Recognizing Your Venture’s Worth With Michele Williams

<p>Michele Williams is the Founder of Scarlet Thread Consulting, a business coaching practice for interior design professionals. Michele helps 6-7 figure interior design firms create strategic plans that are actionable, effectively manage their business and finances, and develop a laser-focused framework for decision making. As a result, her clients reduce their workload, increase their bottom line, and reclaim their joy and time.</p> <p>Michele hosts the <em>Profit is a Choice</em> podcast, which focuses on making all parts of your business profitable — not just the money. She's also a certified coach in the Profit First and Fix This Next methodologies. Michele earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems and Administrative Management from the University of South Carolina-Columbia.</p> <h2>In this episode…</h2> <p>Many creatives doubt that their products or services are worth charging for. If it’s easy to do, it probably isn’t very valuable, right?</p> <p>Wrong. Just because something comes naturally to you doesn’t mean it comes naturally to everybody. The years of effort you’ve put into making something seem simple is incredibly valuable — add in the time saved and stress relieved for clients, and that value shoots through the roof.</p> <p>In this episode of the <em>Measure Success Podcast</em>, Carl J. Cox talks with Michele Williams, Founder of Scarlet Thread Consulting, about recognizing the intrinsic worth of your creative business. Michele discusses the debilitating mentalities that many creatives have, why paying yourself is a priority, and how to set measurable goals.</p>