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The Factors Method: this simple idea will revolutionize your business. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/support

Your costs went up, so you raise your rates, right? Wrong. Set your rates based on the value you create for your clients instead. Listen to this 10-min RevThoughts episode every time you're writing a proposal. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/support

This is a special edition of the RevThinking Podcast, hosted by Advisor Emmett Armstrong and Community Manager Connor Thompson. They're talking about our online community of creative owners, the ones behind the world’s leading studios and production companies in motion, production, experiential, and sound. Membership is open to owners & partners of creative firms.  Apply here to join: https://...

When it comes to sales, every owner believes: “We have a sales problem.” However, in our experience a SALES problem is a symptom of a deeper problem: MARKETING. We have good news. To finally solve this deeper problem, Joel has developed a 4-step method to create a simple marketing system that just works. (This topic is the current 4-week focus in his Confab group.) What has the group learned so fa...

In this episode, we discuss The Factors Method and how it helps creative entrepreneurs project into their future while keeping the business viable and staying true to promises made to clients, the staff, and yourself. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/support

RevThoughts: The Rug Pull

RevThoughts: Tesla 

“How much budget do we have left to spend?” is actually the wrong question. Producers / Production Managers: this snackable episode is for you! We dig into the most common production miscommunication to shine a light on ways to complete projects on-budget – with profit – every time. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/message Support this podcast: https...

In this episode, we share the game-changing SalesTechnique and the way it develops creative entrepreneurs' internal confidence when connecting with prospective clients. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/support

This episode we're learning how letting go of the old strategies makes projects prosper. Cameron Woodward is the cofounder and CMO at Wrapbook, a powerful and easy to use platform for production management that enables producers to tackle onboarding, timecards, payroll, and insurance. Exclusive: Sign up for a demo using the link below and Wrapbook will waive your set-up fee if you choose to procee...

The war in Ukraine seems distant… until it impacts someone just like you. Then it becomes much more real. Imagine one day you are a creative person shooting a comedy commercial, then the next day you become a soldier utterly obsessed with shooting your enemy. For Oleg Tomin, creative director at Kyiv-based creative agency BART&FINK, this is all too real, right now. I recorded this interview wi...

This is a snackable conversation that discusses the biggest questions creative entrepreneurs should ask their clients to get access to their biggest challenges with RevThink Owner Tim Thompson

For this episode of the RevThinking podcast we talk with Denny Tu, CMO at IMAX. We chat openly about things that work and don’t work in the creative client/agency relationship: pitches and presentations, the importance of understanding the difference between creative, strategy and commerce, as well as how to give “bad” feedback well. To hear Denny’s background, this podcast shares more of his stor...

This content was originally aired as a live interactive session on the new platform “Fishbowl”. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/support

This is a Weekly Briefing conversation in which we dive into why it is so hard to get the difference right between rate, cost, and price. This is also an opportunity to remind everyone that creative entrepreneurs are not selling hours, rates, services, etc. The product is, in fact, a solution that brilliantly solves the client's problem and produces the greatest value. 

For this episode of the RevThinking podcast we are excited to 'go back'. We are going to be sharing what we call the "best of" episodes with you. Recasting the top episodes from that past one hundred episodes of the RevThinking Podcast. Tim Thompson is a consultant and Chief Revolution Thinker at RevThink. In this episode, we discuss the question: when your studio is ready to hire a full-time sale...

For this episode of the RevThinking podcast we are excited to 'go back'. We are going to be sharing what we call the "best of" episodes with you. Recasting the top episodes from that past one hundred episodes of the RevThinking Podcast. “All I need is my family, a bottle of wine, and some warm weather, and I’m happy.” – Joey Korenman In this episode of the RevThinking podcast, we speak with Joey K...

For this episode of the RevThinking podcast we are excited to 'go back'. We are going to be sharing what we call the "best of" episodes with you. Recasting the top episodes from that past one hundred episodes of the RevThinking Podcast. Robert Blatchford is a brand strategist and management consultant at Makebrave. In this episode, Joel Pilger and Tim Thompson interview Robert to get a peek inside...

You love running your creative business, so why would you ever exit? Author and Value Builder founder John Warrillow offers an unexpected, real-world perspective that might just change the trajectory of your creative firm. 

What does it take to run the thriving LA-based creative studio Laundry? The answers will surprise and inspire you.

Darren Price is ECD and Founder at Mighty Nice, the Sydney-based animation studio now recognized among the industry leaders in Australia for creative animated solutions. Darren reckons that animation is like beer...or sunshine. With enough of it, everything starts to look good. Technically brilliant, strong in narrative, and beautiful to watch - it's similarities to beer quickly end, but animation...

The day before the US Presidential Election – and on the heels of BLM and the ongoing COVID pandemic – Ashley Kohler discusses her journey as a creative entrepreneur.  Ashley is President & Executive Producer of Awesome Incorporated, known for both commercial and series production. Prior to starting Awesome Inc, Mrs. Kohler spent seven years at Cartoon Network, ultimately serving as Director o...

"That's the bit that's been really interesting to me is, can we not sacrifice our creative morals for the sake of commerce? Can both of those things exist?" – David Sheldon-Hicks In this episode of the RevThinking podcast, we have a conversation with David Sheldon-Hicks, Founder at Territory Studio. 

“It’s a very delicate ecosystem but really my job as the owner is to make sure the company is healthy. It’s almost like a child or a person that I am caretaker of.” – Erin Sarofsky, Sarofsky In this episode of the RevThinking podcast, Joel Pilger sits down with Erin Sarofsky, ECD And owner at eminent creative studio Sarofsky. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rev...

“The studio has a story arc, and then every project is its own story arc, and your relationship with that client is a story arc, and then you have a bunch of staff that have their own story arc. And I think that with enough thought and intention, you can line those things up.” – Jay Grandin, Partner + Creative Director at Giant Ant In this episode of the RevThinking podcast, Joel Pilger explores a...