Working Without Pants - Creative Entrepreneurship

Sometimes we learn more from our failures than our successes. In this episode Marcus Blankenship takes us through his experience building up a successful agency and then experiencing it fail and fall apart. 

Marcus's lessons are invaluable to any creative individual, especially those building up an agency. Many of the mistakes that he points out are the exact same mistakes I made when building up my agency.

Marcus has now changed direction with his career and acts as a business advisor and coach to other agencies helping them on their path to building an agency that works. 

This is a must listen for any creative individual who is considering expanding beyond themselves and building a team. 

This episode is jam packed with insights and wisdoms from one man's journey on building up a successful consulting career. 

Kai Davis has evolved his career time and time again over the past several years, each time growing to a better, higher value offering. On his journey he has learned some invaluable insights on how to build up a successful consulting career.

Currently Kai's core offering is focused around blogging and podcast outreach as a productized service and he is doing phenomenal with it.

Give this episode a listen as it is jam packed with useful information!

Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant and writer. After leaving his job at Ecko a few years back, Brian went out on his own as a freelance marketing consultant.

In this episode he shares his story of how he got started, landed his first clients, and built his business up to the point where it is today.

Brian is also a master of PR, guest blogging and content syndication. In this episode we talk in detail about how he has landed writing opportunities at Inc, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, The Next Web and much more.

I came across Devon recently based on a blog he wrote How to explain the paid discovery process to your web design prospects. 

The article intreigued me because I had often hit these situations with large projects where the scope was just unclear. I had heard about charging for the discovery process before, but hadn't tried it out too much.

After reading Devon's article, I charged for my first discovery process and it was an great outcome for both the client and myself.

In this article, we dive more into discussion around charging for the paid discovery as well as a bit of background on Devon and how he built up his agency Enginate.

There is a lot of value in this episode so I know you are going to get a lot of out it!

Nathan Powell has been working in the design industry for quite some time. In this episode he shares with us his early starts of handing out flyers for design work at a local pub, all the way to building up a flourishing career. 

He then talks about his current transition from a full time designer to buildling and working on his new proposal software product Nusii. 

Seriously, within 5 minutes of trying the Nusii demo I was signed up as a paid customer. 

It literally fixed a problem I didn't know that I had. For years I have been creating custom proposal designs in InDesign. This would take me at least 30-60 minutes to design every proposal even though the template was already created.

Nusii fixed that problem and turned a 60 minute job into a 5 minute job. 

You just paste your proposal text into a Nusii template and it automatically fills it all out for you and generates a PDF or a web link where your customers can view your proposals.

It's awesome and I freaking love it! 

Use this link and the discount code jakejorgovan and you will get 50% off your subscription for the first 3 months!

I'm not getting any kickbacks for this product, I seriously just love it and know you will too!

In this episode I interview Chris & Bryant of Authentic Form and Function on what they have learned from building a remote creative agency. 

They have great insights in this episode on starting an agency, attracting clients and handling a remote work culture.

Visit our website at www.workingwithoutpants.com

"The Creative Freelancer Show" is now called "Working without pants"

In this episode I dive deep into my story and explain how I started my creative career, got my first clients and how my business has evolved. 

This episode is based on requests from several listeners who wanted to hear me tell a bit more about my career and my story.

Visit the shows website at workingwithoutpants.com

We are lead to believe that the price of creativity is driven by quality. 

We believe that the best work deserves the highest price.

Unfortunately, that isn't true. 

In this episode, I discuss the true drive of the price of creativity.

This is the final episode in this series on my book The Creative's Guide to Freelancing.

In this episode I cover working remotely. I talk about why you want to do it, the benefits that it can bring to your life and the different ways to approach it. 

Then I explain the one thing that is absolutely necessary for you to build a remote income.

This is another episode in the series on my book The Creative's Guide to Freelancing. 

For the most part, creative's seem to hate sales. They feel sleazy about it, or don't enjoy the process. But it doesn't have to be that way.

In this episode I cover sales strategy and a different approach on how to think about sales. You can turn sales from something you hate into something you truly enjoy.