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      • How to find higher-fee design work
      • How to manage and lead a creative business
      • How to explain the measurable impact of design
  • Design Business Review
  • Who we are
  • How we can help
    • Costing pricing profit toolkit
    • …build financial knowledge
      • Financial mentoring for designers
      • ebook: Finance in a design studio ebook
      • ebook: Bookkeeping for designers
      • ebook: What’s a fair wage?
      • digital copy: the business of design publication
    • … grow your business
      • Business development mentoring
      • ebook: LinkedIn for designers
      • What’s a fair wage ebook
      • digital copy: the business of design publication
    • … build management and leadership skills
      • How to build a great creative business: good for people and profits
      • What’s the risk? ebook
      • What’s a fair wage ebook
      • digital copy: the business of design publication
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Design Business Council > Design management
Clients need help
01
Nov

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.

Posted in: account service , Business of design , creative business coach , design business coach , designers finding new business , female business coach , how designers find new business , how to find clients , managing clients , small business mentoring ,
Tags: business models , Business of design , capability building , design career , Design management , design studio business models ,
Changing your studio from the inside-out
26
Oct

Management gurus say there are two ruling paradigms in business today; outside-in and inside-out. These two approaches use very different means to achieve the same end; business growth.

Posted in: Business model canvas , creative business coach , design business coach , Design business strategy , Human centred design ,
Tags: Design Business School , Design management , Design strategy ,
Can you mandate covid vaccination
19
Oct

Can you mandate designers are COVID vaccinated? And what is the best way to achieve a safe workplace without disruption?

Posted in: Business of design , can you mandate a COVID vaccination , COVID and design , COVID vaccinations , COVID vaxxers , creative business coach , design business coach , Design business strategy , Design studio management , Small business mentoring service , Studio management ,
Tags: Design Business School , Design disruptors , Design management , Design strategies , Design strategy , Design value chain analysis , Empathy mapping , Rebrand ,
Convincing clients design has value
11
Oct

One focus of our creative business coaching is proving design value to clients. We actively research how designers can persuade clients design is valuable.

Posted in: Business model canvas , creative business coach , Design business strategy , design maturity index , Design value chain , new business for designers , Small business mentoring service ,
Tags: Design management , Design strategy ,
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Sharing information with clients
05
Oct

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.

Posted in: account service , Business of design , creative business coach , design business coach , female business coach , managing clients , small business mentoring ,
Tags: business models , Business of design , capability building , design career , Design management , design studio business models , film model , finding your onlyness , hollywood model , journey mapping , theatre model ,
The theatre model
28
Sep

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…

Posted in: Business of design , creative business coach , design business coach ,
Tags: business models , Business of design , capability building , design career , Design management , design studio business models , film model , finding your onlyness , hollywood model , journey mapping , theatre model ,
How to make your studio stand out
14
Sep

We build websites using similar templates, then choose the same words to describe what we do. No wonder we end up looking the same.

Posted in: Business of design , creative business coach , design business coach ,
Tags: Business of design , capability building , design career , Design management , finding your onlyness , journey mapping , onlyness , personal journey map , self promotion for designers , writing for designers ,
Making COVID an opportunity
07
Sep

COVID presents us with the perfect opportunity to review and revise our operations by developing a Balanced Scorecard.

Posted in: Business of design , Design business strategy ,
Tags: Agile design business , Design disruptors , Design management , Design strategies , Design strategy , Design value chain analysis , Empathy mapping , Rebrand , Studio management ,
How to write about your work
24
Aug

Most designers choose a creative career because they’re good at and like creating imagery. Problem is to promote our work we must write.

Posted in: Business of design , creative business coach , design business coach ,
Tags: Business of design , capability building , design career , Design management , designers who write , how to write about designn , writing about your work , writing for designers , writing tips for designers ,
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Who said I can’t work miracles
16
Aug

I won’t admit to being the messiah but we can help every design business with the Design Business Model Canvas.

Posted in: Business of design , Design business strategy ,
Tags: Agile design business , Design disruptors , Design management , Design strategies , Design strategy , Design value chain analysis , Empathy mapping , Rebrand , Studio management ,
Questioning the way things are done
10
Aug

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.

Posted in: Business of design , creative business coach , design business coach , Design business coaching ,
Tags: Business of design , design career , Design management , never not creative , unpaid internships ,
A community of knowledge
27
Jul

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.

Posted in: Business of design , creative business coach , design business coach ,
Tags: Business of design , capability building , design career , design education , Design management , Learning design , Slack community ,
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