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In episode 12 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast we are talking about the importance to invest in yourself in order to have your Zazzle business grow and succeed.
When we both started out, we had no idea how to get to our dream goal but now we have achieved it. We’ve both made 1.5 million dollars combined and counting. In this episode, we are going to share strategies and ways you can start to invest in yourself to get more of what you want in your Zazzle business.
But before we dive right in, let us introduce ourselves in case this is your first visit. Welcome to The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast. We’re your hosts, Jen and Elke Clarke. We are a mother and daughter team that started Zazzle e-commerce businesses over 10 years ago and have sold over 15 million dollars-worth and counting of products on Zazzle.
The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast is for you, the creative. We share actionable steps that you can take to make money in your e-commerce business. In each episode, we will take you one step closer to achieving freedom with your time, location, and finances.
We believe that a profitable e-commerce business is what opens the doors for you to start living your dream life if you work smarter, not harder, use the right tools and follow the proven roadmap. We’re here to give you the tools you need to make your dream life happen. Let’s get started!
Check out the summary below for more insight on how to invest in yourself to get more of what you want. For more details on the importance of investing in yourself, listen to ALL of episode 12 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast on your preferred streaming platform!
When we both started out on Zazzle, there wasn’t anyone filling a role that we both fill now for our students. There were no mentors or teachers on how to create a profitable Zazzle business. This required us to be more attentive in terms of investing in ourselves. We watched a lot of Youtube videos on how to use photoshop more effectively, we invested in graphics, and we also looked to business coaches for general ideas. We took all this information and created our 5 Strategies that we used to earn 1.5 million combined on Zazzle. Then we created The Profit by Design Academy™ to teach our 5 Strategies to other Zazzle designers who wanted to succeed on Zazzle.
Our students in The Profit by Design Academy™ are achieving amazing results. Before investing in themselves they were struggling to get results on Zazzle. Now they realize the importance of investing in themselves and getting the information they can’t always figure out on their own. The most important thing to keep in mind when you invest in yourself is to seek out expert advice from those who have already accomplished what you want to accomplish.
What is stopping you from investing in yourself? Whether it’s to finally go to that personal trainer and get the fitness plan to achieve your goals, or start your Zazzle business and or improve your income, ask yourself what is getting in the way of you taking the first step? Why are you stopping yourself from investing in your development to finally achieve your goals? We can tell you that based upon experience if you keep putting roadblocks in the way of investing in yourself, you will be faced with many challenges and hurdles that could be avoided. It took us 13 years to make 1.5 million combined. Even though that is a nice amount of money, if we had a coach similar to us when we had first started, we would be so much further ahead and probably making 10x as much.
If you find yourself with fear and questions around whether your dream goals are even possible, know that you’re not alone. We see this in our students who come in before our courses or mastermind. They want the facts. They want to know if this is going to work. They want to know there’s a guarantee to make money. The truth is that there is no guarantee you will make money. However, there is a guarantee that if you work smarter rather than harder, you will get to your results faster as opposed to doing it all on your own with no guidance. We see results in our students who sit down and do the work with a proven plan, those are the students seeing results. When you find yourself creating this fear and doubt in your mind, you have to have a mindset shift. You have to start believing it will work and you will find your success.
We have provided a lot of free content on our platforms, and we do realize there are people who only listen to the free content but won’t invest in the paid content that we offer. This could be due to several reasons. Maybe they don’t see the value in the investment or maybe they don’t feel worthy to invest in themselves. Granted, there may be circumstances in which you aren’t in a financial position to pay for training, but there are also circumstances where you could find the money if you truly wanted to. When you tell yourself you truly need something, like a car, you find the money to get it. This is the mindset you have to have when it comes to investing in yourself. You need it because it could change your life.
Put the Zazzle business and what it will accomplish for you first, and all of a sudden you will find the money to invest. You will believe it’s valuable to you. Also, you will get so much out of the investment if you have this mindset. That’s the best situation to be in, now you’re in a position where you will become one of our best students and you will make sure you get the most of your investment. We are both here to serve, anybody who is interested in learning and investing in themselves, know that we are completely here to support you. Remember, you are signing up for how to make money on Zazzle, and you’re joining a course that people have proven works. Be fully invested, not just financially.
The beginning is always the scariest in terms of investing, but you have to go through the journey to eventually realize it wasn’t so hard to invest in yourself after all and it was well worth it. You will also realize there are more opportunities once you start and the possibilities are endless. We hope that you have this realization and put yourself on this journey to not only invest, but know that you are capable of amazing results. You are worth it and you have what it takes to be anything that you want. You just need the tools and expert guidance to do so. Now it’s just a matter of you starting!
Thank you so much for checking out The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast! We hope this episode has given you actionable steps to start and scale your Zazzle business so your passive online income can give you the location and time freedom to live your dream life.
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Jen and Elke Clarke are a mother-daughter duo that empowers women entrepreneurs to make money online. Through courses and coaching, Jen and Elke help women (and men) become successful creative entrepreneurs on Zazzle and e-commerce. Combined Jen and Elke have sold over 15 million dollars-worth of products, and earned over $1.5 million combined through their businesses on Zazzle. Jen and Elke have influenced and transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with their free content, paid and private coaching.
They are international, award-winning authors. Click the links to purchase their books through Amazon: Earn Around The World and Create Online and Grow Rich.
Jen and Elke Clarke have been featured in Yahoo Finance as TOP 5 e-commerce coaches.
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