Meet Your Host
The Purpose To Profit Design Business Summit is sponsored by:
Freelance Entrepreneur & The IGNITE Business Accelerator
Mat Casner: Summit Founder
Masterclass: Design Business Blueprint- The Keys to Building a Purposeful and Profitable Business
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I'm Mat, Freelance Entrepreneur. A design business veteran, design business mentor creator of the IGNITE Business Accelerator program and founder of the Purpose To Profit Design Business Summit.
I've been a designer for 30 years, but for the first 15 of those years, I was slowly suffocating, designing from a cubicle in a corporate office.
Then, one day, 15 years ago, I made the leap to freedom: entrepreneurship.
Even though it was terrifying to leave my stable income behind, I wanted more. I wanted to reach my full potential as a person and professional.
I wanted to be able to earn an income that I knew my skills were worth. I wanted to pick the clients I worked with. I wanted to have the flexibility to work when and where I choose.
The only problem? It turned out that starting a design business required a lot more than my design skills.
Today, I have clients in my business with lifetime values over $1M each. But, it took years of painful trial and error to build my business and finally get to this place of freedom, where my design business supports me and my family and allows me the opportunity to invest in those things that matter most.
I created this summit for YOU... so you could go further, faster in your business.
And, hopefully have some fun along the way!
Blessings,
Mat
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Meet Your Speakers
Bonnie Bakhtiari
3 Mindsets To Master To Reach 6-Figures
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Bonnie is a brand strategist and designer for creative entrepreneurs, an international speaker, and a coach for designers just like you! Since 2012, Bonnie has crafted high converting brands for her design clients. She currently teaches fellow designers how to break up with the feast or famine cycle for good using her signature brand strategy approach as taught in her program, the Brand Strategy School. She's based in beautiful Waco, Texas with her husband of almost eight years and their two rambunctious golden retrievers, Boone and Quinn.
Tracy Beavers
Selling Without Selling
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Tracy Beavers has more than twenty years experience in sales and marketing. As the owner of three businesses, she understands the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship. She loves sales, she loves networking, and she wants you to love it too! Throughout her careers, one fact remained constant: her love of people and her passion to help them WIN. As a business/sales coach, Tracy enjoys helping small business owners scale to their next level with a clear roadmap for success. She is a public speaker, a published author, has been featured on top business podcasts, and has been a regular contributor on one of her hometown’s premier tv shows. Tracy graduated cum laude from the University of Tulsa in 1992. She and her husband Jon reside in Arkansas, have two children and a beloved English labrador.
Jacob Cass
How to Grow a Brand FAST: Strategy to Execution
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Jacob Cass is a brand designer, strategist, educator, business coach and the founder of JUST Creative, a branding & design consultancy that doubles as an industry-leading blog and community.
Monte Clark
The Art of Linkedin
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Monte Clark is a public speaker, author, and co-founder of Abound Social, a social marketing and sales company. Monte is listed number 11 in Global Guru's top 30 for 2021 and number 10 for 2022. He is widely considered one of the foremost thinkers and strategists of internet marketing and sales on Linkedin. He has owned four companies including relevant (social marketing agency), commercial real estate services, and an e-commerce company. He was Vice President of Marketing for Quality Group of Companies in Kansas City before starting Abound Social. Monte has served as fractional CMO for multiple companies in the B2B space. Monte coaches business owners and executives across the globe on how to unify their marketing and sales teams through brand messaging and social proof. Monte is the lead author of “Mastering Linkedin, Professional Lead Generation” published in 2019.
Tayloe Clements
How To Build A Client Persona That Will Help You Attract Dream Design Clients
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Tayloe Clements is a marketing expert specializing in content strategy, social media, and digital advertising. For nearly a decade, she has helped businesses and non-profits increase their visibility, conversions, and effectiveness. Her diverse background includes a wide variety of institutions, including global non-profits, ESPN 3, Blood-Horse Magazine, the Presidential Inauguration, Longwood University, and Banker Steel, among others. Now, Tayloe advises organizations through her company, Tayloe Marketing Advisor, and serves as the Digital Marketing Manager for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). Tayloe is passionate about teaching and encouraging people to dive deep into their marketing efforts.
Sara Crady & Mike Parker
Recurring Revenue with Website Maintenance Plans
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See how website maintenance plans can provide a reliable source of recurring revenue for your business and delight your clients.
Sara has been working closely with WP Engine's Agency Partners for over 4 years. Her role is to understand each partner's unique needs and help them leverage the platform in the best possible way for their business and clients.
Mike has been working with WP Engine's agency partners for over 5 years. He's a great internal advocate for our partners and is passionate about providing them with the right technology to streamline their business and impress their clients.
Gigi Davarashvili
5 Actionable Strategies to Find Your Next Paying Client (that you'll love)
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Providing a no-BS approach to running a strategic, structured, and profitable design business, Gigi doesn't believe in vanity metrics, highlight reels, or false expectations. So you'll constantly see her stepping away from the typical "6-figure year" and "$10K months" lingo and disrupting the space by teaching the importance of building a version of success that aligns with you.
Nicole Evans
Supercharge Your Business Growth With Digital Products And Services
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Before creating Studiocart, Nicole was a lead designer at Marketing Experiments, an online marketing research firm used by Tim Ferris and mentioned in his book, The 4-Hour Work Week. She then founded N.Creatives, a boutique web design agency that specialized in building online homes for thought leaders, coaches, and best-selling authors. Her past clients include Rachel Rodgers, Robert Hartwell, Elizabeth Rider, and Dawn Jackson Blatner, among many others.
Hayley Fedders
Project Proposals That Convert Like Crazy
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Hayley also believes in community over competition which is why Studio Seaside offers both free and paid online coaching programs for graphic designers looking to streamline their design processes.
Erin Flynn
Automate your Client Screening and Onboarding with an Intro Packet
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Erin Flynn is the founder of Out of Office Entrepreneur, where she helps creative entrepreneurs systematize and automate their businesses so that they can spend more time out of office. After starting her own business in 2012 and finding that she was glued to her computer 24/7, Erin started simplifying and systematizing her business. Now, Erin runs a 6-figure business and works just 10-hour weeks (without a team!), and wants to help other creative entrepreneurs do the same.
Josh Hall
How To Get Better Web Design Clients
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Josh is first and foremost a husband and girl dad (x2) who lives and works from home with his family in Columbus Ohio. Professionally, he’s a web design coach, podcast host and web design agency founder. Josh was a professional web designer who built and scaled his own agency for a decade before selling it in 2020 to focus full time on teaching other aspiring web designers on how to build businesses of their own. Through his online courses, podcast (The Josh Hall Web Design Show), YouTube Channel and blog, he teaches web designers and web entrepreneurs from around the world how to build awesome websites and build and grow their own web design business to allow them the freedom to have the lifestyle they want to live.
Laura Kåmark
How to Turn Your Websites into Marketing Machines
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Website and tech integrations specialist for business owners who love their work but NOT their website. Laura helps coaches and consultants so they feel empowered to show up online and take their business to the next level. She also partners with brand and web designers who want to stay in their zone of genius and outsource the development and tech.
Danielle Levy
Summer Cleaning For Your Business. How to Get Your House In Order.
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Danielle Levy is the CEO and Founder of The Boardroom League. A sought-after executive who has helped six and seven-figure businesses expand with clarity and efficiency, Danielle established The Boardroom League to give other entrepreneurs a little black book of trusted industry professionals to help them implement and scale their businesses. The Boardroom League consists of experts in a variety of fields; including metrics, design, copywriting, strategic pricing, funnels, social media, and more. Danielle’s vision came to life when she realized that she was taking this team of experts with her from project to project, and recognized that other entrepreneurs could benefit from her trusted team as well. She holds an MBA, is certified as a Project Management Professional, and is a Certified Online Business Manager. An energetic mother of two boys, Danielle understands the balance of being both a hockey Mom and a successful entrepreneur.
Sarah Masci
Scale Your Services with VIP Days & Day Rates
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Sarah is the CEO and Founder Day Rate Mastery®, an online company that teaches expert service providers how to work less and make more with a streamlined “VIP Day” business model. Years of running a traditional design business, filled with scope creep, inconsistent timelines and overlapping client projects, eventually resulted in classic burnout– becoming the catalyst that sparked Sarah’s desire to create a better process. Since its inception in 2019, Day Rate Mastery® has helped thousands of freelancers rediscover joy in their work and the freedom they’d lost along the way.
Shannon Mattern
Premium Pricing Framework
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Shannon Mattern has been coaching + mentoring web designers for 6+ years to create profitable, sustainable and scalable web design businesses. She's the founder of the Web Designer Academy where she teaches simple yet powerful marketing tactics combined with innovative and authentic sales strategies to freelance web designers so they can increase their revenue (without increasing their workload). Shannon's mission is to help freelance designers create freedom, flexibility, financial independence and impact.
Jacqui Money
The Secret to Getting Client Prep Work with Ease
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Jacqui Money is a South African entrepreneur & tiny house enthusiast who specializes in helping introverted service providers and coaches scale their online business without hiring a huge team if they don't want to. She has a BA in Business Administration and a post-graduate honors degree in Psychology. When she's not working her magic on clients systems' and automation's you will find her spending time with her fur and feather kids or planting her food forest.
Kevin Palache
Shield Your Business: How to Protect Your Design Business From Tough Legal Issues
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In 2003 Kevin started as an Independent Associate with LegalShield. He is now a field leader with the company and was recently appointed as Regional Director for the State of Connecticut. His mission is to educate the community about the dangers of identity theft as well as help to empower members to fulfill the goal of making equal justice under law a reality by giving them affordable access to quality attorneys for personal and business matters.
Kevin has conducted seminars in the community for schools, churches, community-based organizations, and several companies. He is married with two children and enjoys time with his family and engaging in personal development. He currently volunteers on the board of directors for The Auerfarm: A 4-H Education Center and the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce.
Chaitra Radhakrishna
How to Scale Your Web Design Business by Booking Consistent High-end ($10k) Projects
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Chaitra is the founder of Pinkpot Studio which is a Shopify design studio for product based businesses. After taking a long maternity break, she got to rebuilding her design studio in Jan 2020 and within a year was able to scale her income to 6-fig by booking consistent high-end $10K website projects while working less than 20 hours / week. She believes that being kind, doing good work and working from a place of rest can go a long way in growing a business. She is on a mission to help other web designers raise their prices, design high-end websites and scale their income doing what they love.
Emily Reagan
How To Set your Prices And Charge The True Value Of Your Creative Services
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Emily Reagan is a jill-of-all-trades when it comes to digital marketing and techie skills. She’s worked as a behind-the-scenes digital media implementer and freelancer for a decade for online biz owner clients. She’s the founder of the Unicorn Digital Marketing Assistant School, where she teaches women the digital marketing skills to get hired online as an in-demand, highly sought-after unicorn digital marketing assistant.
Jason Resnick
Selling on Autopilot Using Email Automation
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I help Course Creators, Digital Product Owners, and Coaches double revenue from their email list in 90 days without using email as a blunt tool to broadcast to everyone. So that they, as the business owner, can build a business designed around the life they want to live.
Marissa Roberts
6 Email Templates that Save Time, Effort, and Stress in your Design Business
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Host of The Simpler Business podcast, Marissa Roberts is passionate about helping business owners, service providers and entrepreneurs find simpler and easier ways to run their businesses. As a mum of two who built her first business working just 10 hours a week or less, Marissa has collected lots of ideas, hacks, and strategies along the way to help you simplify tasks, save time and make work easier - without sacrificing your income or lifestyle.
Jimmy Rose
Productivity Systems, Tools And Tips That Will Help Save You 100+ Hours Per Month
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Jimmy is the co-founder of Content Snare—a software platform that helps professionals collect content & files from clients. Once an automation engineer, his new priority is to help business owners regain their lives, be more productive and get more done in less time.
Jeramy Smith
Freelancer Tax Talk
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With more than 27 years as a Texas Certified Public Accountant, Jeramy Smith has brought tax savings and optimized financial strategies to hundreds of small business clients throughout the US. While his boutique CPA firm focuses on serving Texas-based dental practices, his desire to help all small business owners, freelancers, and solopreneurs reaches across all state lines and business types. He regularly invests a significant amount of time to keep up with the ever-changing tax laws and use the available rules to help business owners legally lower their taxes. Jeramy has presented to many groups in different industries about recordkeeping, bookkeeping, tax basics, entity choice, tax planning, and other financial topics important to small business owners.
Krista Walsh
Website Copywriting & Strategy: Make Your Website A Lead-Generating Machine
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Krista Walsh is a website copywriter and strategist for client-based businesses, which means that she writes your website so that you not only attract more clients but also the right clients, the kind who are confident they want to work with you — and won’t settle for anyone else. As a result, your website goes from “existing” to a lead-generating machine working for you around the clock. And you can get back to focusing on your craft, business, and impact! Krista’s clients have gone on to book 4-figure services straight from their website without sales calls and rank in the top 5 of Google search results for competitive search terms. Outside of her work as a copywriter, Krista enjoys watching TV shows about suburban moms who get in over their heads and end up living lives of crime.
Amanda Warfield
3 Ways To Create Consistent Content (and Turn Lurkers Into Clients)
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Amanda is a simplicity-focused content marketing strategist, and host of Chasing Simple - a podcast to help creative entrepreneurs uncomplicate their life and biz. She traded in her classroom lesson plans for speaking and educating creative entrepreneurs on sustainably fitting content marketing into their business without it taking over their business. Now a two-time business owner, she spends her time helping 1:1 clients creating content marketing plans and teaching her students to batch their content so that they have time to move the needle in their business and find work/life balance. If her nose isn't in a book, you can find Amanda annoying her husband by slipping Disney into every conversation, or forcing her cats to snuggle.
George Weyrauch II
Powerful Sales Tactics Used In Ad Agency Business Development That Will Bring You Clients
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George is a 30 year veteran of the Kansas City agency community. George is a coach and a mentor to ad agency business development professionals. A self-described relationship evangelist, George combines his business smarts and desire to listen and help connect people to the right resources at the right time and for the right reasons.
Steph Wharton
Scaling Sustainably Through Visibility
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Steph is a quirky Latina known as the queen of leadership + visibility, who thrives on breaking the rules and prioritizing fun in life and business. She specializes in helping folks diversify their marketing beyond social media through strategic partnerships that expose them to untapped audiences filled with dream clients ready to invest. Steph is known for her signature visibility framework—the exact framework that brought in $22k in sales from one podcast interview alone, got her in front of 6,600 folks who saw her as a leader they could trust, and welcomed 1,700 folks into her challenge on the first week of launching. When Steph isn't coaching clients on all things business, you can find her with a big glass of red wine, watching Spanish shows on Netflix, and making tacos. Let’s be honest, she's day-dreaming of one day living in a Spanish villa! It's a whole damn vibeeee.
Esther Yew
The Foundations Of Building A Thriving Design Business
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She helps freelance and aspiring creatives entrepreneurs ditch the overwhelm and confusion of building a business with the community and resources they need to go from confused freelancers to confident founders.