THREE Tips to Grow a Six-Figure Creative Business!

Hello friend, in this video, if you are an artist, designer, photographer, even any type of

creative

business

owner, or think you want to start a

creative

business

, I will give you real insider

tips

on how I grew my business from a side hustle. You know, from my kitchen table hobby type business to a thriving six

figure

stationery business, two years after starting my business, business, business, business is the buzzword I guess, but two years after starting my business, I was able to scale and earn six

figure

s within my business. From these steps, I go into much more detail about the steps within a podcast episode I posted on my podcast.

We'll link to it below, be sure to check it out, but all

three

are to help you get started if you want to do so. Really take your business seriously and reach the next revenue mark for your business. The number one tip for you will be to master your craft, so I know this is annoying. People tell you to practice, practice, practice all the time, but this primarily when it comes to business applies to the mistakes you are making, so every new business owner will make mistakes. I made many of them. Be sure to watch the episode to learn some, but instead of throwing in the towel or saying no.

You don't belong here and give in to that voice of imposter syndrome, if you really want to increase your impact, increase your income and continue with this creative endeavor, you must take those mistakes at face value and those lessons must be applied. to your craft so that you master it and perfect it over time, so that every new business owner makes mistakes, every new marketer, every new creative, etc., make those mistakes the main difference between the people who achieve a desk job or they go back to their day job or whatever, and the people who are successful and hit those six figure and seven figure marks just kept showing up, so keep showing up, master your craft and everyone you know sucks. in email marketing at the beginning or are you moving on and getting out, you are tearing your hair out when it comes to understanding what business entities you should form or whether you need a business license or not or when to pay taxes and how much and all that stuff we all start there , we all have to figure it out so remember to master your craft and that takes time and requires applying your mistakes to your business or your creative efforts as lessons instead of throwing in the towel and giving up and then my second piece of advice to you will be less is more less is not less, actually less is more when it comes to being able to scale your business, so if maybe you're hanging around, I'm strapped, fit, strapped, slim, stretched, thin, strapped to my desk and I'm working very, very, very hard on these clients' jobs. or these products where I'm doing whatever but I'm barely making any money, like why is this happening, probably because it's time for you to look up the phrase that allows us more as a business owner, more isn't really more, I I mean to some extent, obviously, there's a place in time for hustle, there's a place in time for being tied to your desk because you're building this thing that you built and I'm not saying don't hustle because there's a time and a place for you, however, to do the same thing over and over again for 60 hours, 80 hours a week and it doesn't work, it doesn't work, it's time to take a step, maybe say no to some client work or say no to do something that doesn't work or that you're not efficient at and maybe hire someone else to do it if you can, but at least scale it back when it comes to spending as much time on your client work on your custom work on this or what's not really working your business so you can take that time back and really evaluate where your business needs that extra 10 hours or five hours, even a week, to be able to

grow

and scale to the next level.

So less is more. I learned this firsthand when I was making wedding stationery, so I grew my wedding stationery business to six figures because, first of all, I was able to realize that I was booked and busy, definitely booked, busy. I had 40 wedding clients in my second and third years of business. I was tied to my desk, but I was like wow, this is amazing, people are booking me, but that's not sustainable and the reason they booked me so much was because my prices were very reasonable, so yeah really I wanted to

grow

and hit those revenue marks, I had to sit down and spend more time with a small list of clients so I could increase my prices and give them this amazing customer experience that I couldn't do when I had 40 wedding clients a year because it was so Ya I was short on time so I realized that the time I could spend on the customer experience was really valuable and I needed to put a price on it, so I increased my prices and therefore was able to get my time back and spend it when I'm tied to my desk, but also voting and achieving really great results for my clients, so it was a great portfolio builder and overall taking on fewer clients per year was incredible for me. was what was able to catapult me ​​to teach workshops more frequently, teach online classes and generate more income because of that too, and for me and my experience, less was definitely more.

I was able to not only take on fewer clients and feel less overworked, but I was able to give them better results, a better end product which was wedding stationery at the time and I was able to get more money at the same time so I raised my prices because the experience of my client was raising my third and The last piece of advice for you here is don't let your fear make your decisions, let it fuel your decisions this is huge this was huge for me when I was growing to the next level in my business I was starting to make a business viable starting to make decent money in my business and it was kind of a place where I was afraid before making that kind of decision to take on fewer clients.

I was afraid that if I raised my prices or took on the last few clients I would go out of business and have to go back and get a day job, however, I let that fear fuel me and I knew in my head that it was okay, if it didn't work out I would go back. to the drawing board, I would make some adjustments and keep going, but instead of letting that fear stop me from taking my next step or leveling up in my business, I let it fuel me to be more tenacious, I was more of a fighter, I was presenting my work to people, I was presenting my work to wedding planners. photographers, etc. constantly and I did not let myself be carried away by this fear of raising my prices and accepting fewer clients.

This is a scary thing. I let that drive me and it made me get tougher and chase. what I wanted, instead of letting fear turn into anxiety and worry, I turned it around and let it turn into quote-unquote drive and hustle, even though I was definitely working without weight because I raised my prices and took on less. clients, so those are my

three

tips

. For you, I have two more full tips in my podcast episode, so five tips for you to scale how I scaled my six-figure stationery business, so if you're an artist, illustrator, designer, photographer, it doesn't matter if you have a Stationery. business or not, these five or five tips are general and can be applied to any type of creative business, so be sure to check out the link that will be in the description below.

I hope you liked this video and hopefully listen to the podcast. episode and I love it too, whatever you pursue my heart and my goal for you by putting out these podcast episodes and telling you on our YouTube channel and showing our tutorials, etc., all the stuff, all the free content. My heart is to help you grow. I really really want to see creatives thrive, whether they stay in a hobby or whether they go into business, whatever it may be, so I hope this encourages you over the next week, if you're a business owner, reflect. about these three.

Five tips if you listen to the podcast, these tips will help encourage you and boost your creativity and your business skills. Next time I'll see you in the next video.