The Definitive Bootcamp for Creative Entrepreneurs Who Want BIG Success
Turn Your Creative Passion, Side-Hustle, Freelance Gig, or Coaching Practice into a Profitable Business
September 20-22, 2024
Price: $997
For a limited time, use the promo code PLAYBIG47 for a $47 ticket!
The Definitive Bootcamp for Creative Entrepreneurs Who Want BIG Success
Turn Your Creative Passion, Solo-Practice, Side-Hustle, Coaching Practice, or Freelance Gig into a Profitable Business
September 20-22, 2024
For a limited time, use the promo code PLAYBIG97 for a $47 ticket!
Do You?…
- Have a creative talent or skill – that you’re really good at – but you’ve struggled to build a profitable business around it?
- Feel you are stuck choosing between doing what you love and making the money you need to have the kind of life you want?
- Spread yourself way too thin with long hours on too many projects for too little money?
- Find yourself struggling to serve clients who are demanding, don’t pay well, and lack appreciation for your work?
- Struggle to consistently bring leads to your business?
- Wish you felt more confident in sales conversations?
- Just want to find a better way? (Because what you’re doing isn’t getting you to where you want to be.)
Do You?…
- Have a creative talent or skill – that you’re really good at – but you’ve struggled to build a profitable business around it?
- Feel you are stuck choosing between doing what you love and making the money you need to have the kind of life you want?
- Spread yourself way too thin with long hours on too many projects for too little money?
- Find yourself struggling to serve clients who are demanding, don’t pay well, and lack appreciation for your work?
- Struggle to consistently bring leads to your business?
- Wish you felt more confident in sales conversations?
- Just want to find a better way? (Because what you’re doing isn’t getting you where you want to be.)
I'm Melissa McFarlane
CEO of Creative Successful Entrepreneurs
You CAN transform your creative endeavors into a passion-driven, energizing, and highly profitable business.
Hi, I’m Melissa McFarlane, Founder of Creative Successful Entrepreneurs, and I’ve spent the last 25 years doing one thing: teaching right-brain thinkers turn their creative passion into real, profitable businesses that earn them reliable, repeatable income for doing exactly what they love to do.
Play Big! is an intensive, three day virtual workshop aimed at the creative freelancer or entrepreneur who wants to walk away with a comprehensive plan for making money doing what they love. I will take you beyond “business theory” to actually build out all the important pieces of your business in just three days. No other workshop can make this promise!
This workshop is tailor-made for writers, artists, healers, practitioners, designers, and anyone in the creative arts, and also coaches, and teachers who want to make real money doing what they are best at.
So if you’re ready to make real change in 2024…
Since Play Big:
“I have been making a three digit percentage net sales increase each year.”
– Kristina Kury, Sprout Creative
Since Play Big:
“I have been making a three digit percentage net sales increase each year.”
– Kristina Kury, CEO – Sprout Creative
Play Big! has been so successful in teaching creatives how to make a real living from their skill sets that we are now on our 12th year! And this year, we’re expanding our target audience to include those of you who want to do what we do, which is to provide business and personal coaching to others, so if you want to learn the rinse-and-repeat method we’ve used to build our coaching program for 25 years, or if you want to learn how to coach other artists in order to diversify your revenue streams, this is definitely for you.
Use promo code PB2024 for the best price!
Play Big! has been so successful in teaching creatives how to make a real living from their skill sets that we are now on our 12th year! And this year, we’re expanding our target audience to include those of you who want to do what we do, which is to provide business and personal coaching to others, so if you want to learn the rinse-and-repeat method we’ve used to build our coaching program for 25 years, or if you want to learn how to coach other artists in order to diversify your revenue streams, this is definitely for you.
Use promo code PB2024 for the best price!
our creative bootcamp is for you
If You Are…
- A Creator or Solo-Practitioner who wants to make a living with your work: an artist, designer, coder, inventor, coach, writer, visionary, teacher or alternative practitioner
- Eager to support others BUT… shy about sharing and asking for real help on your own genius ideas
- Chronically overqualified and underpaid because you’re either working to lift up someone else’s dream or doing the W2 grind and relegating employing your authentic passion and truly valuable skills to “when you get some time”
- Bargaining with the freelance devil and pricing yourself straight to the bottom
- Brilliantly broke! Pretending to be satisfied with a “modest lifestyle” because, you know, that whole “starving artist” thing
- Coaching and healing others but not yourself?
- Buried in unfinished projects and undeveloped ideas because you’re too busy making too little money working for others so you can maintain that, frankly, sucky “modest” lifestyle
our creative bootcamp is for you
If You Are…
- A Creator or Solo-Practitioner who wants to make a living with your work: an artist, designer, coder, inventor, coach, writer, visionary, teacher or alternative practitioner
- Eager to support others BUT… shy about sharing and asking for real help on your own genius ideas
- Chronically overqualified and underpaid because you’re either working to lift up someone else’s dream or doing the W2 grind and relegating employing your authentic passion and truly valuable skills to “when you get some time”
- Bargaining with the freelance devil and pricing yourself straight to the bottom
- Brilliantly broke! Pretending to be satisfied with a “modest lifestyle” because, you know, that whole “starving artist” thing
- Coaching and healing others but not yourself?
- Buried in unfinished projects and undeveloped ideas because you’re too busy making too little money working for others so you can maintain that, frankly, sucky “modest” lifestyle
our creative bootcamp is for you
If You’re Ready to…
- Create a real living with your unique talents and skills
- Articulate and claim your big vision for your life and chart a course for being, doing, and having all that you desire
- Realize your financial goals and have a positive impact, doing the work you know you are here to do
- Find a better way to make your creativity pay by discovering how to smartly leverage your talents, skills and capabilities
- Break free of the money roller coaster because you can’t build your life on the stress and worry of constant financial ups and downs
- Stop compromising because yes, you can have “all the things” – a successful business, a loving relationship, time for family, travel, other passions – all of it!
Completely change your business and your life in just
3 focused days
You could spend months learning the key parts of a successful business, and STILL not know how to put them together to make money.
We accelerate your success through a unique DO-IT-FOR-YOU then DO-IT-YOURSELF format.
You see exactly how our clients get results, and then you put key pieces together, with everything you need to achieve your own success, delivered to you right IN THE ROOM!
Completely change your business and your life in just three focused days
You could spend months learning the key parts of a successful business, and STILL not know how to put them together to make money.
We accelerate your success through a unique DO-IT-FOR-YOU then DO-IT-YOURSELF format.
You see exactly how our clients get results, and then you put key pieces together, with everything you need to achieve your own success, delivered to you right IN THE ROOM!
- Step-by-Step Training
- Case Studies
- Scripts
- Templates
- Timelines
- Sample Funnels
- Pricing models
- Breakout brainstorm sessions
- Self and partner “pomodoro” work time
- Expert panels
- Private 1-on-1 coaching breakouts
- A lot of Q&A time with me and my team
- Outline the right model for the business of your dreams
- Plan for breakthrough pay & class-act clients
- Make life-changing connections
3 days… plus YOU.
That’s all it takes for 2024 to be the year you turn the corner in your business.
- Step-by-Step Training
- Case Studies
- Scripts
- Templates
- Timelines
- Sample Funnels
- Pricing models
- Breakout brainstorm sessions
- Self and partner “pomodoro” work time
- Expert panels
- Private 1-on-1 coaching breakouts
- A lot of Q&A time with me and my team
- Outline the right model for the business of your dreams
- Plan for breakthrough pay & class-act clients
- Make life-changing connections
3 days… plus YOU.
That’s all it takes for 2024 to be the year you turn the corner in your business.
Ten times what I had earned previously! Before working with Melissa, I spent four years under-charging and over-promising and producing a workload that was simply unsustainable. Melissa helped me reorganize, get back time for life and family, and GET PAID what I was worth! Within a few short weeks we’d transformed my business, getting 10 times what I had earned for the same work previously!
The CSE method is so powerful for my clients. It helps them understand big concepts, affirms their experience and wisdom, and gives them the structure they need to make progress. As a CSE Certified Coach, I am able to support my clients not only with business skills, but also the mindset and personal transformation that needs to happen so they can reach big, scary goals. This holistic approach gives my business an edge and has helped me personally in ways I can’t even express.
I experienced a $90K increase in my gross revenue over the course of 12 months. When I started coaching with CSE, I had a mere inkling that I wanted to do more with my life — and no idea how to generate income with this feeling. Through the concepts I learned regarding key elements for a business, and by uncovering the impact I want to make in the world, I have been able to create and grow a business that is now providing me a full time income.
Patient and persistent coaches helped me shift my mindset, shed limiting beliefs and allow abundance to enter. Once I stopped resisting, I experienced a $90K increase in my gross revenue over the course of 12 months. Five years ago I would have told you that was crazy talk. Now I am a living example that it is possible.
Because of the skills and support I received from CSE, within 14 months of launching my business I went from zero to six figures!
Not only is there great, helpful business content at this Play Big, but the event also helped me to establish the right mindset to lead a successful business. Melissa and the entire CSE team are extremely supportive and knowledgeable. The event is a game changer for any Creative Entrepreneur.
Dear Creative Entrepreneur,
I think it’s fair to say that if you have read this far down the page, you are probably considering attending. And that’s good because if you’ve read this far, you are probably exactly the person I created this event for to help you transform from struggling to thriving as a creative, successful, entrepreneur.
I’ve done it in my own business, and I’ve helped hundreds of creative business owners do it, too. Watch the video to hear me describe the event.
– Melissa
You can transform your creative business, end the struggle and experience success on your terms doing what you love.
When: September 20-22, 2024
Where: Anywhere! It’s virtual.
Ticket Price: $997
Use promo code PB2024 for the best price!
Three Days Gets You All Of It
Over 3 days, I will share my entire proven method, step-by-step, with you. Then, you’ll receive personalized support and input from my team as you actually build the key pieces of your creative business.
You will emerge from the experience with CRITICAL BUSINESS SUCCESS TOOLS and the CONFIDENCE TO WIN BIG.
Day 1
Build a Better You
Develop a Millionaire Mindset: What we believe forms our behavior. What we do determines whether we reach our goals or not. Breakthrough devastating beliefs and behaviors. Stop hiding. Quit the “dancing monkey” routine. Release fears and worry. Step into power.
Introduce Yourself & Your Business Confidently: Learn my proven process to immediately identify exactly who your customers are and HOW TO SPEAK TO THEM so they flock to your services, products, and offerings, buy over and over again, and THANK YOU. Write your high-converting business introduction and try it out on others.
Day 2
Build a Better Business
Get a Clear Business Plan: Determine how to put all your offers together in a profitable business model that guarantees you earn what you need and want.
Build In-Demand Offers: Learn how to package your services or products properly for profit. Get proven guidelines to price them correctly. Stop working with low or no reward.
Day 3
Build a Better World
Attract More Clients Quickly: Get attention with a simple freebie you’ll build in the room. Help folks to Know, Like, and Trust you, as they move through a smart marketing funnel.
Manage Smartly: See how to build a list fast. Identify the fast-entry strategy for finding partners that will 10x your business for you. Form key partnerships at the event.
Scale: Understand how to keep costs down. Know when and who to hire, and at what rate. Manage your team and clients well so they stay and play long term.
4 Super Useful Bonuses To Help You Grow Your Business Before and After the Event:
Bonus #1 – 7-Day Pre-Event Micro-Action Plan
To help you make the most of your time at Play Big, we’ve put together a terrific set of pre-event emails, with easy micro-actions you can complete in just 5-10 minutes each day. Get engaged with us early and win big at the event. Keep an eye on your inbox (always check your spam folder and promotions tab just in case) to grab this bonus!
Bonus #3 – Priming the Pump for Passive Income Guide
Success happens when you’re making money when you sleep. This step-by-step guide (with it’s “critical steps” checklist), lays out how to successfully create, and then market, a passive income virtual product online.
Bonus #2 – My “What’s in a Name?” Training
Learn the rules for branding your business (and everything inside your business) for maximum attention, sales and results.
Extra Bonus: Chance To Win Prizes
Those who participate LIVE throughout the 3 days are entered to win BIG prizes: Private 1-on-1 Coaching Sessions, Email Copy Bible, Fortune Funnel Flowchart Library, etc..
4 Super Useful Bonuses To Help You Grow Your Business Before and After the Event:
Bonus #1 – 7-Day Pre-Event Micro-Action Plan
To help you make the most of your time at Play Big, we’ve put together a terrific set of pre-event emails, with easy micro-actions you can complete in just 5-10 minutes each day. Get engaged with us early and win big at the event. Keep an eye on your inbox (always check your spam folder and promotions tab just in case) to grab this bonus!
Bonus #3 – Priming the Pump for Passive Income Guide
Success happens when you’re making money when you sleep. This step-by-step guide (with it’s “critical steps” checklist), lays out how to successfully create, and then market, a passive income virtual product online.
Bonus #2 – My “What’s in a Name?” Training
Learn the rules for branding your business (and everything inside your business) for maximum attention, sales and results.
Extra Bonus: Chance To Win Prizes
Those who participate LIVE throughout the 3 days are entered to win BIG prizes: Private 1-on-1 Coaching Sessions, Email Copy Bible, Fortune Funnel Flowchart Library, etc..
The Play Big! Event is a must-attend if you want to streamline your creative business, end the “starving artist” struggle, so you can experience success on your terms!
Register Now: Space Is Limited
Even though this event is virtual, we are limiting attendance to just 100 committed, creative business owners, so that we can provide you with the personal attention and individual support that you deserve.
Get your ticket NOW for this life-changing event,
September 20-22, 2024
Regular Price $997
Use promo code PB2024 for the best price!
About Your Host:
Melissa McFarlane – Founder & CEO of Creative Successful Entrepreneurs, Master Coach
Melissa McFarlane is an internationally-recognized coach with over 30 years of experience in entrepreneurship, and business, personal and professional coaching.
At Creative Successful Entrepreneurs, Melissa helps creative visionaries and mavericks start and grow successful businesses they love.
Melissa’s model of business coaching has helped thousands and is proven to lift struggling business owners beyond survival to earn 6-7 figures, while working fewer hours in radically more enjoyable ways.
Working in private and elite small group environments, Melissa helps her clients to create new personal and professional visions, define timelines and action plans, learn skills, assemble support, maintain accountability and ultimately make good on the promise of their talent. Melissa sees what you can be, do and have, and has a clear model for achieving it.