Growth

How to scale your business, run the internal operations of your agency, manage your team, and keep your existing clients happy – all while bringing in new dream clients? Here’s my story from freelance to founder and insights into the processes and strategies that can help when growing a branding agency.

You're an experienced freelancer or just quit your full-time agency job to become your own boss. You've got the skills and you know it. Great! Now is the time to find out how to raise your professional value and price yourself a six-figure income from freelancing year on year. Understand the art of pricing to get paid what you’re worth with Tom Hirst.

As a junior brand designer, you might find it hard to uncover the real problems your client is facing. HolaBrief's guided project discovery platform empowers you to add a more strategic approach to your design process. Here's how to use it to your advantage:

The creative brief accompanies the entire design process from start to finish. When presenting your creative work like a pro, you’re walking your client through your design strategy of how you got to the final result, and how that ties back to the client’s original business objectives.

Look out for these 5 warning signs when speaking to potential clients and learn how to make sure that each project you take on is worth your time and energy. Find clients that respect you, value your work, your process, and are willing to pay you what you're worth!

I get it. You hate cold calling. I do too as a freelance designer. In fact, everybody does. Still, it is an effective activity to get new leads. Here are 3 tips from a first-time cold caller.

Whether you're a brand new freelance designer or have been trying to find design clients for years. Here are 3 easy principles of client acquisition I used to invoice $100,000 in my first full year of full-time freelance.

Corina Nika from Cocorrina is a graphic designer, hand letterer, and art director based on a small Island in the Mediterranean sea. She shares her views on the importance of setting up a strict design process, foolproof communication and working together with clients who value your work and opinion.