Clients like to work with designers interested in their business, their goals and their activities. Show that’s you by sharing information to make your client’s life easier.

Even if a client doesn’t have the budget, or the timeline is prohibitive, there’s a better response to a request than saying no. This article is discusses alternative responses…

Some creatives understand value pricing means upping rates. Billing more for the same work. And if there\’s not budget, saying no. But no a lazy response.

The health improvements of designers working a four-day week are known, but also understanding the monetary implications is vital.

One of the most common challenges in the creative industry is hiring. Clients hiring creatives. Creatives hiring creatives. Creatives hiring employees. Creatives hiring freelancers. All tough decisions … should you hire on skillset or attitude? On ability or potential? To job description or opportunity?

We can all lack motivation. Now, more than ever, designers spend many hours working remotely. This article shares how to keep yourself motivated.

To grow a design business we need more hands … that means hiring either employees or sub contractors. Both need to managed and managing other creatives is hard.

Each year Australian uni’s, colleges and private providers graduate literally hundreds of designers. They’re skilled at designing within a learning framework but have little exposure to the design industry. Does it matter?

Imagine being a client who has birthed and nurtured an idea only to lose control of how it looks and feels by handing it over to a designer.

You finally get a face-to-face meeting with a client you’ve been stalking. You don’t want to blow it. What should you do; say; pitch?

Many designers aren’t taught how to run a meeting efficiently and effectively and that’s a problem when you need to demonstrate confident management of a project. This article might help.

Managing a creative business is about constant change of direction, overcoming obstacles and reinvention. The skills is keeping clients and employees onside.