Designers make decisions every day. The more knowledge, the more confident you can be in those decisions. Use these reports to help build confidence.
Giving honest feedback to creatives is challenging. Design thrives on the unpredictable but small business owners need to reduce risk and deliver predictable results. There lies the conundrum.
Value-add pricing is a hot topic but it comes with problems. It’s not the right business model for every client. The skill is identifying the right clients.
Managing a creative business is about constant change of direction, overcoming obstacles and reinvention. The skills is keeping clients and employees onside.
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.
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.
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.
We have made ourselves so accessible to clients — they can call/text/email/slack to contact us anywhere, anytime. It’s hard to manage.