Our Favorite Tools For Building A 6 Figure Business In 2022

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 181

Welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, where our mission is to help you turn your creative passions into a stable, reliable income. If you're in audio, video, design, photography, or really any other creative field, and you just want to learn from other successful creatives, you're in the right place.

Welcome back to another episode of the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood. I'm here with my big, bald, beautiful co-host, Christopher J. Graham. Chris, how are you doing today, my buddy?

Christopher J. Graham (0:33)

I'm good.

It just occurred to me that I probably should make it clear to everyone that every time you do the intro, I do a little dance over here, but it's totally silent. Nobody can see it.

Brian Hood (0:41)

It's his happy dance. He just does it. It's a little bonus for the YouTube subscribers who watch this podcast on YouTube, which is probably less than 10% of our listeners, but that's fine. Chris, happy new year, my dude.

Christopher J. Graham (0:51)

Hey, thank you. We're pre-recording this content too, so I'm pretending that, yay, it's 2022, COVID. I can't believe COVID's totally gone. It just disappeared on New Year's morning.

Brian Hood (1:04)

When you hit the stream button on whatever podcast app you use is when Chris and I go live. For you personally, the one listening, you, Jonathan, that's the name I randomly picked. So many Jonathans out there get a little delight.

Christopher J. Graham (1:15)

Jonathan's mom is right about everything she said about him last Christmas.

He does need to work harder. He does need to invest in his business and schedule time to work on it instead of just for it.

Brian Hood (1:24)

Good segue, Chris, because in today's episode, we're actually gonna talk about some tools that you can use in your business to make 2022 the best year of your life.

This is gonna be a listicle episode. I think we have six right now, but I just know that Chris and I, it's gonna end up being way more than that by the end of this, because we're actually talking about six categories of tools. Some on the sales and marketing side, some on the systems and efficiency side, because that's kind of my bread and butter and Chris's bread and butter. We have these two separate areas that we specialize in.

Christopher J. Graham (1:50)

And also, because we're talking about systems, I get to say some brand names.

Brian Hood (1:54)

Oh my God. So this is the battle. We're no longer just specializing in the audio world completely. We're branching out as 6 Figure Creative instead of the 6 Figure Home Studio.

And that means that Chris doesn't really talk about audio gear that much anymore. Until we get to these sorts of episodes where we're talking about tools, tools that actually have value in your business, we're gonna talk about these six categories here. But Chris now has, he literally, I'm looking at my outline right now. Chris has specific brands outlined in here. And if you've been with the podcast a long time, you know how I feel about brands. I hate them.

I don't give a damn about the brand. I care about results. I care about not procrastination by gear. But let's just do it.

Christopher J. Graham (2:30)

But Brian, a brand delivers results. That is in fact the brand promise of every company since the dot of time.

Brian Hood (2:37)

Every single brand I see that you listed here, there's a cheaper, better alternative in my mind that will get the job done. And we'll argue about it later on. Let's just save it for the, we'll save the conversation for later.

All right, so first one I want to talk about today on our list today is, it's actually kind of a tie between the two. It's actually not a marketing or sales, even though it's in my column here.

It's a collaboration platform. And we're going to talk about project management systems. Right? This is not, it's not fun, it's not sexy, but this is one that I'm actually excited about because I leave for my retreat that I'm doing next week, my own getaway retreat. So it's planning for the next year.

Christopher J. Graham (3:10)

I'm so confused about our timelines right now because I don't know if it's, is it 2022 or you haven't been on the retreat yet or what's happening?

Brian Hood (3:15)

That's right. I've already been, I just got back from my retreat. That's what I'm going to say. And I got to plan all this stuff out.