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Creative Entrepreneur Show

123 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 46 ratings

"2 Creative Guys Talking AI" — If you're a creative entrepreneur or creator, then this podcast is for you. We explore the evolving world of AI (artificial intelligence) in creative entrepreneurship and how you can leverage new technologies. Hosted by Rosh Sillars and Bryon Scott, you can tune in at https://creativeentrepreneurshow.com.

Since 2008.

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Episodes

Why Clients Don't Hire You

March 08, 2021 18:24 - 21 minutes - 39.4 MB

To grow your creative business you need new clients. Not all prospects will hire you. However, understanding why can be a big help. Knowing why clients will not hire you can help guide toward the people who do appreciate your work, trust you and will hire you. 

How To Grow Your Creative Business With Marketing

February 26, 2021 18:42 - 22 minutes - 40.4 MB

Marketing is an important part of our business, yet, many creatives don't think much about it. In this show I share some foundation ideas which will help you grow your creative business with marketing activities. 

Lazy vs. Professional Creative Entrepreneur

February 18, 2021 12:26 - 20 minutes - 37.1 MB

Are you a creative professional? Are you a lazy creative or do you have a professional creative business? What is the difference. Does it mean you work harder as a professional and a lazy entrepreneur does nothing. Let's explore this idea. 

Facebook For Creative Entrepreneurs

February 12, 2021 21:28 - 23 minutes - 42.9 MB

How can creative entrepreneurs use Facebook to build an audience, create a community and grow a business.

How To Use Video To Grow Your Creative Business

February 04, 2021 13:38 - 27 minutes - 51.1 MB

Video has become an important part of our marketing plan. It's not just for marketing and social media. Here is the link post at roshsillars.com

How To Manage Your Social Media

January 29, 2021 13:19 - 24 minutes - 44.4 MB

Creatives have many choices when managing social media. Channel building is a big part of our combination code platform. In this show, I share some tips and approaches to running and managing your social media to help drive traffic and become an expert in your field.  More information here.

A Better Way To Look At Goals

January 21, 2021 12:47 - 19 minutes - 35.2 MB

Goals don't have to dominate our lives, they help guide us. In this show, I share some of my experience and insight in to creating and achieving goals to make your creative life what you want it to become.  More at the blog: http://www.roshsillars.com/make-your-goals-happen-in-2021/

How To Be A More Productive Creative

January 14, 2021 11:30 - 18 minutes - 34 MB

Many of us are busy, yet, busy is not necessarily productive. Productivity moves us forward to grow our creative business which allows us to do what we love to do for a living. http://www.roshsillars.com

How To Start A Creative Business

January 07, 2021 12:01 - 34 minutes - 62.3 MB

How to start your creative business. In this show, I share some of the basics of starting your business, develop a plan and how to keep your business going for the long term. 

How To Restart Your Creative Business In 2021

December 31, 2020 11:34 - 22 minutes - 41.2 MB

Restarting your creative business in 2021 could be the scariest, yet, most important thing you can do to kick the new year off.  I have a series of content on this topic beyond the podcast, including a blog and YouTube video listed below.  Blog: Restart your creative business 2021 YouTube: Restart Routine - How To Begin Again In Life 2021

How To Keep Balanced As A Creative Entrepreneur

December 14, 2020 16:57 - 22 minutes - 41 MB

Balance is a difficult but important concept for creative entrepreneurs. It's necessary for long term survival otherwise you just might burn out or completely fail. Understanding balance offers creatives a better quality of life. 

5 Ways Google Can Grow Your Creative Business

November 12, 2020 21:42 - 22 minutes - 41.8 MB

Google is a powerful suite of tools which can help you grow your creative business. In this show I share a few ideas on different areas of Google that you can use to find new business

How To Increase Prices

November 06, 2020 22:26 - 20 minutes - 37.4 MB

Increasing your prices is tough. How do you go about it? In this show, I share some ideas how to go about increasing your creative prices and to establish your pricing strategy for the long term. 

How Processes Improve Your Creative Business

October 23, 2020 21:19 - 21 minutes - 39.7 MB

Creative Entrepreneurs know a little about processes. However, they don't dig deep to improve the processes which run and make their business better. In this show, I talk about processes and how you can apply them to grow your creative business.  http://www.roshsillars.com

Reexamining Social Media

October 15, 2020 16:46 - 25 minutes - 47.4 MB

Modern social media has been around almost 15 years. We are well past the days of Facebook and Twitter being the core of most social media activity. In this show, I explore where we are and the secrets to social media success today. 

The Biggest Mistake Creative Entrepreneurs Make

October 05, 2020 16:56 - 21 minutes - 39.9 MB

Creatives, including my photography friends make this mistake regularly. Many of my photography friends went out of business around the year 2000 because of this, many more during the great recession and more creative entrepreneurs are falling now. What is this mistake? Find out. 

Lets Get Out Of This Mess

May 07, 2020 19:59 - 18 minutes - 33.5 MB

Everything has changed since the last podcast. In this show, I share some of the first steps to surviving what is about to hit us as creative entrepreneurs.

Creative Entrepreneurs Marching Forward In 2020

January 23, 2020 21:33 - 25 minutes - 47 MB

In this show, I share some helpful insights for creative entrepreneurs. I talk about customer acquisition costs, augmented reality how we grow our business in 2020.

Taking Your Photography Business Full Time In 2020

December 13, 2019 18:58 - 20 minutes - 36.7 MB

This show I lay down some of the groundwork and concepts you need to consider if you want to go full time as a photographer or up your current photography business game.   Photography Pricing information

Pay The Bride To Photograph Her Wedding?

December 06, 2019 19:43 - 19 minutes - 36.6 MB

There is a crazy story going around about a bride asking to be paid to photograph her wedding.  Is it true? It got ugly, what would you do about it? Plus, I talk about preparing for 2020

The Crazy Ways I Got New Photography Clients

October 04, 2019 20:34 - 22 minutes - 40.3 MB

There is more than one way to earn new photography clients. In this show, I share some of my favorite ways I've gained new clients through the years.

Is The Future Fake Photography?

September 23, 2019 20:47 - 21 minutes - 39.7 MB

Photography technology is changing, will you have to create fake photographs to survive or may you already do! In this show, I dive into the topic of fake photographs and your business.

How To Get Your Photography Out There - Podcast 461

September 16, 2019 18:05 - 24 minutes - 44.2 MB

How do you get out there is a common question when it comes to starting a photography business. In this show, I expand on a topic with a few brainstorming ideas and concepts to get you started.

Photography Pricing

September 09, 2019 19:06 - 10 minutes - 19.6 MB

How Much Should Photographers Charge? How does a photographer figure out their pricing? I break down photography and what it takes to increase your prices. http://www.roshsillars.com/much-photographers-charge/

Is The Photography Industry Dead? (For You)

September 05, 2019 15:02 - 23 minutes - 42.4 MB

The photography business is always changing. In this podcast, I share my thoughts about the topic of the photography industry. Is it dying, is it dead? or is there hope?

What Is Google Saying About SEO : Show 458

August 26, 2019 20:41 - 25 minutes - 46 MB

In this episode of the Creative Marketing show I share some SEO insight. Should you take what Google says at face value.

Small Branding Opportunities For Photographers

August 19, 2019 19:20 - 21 minutes - 38.9 MB

You can learn from big brands. They leave clues with their actions. As a photographer, we need to consider how to leverage similar ideas which can benefit our business. Target has created a new brand called Good & Gather. This got me thinking about the smaller brands within our photography business brand.

Unexplored Modern Photography Opportunities

August 12, 2019 19:34 - 22 minutes - 41.2 MB

We are in the hay day of photography and new opportunities in the visual industry. However, not everyone is exploring the new opportunities available to photographers. In this podcast, I share a few ideas to help get your wheels turning.

Unexplored Modern Photography Opportunities

August 12, 2019 19:34 - 22 minutes - 41.2 MB

We are in the hay day of photography and new opportunities in the visual industry. However, not everyone is exploring the new opportunities available to photographers. In this podcast, I share a few ideas to help get your wheels turning.

Do You Have A Successful Photography Business?

August 05, 2019 15:52 - 14 minutes - 25.9 MB

How do you know if you have a successful photography business? This is the last of my series on the combination business scale.

Five Support People For Your Photography Business

July 30, 2019 14:45 - 24 minutes - 44.5 MB

In this show, I talk about the five people you need to support your photography business. How do you select them and why do you need people to support your photography business.

Earn Your First Photography Sale: Podcast 453

July 22, 2019 21:27 - 25 minutes - 46.1 MB

In this show, we talk about earning photography sales. Sales is often a dirty word, however, if you want to be a professional photographer, then you must understand sales.

Skyrocket Your Photography Business With Processes - Show 452

July 18, 2019 13:46 - 26 minutes - 48.1 MB

Processes help you improve your photography business in many ways. As photographers we think of processing our images, however, processes for our business expand well beyond Photoshop.

How To Start Your Photography Business Show 451

July 08, 2019 20:06 - 22 minutes - 42.1 MB

What is holding you back from starting or rebooting your photography business? Do you have a product or service which can support your photography business, what is stopping you?

Scaling Your Photography Business

July 01, 2019 19:32 - 23 minutes - 43.8 MB

I have a scale which I use to help me understand where a creative business is in their journey and what goals they need to focus on to take their business to the next scale level.

Business Mistakes Photographers Make

June 24, 2019 20:11 - 21 minutes - 39.1 MB

There are common mistakes which photographers make starting their business or running their longtime photography business.

Profound Facts About Being A Creative Entrepreneur : Show 448

June 10, 2019 19:55 - 19 minutes - 35.6 MB

A Creative Entrepreneur must have some skill sets to grow a business. I believe every successful photographer is a creative entrepreneur.

Examining Your Social Media Assets - Show 447

June 03, 2019 17:56 - 27 minutes - 50.6 MB

Social media is a big part of a photographers business. However, your social media needs to evolve. In this show, I ask what are you doing with your social media assets, how are you adjusting them and what are you going to do moving forward?

You, Them And Search - Show 446

May 20, 2019 20:37 - 18 minutes - 33.8 MB

Working through my next moves in multimedia social media.

Making Freelance Less Scary - Show 445

May 13, 2019 20:51 - 27 minutes - 49.6 MB

I share why I like Freelance, why it's important to be active in your creative community. I share what they really want from a freelancer and what to do when times are slow.

When The Market Is Saturated

May 06, 2019 20:48 - 16 minutes - 30.6 MB

We often feel the market is too saturated with people trying to do the same work we do.

31 Days That Will Change Your Life

April 29, 2019 20:53 - 27 minutes - 49.8 MB

31 Days That Will Change Your Life is about a series of videos launching in May 2019 for photographers and the business of photography.

How To Create A More Profitable Creative Business

April 22, 2019 20:50 - 29 minutes - 53.9 MB

I share ways to create a more profitable creative business.

Know Your Value Podcast 441

April 15, 2019 20:42 - 23 minutes - 42.4 MB

What Can Make Your Business More Valuable To Others?

How's Business?

April 10, 2019 20:35 - 19 minutes - 35.5 MB

Quarterly checkup. How's your business doing, I'm sharing my results.

The Process Of Growing Your Creative Business

April 01, 2019 20:43 - 25 minutes - 45.9 MB

What processes do you use to grow your business? In this show, I share some ideas about processes and how they can grow your creative business.

My Secret Social Media Strategies

March 25, 2019 21:01 - 18 minutes - 33.6 MB

In this live video, I share some of my best social media insights and I announce my YouTube strategy which I will officially release April 5th that I call the YouTube Video Suggestion Ladder (VSL). The podcast is edited however, I'll share the strategy again in two weeks on both the channel and podcast.

How Do You Generate Additional Business Income?

March 18, 2019 21:11 - 31 minutes - 57.2 MB

It's important to develop multiple sources of income for your creative business. We explore some ideas which can help strengthen your business.

What Is Your Pricing Strategy?

March 11, 2019 21:11 - 37 minutes - 69 MB

Pricing is a big topic for any business. In this video, I share pricing strategies which might make you rethink how you price your work, product or service. Share

Educate Your Customers Show 435

March 04, 2019 22:06 - 36 minutes - 67 MB

How to educate your clients, should you? are there some best ways to approach educating your clients?