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Meet Emily Kim, a former Apple software engineer who left the corporate world to help creative entrepreneurs

In our new podcast episode, she reveals how she used systeme.io to launch a virtual summit that brought 1,200 new leads in a single day and why she believes entrepreneurship is a "fast track to self-development."

In this episode, you'll discover:
✅ How she generated 1,200 new leads for her email list in one day by hosting a virtual summit on systeme.io
✅ Her "Iteration over perfection" motto (and why she believes "progress" is a nebulous word)
✅ Why she built her brand as a "separate entity" from her name so it can grow beyond her
✅ The "Implementation Challenges" she uses to keep her members engaged for an average of 14 months

Transcript

Intro

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to another success story with system.io. Today we sit down with Emily Kim. She is a creative business coach and founder of the Profitables Creative Club. Here she helps creative business owners create streamlined and simple businesses. Now, what she brings to the table is something very unique. As a former Apple software engineer, she's bringing that engineer approach and mindset to creative businesses, helping them look at it through a different lens. She helps creative entrepreneurs build simple marketing and repeatable sales systems that works with the creative brains instead of against it. So let's dive into today's episode with Emily Kim. Hi, welcome back to another episode with System.io Success Stories. Today we're sitting down with Emily Kim of the Profitable Creatives, but that's not where she started. So, Emily, thank you for joining us. And I can't wait to hear your journey into system.io.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Thank you. I'm super excited to be here.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Thanks. So for anyone listening who

The "CliffNotes" journey to Emily's online presence

SPEAKER_01 1:04

doesn't really know you, give us a like a little cliff notes version of what led you to having an online presence.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Of course. So I started my business as a brand photographer doing in-person services. And what happened was people, other photographers, kept coming to me asking me for advice here and there if I did mentorships. And then some of my photography clients also started coming to me and asking me for advice and mentorships. And I've always been a teacher. I love teaching things. And that was the basically natural progression of how I started like, okay, maybe I should look into building out an online course. Maybe I should look into building out just more of an online education business. So fast forward a few years, and that is what got me here. So now I've got a podcast, I have a YouTube channel, I have a couple of courses, I have a few digital products, I have a membership. Um basically the works.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

I love it. And uh so jumping off of that branding photography, uh, I think there's an integral piece that's gonna help people understand how easy it was for you to launch system.io because a lot of people have that learning curve, but you're able to skip that. Why is that?

Why a software engineer chose systeme.io

SPEAKER_00 2:21

I used to be a software engineer. That's what I went to school for. So for me, when I'm choosing tech, it's I got a lot of requirements and I'm very picky with the tech that I choose. So I did a ton of research, uh, looking for what seemed like the platform that had everything that I needed, but also was simple to use because even though I'm techie, I don't like for things to be complicated. Did hours upon hours of research and then landed on system.io and now I'm here and I love it.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

So uh about what time uh year-wise did this happen? Like how long were you doing the branding photography that you had the ideation, right, of wanting to do education platforms and then you found system.io and hit launch. Like uh, I think you springboarded it really fast, right?

SPEAKER_00 3:12

I absolutely did. So in

Launching a first group program in just a couple of weeks

SPEAKER_00 3:15

I started my business, my brand photography business, was doing only that for about three and a half years. And that was the point when I thought, okay, let me launch my first group program, which was essentially a beta version of the membership that I have now. And that launch is when I kicked it off with system.io. And to get started on it, I mean, probably only took me a couple weeks to get the sales page up, the um email sequences, a couple of like automations and tags here and there. But yeah, it only took me a couple of weeks, and I each started out um with the free plan just to test it out, and then I was like, oh yeah, this is great.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

That's awesome. Okay, so you started with your group membership and system.io. Now you have something very unique. So I'd like to know like chicken or egg here. You have a summit. So you had you started your group membership. Did you finesse that and make group membership again, like kind of like get that figured out? Or did you launch the summit and then you know, finesse the group membership? How did that all happen?

SPEAKER_00 4:24

Everything kind of happened in tandem. I feel like when, at least for me, when I'm starting new things, I kind of dabble everywhere to get a feel for what I like.

The strategy behind a virtual summit

SPEAKER_00 4:36

So when I decided to launch the summit, which is, if you're not familiar, a summit is an online conference essentially. So I brought in a bunch of speakers, it was all virtual. Uh, you sign up for free. There's an option to upgrade your ticket to get replays and some bonuses. And I, at the point, was launching my first course with this. So I had taught a couple of in-person brand photography workshops for photographers who wanted to get into this niche, used that as a base for my curriculum, and then turned it into an online course. So the summit was geared specifically towards photographers who wanted to get into brand photography, and I used that as a jumping-off point to launch my course. And the reason why I did that was because I wanted to build a community. I'm a very community-oriented person, and I wanted to basically accelerate my growth because I've already been on YouTube. That's been great for me.

How to generate 1,200 leads in one day

SPEAKER_00 5:40

But a summit, when I looked at the different marketing things I could do, it was something I thought I could pull off. I had enough relationships with people who I thought would be great speakers for it. And it was a really great way to basically have a whole bunch of new people into my world all at once. I think I had at the end of the day 1,200 attendees. So that was 1,200 new people on my email list, which was awesome.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

That is amazing. So uh let's kind of dissect this summit for some of these people because again, I don't think we've had anyone on the podcast yet talk about this, and you did the entire thing on system.io as well.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

Yeah, yeah. All of the registration, all of the email sequences, the videos. So the way it worked was after you signed up, the videos of the speakers were only available for free for, I think I set up for 24 hours.

Managing replays and bonuses on the systeme.io course portal

SPEAKER_00 6:40

So those pages I set up in system.io, but then if they upgraded their ticket, you could get the replays, which I then housed in the back-end course portal. And on top of all of that, it was a pretty not crazy, but all of the speakers had affiliate links so that they could share it with their people. That's how you get all of the attendees. Um,

Tracking affiliate payouts easily

SPEAKER_00 7:04

and all of them, all of my speakers had their affiliate codes set up in system.io, and I was able to really easily track the payouts for everybody, how many people signed up through each speaker. Um, there was one other thing I was gonna say that made my life really easy. Oh, I also loved I ran ads to the signups as well, and it was really fun to be able to track all of the numbers of okay, who came in organically, who came in through affiliates, who came in through my people, and who came in through ads.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Oh, wow, that's amazing. So, real quick, is this are you treating this as a sub account from like your main account? Or like um, or did you make a completely different system.io, you log in differently.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

So I did it all on my main account. I didn't set up a sub account, but I did buy, I have a separate domain for the summit. But in system.io, it's so easy to just pick uh you set up the funnel and then you can change the domain that you want. So I just changed that funnel to be my summit domain.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

Okay. All right. So for I'm very visual and I want to see the workflow here for anyone that's perhaps listening. Even though listening in audible, they still might not get it. I I love this. So speaking of system.o, you get your own domain. Did you build a page, like a blog page, a landing page, or did you build this as a full funnel first?

SPEAKER_00 8:28

All of this was built out as a full sales funnel.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

Oh, okay. I love that. I love that. And and so sales funnel connected it with the ads, able to track everything, created affiliate links for the commissions for the people. And how did you have the first few videos for 24 hours? Was there any coding involved so it would like stop at the 24 hours?

Using timers and page redirects without any coding

SPEAKER_00 8:50

I just used the timer feature in the sales funnel. So after the timer went up, I had it, you know, displayed at the top with the incentive like, oh, if you can't watch it or you want the replay, upgrade your ticket to get the replays. And in the sales funnel feature, when the timer expires, you can redirect it to a page. And I just redirected it to my upgrade page for them to upgrade the ticket.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

It's so simple.

SPEAKER_00 9:19

It was so easy. I didn't have to do any coding.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

That's amazing. But there is, you know, that piece of networking, getting to know people. I think that's huge. Like you said, you are built around community. And so that summit um went smashingly well. I saw that it was for March of 2025. Um, are you still leading people to it? Are you still seeing sales from it even like post-2025?

SPEAKER_00 9:41

So I haven't, but that's also on me because I haven't really talked about it in like getting the evergreen ticket, that kind of stuff. I do plan on running it again though, because I've had people ask, uh they've landed on the page, but they're like, oh, are you gonna do this again next year? And I'm definitely going to. Um, I've learned a lot from doing it the first time. Um, and I I'm excited. It's it is a lot of planning. So I've been toying around with maybe changing the date, but I'm definitely gonna do it again this year.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

That's amazing. It's amazing. And so um, again, tech you wise, those were all really pre-recorded, right? Yes. And then you loaded them in. I saw though there was one that was like, you were going to go live at a certain time. Did you go live like in that time frame for people?

SPEAKER_00 10:28

Yes. I went live a lot in that time frame. Um I so the community aspect I hosted in a Facebook group because I that's what I'm used to. It was really easy for me, and they have that live stream feature to go live in the group. Uh, I also opened up a Zoom room, like so people could join the conference room if they wanted to to get more of a chat aspect. Um, but I love going live. I feel like it's the best way to build relationships with people online. So I uh when I do events like this, always make it a priority to go live as much as makes sense. So I'm not overloading people.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I love it. I I love that there is simplicity to the whole thing. There is some pre-planning and tech and a lot of pre-planning. But then in the moment, you still stay personable, relatable, and um, but then when you're done, you do have potentially an evergreen product that you could resell and or push and and replicate. Even that could be sold as a whole product. Like this is how you do a summit on uh system.io, which leads me to your new project with system.io. So how how has that inspired you, you know, with the course, the summit, to what you're um building now?

SPEAKER_00 11:49

So now I am I have a membership, which I also I was already running it with the summit, but I've decided that that's the big direction that I want to go in. It's called the Profitable Creatives Club. All of that is hosted on system.io.

Switching from personal to business brand

SPEAKER_00 12:07

So right now I mostly operate as a personal brand. People know me, people know my name, but long term, I definitely see myself separating that a little bit and housing all of my education under the Profitable Creatives brand. So that's kind of a new territory that I'm navigating because I'm so used to being a personal brand. But I, again, love being able to have everything in one place. If I have one funnel under my main domain, my personal brand domain right now, if I want to switch it, it's just like a drop-down that I switch over whenever it's so easy. Um, but that is my big uh, I guess, project because I've never really done it before. I'm so used to just being me and operating under me, but long term I think it makes sense to grow it. And because I'm so community-oriented, if I want to bring in other people to the team, other people to teach things, it just makes a lot of sense to not be a hundred percent me.

SPEAKER_01 13:12

Emily, I really like that. And you're touching on something that we have heard in the Facebook group, and I've also talked to different people online. What is the difference between like a personal brand that's perhaps multifaceted? You know, like Emily is so many things, you wear so many hats, but then you're saying you're niching in or niching in to one thing specifically, and then you can build a team out of that, bring on collaborators. Can you distinguish the two and how they actually work together as well?

SPEAKER_00 13:41

Yeah,

Emily's definition of a "personal brand"

SPEAKER_00 13:42

so a personal brand, how I define it, it's essentially just your reputation and how people talk about you when you're in the room, how they're referring you, when you're not in the room, what people know you for, and the three words or the first thing that comes to mind when somebody thinks about you. So for me, people know me as okay, I started as a brand photographer. I now coach other creatives to do uh to build their business based on their creative service, but people also know me as a dog mom. They know that I live in Boston in the US. They know that I used to be a software engineer at Apple. So all of these are parts of my personal brand. I think where people can get led astray or where distractions start to come up is when they think it's something you have to invent or create, but your personal brand is just you and the things that you like to talk about and want to be known for in a business capacity. But even whether or not you have a business, you have a personal brand. So with the business side in having a brand that's not you, my brand, the Profitable Creatives, it is still attached to me, but I only landed on this name after a few years of working with creatives and figuring out okay, what is the core of what I'm doing here? It's helping creatives be profitable. So that's how I came up with the name. But if you're just getting started, I think it makes so much sense to just operate under your name and not worry about coming up with a

Why "Iteration over Perfection" is her core business motto

SPEAKER_00 15:36

name. Because when you sit and ideate and spend so much time coming up with the perfect business name before you launch a business, what happens is you actually start doing the business. And then six months later, you're like, oh, actually, this name doesn't really make sense for what I'm doing because I've learned so much. So I am a big proponent of just starting. A big motto that I have is iteration over perfection, because you don't get better until you do something.

Why "progress" is a nebulous word (and what to focus on instead)

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Um, people like to say progress over perfection, but for me, progress is such a nebulous word because yeah, sitting and choosing a business name could be quote unquote progress, but you're not actually doing anything. So that's why I say iteration. Go out, do something, publish something, put something out into the world, and then iterate on it and keep doing it, and you'll eventually come to what it's supposed to be.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

All right, Emily. As a branding photographer, you hit the nail on the head again. I love it. I love you. A dropping so many golden nuggets right here. So you're a lot, you're kind of giving people permission to just be themselves, to build that personal brand. But then eventually, perhaps there is something you do want to lean into, you know, a spoke off of it, you know, you know, a business per se that can grow without you, beyond you. Maybe even sell it at some point, which I know you've sold some businesses in the past. And so when you don't attach your name to something, it can grow beyond you and into something much bigger and eventually be automated and operate without you. Talk to us about that. Talk to us about the name of your podcast, the name of this new brand off from you, um, and what you're building, and and then letting people know what you're still doing on the side, still as a personal brand.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

So the Profitable Creatives brand, that's what I see long-term being the thing, if you will. And under the Profitable Creatives brand, now I have the Profitable Creatives podcast. I have my membership, which is called the Profitable Creatives Club. And something I also want to start doing is live events in person. So I'm kind of dabbling with the names, but if I wanted to host a conference one day or a larger in-person event, I could call it something like Profitable Creatives Live. And calling it Profitable Creatives really gives me the flexibility so that if I'm not able to make it one day, if I am sick or if I want to bring in other people so it's not just like me, me, me, me, me, I can bring people in and it doesn't feel weird

Why she built her brand as a "separate entity" from her name

SPEAKER_00 18:17

because it's it's it's a separate entity from me. Something that I have observed in my industry, in the photography industry, is most people do get started with their names, but then when they follow a similar path to me, they go into education, they stick with their name. And I have heard on some of their podcasts, like, oh, you know, I really wish I split this into a different brand because when the brand is me, I'm the one doing all the education. Well, I can't just bring in somebody else to take over. Like I have to be on, I have to be on all of the videos, on all of the podcasts, on all of the content. But if I had chosen a different name, I would maybe have more flexibility with that. So it doesn't just feel like me.

Building a business with the foresight to sell it one day

SPEAKER_00 19:09

And yeah, it does make it easier to sell one day if I want to, which uh is um something that I did with a past business that I had. I already had the sporeside of okay, I can't attach this to me because I'm I know I'm gonna want to sell this at some point. And I just feel like it opens the door a little bit for me while still allowing me to grow my personal brand, aka my reputation. People still know me, but now it's Emily, founders of profitable creatives, and it's associated with me, but it's its own thing. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Yeah, 100%. I love it, the clarity there. You are allowing people to not be confused when they come to this brand. It's for creatives who want to be profitable. It it solves a solution, I mean, solves a problem with a solution right off the bat, because a lot of creatives feel like they can't make money off of their creativity. And you didn't niche it to just photographers. You know, these are web designers, these are artists. Um uh I guess creative can keep on going, you know, from content creators, videographers, but there is uh a lot of curriculum that you can do, but then you you can't be everything. You know, are you a bookkeeper or a CPA, a lawyer? You know, those are uh, you know, gaps within that that you could also be able to bring people in on your podcast and you know, create more of the summit type of environment to teach people or a live conference. I love that. I love that. So let's lean into how you're building this out on system.io. So you have your Emily Kim brand, but now you have a landing page for your membership, um, your podcast, um, and now this. Can you talk to us about how you were doing that behind the scenes for people who are in that operations mindset?

SPEAKER_00 21:06

So I started building out all of my funnels on my personal brand because, like I said earlier, iteration over perfection, that's what I had. That's the domain that I had. I hadn't really fully formed the idea of profitable creatives yet. So I just went full steam ahead, built all of my funnels, my opt-in pages on that domain. So all of the basics are there. I have all of the bare bones set up. Now, with this shift into my new brand, Profitable Creatives, I have the domain. And now, once I decided that was where I wanted to go, every page now moving forward is going to be under profitablecreatives uh com, you know, slash whatever. So there is like a little bit of transition time. And I think this is where people, the people that I work with tend to. Get um overwhelmed, is it feels like a big project to change over all of my URLs? I gotta change over all of the branding, all of whatever, but nothing necessarily has to change right away. Like I made this decision, okay, I'm gonna set up this domain. Let me just start with everything new that I make moving forward, is going to be on this domain. And everything else is already set up. I don't have to change it right away. I can slowly move it over over time. And like I mentioned earlier, it is just so easy to do in system. It's just a drop-down, just boop, change the domain, and you're all set. And of course, some of my branding colors are different, my fonts are different. So to make everything visually cohesive, I will need to go back in and change the fonts, and I'll need to do uh, you know, the colors and stuff like that. Again, it's all already loaded in my account, so not a huge lift, but I am I I don't like to think of it as like this giant rebrand, rebrand project. I gotta change over everything all at once, and it has to be this big, huge launch. You can just do one thing at a time, and that really frees up my brain space in growing the new side of the brand. And when you do it that way, you're learning along the way. Versus if I were to change everything over all at once and make it a huge, big hoopla and big deal. Six months from now, I'm probably gonna learn, oh, I actually don't need half the things that I brought over, right? Because in this brand, I'm also getting a lot clearer on what I want to have. Some of my lead magnets probably don't make sense anymore. So it's a good time for me also to audit what do I need? Do I actually even need to bring everything over? Or can I use this to eliminate some of the fluff and get really clear and really streamlined on what's working?

SPEAKER_01 23:57

Oh, I'm so excited. So excited. So you're talking, you know, inside here that these funnels, everything's built in funnels again. I want to keep iterating that. Do you have, did you build out, which they've changed the terminology inside of system.io, the blog, they changed it to website. Have you built a full-on website yet? Or are you in the process of doing that? Or do you even need that? Which let's get rid of the overwhelm.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

I love that question. So, do you even need that? Not necessarily. I've been with system.io for a long time and I am loving all of the new stuff that's coming out. So I already had everything built out in sales funnels because that's what was available at the time. But I do really want to build out a website because I don't even have at this point a main profitablecreatives.com

Why you don't necessarily need a full-blown website to make money

SPEAKER_00 24:47

thing because I don't need it right now. Like right now, you land on that page and it links to the podcast and it links to my membership. You don't have to have a fully blown-out website because, again, right now I don't even know what is what goes on it because I have these two separate parts. So I'm just going to start there. And as I continue to publish podcasts, I continue to work with my clients, I continue to listen to them and hear what they need, that's going to inform me when it's time to build out a website. That's another thing that I really love to do is not build something until I need it versus anticipating what I think I'm going to need, because that's how I end up wasting time. Because I could build out this whole website and then realize I don't actually need half of these pages, which kind of happened to me already with profitable creatives. I was like, oh, I have to have this huge website template and all this stuff. I bought a template, I used it for like a month, and I was like, I actually don't need this at all. So I got rid of it because it was it was too complicated. I'm always trying to keep it as simple and as low-tech as possible.

SPEAKER_01 25:57

Okay. All right. So your membership doesn't have a website, it just has funnels. And so if I go to um the Profitable Creatives right now, it has the link to your podcast, which I saw, uh, and listen to your latest episode. Y'all should go listen to her November 2025 episode. And so then it also goes to this landing page here. Are you pushing people towards the membership right now? Or are you pushing them like what where does that landing page lead if I click yes?

SPEAKER_00 26:28

That landing page leads to a sales funnel. So a sales page for my membership. Right now, my membership is on Evergreen Enrollment. Um, so you can join at any point in time. I'm considering switching that. We could, I'm sure we could have a whole discussion on like membership strategy and stuff like that. But it goes to the sales funnel. There's a couple of different payment plans that I have set up through um different just products within system.io, whether you want to pay in full for the year, do just month to month. And so all of the time when I'm talking about my membership, I am directing people to that sales funnel sales page.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

Okay. All right. So uh let's close out this um beautiful podcast, by the way. We'll have to have you back because I want to hear how this launches and how it moves forward. Um, kind of sitting on the membership then, since that's kind of like where you're leading people as you're, you know, kind of leaning into this brand and what you're building and seeing what people, what, what, what people are biting, what what bait they're taking. Talk to us about membership. Is it all inside of system.io? Um how you know how many courses and and what is the you know engagement rate and how how is it working for you instead of leaving and going somewhere else to all those membership platforms?

SPEAKER_00 27:43

I love how everything is set up. So my membership has a back-end curriculum, which is my framework basically for how to become a profitable creative, how to monetize your one-on-one creative skills. And that's where I send people to start, like go through the curriculum. We also have a community element. So those are live group calls. I have the calendar set up linked within the back-end course portal and the community aspect I host in Slack because that's what I found a lot of people are already used to. They know how to use it. And everything in Slack points back to system.io. If I am asking them to, you know, post something in the community, then I will send them from the course portal back into Slack. But I really try to keep it simple and keep it low tech. The other thing that I love is because all of my other courses and digital products are hosted in system.io, if I want to give access to people in my membership, it's just like three clicks to just, okay, here's you are a brand photographer, you want access to my other brand photography course, do, do, do, whatever. It's a bonus that I get for people that have been in for a long time.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Oh, that's wonderful. So you do have some one-off courses on the side outside of the membership as well. Yes. That's awesome.

unknown 29:05

Right.

How she retains members for 14 months on average

SPEAKER_00 29:06

Okay. And you asked me about retention too. Um, it's great. Um on average, it just keeps going up. My members are in for 14 months, and I presume next month it might go up to 15, which I'm really proud of.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

That is awesome that you have just a great turnover rate of people staying because are are you putting in new content on a monthly basis, a quarterly basis?

SPEAKER_00 29:33

New content is on a monthly-ish basis. So I try to either do a training that I will teach or bring in a guest expert. And then I house the replays inside of System.io in uh in the course portal. They can look for the month. It's titled, it's super easy to find.

Using "Implementation Challenges" to maintain engagement

SPEAKER_00 29:55

And then I also do what I call implementation challenges. So whatever I'm seeing the needs are based on our group coaching calls, I will design a challenge basically for us to implement. So I've done a social media glow up challenge. I have done an email list glow up challenge for them to implement an email list for them to show up consistently on social media. So I'm still cooking up the next one, but that is how I have maintained engagement and built my community.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

Uh, that's a beautiful missing piece that I think a lot of people are looking for right there. That's that iteration reps over perfection, over analysis paralysis. I am so glad you shared that. Um, for anyone who's sitting on the edge of like, I want to do it, but like, is it just gonna be another course with a lot of information? And then it's up to me to implement. You're like, nope, I'm gonna challenge you. Homework time, show me the receipts of you doing the work. I love that element. That is excellent. And you said you're already bringing in like some experts in different ways, so you're already doing that piece of pulling people in.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

Yeah, yeah, I love it. It's fun. I'm building building the plane as we're taking off.

SPEAKER_01 31:09

Oh, that is excellent. That's excellent. So uh as we land the plane, I love that you use that. Uh, as we land the plane here, I always try to ask everyone a few questions near the end. So, what is the gift that entrepreneurship has given you?

SPEAKER_00 31:27

So much. What has it not given me? Oh my goodness.

Why entrepreneurship is a "fast track to self-development"

SPEAKER_00 31:32

I made a video recently joking that entrepreneurship is like a fast track to self-development. The person that I am today, having been uh working for myself for almost five years at this point, I'm so different than the person that I was working in a corporate job. And I think I could have had a similar self-development path, but I think it would have taken me a lot longer to realize my flaws basically, and all of the areas that I really needed to grow personally. It is when you're in entrepreneurship, it just shines a light at all of those things.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

I love that. Absolutely love that analysis there that you're able to do through entrepreneurship. Now, with system.io, if you could use one word or one sentence, how would you describe it?

SPEAKER_00 32:28

Easy. It's so easy to use. Everything is in one place, everything is connected. I love being able to see my favorite thing to do is to go look at my members and see, well, where did they first hear about me? I can see where they signed up from and reverse engineer. Okay, well, they came to me through YouTube. Most of my people came to me through like this other thing. Here's it it helps me inform what I do. So it's it's easy to find this information, it's simple to keep everything connected. I think I said easy or simple.

SPEAKER_01 33:02

Perfect. It does everything you need at the touch of a button. So, and I'm sure you probably answer this question on a regular basis, considering you sit with lots of creatives. If someone is sitting on the edge of their seat, ready to go all in with their content creator business and you know, bring that whatever it is into iteration, how what would you say to them to push the button to go all in?

SPEAKER_00 33:30

You only have to take the first step. All you have to do if you are a photographer who wants photography clients, you're a designer who wants design clients, all you have to do is have one person say yes, and then surprise, you have a business. Someone's paid you to do photos, somebody's paid you to do design or whatever it is. You've done it. Now do it again.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

That's it. Just say yes and keep going. I love it, love it, love it, love it. Well, Emily, thank you so much for joining us today. Um, if anyone wants to connect with you after this podcast, how should they find you or you know, where should they go?

SPEAKER_00 34:13

I hang out on Instagram a lot. You can find me at EmilyKim.co. That's probably the best place. And in Facebook, I do have a Facebook group, a free Facebook group called the Profitable Creatives. I think that's that's that's what literally what's called. Profitable Creatives Community. If you search it, it'll come up.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

All right. And if they're interested in your membership, um, what URL should they go to today?

SPEAKER_00 34:38

Yes, profitablecreatives.com slash club.

SPEAKER_01 34:44

All right. If y'all want to join the club, you've got the URL. Thanks for joining us today, Emily.

SPEAKER_00 34:50

Thank you for having me. I loved it.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

All right, thanks for listening to another episode of system.io success stories. And as always, keep creating.