creative business coach
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.
Many creative businesses are moving to the theatre model. Instead of employing, they hire on a project-by-project basis. I think many are missing the main point of the model…
We build websites using similar templates, then choose the same words to describe what we do. No wonder we end up looking the same.
Most designers choose a creative career because they’re good at and like creating imagery. Problem is to promote our work we must write.
The creative industry is led mainly by market forces. At its most basic it’s a simple transaction: we trade creativity for money. At least that’s how it is meant to work.
A community of knowledge is a group of people sharing what they know. As the creative industry fractures, they are proving more and more valuable.
The creative industry I joined is not the creative industry I’m part of now and that’s OK. It’s changed and I’ve changed. It’s been a career of life-long learning, both in hard and soft skills.
What a year. Few of us will exit the same way we entered. Many of us will have changed the way we work. Should we explain any changes to our clients?
We’re appalled at the federal budget and the lack of help for SME businesses – especially those not employing. We think we can help.
If designers can identify the triggers that make clients look for a new design partner we can hone our new business activities.
We asked clients to rate how designers reacted to their briefs: were they proactive or reactive? The results are interesting…
We asked clients to rate how designers reacted to their briefs: were they proactive or reactive? The results are interesting…