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Brave Clients
Grow yourself to grow your business
Grow your creative business with fewer, big-budget clients focusing on quality over quantity, enabling more creative freedom, and real profits.
Sophisticated buyers seek experts, not hustlers
My journey of leading 30 creatives, working with huge TV networks globally, and coaching over 300+ studio and agency owners in 2,000+ private engagements taught me this:
Great work won't sell itself
You pitch for peanuts because clients don't get your true value—your hidden expertise, your secret sauce. Make it clear, and you'll ditch the pitches and land big budgets from brave budgets.
There's a better way to sell creativity
Your Expertise?
It’s where craft meets commerce. Sophisticated buyers aren’t chasing cookie-cutter solutions or measurable results—they pay top dollar for the expert that tells them what to do and leads the way.
Leverage your expertise!
From Hustling Artist to Trusted Expert: Why It Matters
You're an artist at heart, and a business owner by day, producing great work but stuck pitching for low-budget projects.
Your challenge lies in transitioning from just an another artist to a trusted expert. This shift will unlock doors to bigger budgets and the high-caliber clients you want to work with.
Hustling artists deliver stunning work, but their clients…
Experts are trusted to lead the process, so their clients…
value their creative input
trust their expertise
come ready to take a risk
invest more money for better results
Shortcuts hold you back!
You'll burn out trying to make it work, yet you keep trying without a clear alternative. Let me be clear—these shortcuts won't land you big budgets from brave clients; they'll only keep you stuck:
Working harder
Spending months on spec work or redesigning your website will not lead to better paying clients without highlighting expertise.
Instagram marketing
Uploading your work to social media is nice, but you won't win a 6-figure project from a social media post without insights.
Hiring a sales rep
Sales without marketing is not working. To get good leads from a rep, you still need to be able to explain your value.
The 3 Ceilings:
How I'll help you break through
Every iconic studio, agency, or artist has encountered three paradigm shifts on their road to success. Whenever they reached a plateau, they adopted fresh perspectives to smash through those ceilings.
The Creative Ceiling
Sophisticated buyers aren't looking for cookie-cutter work. They want you to lead the process that reveals the unique outcome they came for.
Lead like an expert
Learn what to say and when to say it
Lead clients out of comfort zones
Master creative direction
The Business Ceiling
Once you express your commercial value in simple words your status will rise, and you'll be positioned to shatter that million-$ ceiling.
Speak like an expert
Clear positioning & messaging
Authentic outreach & sales
Build a Million-$ Pitch Deck
The Market Ceiling
Building market trust attracts bigger budgets from brave clients on autopilot. Once you promote yourself as the expert, people will start reaching out.
Market like an expert
Learn to craft authentic content
Install the Expert Marketing System
Run organic and/or paid campaigns
Who's Marko Pfann?
The leading authority on marketing creative expertise
Since 2001
A best-selling artist
Starting out as a motion designer, in the early 2000s, Marko branded 60+ tv-stations around the globe; won 21 top awards; and traveled the world as a sought-after designer.
Since 2011
A creative entrepreneur
Marko co-founded and boot-strapped a motion & brand agency from 0 to 4MIO USD in ARR within 18 months, serving gigantic tv-stations around the globe, till he sold his shares.
Since 2014
A business coach
Marko doesn't do lukewarm motivational speeches or recycled business clichés. He delivers hard-hitting truths on business altering the way you think, addressing the unspoken.
What's genuinely possible?
Expand reach, gain influence
Your social media reach is important, and being seen as an expert will open you doors you didn't know existed.
Attract risk ready and brave clients
Sophisticated buyers seek partners who help to navigate the uncertainty. Learn to lead them through that process.
Gain access to bigger budgets
Many of my clients did a 5x or 10x in their project budgets within a year, doubling or tripling their profits.
'If you're done waiting for your big opportunity, and finally want to claim your spot in the market—Marko is the one you're seeking'.
Sounds great, let's talk, Marko!