We’ve been teaching people in creative professions how to get paid more than they ever thought possible for over twenty five years.

Really.

brag bar melissa mcfarlane ceo and founder of creative successful entrepreneurs

We’ve been teaching creatives how to get paid more than they ever thought possible for over twenty five years.

Really.

The Breakthrough Virtual Workshop

Most creatives (writers, designers, actors, coaches, teachers…) work way too hard for way too little. Not because  they lack skill, and not because they aren’t willing to hustle.

They get paid too little because they don’t know how to sell themselves, and they’re afraid that if they ask for the kind of compensation they really want and need, they would never get it.

Spend one day with us and lose your fear of asking for what you really want. If you’re a creative, this bootcamp will change your life, and show you exactly how to ask for real money. And we’re so sure you’re going to love our community, we’re offering it for free.

Live and Online: Saturday, May 20th at 9:00am PDT

Price: $47  FREE with promo code: LUCKYME

how we can help

Highly Skilled? Paid Too Little?

Too often, people in the creative fields (designers, actors, artists, writers, teachers, coaches, etc.) go about trying to make more money by focusing on doing more of the things they know. They try to make themselves more employable by improving their skills, or by engaging in networking methods that don’t produce the kinds of results they want, or by taking on more and more gigs that don’t pay the kind of money they really need. They end up burnt out, overworked, and financially strained. Sometimes they even begin to resent the very creative endeavors that they were passionate about in the first place.

We have found that most creatives can fix these problems easily, find themselves making real money, and more importantly, they can begin to really enjoy their creative pursuits in a way they never imagined. How? By applying basic business skills that they never learned to their trade.

how we can help

Minding Your Business

Most creatives didn’t spend years in business school, and so they simply don’t know the basic techniques that would allow them to produce the kind of income they would really like to have. They don’t know how to research and pick a target, they don’t know how to package and price, they don’t know how to create effective marketing funnels, and they usually hate doing sales. We have found that few creatives know how to have a sales conversation, and that they dramatically undersell themselves in negotiations.

We teach all these skills and more. Spend just a little bit of time with us, and you’ll find yourself pricing yourself much higher and getting what you ask for. You’ll find yourself with more leads, and you’ll know how to close them. You’ll find yourself more efficient and more effective, and spending more time doing what you do best and care about most.

 

who we serve

At Our Core…

Being creatives, we began building our business serving other creatives. Our clientele was originally made up almost exclusively of actors, designers, filmakers, writers, photographers, and others in what people would consider creative professions. Then we began to service a large number of teachers, healers, coaches and people that also tend to be left-brain thinkers.

But in addition to these, we also have a number of clients who are not necessarily in creative professions that have come to us to learn the basics of building a business, because they skills we teach are so readily applied to any business venture, and because we help people develop business models that really work. So while most of our clients are creatives at heart, we also provide business coaching to entrepreneurs in with any skill set.

 

 

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Pick a Target

We have found that one of the mistakes creatives make most often is to try to serve everyone. They are so glad to get paid for what they do that they take every gig, they book every client, and they jump through every hoop (often for too low a rate.)

One of the things we teach people to do is to define their target, to figure out who it is they can serve best, find out where their core competencies really lie, and go after that target, ignoring the rest. It is only when people put their energy into their most desired target and start letting the other, less-important objectives go, that they start to really succeed.

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Packaging and Pricing

We help you arrive at the right price point by assessing the services you offer, and reverse engineering from your ultimate financial goals and developing ways to package your skills in a way that allows you to create offers that can earn you significantly more than you’ve earned in the past. Plus, we teach you how you can present your services in a way that allows you to ask for more money than you’ve probably ever asked for before, and to get paid upfront, creating cashflow for you.

marketing

Creating a Funnel

We teach you how to create a marketing funnel that will allow you to engage with cold leads, bring them into your orbit, and offer them various levels of products or services at differing price points (including your premium, high-ticket offer.) Many of our clients who use our system are able to service only their ideal clients, who happily pay a premium price for the product or service they are purchasing.

We take the mystery out of marketing, and show you how to create entry level services that put you in touch with lots of leads for you to choose from.

closing

Having a Sales Conversation

Are you comfortable asking someone for ten thousand, twenty thousand, or more for a program or service you offer?  Do you know how to have a sales conversation that will close leads into high paying contracts that get you paid upfront for more than you ever imagined earning?

The one thing that can change everything for you, that can transform your business and your life, is to master the art of the sales conversation, a conversation that will reliably convert the right leads into lucrative contracts that will pay you what you are really worth, and allow you to be paid more for your time than you ever imagined.

Enroll in the Convert Clients Now Virtual Bootcamp and you’ll learn:

  • 3 surprising things you must believe in order to sell.
  • How to create an irresistible “Heighten the Hunger Statement” that will get prospects to inquire more about your business. 
  • How to craft an offer that will close leads into a high paying offer that pays you what you’re really worth.
  • The little known real reason you need to have a sales conversation, and how to turn that conversation into a happy client.
  • The perfect offer to put in front of your prospect.
Plus, you’ll get our proven sales script, a $1,500 value, absolutely free.
I'm Melissa McFarlane
I'm Melissa McFarlane

CEO of Creative Successful Entrepreneurs

www.creative-successful-entrepreneurs.com

Are you comfortable asking someone for ten thousand, twenty thousand, or more for a program or service you offer?  Do you know how to have a sales conversation that will close leads into high paying contracts that get you paid upfront for more than you ever imagined earning? If you aren’t, isn’t it time you learned?

If you’re like most creative entrepreneurs, you are freelancing, taking gigs as they come, or struggling to build a business out of your core skills. You’re probably not comfortable having the $10,000 conversation. You’d like to have a real, consistent form of income that pays you what you’re really worth, and a stream of revenue that isn’t solely dependent on the number of hours you work. And you can have all these things. You just need to learn how to ask for them.

The one thing that can change everything for you, that can transform your business and your life, is to master the art of the sales conversation, a conversation that will reliably convert the right leads into lucrative contracts that will pay you what you are really worth, and allow you to be paid more for your time than you ever imagined.

In just one day, we can save you all the trial and error and teach you exactly what you need to do to convert your prospects into clients that are a perfect match for your skills. You’ll get proven sales scripts, training in how to overcome the most common objectives, practice sessions with  a skilled sales coach facilitating, coaching on how to tap into a sales mindset, training on how to ask for the compensation you really need to serve your clients well, and much, much more.

For any creative entrepreneur, this is an experience not to be missed!