Resources For Creative Entrepreneurs

I put together this page to share with you all the resources I’ve created and found that will help you grow your audience and business.

Resources I’ve Created

For The Interested Newsletter

My free newsletter featuring proven strategies to help experts grow their business. There’s a reason 40,000 experts read it every week.

Skill Sessions

A collection of video presentations where I share simple systems and strategies to speed up your audience and business growth.

The Content Compass

A Skill Session showing you how to find share-worthy content.

Write Your Most Successful Blog Post Ever

A Skill Session showing you how to write the best blog post you’ve ever written.

80-Minute Social Media Mastery

A video presentation featuring 20 specific actions you can take today to get more value out of social media.

The Newsletter Accelerator

A course to help you grow your newsletter based on proven tactics and strategies I’ve used to grow mine to 18,000 subscribers.

For The Interested Sponsorships

An effective way to introduce your content, product, or service to the 18,000+ creative entrepreneurs who read my newsletter.

Secrets of Successful Creators vol 1

A pay-what-you-can ebook featuring 256 strategies from the world’s most successful creative entrepreneurs to grow your audience and business.

Secrets of Successful Creators vol 2

A pay-what-you-can ebook featuring 254 more strategies from the world’s most successful creative entrepreneurs to grow your audience and business.

The Marketing Podcasts Playlist

When I find a great episode of a marketing-related podcast, I add it to this playlist.

Resources Others Have Created

The LinkedIn Operating System

A course from Justin Welsh to help you grow and monetize your LinkedIn account. I saw immediate growth on LinkedIn after implementing Justin’s strategies.

Find Your Following

A course from Arvid Kahl to help you grow an authentic and valuable Twitter presence.

SEO for Non-SEO’s

A free five-day email course from Justin Borge that’s a great starting point if you’d like to get more traffic from Google but aren’t sure how to make that happen.

ConvertKit

The email platform I use to manage my newsletter, email marketing, and paid subscriptions to my Skill Sessions.

Workflowy

A free notetaking and organizational app I use every day for outlining, keeping track of content I want to share, to-do lists, and brainstorming.

The 10 Books I Most Often Recommend

Tribes by Seth Godin

Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday

Hit Makers by Derek Thompson

The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia

The Brain Audit by Sean D’Souza

The Business of Expertise by David C. Baker

Your Music and People by Derek Sivers

$100M Offers by Alex Hormozi

Who Not How by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan

Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout

Additional Books I Recommend

Work Less, Make More by James Schramko

Traffic Secrets by Russell Brunson

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

Contagious by Jonah Berger

The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi

Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod

Nobody Wants To Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield

Zag by Marty Neumeier

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Whatever You Think, Think The Opposite by Paul Arden

Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

How Creativity Rules The World by Maria Brito

Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers

Break Through The Noise by Tim Staples

Triggers by Joseph Sugarman

Junior by Thomas Kemeny

Built To Sell by John Warrillow

The Dip by Seth Godin

The Practice by Seth Godin

The Embedded Entrepreneur by Arvid Kahl

Purple Cow by Seth Godin

Get Together by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto

Lingo by Jeffrey Shaw

Superfans by Pat Flynn

This Is Marketing by Seth Godin

Selling The Invisible by Harry Beckwith

Traction by Gino Wickman

Keep Going by Austin Kleon

Creative Quest by Questlove

Cashvertising by Drew Eric Whitman

What To Do When It’s Your Turn by Seth Godin

Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon

Made To Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke

Company of One by Paul Jarvis


Disclosure:

Some of the above are affiliate links, but I don’t recommend anything I haven’t purchased myself and found helpful first.