Stay ConnectedWelcome to the Onward Creatives Podcast. A weekly podcast bridging the gap between creativity and business.
This podcast is for the creative entrepreneur, the one’s who dare, dream and do.
Each week I help you find clarity and take action so you can make a living doing what you love. The journey onward starts here.
The struggle is consistent and we all have the same issue....how do we sell? If you look up selling you'll be overwhelmed with sales funnels, FB ads and sales funnels....enough of this! These are tools you can use but not the substance of selling. Let's cut through the junk and lay the foundation for sales.
Zig Ziglar says "Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."
Here are the four steps you can take to establish the foundation for selling:
1. Develop a strong brand identity 2. Build a narrative 3. Engage the tribe 4. Deliver on what you promise
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. We're Valentina and Jack Fussell, creative entrepreneurs. This podcast is for the creative dreamers and doers. Each week we bring insights, resources, and support to help you take your business to the next level. The journey onward starts here.
Join us on FB Live each Monday night, 7:30 pm EST.
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How do we stay motivated when the results come in slow? When nothing seems to be happening? When it seems like we're alone on the journey?
1. Think about the end of the story
2.Live in Community. Join the Creative Circus!
3.Celebrate Everything
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. We're Valentina and Jack Fussell, creative entrepreneurs. This podcast is for the creative dreamers and doers. Each week we bring insights, resources, and support to help you take your business to the next level. The journey onward starts here.
Join us on FB Live each Monday night, 7:30 pm EST.
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
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Self awareness is key for both the individual and the company. Being truly self aware is the difference between the shadow of success and true success. There are costs and benefits to achieve self awareness. It requires:
1. Time/energy 2. Courage 3. Action
It provides you with:
1. Confidence 2. Courage 3. Framework
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. We're Valentina and Jack Fussell, creative entrepreneurs. This podcast is for the creative dreamers and doers. Each week we bring insights, resources, and support to help you take your business to the next level. The journey onward starts here.
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
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If success is Identity + Alignment = Success then we have to ask....
What is identity?
How does it differ from what we do? What is true identity and what does it bring us?
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. We're Valentina and Jack Fussell, creative entrepreneurs. This podcast is for the creative dreamers and doers. Each week we bring insights, resources, and support to help you take your business to the next level. The journey onward starts here.
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
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What is success?
Everyone has an answer and most of them are in conflict with each other. So out of all the answers out there....which one is the true answer. I think I know....
Success is to know who you are and to live in alignment with that identity. In math terms.... identity+alignment=success
It's true not only in our personal lives but also in business. This podcast will change the conversation. Are you ready to truly be successful?
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. We're Valentina and Jack Fussell, creative entrepreneurs. This podcast is for the creative dreamers and doers. Each week we bring insights, resources, and support to help you take your business to the next level. The journey onward starts here.
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
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Setbacks, roadblocks and defeats....we all face them. The difference between long term success and failure is how we respond/deal with them. Here are the four ways: 1. Know that it happens to everyone 2. Reflect and learn from them 3. Take back control 4. Pivot and keep going
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. We're Valentina and Jack Fussell, creative entrepreneurs. This podcast is for the creative dreamers and doers. Each week we bring insights, resources, and support to help you take your business to the next level. The journey onward starts here.
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
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Let's be practical! This episode is for anyone who is...
1. Looking for a job
2. Transitioning to a new career OR
3. Trying to get people to hire your company
These are Four Ways that you can stand out and get the job.
1. Be on Social Media 2. Establish yourself as a thought leader 3. Buy your own domain and have a landing page 4. Get creative and stand out
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. We're Valentina and Jack Fussell, creative entrepreneurs. This podcast is for the creative dreamers and doers. Each week we bring insights, resources, and support to help you take your business to the next level. The journey onward starts here.
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can Follow Jack at:
Building a brand?
If so, listen to our other podcast Human Centric is the New Black
Selling....it's the thing we all struggle with....and the thing we need the most. We usually approach selling with this attitude...."tell them why I'm so great....why my product is better." This approach used to work....but now the competition is stiff and global and proving "better-then" is more difficult than ever. So how do we sell?
We sell the narrative over the product. We sell the solution not the details. Here are three ways to discover and sell your narrative:
1.Know your audience and the problem they need solving 2. Position your brand as the solution 3. Communicate this consistently
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. We're Valentina and Jack Fussell, creative entrepreneurs. This podcast is for the creative dreamers and doers. Each week we bring insights, resources, and support to help you take your business to the next level. The journey onward starts here.
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
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Building a brand?
If so, listen to our other podcast Human Centric is the New Black
How do you get the word out? How do you use messaging and communications to stand out from the others?
Here's the messaging framework:
1. What makes you distinct? How are you unique?
2. Who is your customer?
3. Good communications is about them, not you
Listen to The Chobani Way: Focused on the How and Why
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. We're Valentina and Jack Fussell, creative entrepreneurs. This podcast is for the creative dreamers and doers. Each week we bring insights, resources, and support to help you take your business to the next level. The journey onward starts here.
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can Follow Jack at:
Building a brand?
If so, listen to our other podcast Human Centric is the New Black
What we want is what we already had.....human experience....human interactions. Business is the same as it always has been....human in it's very nature. Networking can be difficult to navigate and usually brings to mind cheap ballrooms and stacks of business cards, I say we can do it better.
You can build a better network....here's how!
1. Know who you want to connect with. Go beyond the broad label and know who they are, what they want, what they value and where they gather.
2. Network around something other than your job. If you're a wedding photographer don't network with other photographers. If you know who you want to connect with....then look at the other angles of who you are and connect with people there. Be creative and add value!
3. Network around a message. Nike did it in their "Find Your Greatness" ad series. Apple did it in their "Think Different" campaign. Neither mentioned their product or their details....they connected with an audience around a worldview, a philosophy. What is your message?
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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. We're Valentina and Jack Fussell, creative entrepreneurs. This podcast is for the creative dreamers and doers. Each week we bring insights, resources, and support to help you take your business to the next level. The journey onward starts here.
For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:
You can Follow Jack at:
Building a brand?
If so, listen to our other podcast Human Centric is the New Black
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