How The Marketing Wheel Makes Designers More Money

How The Marketing Wheel Makes Designers More Money Take your customer's round the marketing wheel and generate more revenue. Are You An Order Taker? Most graphic designers are missing a trick! They are order takers. An order taker goes to a consultation with their new customer and asks them what they want. The customer will say something like I want a new logo and some business cards. Designer: "Ok that will be £X" - and will discuss the brief. You have just left a lot of money on the table. What Is An Order Maker? An order maker approaches the Read More

How Natalie Sacked Her Web Developer And Never Looked Back

How Natalie Sacked Her Web Developer And Never Looked Back "I HAVE HAD IT WITH MY WEB DEVELOPER!", Natalie, Graphic Designer I met Natalie about 7 months ago at one of our courses in London. Her story was not a surprise to me as I have heard her story time and time again. What I love about Natalie's story is how she threw herself into building websites because she simply had enough. "I HAVE HAD IT WITH MY WEB DEVELOPER!", Natalie, Graphic Designer So what had happened? Why didn't it work out? Out Of Control She had a really important Read More

Templates Vs Bespoke

Template Vs Bespoke? Template or Bespoke? The age old dilemma for designers is templates V Bespoke – here we analyze templates vs bespoke and ask is there a place for both? Read More

How to Build a Website Building Company

How to build a Website Building Company! Equipment you will need Hosting Choosing the right hosting provider is like a minefield, especially if you are not tech-savvy or never hosted websites before. Read More

Why Most Graphic Designers Fail And What Successful Ones Do Differently

Last year I sat down with my graphic designer for a coffee catch up after the Christmas holidays, he was depressed. He had just had the worst Christmas ever. Just before Christmas he had secured a large design job that would pay him handsomely. He had put aside his regular small customers so that he could pull off the biggest Read More