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Brennan Dunn is the creator of Double Your Freelancing, RightMessage, and Mastering ConvertKit.Brennan is one of the most well-regarded email marketers on the planet. Using cutting-edge techniques in personalization, Brennan has generated millions of dollars in sales of his products – and a lot of that is automated.After starting Double Your Freelancing as a blog in 2015, Brennan realized that he could more effectively sell his courses using personalization on his website and in his email. In 2018, the founders of ConvertKit, Teachable, and convinced Brennan to create a software platform called RightMessage.Brennan teaches his advanced use of email marketing in his popular course, Mastering ConvertKit.In this episode, we talk about how Brennan built his broad skillset, the job that changed the way he thought about sales, why he built an agency and ultimately closed it down, and how Personalization creates a better experience for your audience while also increasing your revenue.Visit DoubleYourFreelancing.comLearn more about RightMessageSubscribe to Create & SellLearn more about Mastering ConvertKitFull transcript and show notes***LISTENER SUPPORTJoin our community on FacebookSupport this show through Buy Me A Coffee.***SPONSORSTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerStart your free trial of SavvyCal and get your first month free using promo code ELEMENTSGet a free month of Blinkist PremiumTry Grammarly for free and save 20% on Grammarly Premium***PODGLOMERATE NETWORKThis show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Creative Elements, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding entrepreneurship, business, and careers like Rocketship.fm and Freelance to Founder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I’m sharing with you an episode of Freelance To Founder, another show here on the Podglomerate Network.Freelance to Founder features real-time coaching sessions with freelancers who want to scale their service business.In each episode, show co-hosts Preston Lee and Clay Mosley—who have both scaled their one-person businesses to something bigger—help guests and listeners on their journey to finally achieve “founder” status.Freelance to Founder strives to provide real-world, practical, and actionable advice to take your service-based business to the next level—with occasional surprise guest experts or deep dives on must-have skills for success.This episode I’m sharing is a coaching call with web designer Keegan Lanier of Redefined Creative. Keegan is a side hustler who's desperate to take the leap and work on his business full-time. But he's hesitant to make such a dramatic life change when he doesn't really know where his clients come from. He gets a lot of referral business (enough to build 3-4 websites per month) but he's always nervous referrals could dry up without notice. So Clay and Preston walk him through a few critical client-finding tactics, including how to harness the power of local clients by becoming an expert in your area—allowing you to charge more and build a predictable pipeline of new work.New episodes air each Thursday. You can subscribe to Freelance to Founder using the link in the show notes, or visit FreelanceToFounder.com.Subscribe to Freelance to Founder***LISTENER SUPPORTJoin our community on FacebookSupport this show through Buy Me A Coffee.***SPONSORSTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerStart your free trial of SavvyCal and get your first month free using promo code ELEMENTSGet a free month of Blinkist PremiumTry Grammarly for free and save 20% on Grammarly Premium***PODGLOMERATE NETWORKThis show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Creative Elements, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding entrepreneurship, business, and careers like Rocketship.fm and Freelance to Founder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Courtland Allen is the creator of Indie Hackers, the largest online community of startup founders. He created the site in August 2016 and it was acquired by Stripe in April 2017.He is an MIT graduate, Y Combinator alum, full-stack web developer, and professional designer.Today, Courtland continues to run the Indie Hackers team at Stripe and hosts the Indie Hackers podcast.In this episode we talk about how Courtland learned web design, why he doesn’t recommend quitting your job, selling Indie Hackers to Stripe, trends he’s seeing in indie hacking, and why he’s Optimistic about the future of online business.Visit Indie HackersFollow Courtland Allen on TwitterSubscribe to the Indie Hackers podcastFull transcript and show notes***LISTENER SUPPORTJoin our community on FacebookSupport this show through Buy Me A Coffee.***SPONSORSTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerStart your free trial of SavvyCal and get your first month free using promo code ELEMENTSGet a free month of Blinkist PremiumTry Grammarly for free and save 20% on Grammarly Premium***PODGLOMERATE NETWORKThis show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Creative Elements, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding entrepreneurship, business, and careers like Rocketship.fm and Freelance to Founder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello my friend! Welcome to a special solo episode of Creative Elements…I’ve been thinking that I’d start sharing some more short episodes like this where I go a little bit deeper on topics that have come up both on the show and in my life…And today I want to talk a little bit about comparison traps.Let's talk about this in the communityFollow me on Twitter or Instagram***LISTENER SUPPORTJoin our community on FacebookSupport this show through Buy Me A Coffee.***SPONSORSTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerStart your free trial of SavvyCal and get your first month free using promo code ELEMENTSGet a free month of Blinkist PremiumTry Grammarly for free and save 20% on Grammarly Premium***PODGLOMERATE NETWORKThis show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Creative Elements, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding entrepreneurship, business, and careers like Rocketship.fm and Freelance to Founder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Allen Gannett is the author of The Creative Curve (Penguin Random House, 2018) that shows how the creative process can be learned by anyone.He founded and served as CEO of TrackMaven, a marketing analytics platform that merged with Skyword, the leading content marketing platform, in 2018.In this episode, we talk about how Allen built TrackMaven into a multi-million dollar company in his twenties, the challenges that come from being ambitious, how to receive feedback, strengthening your innate creativity, and how all the Inputs we receive better inform our creative work.Visit Allen Gannett's websiteLearn more about The Creative CurveFollow Allen Gannett on TwitterFollow Allen Gannett on InstagramFull transcript and show notes***LISTENER SUPPORTJoin our community on FacebookSupport this show through Buy Me A Coffee.***SPONSORSTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerStart your free trial of SavvyCal and get your first month free using promo code ELEMENTSGet a free month of Blinkist PremiumTry Grammarly for free and save 20% on Grammarly Premium***PODGLOMERATE NETWORKThis show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Creative Elements, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding entrepreneurship, business, and careers like Rocketship.fm and Freelance to Founder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I wanted to share a little bit of a different episode with you this week.Back in episode #49 of this show, I spoke with Corey Haines, the creator of Swipe Files. Corey and I spent the majority of that episode talking about his approach to Product Hunt, and so we didn’t dive as deeply into Swipe Files as we probably should have.But a big part of Swipe Files is Corey’s podcast, Everything Is Marketing. And in April, Corey interviewed me for that show.He caught me at a really interesting time. And Corey got me talking about a few things that I’ve never talked about on any other podcast before, including: The step by step process of developing Creative Elements My secret plans of writing a book while I'm building this podcast How I stair-stepped my way from selling services to selling digital products And the number of random, lucky breaks that I grabbed ahold of over the years We cover a lot of ground, and this really goes behind the curtain of both how I make this show and my own creative career up to this point.Listen to my interview with CoreyFull transcript and show notes***LISTENER SUPPORTJoin our community on FacebookFollow me on Twitter / InstagraamSupport this show through Buy Me A Coffee.***SPONSORSTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerStart your free trial of SavvyCal and get your first month free using promo code ELEMENTSGet a free month of Blinkst Premium***PODGLOMERATE NETWORKThis show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Creative Elements, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding entrepreneurship, business, and careers like Rocketship.fm and Freelance to Founder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alec Torelli is a professional high-stakes poker player turned creator, who shares how the lessons he learned from poker can be applied to life and business.Alec is the founder of Conscious Poker, a popular poker training platform, and after spending the last 14 years making decisions for hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single hand, he now gives talks in which he dissects the anatomy of decision making to help others hone the way they make choices.Lately, Alec is one of the leading voices in the conversation about BitClout, a decentralized social media platform that looks and feels much like Twitter.In this episode, we talk about his history as a poker player, how that impacted his relationship to money, how he makes decisions, and why he believes BitClout is an asymmetric bet worth taking.Disclaimer: What Alec and I talk about in this show is for informational purposes only, and is not financial advice. We do not know your specific financial situation, and so you must do your OWN diligence before making any type of investment decision.Read Alec Torelli's Ultimate Guide to BitCloutFollow me on BitCloutFollow Alec Torelli on BitCloutFull transcript and show notes***LISTENER SUPPORTJoin our community on FacebookSupport this show through Buy Me A Coffee.***SPONSORSTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerStart your free trial of SavvyCal and get your first month free using promo code ELEMENTSGet a free month of Blinkst Premium***PODGLOMERATE NETWORKThis show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Creative Elements, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding entrepreneurship, business, and careers like Rocketship.fm and Freelance to Founder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Corbett Barr is the creator of Fizzle, a membership combining courses, podcasts, and community for creators.Corbett started Fizzle in 2012, and has been self-employed on the Internet since 2005. He recently decided to start over to refocus on writing and re-evaluate his digital self.In this episode we talk about what brought Corbett into the nascent world of digital creators in 2005, the evolution of Fizzle, cultivating community, and why a digital reboot is a step we may all want to consider.Read transcript and show notes***LISTENER SUPPORTJoin our community on FacebookSupport this show through Buy Me A Coffee.***SPONSORSTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerStart your free trial of SavvyCal and get your first month free using promo code ELEMENTS***PODGLOMERATE NETWORKThis show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Creative Elements, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding entrepreneurship, business, and careers like Rocketship.fm and Freelance to Founder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey! I'm dropping in today to share with you a new show from the Podglomerate called Trail Weight.After 30 years of feeling stuck, Andrew Steven attempted to get in shape for a month-long backpacking trip through the Sierra Nevadas. Looking at his career for inspiration, Andrew finds an unlikely revelation by imagining his life’s narrative arc. But after a death in the family, he found himself in a story of repeating loss. Trail Weight chronicles Andrew’s journey as he narrates a year of his life. Through audio diaries, recordings from the trail, and conversations with authors, experts, Olympians, and special guests, Andrew takes listeners through an eye-opening adventure of self-discovery.Click here to listen to Trail Weight***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Creative elements, you might enjoy reading, writing, and storytelling. We'd like to suggest you also try Rocketship.fm and Freelance to Founder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bijan Stephen is a writer, editor, and video correspondent based in Brooklyn, NY. He covers Twitch and Streaming at The Verge and a music critic at The Nation.Independently, he co-hosts a show on Twitch called One Time On The Internet, streams, and is a character on an actual play podcast called Fun City.In this episode we talk about Bijan’s experience in journalism, why he decided freelancing wasn’t for him, the differences between gaming and streaming, what it takes to get started streaming, and a whole bunch of other things internet culture.Read Bijan's guide to streaming on The VergeTranscript and show notes can be found hereTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerJoin our community on FacebookWant to support this show? Click here to buy me a coffee.Brought to you by The Podglomerate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cole Cuchna is the creator of Dissect, a serialized music podcast that examines a single album per season, one song per episode.Dissect was named "Best podcast of 2017" by Quartz, and the following year was named "Best podcast of 2018" by the New York Times. In this episode, we talk about Cole’s attempt at being a professional musician, his love of creative writing, the beginning of Dissect, and how his perseverance through late nights paid off in helping him create Dissect full time.Listen to DissectTranscript and show notes can be found hereTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerJoin our community on FacebookWant to support this show? Click here to buy me a coffee.Brought to you by The Podglomerate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dickie Bush is a macro investor and the creator of Ship 30 for 30, a community of writers developing a writing habit in 30 days.He is passionate about providing writers and creators with the tools, resources, processes, and mindsets required to find points of leverage and achieve exponential growth—both personally and professionally.In this episode we talk about Dickie’s humble newsletter beginnings, his experimentation with Twitter, the growth of Ship 30 for 30, and why listening to feedback loops has helped him turn the flywheel of growth so quickly.Join Ship 30 for 30 and save $20Follow Dickie on TwitterTranscript and show notes can be found hereTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerJoin our community on FacebookWant to support this show? Click here to buy me a coffee.Brought to you by The Podglomerate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick DenBoer (also known as Smearballs) a director, animator, editor, music producer, remix artist and self-proclaimed "all around great guy."With a following of 75,000 on Instagram and 25,000 subscribers on YouTube, Nick has worked with clients including Conan, deadmau5, KFC, Old Spice, Wieden + Kennedy, and more.Nick has an incredibly unique style of animation, and has recently begun selling his work independently as NFTs on the crypto art platform SuperRare.In this episode we talk about Nick’s creative process, the origin of the name Smearballs, his evolution on YouTube working with Conan, NFTs, and how his personal projects have opened new doors for him all along the way.Visit Nick DenBoer's websiteFollow Smearballs on InstagramFollow Smearballs on YouTubeFollow Smearballs on SuperRareSEXTAPE remix videoTranscript and show notes can be found hereTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerJoin our community on FacebookWant to support this show? Click here to buy me a coffee.Brought to you by The Podglomerate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Corey Haines is the creator of Swipe Files, a membership site that provides content, community, and courses to help you master marketing.Corey curates marketing examples, copywriting help, and more through his newsletter, membership community, and podcast.In this episode we talk about Corey’s five pillars of Growth, how he achieved early traction with Swipe Files, why he decided to go full time, and a complete strategy for using Product Hunt to get in front of potential fans and customers.Click here to join Swipe Files. Save 50% by using promo code "ELEMENTS"Transcript and show notes can be found hereTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerJoin our community on FacebookWant to support this show? Click here to buy me a coffee.Brought to you by The Podglomerate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rosie Sherry is the creator of Rosieland, a community and resource hub for community builders. She previously led community for Indie Hackers, a community of more than 140,000 independent makers.In this episode we talk about Rosie’s history of building community with Ministry of Testing, what she learned through her time at Indie Hackers, the different forms “community” can take, and why trust is at the heart of improving community participation.Transcript and show notes can be found hereTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerJoin our community on FacebookWant to support this show? Click here to buy me a coffee.Brought to you by The Podglomerate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this bonus episode, I'm talking with Courtland Allen, the founder of Indie Hackers. As I’ve shared a couple times over the last few months, my accelerator and community Unreal Collective was acquired by Smart Passive Income in January of this year.I wrote an article about the acquisition, and it got quite a bit of attention. One of the places it got shared was on Indie Hackers, a massive online community of nearly 30,000 people trying to build profitable side projects.It was originally shared by Rosie Sherry, the then-community manager for Indie Hackers. And the founder of Indie Hackers, Courtland Allen, left a really thoughtful comment on the piece too.Indie Hackers itself was once acquired by Stripe, and now Courtland works for Stripe while building the community full time. So we had a lot of common ground.In this episode, Cortland and I talk about the acquisition, earning a living as a creator, why I don’t really like Clubhouse, and how to build a community online.Courtland is an incredibly smart creator himself, and I’m excited to interview HIM on Creative Elements here soon.Try Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerJoin our community on FacebookWant to support this show? Click here to buy me a coffee.Brought to you by The Podglomerate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amy Landino is the creator of the award-winning series AmyTV and author of the best-selling book Vlog Like a Boss; How to Kill It Online With Video Blogging. With nearly 400K YouTube subscribers and over 23 million views, Amy has empowered people from over 100 countries all over the world to go after the life they want. In this episode we talk about leveraging YouTube, building an audience, creating a persona, and how Routine has been at the center of her entire content journey.Transcript and show notes can be found hereTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerJoin our community on FacebookWant to support this show? Click here to buy me a coffee.Brought to you by The Podglomerate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lalese Stamps is a ceramicist and the founder of Lolly Lolly Ceramics, a small-scale ceramics production and design studio.Since undertaking a 100 day project at the end of 2019, Lolly Lolly Ceramics has grown to more than 100K followers on Instagram.In this episode we talk about Lalese’s start to ceramics, the process of making a mug, growing a large following overnight, brand partnerships, and how her tenacity has helped her to make the most out of her opportunities.Transcript and show notes can be found hereTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerJoin our community on FacebookWant to support this show? Click here to buy me a coffee.Brought to you by The Podglomerate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah McAllister is the Founder, Director and CEO of GoCleanCo, a widely sought after cleaning company in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The GoCleanCo Instagram account serves more than 1.8M followers today with cleaning hacks and tips.In this episode we talk about Sarah’s scrappy beginnings, how hard it was to even pay herself in the early days, accidentally selling out products on Amazon, and Sarah’s best advice for growing a following on Instagram.Transcript and show notes can be found hereTry Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listenerJoin our community on FacebookWant to support this show? Click here to buy me a coffee.Brought to you by The Podglomerate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices