sinkarmor.com/. Be sure to use JAMIE20 to receive 20% off your purchase!

Rebecca Tracey is the head honcho at The Uncaged Life where she works with online business owners to get clear on their brand message, create packages that sell, and helps them learn what it actually takes to get and keep clients in this crazy online world (all while working from home with no pants on). Rebecca runs a free online community of over 14k solopreneurs. She started her business while living in a van and now lives in her dream town of Squamish BC surrounded by mountains, where she is truly living her Uncaged life.

• Common roadblocks when you’re starting and growing your business (and how to overcome them)
• The big mistakes new business owners make when starting out online
• What gets in the way of getting clients
• How to get clear on your message so people actually want to hire you
• Plus tons more!

Rebecca and her team are offering free coaching from September 28 - October 2 so you can get a taste of what it’s like inside Uncage Your Business. Head over to www.theuncagedlife.com/free-coaching to take advantage of that opportunity, and learn more about Uncage Your Business at www.theuncagedlife.com/uncageyourbusiness.

Creatives Making Money is here to help you level up in your life, finances, love, and health.

This is the therapy session you didn’t have to pay for.

Create like you mean it,
Jamie

• Subscribe to the podcast + leave a 5-star review here
• Continue the conversation inside the Creatives Making Money community
• Grab a Cash + Cashflow Chat with Jamie here
• Get free coaching from Rebecca + her team from Sept 28 - Oct 2 at www.theuncagedlife.com/free-coaching
• Learn more about Rebecca Tracey’s program Uncage Your Business at www.theuncagedlife.com/uncageyourbusiness

This week on the podcast we have my dear friend and previous client, Jo Tucker. Jo is a Post Traumatic Growth Guide and Reiki Master/Teacher with a focus on resolving the unprocessed trauma that dictates cycles of stuck. Through somatic and energetic approaches to trauma resolution, she works with clients to rewire their nervous systems to resolve perfectionism, procrastination, and shame so they can live their magic out into the world, now.

• Jo's personal journey with identifying + working through her own patterns
• The effect unresolved trauma can have on your business and creative pursuits
• How to identify + transform your own trauma responses

Connect with Jo Tucker on her website at https://jo-tucker.com/ and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jotuckercoach/

Creatives Making Money is here to help you level up in your life, finances, love, and health.

This is the therapy session you didn’t have to pay for.

Create like you mean it,

Jamie

• Subscribe to the podcast + leave a 5-star review here
• Continue the conversation inside the Creatives Making Money community
• Learn more about Create Your 6-Figure Copywriting Business here
• Connect with Jo Tucker on her website at https://jo-tucker.com/
• Connect with Jo Tucker on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jotuckercoach/

Are you a talented writer who’s aching to hit that six figure mark with a copywriting business?

Or maybe you’re just considering whether a copywriting business is the best path forward for you.

Well, either way, this episode will answer all of your questions!

If you’re wondering how I grew from 0 to six figures in less than 2 years as a copywriter, and how I work with other newer copywriters to help them do the same, I’m sharing it all in this episode.

Remember: opportunities for copywriters are EXPANDING tremendously as we move more and more digital and “online” as a society.

If you’re ready to hit that 6-figure mark with a copywriting business I’ve got good news for you!

Doors are now open for a special case study round of my program Create Your 6-Figure Copywriting Business. 

In it, you’ll learn and implement the agency-style approach that had me hitting 5 figure months just THREE months after going full-time in my business.

Click here for more details and to apply right now.

Create like you mean it,
Jamie

• Subscribe to the podcast + leave a 5-star review here
• Continue the conversation inside the Creatives Making Money community
• Learn more about Create Your 6-Figure Copywriting Business here.

Are you good with words but wondering how to make great money as a writer?

Maybe you studied creative writing or literature in school (as one of your majors anyway!), love diving into stories and the land of imagination, and care about things like pacing, syntax, and the oxford comma…

...But don’t want to spend your life doing a job you hate or simply settling for pennies.

Well, the goods news is you don’t have to! You don’t even need to be that good to make great money as a writer (I’m talking 6-figures plus).

In this episode, I’ll share the myriad of ways you can make money as a writer so you can take those word-smithing skills all the way to the bank!

The good news is that opportunities for writers are actually EXPANDING as we move more and more digital and “online” as a society.

But your first step is asking yourself how you want to make great money as a writer?

• (03:36) Maybe you have another thing you do to make money and writing is something you want to pursue creatively, but you don't necessarily want to pursue it as a revenue generating area of your life.

• (04:25):If you want to consider writing as a revenue generating area of your life, let's talk about options. 

  There’s work for hire and there’s “working it.” 
  Do you want to be a writer for hire or do you want to be your own brand and voice?

  Those are two different things. 

   

• (06:30): What is copywriting?  It's writing that is designed to help market and sell products, services, and offers. It's writing for businesses with the intention to sell.

   

• (08:17): The type of copywriting I specialize in happens at the consideration stage where someone is very close to buying and already in the buying decision phase.

   

• (09:11): That is typically known as direct response copywriting.

   

• (11:32):If you go down the path of blogging, it could take three to five years of consistent content creation to get to a place where you can make six figures a year.

   

• (13:08):I've chosen to have consistent revenue based on a skill that I can turn around to support and help people. And then on the other end of it, I have my creative writing.

   

• (14:00): So you decide what your risk tolerance is at different stages and creative writing is something that absolutely can make money for you. But, you want to be mindful about how you want to build that into your life in terms of money. 

   

• (15:46): There are absolutely authors that make money. There are some bestselling authors that just from book sales alone, make money. 

   

• (16:39): If you're a blogger and you build your own audience, you will get the opportunity to get paid and maybe get a book deal. You will get the opportunity to self-publish a book and make even more money off of self publishing. But again, is that going to be the highest earning potential you have with your blog and with your writing? 

   

• (18:23): The average fee a writer gets paid to ghostwrite a book for someone else is about $30,000.

   

• (20:47): There are some publications that pay a thousand dollars for a piece. But the going average is closer to 300 dollars for an article. And that's IF the publication even pays the writer, which oftentimes they don't.

   

• (21:42): With copywriting, you're in a position where you can charge a couple thousand dollars or more because of the level of value you're delivering for their business.

   

• (25:17): My first year copywriting full time, I had five figure months within three months and made $80,000. Then, I was making $160,000 the next year and it kept growing from there. So I will never say that copywriting is not the best, fastest, most efficient and rewarding way to make great money as a writer.

   

• (26:16): Is your desire to be a professional writer because of the lifestyle you think it can afford you? Like working from home, working alone, working in a coffee shop, having flexibility, being able to do projects that allow you to travel and explore the world and do cool things?

   

• (27:52): When you're considering all the different avenues where you can make great money as a writer, I would ask you to consider what is the lifestyle you really desire? And do you want your revenue to be attached to writing?

   

• (28:34): You can work from home, travel, work in a coffee shop, have that flexibility. 

Be sure to check back next week to learn the Six Pillars of a Six-Figure Copywriting Business, where I'll be walking you through all the different pieces that you need in place to have a copywriting business and hit six figures. I've worked with lots of copywriters over the years mentoring them in their business, so I'll be sharing my exact process next week!

If you’re a talented writer who’s already aching to hit that 6-figure mark with a copywriting business, I’ve got good news for you!

Doors are now open for a special case study round of my program Create Your 6-Figure Copywriting Business. 

In it, you’ll learn and implement the agency-style approach that had me hitting 5 figure months just THREE months after going full-time in my business.

Click here for more details and to apply right now.

Create like you mean it,
Jamie

• Subscribe to the podcast + leave a 5-star review here
• Continue the conversation inside the Creatives Making Money community
• Learn more about Create Your 6-Figure Copywriting Business here.

Today on the podcast we have actor-entrepreneur Ajarae Coleman. Ajarae is a working actress with dozens of network TV, film and commercial credits, including NCIS: NEW ORLEANS, I’M SORRY, SCANDAL, and 2 BROKE GIRLS to name a few. Ajarae founded ActingResourceGuru.com in 2012 to give actors practical steps to book more work, and take ownership of their careers. In September 2020, she is launching a brand new membership called The Table. The Table is for actors who crave an artistic life that goes beyond just booking gigs. They are ready to make a greater impact, which looks like building communities of collaborators, creating their own opportunities, and developing residual income streams. Ajarae believes that actors can play a huge role in bringing forth a reality where every being on the planet is safe and valued; this membership empowers actors to claim their seat at the table.

• What inspired Ajarae to create a resource database for actors looking to book more work
• How Ajarae prioritizes stillness + creativity in her schedule
• The creative exercise that helped her break through her blocks around receiving

Connect with Ajarae on her website at www.actingresourceguru.com and on Instagram at http://instagram.com/ajaraecoleman

Creatives Making Money is here to help you level up in your life, finances, love, and health.

This is the therapy session you didn’t have to pay for.

Create like you mean it,
Jamie

• Subscribe to the podcast + leave a 5-star review here
• Continue the conversation inside the Creatives Making Money community
• Grab a Cash + Cashflow Chat with Jamie here
• Connect with Ajarae Coleman on her website at www.actingresourceguru.com
• Connect with Ajarae Coleman on Instagram at http://instagram.com/ajaraecoleman

Laura Bartlett is the award winning founding Editor of House of Coco luxury travel magazine. Sold all over the world as well as in stores like Harrods and Selfridges, she built this business from the group up with zero investment. Laura is a larger than life example of failure breeding strength after going through a bankruptcy, failed company and facing rejection in front of millions of people on the BBC's Dragons Den. Laura is a #girboss with a passion for inspiring people to live their best lives.

• How Laura went from liquidating her company to launching a luxury travel magazine

• The story behind her appearance on BBC’s Dragons Den (and how she turned rejection into success)
• Why she launched a print magazine when everyone was jumping on the digital hype

Connect with Laura on her Instagram at @laurabartlett0 and check out the latest issue of House of Coco Magazine!

Creatives Making Money is here to help you level up in your life, finances, love, and health.

This is the therapy session you didn’t have to pay for.

Create like you mean it,
Jamie

• Subscribe to the podcast + leave a 5-star review here
• Continue the conversation inside the Creatives Making Money community
• Grab a Cash + Cashflow Chat with Jamie here
• Check out the House of Coco Magazine at https://houseofcoco.net/
• Connect with Laura Barlett on Instagram at https://instagram.com/laurabarlett0

This week I sat down with master coach and strategist Kristine Oller. Kristine guides clients through ground-breaking chapters of personal and professional growth… the big decisions, the tough conversations, and the significant shifts. Every month for twenty consecutive years she has led multiple mastermind groups, helping hundreds of multi-hyphenate creatives expand their careers and develop supplemental streams of income to fund their artistic pursuits. Author of the book Feeding Your Focus and host of the podcast Creating Cashflow, she is also a Golden Circle Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals. The three words that delight her the most are: “before and after.”

• The mindset stuff that comes up for creative types around business and money
• The courage to follow those nudges in life and let things unfold
• How stories can hold you back or propel you forward towards your wildest dreams and whatever is meant for you
• Why we need to continue to remember the power of “luck...”

Connect with Kristine on her website at https://kristineoller.com/ to find more information about her workshop Creating Cash When Time Are Tough and her course Creating Cashflow.

Creatives Making Money is here to help you level up in your life, finances, love, and health.

This is the therapy session you didn’t have to pay for.

Create like you mean it,
Jamie

• Subscribe to the podcast + leave a 5-star review here
• Continue the conversation inside the Creatives Making Money community
• Grab a Cash + Cashflow Chat with Jamie here
• Connect with Kristine Oller on her website at https://kristineoller.com/
• Connect with Kristine Oller on Instagram at https://instagram.com/kristineoller