Stuck on finding ways to make money as a creative business owner? In this episode I'll share 6 avenues for making money doing what you love!

Show notes: https://freelancetofulltimepodcast.com/84

She quit her job after just 4 months, and is now a full-time social media manager specializing in growing and scaling businesses on TikTok! In this episode I interview Brittany of SociallyHer, and you'll hear how she got to quit and do her passion full time, and how you too can grow a successful business on TikTok.

Show notes: https://freelancetofulltimepodcast.com/83

A few months ago I had an experience I didn’t think would happen to me so soon since my shirt design business is less than a year old - I discovered that someone had ripped off a very popular design of mine on Etsy and was profiting off of my work.

Then I discovered that there was more than one seller who had stolen my designs.

The saying goes “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” but there’s a line between making a similar design, and stealing it completely.

They made no attempt to create a similar version of the design, it was ripped off pixel by pixel, completely identical.

This of course is a violation of my intellectual property, and I had to go through Etsy legal to have the listing removed.

In this episode I’ll share what happened, how I found out my design was being ripped off, and the process of handling copyright infringement and how you can avoid getting your designs ripped off and also how you can prevent infringing upon someone else’s intellectual property since this can get you into legal trouble, and you might be doing it unknowingly.

I’m someone who’s been in a relationship for some time, and I was dating around long before meeting my boyfriend. While I was in the dating phase I noticed a lot of similarities between dating someone and being a business owner.

These parallel each other in an interesting way, and being an entrepreneur has given me a unique perspective about dating and relationships and how I navigate them.

In this episode I’ll share 5 ways navigating business is like navigating the dating scene.

Q4 is the 4th quarter, from September through December, a time many businesses are preparing for one of the biggest sales seasons of the year.

This is because we have back-to-school, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and of course, Christmas.

This means many money making opportunities even if you’re just getting started, but you have to be prepared for Q4 well ahead of time to see the most results.

Last Q4 I was busy learning the marketplace, and I did manage to make my first 1000 sales between September and December of 2021.

However, after that experience I realized I started preparing for the holiday season way too late.

I started my holiday prep back in November when I really should have started much earlier, in September.

Even though I did get a large number of orders from mid-November through December, I didn’t consider all of the early buyers who purchase gifts for Christmas in early November and even October and September.

I’m not going to make that mistake again this year, this time I’m getting ready for Q4 early and in this episode, I’m helping you do the same so that you can maximize your sales during this season.

Many people have a negative association with failure, especially in business.

You might have heard the saying “fail fast and fail forward” and wondered, “why would I want to fail at all, shouldn’t I try to do my best to avoid failure as much as possible?”

Losing money sounds bad, having a product flop and get no sales seems like a negative, but in all the instances where I tried something in my business that didn’t go so well, it led me down a better path that ultimately exceeded my goals and expectations.

That means failure is necessary to achieve success.

In this episode, I’m sharing 3 reasons failure is the key to success, along with examples of failures in my own business and how these failures eventually led to success.

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Are you currently feeling like you’re running on a hamster wheel trying to do everything in your business?

Do you feel like your business is running you more than you’re running it?

Are you always feeling like you’re catching up on work instead of staying ahead and being more relaxed?

Then this is the episode for you, because I’ll be talking about batching and how it’s kept me at minimum 3 whole months ahead of schedule without it taking a full 3 months of time to do so.

I don’t spend any more than a few hours a week on my business and on making content for this podcast, and that’s thanks to batching.

This means I’m not stressed out about what products I need to have on my store because I’ve already planned for them ahead of time.

This means I’m not going to run out of episodes because I wrote and recorded this very script 3 months ago (I’m recording in May), and by the time you hear this I will have content already written and scheduled for November.

That’s the power of batching, and as you know time is money, so by batching you will save time and generate more money in your business while reducing your workload and your stress levels.

Hey friend, today I wanted to talk about pricing for profit.

If you have a goal of growing your business so you can quit your 9-5, you need to have healthy profit margins because without them, you will either just break even or lose money which means you don’t have a business that’s generating more money than you’re putting into it, you just have an expensive hobby that costs you money which means you’ll never be able to quit.

You need to properly factor in your cost of goods, your labor, and other expenses like listing fees, transaction fees and ads.

Every business owner needs to know their numbers, think about all those contestants on shows like Shark Tank who know their yearly revenue, their cost of goods sold, their profit margins - you should know your business numbers that well, and after listening to this episode you’ll know how to calculate your profit margin, what a healthy profit margin is and how to adjust your prices if your profit margin is too small.

Hey friend, are you currently experiencing a plateau in your business growth?

Does it seem like you can’t scale past your current revenue or maybe you’re struggling to make any sales at all?

I have been where you are before many times, it can be so frustrating to not be able to make the sales you want.

So I thought back over the course of this decade that I’ve been making money online through my online businesses and came up with 4 of the biggest reasons I experienced a lack of growth in my business along with 4 strategies that helped me get past my struggle to make those orders and that helped me push past plateaus.

These are tips that will help you increase your sales, increase your revenue, and get closer to your goals.

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Today I’m posing this question - is passive income a myth?

Can you have a business model that is 100% passive?

I’ve talked about passive income many times on the podcast. I shared that last year I pivoted my business model with the goal of generating income in a more passive way than I was before.

It’s been a change for the better because I no longer experience burnout and all of the negative consequences of having a business that runs you, instead of you running it.

Many people tout passive income business models as a way to have a completely hands-off business that runs automatically and makes money for you all day long and in your sleep while you get to go on vacation.

There are business models that are indeed more passive than others, my new digital design business is more passive than my previous art business where I was making each original painting by hand.

But there are still some common misconceptions about passive income that I feel need to be clarified to avoid confusion and just straight up delusion.