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Find clients by improving your onlyness
01
Feb

New year. Let’s take a fresh look at how you get new business and question, what if clients found you instead of you having to find them?

Posted in: Business of design , creative business coach , design business coach , female business coach , small business mentoring ,
Tags: choosing your client , design career , design clients , design coaching , graphic design clients ,
How to identify the good clients
23
Nov

Unfortunately bad clients are not easily identified. They are not labelled, infact most bad clients look and act exactly the same as a good client.

Posted in: Business of design , creative business coach , Creatives and perfectionism , creatives mental health , design business coach , female business coach , small business mentoring ,
Tags: design career , design clients , design coaching , designers mental health , mental health and perfectionism , overcoming perfectionism ,
designer suffering from perfectionism
Perfectionism explained
16
Nov

Many creatives suffer from perfectionism. It’s not a positive trait, in fact perfectionism is really setting yourself up to fail. This article explains why.

Posted in: Business of design , creative business coach , Creatives and perfectionism , creatives mental health , design business coach , female business coach , small business mentoring ,
Tags: design career , design clients , design coaching , designers mental health , mental health and perfectionism , overcoming perfectionism ,
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 ,
man sharing information with clients
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 ,
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 ,
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 ,
This project exists in every organisation
13
Jul

Every client needs to onboard new staff. It’s the one project that exists in every organisation, and it’s a perfect way to get more from existing clients.

Posted in: Business of design , creative business coach ,
Tags: a career in design , ageism , Business of design , capability building , design career , Design management , Design strategies , Design strategy , hard skills , soft skills , Studio management ,
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06
Jul

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.

Posted in: Business of design , creative business coach ,
Tags: a career in design , ageism , Business of design , capability building , design career , Design management , Design strategies , Design strategy , hard skills , soft skills , Studio management ,
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