Busy with great clients, but never sure what’s coming up next?
You’ve built the career and the reputation. We help you turn that into a reliable way to win profitable projects with clients you choose, without having to prove yourself from scratch every time.
Established commercial creatives and studio founders
Victoria & Stella
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What I’ve really noticed is higher quality work, and much better paid work, and through my own network.
Lucy Wolfe, Voice Artist
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I’ve got many more broadcast clients now and I’ve increased my regular client base from two or three to six.
Vahakn Vorperian, Post Production Studio
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The Client Accelerator was invaluable. Outreach brought me in a valuable repeat client in retail.
Vanessa Fry, Photographer
A strong portfolio doesn’t automatically build a strong business
We meet creatives who’ve spent years delivering for impressive clients. But ask what happened after the work was delivered, and often they don’t know. No one’s had that conversation.
They’re spending hours updating their portfolio and sharing it around, with some of the strongest reasons to choose them still missing from the story.
People like the work. But the emails still go unanswered, and posts mostly start conversations with other creatives.
We call this the Commercial Value Gap.
Inside Client Accelerator, we help you close that gap and give the right clients a reason to talk to you. You’ll know what to do each day to turn new connections into paying clients.
So winning projects you’re excited about becomes something you know how to repeat.
Client Accelerator™
Build a direct route to more profitable clients, so referrals become a bonus.
Client Accelerator helps commercial creatives and small studios build and apply our Direct-Client Route to reach the right people and win the work you want. Our 12-week mentorship gives you direct access to us both as you put it into practice.
With us alongside you, you’ll connect what you want to be known for with your content, conversations and follow-up together in one creative business hub, so you’re not carrying everything in your head and you know exactly what to do next.
You’ll have a system you own and can keep using and improving, even when you’re busy.
Your Direct-Client Route:
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Find the opportunity
Know which clients are worth pursuing and where to focus your time.
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Build the case
Turn client goals & project evidence into clear reasons to choose you.
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Create the trigger
Shape your offers and content around what the client wants to change.
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Build a pipeline of opportunities
Keep turning conversations into profitable projects.
Meet Victoria Johnstone & Stella Chapman.
We’ve spent our whole working lives in the creative industry, first as brand designers in London agencies, then running our own studio, SALT.
We moved from relying on who we knew to creating our own opportunities and built a higher-value consultancy alongside our creative work. We 8x'd our profit and built a combined LinkedIn following of over 26,000. Now, we teach the same commercial thinking and practical systems we use every day.
We’ve been invited to share our expertise by industry organisations, including AOP and Production Paradise.
What does success look like?
I’m still buzzing. It’s brought me projects and new jobs
Fran - Designer | UK
I loved it. It definitely works
Bridget - Design Director | Ireland
My perspective on my role in the industry has completely transformed
Paul - Illustrator | UK
The engagement I’m getting on LinkedIn is growing & growing
Kyla - Photographer | Netherlands
Response rates to emails have been off the charts!
Rory - Voice Artist | UK
It’s brought me conversations. It’s brought me clients
Vicente - Motion Designer | Spain
People that didn’t get back to us are now reaching out
Kyle & Angelica - Retouch Studio | US
Choose what comes next
Book a call with Victoria or Stella. We’ll look at where work comes from now, what you want more of and what’s getting in the way.
Build a Magnetic LinkedIn Profile
Give the clients you want a clear reason to think, ‘We need to talk.’