The Professional Creative

Are you ready to start the year off right? For this episode, we're joined again by Lisa Jacobs, author of Your Best Year, to walk you through annual planning for your creative business. Lisa and Bonnie both share their favorite way to dream big when planning out the year ahead, along with the most important elements to consider and include. We often hear that to build your business you have to understand yourself—but you need an annual plan to weather the high and low seasons of your business.

Read the shownotes and download your free Year at a Glance PDF: https://www.professionalcreative.com/blog/18

As we start a new year, it's the perfect time to focus on strategic planning in your business—which will go hand-in-hand with our next episode 18 on annual planning. In this episode, I'll take you through how we do strategic planning in our company, along with 5 things that worked for us and 5 things that didn't in 2022. Shownotes: https://www.professionalcreative.com/blog/17

In this episode we'll be discussing signature style: what it is, why it's important, and five ways you can further develop it. Be sure to download the freebie included with this episode in the show notes: One Year of Daily Art Prompts.

Download the prompts and view shownotes: https://www.professionalcreative.com/blog/16

In this episode, I'll be sharing some trends I've observed in creative entrepreneurship in 2022, and things we're leaning into in my business as we head into 2023. I hope you'll be inspired to look ahead and make some positive changes in your business in the coming year as well!

View the shownotes: https://www.professionalcreative.com/blog/15

A Simple Method for Managing Your To-Do List and Creative Energy with Lisa Jacobs

In this episode, we're welcoming back our Integrator, Lisa Jacobs as she shares a method from her Fast Track Toolkit. We all wear many hats and it's easy to get stuck in the daily scramble. As an entrepreneur, you have to create, innovate, connect, promote, learn, take on multiple roles, and ensure your business profits. Most people do ONE job—you do it all.

The method Lisa shares in this episode is the solution your business needs to organize the vast amount of projects, issues, and responsibilities pulling your attention in every direction! The OCN Method stands for Open, Closed, and New Business and Lisa will go over it in detail so you can manage your to-do list and creative energy to free up luxurious downtime.

Get the shownotes: https://www.professionalcreative.com/blog/14

Though we might not have had a name for it, we've all felt the daily scramble in our lives and businesses—frantically filling our time, figuring out what to do next. In this episode, you'll meet the Integrator for Team Bonnie, Lisa Jacobs. In this episode, she'll explain two key concepts that will help you change the way you work: the daily scramble and the exploding star. Join us for a conversation as we explore the impact of circling and the importance of setting a landmark to avoid the daily scramble.

Download today's organizational chart here: https://www.professionalcreative.com/blog/13

Meet the Mark Makers Mastermind: our biggest takeaways for 2022. In this episode, you'll hear from some of the most incredible and big-hearted entrepreneurs I have ever met—the members of my Mark Maker's Mastermind. During our recent intensive, I asked:

• What was one of the best habits in 2022 that has attributed to your success?
• What was time very well spent for you this year? What activity has given you the best return on your investment (ROI)?

Listen along as the Mark Makers share their biggest takeaways of the year, and download the free "Meet the Mark Makers" PDF to get to know them more in depth and read their biggest takeaways.

Shownotes: https://www.professionalcreative.com/blog/12

Behind the Scenes: Why I Started a Podcast. This episode brings you a very in-the-moment behind the scenes of creating this very podcast! If you're hoping to one day host your own podcast, I'm sharing what it took for me to get this out into the world and the steps I took to get the podcast launched. And even if you don't aspire to have your own podcast, this episode will still give you insight into attacking a big goal and getting it off the ground. Shownotes: https://bonniechristine.com/blog/11

Today's show notes + guide: https://professionalcreative.com/blog/10

We just wrapped up our fifth annual Immersion Live conference, and while it's all really fresh in our minds, I wanted to package it up for you and let you know all the different things that we did to make this event come alive. In this episode, I'll be diving into all the logistics that go into producing our annual online conference—from what it looked like in the beginning to what it looks like today, five years later. I'll take you through what goes into running a conference like this and even share the revenue and expenses for this year's conference so you can understand what all goes into running an event like this. Though an event like this can have many moving parts, it can actually be quite simple if you want it to be.