Create A Proneur Podcast
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome to the Create A Proneur Podcast where I help creatives either wanting to start a business based on their talents, passions, and interests or expand an existing business to one that expresses more of who they are. Hi, my name is Rodney Washington, author, artist, and entrepreneur and I’m passionate about helping creatives just like you do what lights you up and make a comfortable living while doing it! Each week I’ll be sharing timely business growth, marketing, mindset hacks, and interviews with courageous creative entrepreneurs to inspire you to Get Paid for Your Creativity.
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028: 5 Fool Proof Ways To Validate Your Course Idea
October 10, 2019 23:47 - 1 hour - 125 MBIf you missed Episode 027 of the podcast, ”Is There An Online Course Inside You Dying To Get Out?” I suggest you hit the pause button and go have a listen now because it will help you get a handle on any mindset issues that you must get a handle on before you deep dive into the five strategies I’m going to share with you on this episode of the podcast. Now on to the focus of today’s episode, assuming if you have at least a cursory idea for a course then you definitely want to pour yourse...
027: Is There An Online Course Inside You Dying To Get Out?
October 04, 2019 08:32 - 54 minutes - 103 MBToday’s episode is sponsored by my brand new roadmap – 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts and Create True Security For Yourself! Includes access to four bonus templates called the Creative Entrepreneurs Path to Cash and map your journey to an ideal business that celebrates the life you want to live. Download your free roadmap today at getpaidforyourcreativity.com/57waysgift This episode is for you if you're either currently thinking about or have ever thought about packaging up your experien...
026: How Control Is Preventing You From Getting Everything You Want Part 2
September 24, 2019 08:20 - 25 minutes - 48.4 MBToday’s episode is sponsored by my brand new roadmap – 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts and Create True Security For Yourself! Includes access to four bonus templates called the Creative Entrepreneurs Path to Cash and map your journey to an ideal business that celebrates the life you want to live. Download your free roadmap today at getpaidforyourcreativity.com/57waysgift Episode 026 Show Notes I’d like to start this episode with a quote that inspired the topic of today’s show… “When y...
025: How Control Prevents You From Getting Everything You Want
September 17, 2019 15:00 - 15 minutes - 30.7 MBToday’s episode is sponsored by my brand new roadmap – 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts and Create True Security For Yourself! Includes access to four bonus templates called the Creative Entrepreneurs Path to Cash and map your journey to an ideal business that celebrates the life you want to live. Download your free roadmap today at getpaidforyourcreativity.com/57waysgift Episode 025 Show Notes I’d like to start this episode with a quote… Surrender the need to KNOW before you act This ...
024: Key #7 from 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts eBook
September 10, 2019 15:00 - 15 minutes - 31.4 MBI’m trying something new. In the coming weeks, and possibly months of the podcast I’ve decided that I’m going to take select inspirational quotes from my free audio ebook and PDF 57 Ways to Monetize Your Gifts and expand on my and listener/reader favorites on a special bonus edition series of podcast episodes I’ll be rolling out this fall. When I launched the show 5 months ago on April 9th my aim was and still is to make it a weekly show, I don’t know if you listened to my first episode ...
023: How to Use SMART Goals To Create The Life You Want
September 03, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBToday’s episode is sponsored by my brand new roadmap – 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts and Create True Security For Yourself! Includes access to four bonus templates called the Creative Entrepreneurs Path to Cash and map your journey to an ideal business that celebrates the life you want to live. Download your free roadmap today at getpaidforyourcreativity.com/57waysgift Episode 023 Show Notes Believe it or not, we’ve officially entered the last quarter of 2019! Soon, a new year will ...
022: Turning Your Inspiration Into Your Vocation: The Do’s and Don’ts For Giving Legs And Voice To Your Gift
August 27, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBWelcome back, this week I have something very special to bring to you. I decided to go into my archives and pull a very special interview I did a few years ago with a dear friend and colleague Rita Deo Barber. Rita was a presenter on a 3 day live virtual event I hosted called the Monetize Your Gifts Masterclass and she shared some very valuable content that I know is just as fresh and relevant as when she first presented. On the interview, we talked about the power of visualization,...
021: 5 Common List Building Mistakes Creative Entrepreneurs Make That Keeps Their Lists Small & Unresponsive
August 13, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 134 MBToday’s episode is sponsored by my free downloadable PDF checklist – How To Create A Highly Irresistible List Building Freebie And Attract Your Perfect Customers The Easy Way! Stop guessing what your ideal audience wants and start filling your email list with ‘Buy Ready’ people actively searching for your digital products, online courses, artwork, workshops, retreats or 1 on 1 client services! You can download your free copy today at: getpaidforyourcreativity.com/irresistiblefreebie-checkl...
020: How To Write Attention Grabbing Headlines That'll Ensure Your Next Freebie Is Highly Irresistible
August 06, 2019 15:00 - 47 minutes - 89.8 MBToday’s episode is sponsored by my free downloadable PDF checklist –How To Create A Highly Irresistible List Building Freebie And Attract Your Perfect Customers The Easy Way! Stop guessing what your ideal audience wants and start filling your email list with ‘Buy Ready’ people actively searching for your digital products, online courses, artwork, workshops, retreats or 1 on 1 client services! You can download your free copy today at: getpaidforyourcreativity.com/irresistiblefreebie-checkli...
019: How Choosing The Right Niche Will Help You Define Your Ideal Customer Avatar (and the Big Lie that stops most Creative Entrepreneurs from picking one)
July 30, 2019 15:00 - 47 minutes - 89.8 MBEpisode 019 Show Notes: If you listened to Episode 018 of the podcast, I introduced 3 Questions You Must Ask Yourself Before You Create Your Profit Driven List Building Freebie and why that’s so important, if you didn’t, I highly you stop listening to this episode of the podcast and do that first so you’ll be better prepared for what I have for you today. In that episode, I talked about why it’s super important to give your ideal customer avatar a QVW (quick valuable win) immediately aft...
018: 3 Questions You Must Ask Yourself Before You Create Your Profit-Driven List Building Freebie
July 23, 2019 15:00 - 48 minutes - 90.5 MBToday’s episode is sponsored by my free downloadable PDF checklist –How To Create A Highly Irresistible List Building Freebie And Attract Your Perfect Customers The Easy Way! Stop guessing what your ideal audience wants and start filling your email list with ‘Buy Ready’ people actively searching for your digital products, online courses, artwork, workshops, retreats or 1 on 1 client services! You can download your free copy today at: getpaidforyourcreativity.com/irresistiblefreebie-checkli...
017: Fill Your Email List With 'Buy Ready' Leads Using Quizzes and Assessments with Pet Behaviorist Daniele Largo
July 16, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 196 MBToday’s episode is sponsored by my free downloadable PDF checklist –How To Create A Highly Irresistible List Building Freebie And Attract Your Perfect Customers The Easy Way! Stop guessing what your ideal audience wants and start filling your email list with ‘Buy Ready’ people actively searching for your digital products, online courses, artwork, workshops, retreats or 1 on 1 client services! You can download your free copy today at: getpaidforyourcreativity.com/irresistiblefreebie-chec...
016: Ultimate Guide To Creating An Irresistible List Building Freebie (part 2)
July 09, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBToday’s episode is sponsored by my free downloadable PDF checklist –How To Create A Highly Irresistible List Building Freebie And Attract Your Perfect Customers The Easy Way! Stop guessing what your ideal audience wants and start filling your email list with ‘Buy Ready’ people actively searching for your digital products, online courses, artwork, workshops, retreats or 1 on 1 client services! You can download your free copy today at: getpaidforyourcreativity.com/irresistiblefreebie-chec...
015: Ultimate Guide To Creating An Irresistible List Building Freebie (part 1)
July 02, 2019 15:00 - 47 minutes - 90.1 MBToday’s episode is sponsored by my free downloadable PDF checklist – How To Create A Highly Irresistible List Building Freebie And Attract Your Perfect Customers The Easy Way! Stop guessing what your ideal audience wants and start filling your email list with ‘Buy Ready’ people actively searching for your digital products, online courses, artwork, workshops, retreats or 1 on 1 client services! You can download your free copy today at - getpaidforyourcreativity.com/irresistiblefreebie-check...
014: Creating Your Own Customer Appreciation Plan (in a 5 easy steps)
June 25, 2019 15:00 - 43 minutes - 82.6 MBHere's a quote from our episode sponsor: 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts and Create True Security For Yourself! “Nobody cares how much you know until you show how much you care, don't believe me? Ask a disappointed customer.”⠀ It’s been said that acquiring a new customer is anywhere from 5-25X more expensive than keeping an existing one, in this episode of the podcast I’m going to give you some tips and strategies on 5 ways to up your customer service game by keeping your existing custome...
013: Choose! My Personal Take On Ryan Levesque’s New Book & How Creatives Can Use It To Choose The Best Idea For Them
June 18, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 128 MBIn episode 11 of the podcast (3 Lessons from My First 60 Days of Running The Podcast (and how you can apply them to every project you create) I talked about the power of choice and the importance of choosing well. If you missed it, in Lesson 3, I talked about a newly released book I just finished reading called, Choose: The Single Most Important Decision Before Starting Your Business by Ryan Levesque. What the authors created here is a perfect roadmap to helping creative entrepreneurs di...
012: Communicating What You Do And Who You Serve (in 15 seconds or less)
June 11, 2019 15:00 - 31 minutes - 59.3 MBWe live in a world where the demands on our attention are becoming shorter and shorter every day so when an opportunity to connect with people that might have a genuine interest in our offerings we have to get to the point quickly or we’ll lose them. With that said, it amazes me how many times at conferences or networking gathering I’ll encounter someone who walks up to a microphone or complete stranger and immediately start “oversharing” their back story and/or work history. You see...
011: 3 Lessons from My First 60 Days of Running The Podcast (and how you can apply them to every project you create)
June 04, 2019 15:00 - 36 minutes - 68.5 MBDepending on when you listen to this I launched the Create A Proneur podcast a few days shy of two months ago, April 9th, 2019 and in this episode, I want to break down my top three lessons I’ve learned from launching the show and how they can affect every project you create. Show notes for this episode are available at: http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/2019-06-011/ Here are my top three lessons from the first 60 days of publishing the podcast. Lesson 1: Pick a project you’re will...
010 : Create a Website That Converts (and Actually Have Fun Making It)
May 28, 2019 15:00 - 45 minutes - 86.1 MBHow to Create a Website That Converts (and Actually Have Fun Making It) Show notes available: http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/2019-05-010 Now before I get into what I have for you today I want to tell that this episode is sponsored by Leadpages. I’ve used Leadpages for going on five years now to create all of my landing pages to continually build and grow my mailing list and if you’d like to see one of my Leadpages in action go to http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/57waysgift to g...
009: The Single Most Important Page On Your Website
May 21, 2019 15:00 - 38 minutes - 71.9 MBIf I asked you what you thought the most important page on any website what would you say? If you said your “About Me” Page you’d be a grand prize winner. Here’s why Your “About me” page is your opportunity to introduce yourself to the world online. Use it to share your accomplishments, your passions, your interests, your work history, special certifications and how you serve your ideal audience. It’s important that your “about me” is more than just a resume of professional qualifica...
008: Don’t Quit, Taking Care of The CEO Inside!
May 14, 2019 15:00 - 46 minutes - 87.4 MBCreate A Creative Business That Celebrates Your Ideal Life Today’s episode is sponsored by my brand new roadmap – 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts and Create True Security For Yourself! Includes access to four bonus templates called the Creative Entrepreneurs Path to Cash and map your journey to an ideal business that celebrates the life you want to live. Download your free roadmap today at getpaidforyourcreativity.com/57waysgift Episode 008 Show Notes Here’s some of what I covered on...
007 : How To Create A Creative Products Business w/Jane Button
May 07, 2019 10:45 - 1 hour - 140 MBWelcome back to Episode 7 of the Create A Proneur podcast! I’m super excited to share this episode with you today because it’s my first interview since launching the new podcast! And I couldn’t be more thrilled to bring you my first guest, Creative Entrepreneur, Consultant, and Educator Jane Button. Jane took a passion for knitting, made a simple hat and turned it into an empire that’s earned 5 million dollars! Yep, you read it right, and today she’s sharing exactly how she did it, Jane ...
006 : Take An Inspiration Day and Reconnect With Your Creative Flow
April 30, 2019 15:00 - 22 minutes - 43.1 MBToday’s episode is sponsored by my brand new roadmap – 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts and Create True Security For Yourself! Includes access to four bonus templates called the Creative Entrepreneurs Path to Cash and map your journey to an ideal business that celebrates the life you want to live. Download your free roadmap today at http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/57waysgift I was reading the blog recently of a good friend and colleague who posted a suggestion that I really took to hea...
005: The Passion Based Business Plan Part 2
April 23, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 120 MBWelcome back to the podcast! In episode 4, I introduced you to the Idea Work/Lifestyle Template, and if you haven’t already you can get your copy inside the free gift 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts, the link to that template and the one I have you for you today is inside that PDF. Again you can grab your copy at http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/57waysgift or in the show notes Just a quick recap from Episode 004: The Passion Based Business Plan Part 1. On that episode, I asked fo...
004: The Passion Based Business Plan Part 1
April 16, 2019 15:00 - 34 minutes - 65.2 MBThe inspiration for this episode of the Create A Proneur podcast comes from Monetizing Your Gifts Key #24 – Design your business around the type of lifestyle you want to live, not working yourself to death and accepting whatever little moments of joy and fun you can grab. Spend some time thinking about how you want to spend your days, how are dividing your work time, play time, family time… etc Where are you living? On the ocean or in the mountains? What are your personal goals? Do you ...
003 : 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts My Top 5
April 05, 2019 07:19 - 46 minutes - 55.5 MBThe world is changing, each of us is being called to embrace true self-sufficiency. Traditional jobs as we know them are rapidly changing. You may be thinking about starting a side business of your own, or you have one already and you’d like to make your venture more successful. In either instance please hear me when I say, Entrepreneurship is a skill that can be learned, as a matter of fact, it’s rapidly become the key to our financial survival. Even if you have a currently have a job...
002 : Believing In Yourself To Create The Life and Business You Want
April 05, 2019 06:59 - 46 minutes - 55 MBTo create your dream life you need two things: A dream that you believe in And a belief in yourself that you can achieve it Let’s start with number one, a dream that you can believe in. Everything that you have in your possession including the device that you’re listening to this podcast on and including this podcast episode started out as a dream in someone's imagination. Dreams drive creation Every book we read, film we watch, piece of music we listen too, plate of food we ea...
001 : 3 Questions I Like To Ask Every Creative Entrepreneur
April 05, 2019 06:20 - 38 minutes - 45.8 MBWelcome to the inaugural episode of the Create A Proneur Podcast! My name is Rodney Washington your host and guide and I'm thrilled that you choose to check out my show. Before I launched my photography career in 2005 one of the first things I did was reach out to professional photographers whose work I deeply admired. I wanted to learn how and why they chose to become professional photographers and how they got started in the business. Gratefully, some responded to my requests for advi...