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091: Educating Clients to Use Their New Design Effectively

| Episodes, Working With Clients

091: Educating Clients to Use Their New Design Effectively

Kory here! This idea came to me several months ago when we were hosting our Get Back to Design Accelerator, and I was talking to one of our members about teaching clients how to use their designs.

Oddly enough, the topic was really sticking out to me after hiring another business owner for a social media management project that didn’t go according to plan and ended poorly.

Here’s the thing, you don’t want to send a client off with beautiful design work that ends up being so-so when they starting using it because you didn’t effectively educate them.

So today I’m sharing a few ways you can work on educating your clients on how to use their new design effectively.

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090: Psychology-Driven Brand Strategy with Kaye Putnam

| Design Strategy, Episodes

There are so many things that go into strong, strategic branding to help our clients grow their business and achieve their goals.

One thing that many people might not be thinking about is the actual psychology aspect that can help you develop your clients’ brands. Truth be told, we’ve never thought about psychology when it comes to branding or design, in general.

So today, I’m thrilled to introduce you to Kaye Putnam, who has created her very own psychology driven angle, particularly using brand archetypes, to make sure that the designs she’s creating speaks to the core of who her clients are.

Kaye is going to be spilling the beans on what all of this means and how you can start implementing this into your own work.

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089: 5 Steps to Get Paid On Time, Every Time

| Episodes, Streamlining Your Business

There's not a lot that's worse than expecting an invoice to be paid by a client only to hear crickets. That's why we're sharing 5 steps for designers to get paid on time every single time.

We’re not really sure how we’ve made it 2.5 years of this podcast without recording this episode.

There’s not a whole lot that’s worse than expecting an invoice to be paid by a client only to hear crickets in your inbox. It’s a common struggle, but it’s so important that you’re getting paid when you expect to.

It can be difficult to handle this situation for most of us because we can be pretty laid back and sometimes a little more soft-spoken, which makes chasing someone down for a payment really uncomfortable.

Krista here! That’s why we’re both so excited to talk to you about how you can get paid on time every time. Our goal with this episode is that when you send an invoice to a client you never have a second thought about it getting paid, and yes, that’s possible.

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088: Avoiding the Dreaded Scope Creep with One 6 Creative

| Episodes, Working With Clients

This week we're chatting with Gigi from One 6 Creative all about how to use your process, boundaries, communication, and more to avoid scope creep.

How many times have you had a client need additional work and their projects and they try to sneak it in without paying extra? Kory here! I know that Krista and I have both certainly had this happen to us, and it is annoying and frustrating to deal with.

We are so so thrilled to have Gigi from One 6 Creative join us on the podcast this week just to talk all about avoiding that scope creep with your client projects.

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