REVENUE READY CREATIVE | Grow Your Art Business Online, Art Business Coaching, Increase Productivity, Passive Income for Self-Employed Artists
Calling all artists, makers, crafters and designers!
Are you tired of navigating your art business all by yourself? Do you wish you had straightforward business support designed for creative professionals just like you? Have dreams of business growth without sacrificing your integrity?
You’re in luck! Class is now in session and you have a first-row seat to your next semester of creative business growth.
What’s more? You don’t have to do it all alone.
Join Heather Allen MGIM-MBA — author, business consultant, former college instructor and your personal ”Professor of Revenue Readiness” — each week for practical, action-based episodes designed to help you take your creative business to new heights.
The Revenue Ready Creative podcast is THAT business course you wish you had in college. It’s like going back to school, tuition-free, for weekly lessons in managing and growing your empire as a creative professional.
Let this be your weekly education as you sharpen your business tools and flex those visioning, planning, and profit-generating muscles as a creative business owner.
Hear from experts and creatives just like you.
Learn to grow your art business online.
Learn easy-to-implement systems for productivity.
Discover how to make selling natural and authentic.
Find simple systems and automations for business management.
Plan for the business, creative career, and life you want.
Target Audience: Self-employed visual artists, graphic designers, makers, crafters and creative professionals.
Find Heather online: www.HeatherAllenOnline.com
Buy Heather’s book: https://HeatherAllenOnline.com/book/
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 57
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
35. How to Get Organized in Your Art Business! Tips From Professional Organizer Tracy Hoth
Each week, I’m thrilled to bring lessons learned and best practices for artists and creative small business owners to your listening ears!
Surprisingly, when I look at my podcast episode data, among …
34. Artists: Here’s a Pre-Show Checklist Plan for Your Next Event!
Congrats! 🎉
You’ve got a show, market, festival, studio tour or workshop coming up. It’s either scheduled with a real date to work towards, or it’s something you’ve imagined, but it’s only a matter o…
33. Inspiration for Your Q1 Review: Peek Into a Profit Planning Session With an Artist Couple
In the Revenue Ready Creative podcast, "Mon-yay!" is reserved for the first or second Monday of the new quarter.
It’s a time to look back at your efforts from last quarter so that you can celebrate …
32. Not Quite Ready for Professional Photography to Enhance Your Online Art Business? This Interview with Photographer Amy Paulson Will Help!
You're busy providing OTHER people with creative services and solutions, but have you ever taken time to do the same for yourself?
In today's episode, I interview photographer Amy Paulson who helps y…
31. The Top Mistakes Artists Make in Their Online Business and Website
Are you struggling to get more sales online?
Ever wonder how website might be contributing to that struggle?
Let's talk about the top mistakes artists make in their online business, and particularly…
30. How to Make It Easy to Get Art Sales From Your Website 🍀
What happens after someone clicks the call-to-action button on your art website or your workshop sales page?
Where does it take them? What’s the workflow? And more importantly —how does payment get i…
29. An Unconventional Way to Write Your Art Sales Page (6 Tips to Make Selling From Your Website Easier)
Do you wish your website could actually help you sell more art?
Do you wish your online presence could attract more buyers and sales?
Are you ready to stop wasting time on a website that doesn…
28. 3 Must-Do’s for Artists and Creative Business Owners to Plan for Online Sales Strategically
Pretend we just developed YOUR Revenue Ready plan. And from that plan, you decide that you want to bring to life a new online offer or service for people to engage with, buy from you, sign up for wha…
27. Are Early Retirement and Financial Freedom Possible When You’re a Self-Employed Artist?
It’s always helpful to hear different perspectives, especially when it comes to money-related planning for the future.
Hi! I’m Heather Allen, your personal professor of revenue readiness. I help art…
26. Daily, Weekly and Monthly Time Management Tips for Creative Solopreneurs
Raise your hand if time management seems to be a constant battle for you.
- If you find yourself wishing you had more time... "If I just had more time I could get these things done."
- Or feeling like t…
25. Achieve Continuous Success With This Goal Mapping Framework for Self-Employed Visual Artists
It’s time to flip the idea that all goals are a single, one-time event, or the final destination of the journey. 👀🙈
Instead, let’s recognize that some goals can be seen as a process that allows you t…
24. Curious About Passive Income on Etsy? Find Inspiration From My Interview With Jackie Butler
When you work with me to create your Revenue Ready Plan, you might identify Etsy as a good passive-income option for the future you envision.
Or it might already be part of your revenue mix and you’…
23. 7 Ways to Add Passive Income to Your Art Business
Are you struggling to balance creativity with financial success?
Do you like the sound of passive income but don’t know how or where to start?
Do you dream of consistent income year round, not just d…
22. Considerations for Your Mission and Vision Statement
Having a mission and a vision statement can be a powerful tool for the impact you want to make in the world.
From an personal perspective, both give you something to fall back on when you need a remi…
21. Guidance for Your Q4 Review: Sales Tracking for Commercial Artists, Makers and Designers
Need some guidance for reviewing your Q4 sales, communications, and overall efforts?
Fourth quarter is the busiest sales time of year for big box and small retailers alike. Many artists, crafters, ma…
20. Artists, Here's a Plan for Keeping Your New Year's Goals All Year Long
A common challenge we all experience with New Year's goal setting is figuring out how to sustain that energy and intention beyond the start of the year.
You’ve seen those ads or memes about the new …
19. What Do These 2025 Creative Small Business Predictions and Trends Mean for You?
Hearing or reading about economic trends and predictions might cause you to think a little differently about how you’re doing things in your business. And how to prepare for uncertainty and change...…
18. How to Earn More in 2025
A new year is on the horizon. Pretty soon you’ll be starting a new semester of learning, testing, and growing in your creative business. But before that semester begins, let’s kick off this episode w…
17. Turn End-of-Year Overwhelm and Anxiety into Productivity
Calling all workaholics! For creative small business owners, the end of year rush is particularly overwhelming. There are a lot of overlapping priorities.
You’re wrapping up work, business, project …
16. How to Get More Commission Sales — Managing Client Expectations (Part 2)
Today’s episode is the second in the series, and it’s all about the customer’s point of view.
If you're ready for more commission sales in 2025, then put on your customer hat (maybe it’s a fuzzy red …