The Creative Edition Podcast

Meet Isabella Sun, the Founder of Short Story. If you haven't heard of Short Story before, Short Story is a premier styling service for petite women (under 5ft 4in). Customers pay a $25 styling fee and get a personalized box of clothing. Customers can try everything on at home and return the pieces they don't want to buy.

Isabella shares with us what she was doing before she co-founded Short Story, how she got started, and challenges she's faced as an entrepreneur.

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Part 2 of our interview with Kim is live. She shares the obstacles she faced as a business owner, how she pivoted, and (re)launched Selkie after facing major challenges. Kim also shares some advice to any new entrepreneurs.

We are so thankful for Kim's vulnerability as she shares with us her experiences as a small business owner!

You can find Kim at: https://www.instagram.com/wedreamoficecream/

Selkie: https://www.instagram.com/selkie/

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Today we have Kimberly, the founder of Selkie on the podcast! If you’ve been listening to the podcast, you know we are huge fans of Selkie. Having Kim on the podcast is an actual dream – especially for Maddy.

Part 2 will be released on Thursday!

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The purpose of Creator Money Week is to set influencers/content creators up to be paid. We are on our final day of Creator Money Week and we’re discussing how to overcome your fears of asking to be paid.

If you’re a creator who is experiencing the fear of asking to be paid, here are 6 tips to help you overcome your fears:

  1. Recognize and accept your worth

Before you ask a brand for their budget, you have to take a step back and accept you are worth it. I’ve heard a lot of bloggers say, “I should be grateful that this brand wants to work with me”. While most of us are already grateful of the brand opportunities, you should also accept your worth.

If a brand is reaching out to you, they’ve probably recognized that you:

·      Have an established audience that you’ve built 

·      Or you create great content 

·      Or you come from a unique point of view or aesthetic.

Brands wouldn’t reach out to you unless they saw something valuable in you

  2.  Create the worst case scenario and resolve it 

One thing I feared when I first started asking for payment was that brands would get angry with me for asking. I also feared that brands would turn around and say they didn’t want to work with me again.

If you’re experiencing fear of asking to be paid, write out the worst case scenario and then resolve it. For example, if the brand says no and they get angry, you probably didn’t want to work with that type of brand partner anyway. Brand collaborations are collaborative – where both the blogger and the brand work together to produce content/deliverables that align with their goals and audiences.

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The purpose of Creator Money Week is to set influencers/content creators up to be paid. We’re spending the entire week talking about money as creators. And today, we’re talking about figuring out your income streams as a creator.

If you’ve been following along Creator Money Week and you’re asking how to make money online, this specific day is dedicated to you. 

 We’re breaking down revenue streams you can explore as a creator. It’s important to keep in mind that not every revenue stream makes sense for everybody. Some influencers will find affiliate links drives their income while others will find selling presets does it for them. 

 Each creator should research and evaluate each revenue stream to make sure it’s aligned with their brand and their audience. Just because one content creator decides to sell t-shirts doesn’t mean another influencer should do the same thing.

Here are 6 revenue streams to explore as a creator:

 1. Brand Partnerships

Brands hire content creators to produce short form/long-form videos, photos, and copy (written work) and post on their social channels. Brand partnerships can be both short term (one month long) and long term campaigns (3months-12months).

  2. Content Creation (no posting requirements for your personal channels)

Brands can also hire creators to shoot and produce content for the brands’ websites, emails, and own social channels. There are opportunities where influencers will shoot projects for brands but are not required to post in their personal social channels. As a creator, you could price per image or per video you produce for your brand partners.

Tune in for 4 more revenue streams to explore as an influencer!

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The purpose of Creator Money Week is to set influencers/content creators up to be paid. We’re spending the entire week talking about money as creators. And today, we’re talking about setting your budget as content creators. 

Budgeting is a life skill and will help you understand how much money is coming in and how much money is coming out (being spent). Plus, creating a budget helps you feel more in control and helps you see opportunities to help you achieve your financial goals. 

 When you create a budget as a creator, you start to take your finances and your business more seriously, and you set yourself up to be paid. We’ll walking through the 5 steps to setting your budget as a creator.

Step 1: How much money are you bringing in?

Step 2: How much money are you spending for content creation, your side-hustle, creative passions, etc.?

Step 3: How much net profit are you bringing in?

Step 4: Set aside 30-40% in taxes (& consult with a tax professional or CPA)

Step 5: Evaluate how much you need to set aside for health care, savings, and other financial goals

You might have heard the 50/30/20 rule – where 50% if your income goes to your necessities (groceries, housing, insurance, childcare, etc.), 30% for wants (gym membership, getting your hair done, entertainment, etc.), and 20% for savings and paying down debt. But it’s important that you do the work to understand where your financial health and well-being is at.

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We are so excited to introduce Creator Money Week (Monday November 1st-Friday November 5th)! We are releasing a podcast episode, email, and publishing an Instagram post every day this week for Creator The purpose of Creator Money Week is to set influencers/content creators up to be paid. We’re spending the entire week talking about money as creators. Today, we’re going to be focusing on your financial goals as an influencer.

 But before we jump into Creator Money Week, let’s do our question of the day:

“When was the first time you set a financial goal for your Instagram/blog side-hustle?

  Who should set financial goals?

Whether you’re a new-ish influencer who just started their TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube, or you’re an established influencer who has been making money on the side of their full-time jobs for the last few years, you should set financial goals.

If you decided that content creation is something you want to pursue seriously or explore more than a hobby, we’d recommend setting financial goals.

Why is it important to set financial goals as a content creator?

 Defining your goals allows you to visualize and lay out a plan to achieve it. Plus, laying out your goals allows you measure and track your progress. If you want to make money as a creator, but never have defined your monetary idea of success, you might be unhappy no matter how much money you make.

Even if you made $10,000, you might feel like you aren’t doing enough or you need to make more money (even though $10,000 is quite a bit of money in my perspective).

Tune in to listen to Emma and Maddy's answers and tips on setting financial goals.

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We are so excited to introduce Creator Money Week (Monday November 1st-Friday November 5th)! We’ll be releasing a podcast episode, email, and publishing an Instagram post every day this week for Creator The purpose of Creator Money Week is to set influencers/content creators up to be paid. We’re spending the entire week talking about money as creators.

 But before we jump into Creator Money Week, let’s do our question of the day:

“What is your relationship with money?
Now it’s your turn to reflect on your relationship with money. 

How you feel about money is your starting point in setting yourself up to be paid in your career – especially for content creators and influencers who want to start making money. 

 If you are thinking about your bias or attitudes towards money for the first time, here are questions to ask yourself:

1.     How was money discussed growing up in your household? Point of stress? Or maybe money was a tool for fun and leisure?

2.     Do you think money is evil? 

3.     Do you think money is the path to freedom? 

4.     Are you choosing to live with a scarcity mindset? (Obsessing over the lack of something)

5.     Or are you choosing to live with an abundant mindset? (There is plenty out there for everybody)

6.     Do you feel uncomfortable talking about money with your friends, partner, or family?

7.     Do you feel like you can achieve your financial goals? Savings goals? Paying down debt?

Tune in for Maddy and Emma's experiences growing up with money, tips on turning around your negative financial narrative, and more!

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We are so excited to introduce Creator Money Week happening Week One of November.  The purpose of Creator Money Week is to set influencers/content creators up to be paid. We’re spending the entire week talking about money as creators.

So what does it mean to set yourself up to be paid as content creator?

It means…

1.     You’ve evaluated and are aware of your relationship with money

2.     You’ve set clear financial goals and defined why you want to meet those goals

3.     You’ve set your budget as a creator 

4.     You’ve selected your revenue streams

5.     You’re asking to be paid 

For 5 days, we’re going in depth and opening the conversation about all these things. The truth is, we can set ourselves up to be paid as content creators. A lot of aspiring creators want to be paid for producing content online – no matter what their platforms are. But there are many creators who have no idea where to start. We don’t know how to ask to be paid or how creators make money online.

 Sometimes there might even be conscious or unconscious mental roadblocks in our way. So, we hope this week can drive conversations of self-reflection, discovery, and confidence.  

 Save the date for Monday November 1st-Friday November 5th.

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Today, we’ll be discussing 4 reasons why we might fail to meet our goals as creators. People can be really scared of failure but we want to talk about failure today because failure a great learning opportunity. When we fail to meet a goal, we get to ask and figure out why we didn’t meet it.

 Reason 1: We focus on (what we believe to be) problems instead of our actual goals.

Instead of actually being focused on our goals, we focus on the reasons why can’t achieve or reach our goals. We focus on the barriers and we laser in on the problems like:

·      “I don’t have enough time to create content or engage with my audience.”

·      “The Instagram algorithm keeps changing and I don’t know what to do.”

·      “How do I compete when the influencer industry being overly saturated?”

Reason 2: We haven’t defined what success means to us.

Success to everyone is defined differently. Some people define success as financial freedom, others define it as building a following on Instagram. You’ll find people setting their standards of success around their habits, routines, skills, and expertise.

 People feel like they fail their goals when they haven’t fully defined what it means to be successful. 

You can set a goal that says, “I want 100,000 followers in a year”. 

·      However, is success just the following number? 

·      Or is success something else beyond that milestone? 

·      What will hitting that following number do for your brand and business?

Tune into the rest of the reasons!
 
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