Category: Clients

Episode #13: Are These Essentials in Your Design Contracts and Estimates?

September 25, 2018 Business/Career, Clients, Legal/Contracts2 Comments on Are These Essentials in Your Design Contracts and Estimates?

Do you know what to include in your design contracts and estimates? Do you know if your projects are profitable? Do you have trouble pricing your work? Do you suck up out-of-scope work that you should be charging for? Do you wonder if your contracts are protecting you? Find out when I use a contract, what I take into consideration when pricing work and what I include to protect myself from scope creep or potential legal issues.

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Episode #8: Improve Your Processes and Your Client’s Experience

July 18, 2018 Business/Career, Clients, Project ManagementLeave a Comment on Improve Your Processes and Your Client’s Experience

Are you getting what you need—and want—from clients? Do clients send you the wrong types of files? Does it takes a long time for clients to sign your contracts? Do you find yourself resending logo or print files for the umpteenth time? Are you embarrassed because clients point out edits you missed? Do you make it easy for clients to say yes? Learn how to improve your processes for a smoother, more enjoyable and efficient workflow for yourself and the client, so they keep coming back.

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Episode #6: Are You Protecting Your Design Rights and Covering Your Assets?

June 20, 2018 Business/Career, Clients, Featured Guest, Legal/Contracts3 Comments on Are You Protecting Your Design Rights and Covering Your Assets?

Are your design contracts helping—or hurting—you? Do clients understand your contracts? Do you? If you don’t have a solid contract, you may be unknowingly giving away your design rights or taking on liability you shouldn’t be. Even worse, if you don’t operate as an LLC or corporation, your personal assets could be at risk if you make a mistake. Learn how to prevent a contract catastrophe, get your contracts signed faster and protect your design rights—and yourself—from a legal crisis.

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Episode #5: Are You Getting the Clients You Want? With Ilise Benun

June 6, 2018 Clients, Featured Guest, Marketing/Promotion, Niching4 Comments on Are You Getting the Clients You Want? With Ilise Benun

If you’re not marketing, you’re at the mercy of taking whatever work comes to you, whether it’s work you want or not. You also don’t get the clients you want. When your marketing is targeted and consistent, you demonstrate to prospective clients that you understand their needs and remind them of you so they reach out when they have a need. In this interview with Ilise Benun, you’ll get marketing tips for designers and learn how to cultivate your marketing efforts to avoid feast or famine and to pick and choose the clients and work that you want.

Are You Getting the Clients You Want? With Ilise Benun: Read or Listen

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