Takeaway: Understanding your client base and their requirements, as well as recognising your own capacity to support them, are crucial factors when choosing a tool or platform.
We were talking about how Disney are able to create magic consistently and as we looked at how they welcome people into their parks, we realised.... there must be magic in the process. I share what we discussed and my thoughts so far as we enter this journey of discovery. Share below your processes, how do you create magic?
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Is it even possible to be a full service agency, provide amazing services across all disciplines and maintain a profitable focused business with a clear message?
Personally I've not made that work, although it doesn't necessarily make the full service concept stupid!!
Today I shared what worked for me, but I also reach out to YOU for your comments and feedback. If you are a full service agency, how have you made it work?
Or if you are in camp Lee, what have your experiences been?
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Frank Friday Playlist:
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Hear me out, it’s not the size of the tool, it’s how you use it! Adobe Photoshop may be considered the “go to” application for web designers, but web designers may be missing a trick. Canva is easy to use, stacked with design assets and allows you to collaborate as a team or with your client.
In this video I'd like to push against the natural snobbery of us web designers by showing how powerful Canva really is.
We will cover:
- Hero images
- Featured images
- Product imagery
- Social media posts
- Creating client templates
This assumes that you are already a qualified designer, looking for tools to improve your workflow and to find inspiration.
Disclaimer: If you are looking to Canva to “fake” being a designer I would encourage you to invest in courses such as “Design for Geeks” (link below) to help you understand the basics of design before engaging in any design tools.
Check out Design for Geeks by Piccia Neri on: https://designforgeeks.com/
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Managing time, tasks and resources is a huge challenge for any business owner. Outsourcing seems like a good idea, but the price tends to put us off, leading to stressed out entrepreneurs trying to do everything themselves.
Here I unpack an admittedly over simplistic way of looking at the price of outsourcing. Note there is a limit, you can't spend what you don't have, I get that, but this might help in the mind-shift. Enjoy...
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Here are 5 reasons we podcast. I love podcasting so much I'm launching a new one soon! Watch this space.
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Struggle to achieve what you want in any given day?
So did I until I started micro-journaling.
Check out how in this week's YouTube video:
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Agencies are often asked to provide services in return for exposure. For example: "We will tweet about you, and tell our network". Exposure at face value can sound appealing. But let's start to unpack why exposure is NOT the best currency for a design or branding agency.
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We all get to the point where we are overwhelmed with work. With all of the demands on our time we look to outsourcing as the magic solution. We assume we can dump work on someone else and it will magically be done.
Unfortunately I found out the hard way that outsourcing takes time and should be done at the right time.
_ I rushed into selecting a freelancer
_ I gave them complex work without context
_ I hurried the briefing process
_ I didn't spend enough money
_ I waited too long to outsource
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Creating a blog post need not take hours. Here is a way to create a blog post out of something you do naturally. Conversation.
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Its a free place to hang and talk all things web/marketing/WordPress/design/share cat pics.
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