The Profitable Graphic Designer
By Kady Sandel
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Welcome to The Profitable Graphic Designer Podcast. My name is Kady Sandel, and this podcast was brought to you by Aventive Academy – an online business education platform that helps brand, graphic, and web designers get more clients, increase their pricing, and build a profitable design business. You can find out more about starting and growing your freelance design business at aventiveacademy.com
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162 Scaling Your Design Business with the Right Tools and Mindset
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May 27, 2025 |
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161 How to Increase Your Income as a Brand Designer
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May 20, 2025 |
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160 How Delegation Helped Me Work Only 4 Hours a Day as a Designer
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May 13, 2025 |
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159 Freelance Designers Struggle Because of This – How to Build a Real Business
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May 06, 2025 |
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158 The Portfolio Mistake That’s Costing You High-Paying Clients
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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157 What Separates $3K Designers from $10K+ Designers
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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156 The Secret to Attracting Clients Who Value Your Work
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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155 How I Went From $500 Clients to $10K+ Branding Projects
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Why Most Designers Stay Stuck (And How to Finally Grow Your Business)
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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154 3 Mistakes Keeping Designers Stuck with Low-Paying Clients
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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153 How to Find Logo Clients Who Will Pay You Premium Rates
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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152 Why $10K Design Clients Aren’t Hiring You (And How to Fix It)
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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151 Why Some Designers Get Clients on Repeat (And Others Don’t)
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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150 How to Land High-Paying $10K+ Design Clients ASAP
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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149 How Smart Designers Are Using AI to Scale Their Business
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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148 Why Working Less Made My Design Business More Profitable
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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147 The Reason Many Designers Can't Grow Their Business
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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146 Why Your Portfolio Isn't Landing You Clients (And What Will)
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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145 Psychological Tricks to Sell Design Services
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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144 Client Feedback Is How You Grow
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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143 Is It a Scam or a Real Design Client?
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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142 How Graphic Designers Get More Clients - Mockup Magic
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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141 Client Onboarding Process for Brand Designers
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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140 3 Best Ways to Find Freelance Design Clients in 2025
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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139 How to Craft Proposals That Win You High-Paying Clients
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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138 How I Automated My Design Business and Took a Month Off
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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137 Your Roadmap to a Profitable 2025 as a Designer
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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136 Raise Your Design Rates (Without Losing Clients)
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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135 How to Create a Strong Brand for Your Own Design Business
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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134 Pricing Your Design Services Confidently - The Ultimate Guide
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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133 How I Turned My Side Hustle into a Thriving Design Agency
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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132 FREE Brand Guidelines for Brand Designers – Elevating Your Visual Identity Skills
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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131 From Zero Leads to Fully Booked: My Client Magnet Method
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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130 Why Most Designers Struggle with Consistent Income (and How to Fix It)
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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129 How I Doubled My Income by Saying No to Clients
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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128 How to Position Your Design Business for Premium Clients
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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127 Marketing Strategies for Freelance Designers with Kiri Mohan
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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126 How to Sell Your Design Services Without Feeling Pushy with Tyler Archer
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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125 How to Consistently Get Design Clients without Chasing Leads
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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124 Scale Your Design Business by Raising Your Rates
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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123 What Nobody Tells You About How Designers Can Work Less and Earn More
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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122 Why Freelance Designers Struggle to Grow (and How to Break Free)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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121 The Designer to Agency Bootcamp, September 2024
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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120 How I Went From $500 Website Designs to $10K+ Web Projects (Pricing Part 2)
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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119 How I Went from $65 Logo Designs to $20K+ Branding Projects (Pricing Part 1)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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118 The Benefits of Hiring and Outsourcing as a Freelance Designer
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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117 How I Run a 6-Figure Design Agency Working Only 15 Hours a Week
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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116 How to Land Design Clients Without Social Media
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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115 Crushing Competitors With a Niche Design Agency With Massimo Zefferino
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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114 Q&A: Landing Clients, Boosting Rates, Running a Design Agency
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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113 Winning High-Ticket Design Clients
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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112 From Followers to Design Clients with James Barnard
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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111 Stop the Endless Client Emails With This Free Client Portal
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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110 Who Pays the Fees： Designer or Client?
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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109 Hooking Potential Design Clients with Quizzes
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May 28, 2024 |
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108 Landing a $29,000 Branding Project - How Long It Takes
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May 21, 2024 |
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107 Revisions and Client Feedback Are Not a Bad Thing
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May 14, 2024 |
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106 When Design Clients Are MIA: Tips for Navigating Slow Seasons
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May 07, 2024 |
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105 Transforming Leads into High-Quality Design Clients with Josh Hall
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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104 Working With Fortune 500 Companies and Securing $100K Branding Deals With Kyle Courtright
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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103 Marketing Strategies for Design Professionals With Shannon Mattern
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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102 Running a Small Design Agency with Kristy Campbell (Pink Pony Creative)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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101 Getting Design Clients on LinkedIn
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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100 Strategies to Grow Your Design Business with Chris Do
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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99 Booking $32k in a Day as a Brand & Web Designer
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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98 Steps for Growing into a Small Design Agency
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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97 Building Your Design Agency Dream Team
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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96 Attracting Design Clients on Instagram & TikTok with Kenzi Green
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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95 Growing a Design Biz Through AI
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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94 The Client Pipeline Roadmap
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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93 Mastering Content Creation and Logo Design with Will Paterson
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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92 Selling Online Courses and Generating Passive Income with Ran Segall
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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91 Spend Your Time Creating Logos, Not Exporting Them! An Interview With Michael Bruny-Groth
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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90 Stop Selling if You Want to Sell Your Design Services – With Matt Essam
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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89 From Solo Designer to Agency Success With Michael Janda
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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88 How I Get $20,000 Design Projects： Breakdown
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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87 Earning $20k／m as a graphic designer while working 20-30h per week with Adrienne Johnston
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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86 3 Shifts to Achieve Your Money Goals as a Brand and Web Designer
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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85 From $0 to $480K： The Journey of a Solo Freelance Designer with Tim Noetzel
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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84 Grow Your Design Business through Relationships & SEO with Mariah Liszewski
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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83 How to Become a Fully Booked Graphic Designer with Shay (Bucketlist Bombshells)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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82 The One Concept Method for Brand & Web Designers with Hayley Fedders
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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81 $5K／Day as a Web Designer? How Becca Started Offering VIP Days in Her Business
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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80 Selling Over $1.4 Million in Website Templates with Elizabeth McCravy
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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79 $18,500 Branding and Web Design Project - Breakdown
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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78 Thriving on Return Clients as a Designer with Gigi from One6Creative
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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77 Make a Living Designing Logos with Ian Paget from Logo Geek
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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76 Increasing Your Design Rates for Bigger Profits
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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75 Dealing With Design Clients Who Don’t Know Exactly What They Want
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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74 Finding the Perfect Niche Target for Your Design Business
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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73 $10K Visual Identity vs $1K Visual Identity - The Difference
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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72 5 Tips to Stop Attracting Cheap Design Clients
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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71 Effective Sales Strategies： How to Close More Deals and Increase Your Revenue
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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70 The Creative CEO Accelerator! Last Round for 2023
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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69 Earning More Without Working More
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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68 The Designer to Agency Bootcamp
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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67 The Best Way to Get 5-Figure Design Clients
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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66 Reducing the Number of Revisions
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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65 Ways to Attract High-Paying Clients
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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64 The Profitable Designer Program! Answering Your Questions About My 12-Week Business Program
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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63 How to Build and Lead a Strong Team for a Design Business Success
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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62 Becoming a Successful Illustrator with Ashwin Chacko
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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61 Tips for Scaling Your Design Business and Running an Agency with Courtney Marie
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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60 Mastering Pricing and Networking in Business with Jamie Brindle
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May 23, 2023 |
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59 Discover New Ways to Diversify Your Income as a Designer
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May 16, 2023 |
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58 A Client's Perspective： Do They Always Need a Designer or Can They DIY It
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May 09, 2023 |
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57 3 Secrets That Helped Me Raise My Rates as a Graphic Designer
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May 02, 2023 |
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56 A Client's Perspective： What They Value in a Designer and How They Hire
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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55 Does Cold Emailing Work for Designers?
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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54 How to Price Your Design Services for Maximum Profitability
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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53 Will AI Replace You as a Designer?
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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52 Client Ghosting: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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51 Confidence Without Certification: How to Become a Successful Brand Strategist & Designer with Melinda Livsey
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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50 Outsourcing Your Designs aka White Labeling
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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49 How to Sell Your Design Services as a Product
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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48 Getting $10k+ Clients Using Social Media as a Graphic, Brand or Web Designer
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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47 How to Talk About Your Services and Win Design Clients
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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46 How to Price Your Web Design Services & Guarantee the Results with Josh Hall
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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45 Less is More: Simplifying Your Marketing To-Do List
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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44 My Tips to Stay Focused & Motivated in Your Design Business
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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43 How Busy Six-Figure Designers Get Their Time Back
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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42 Scale Your Design Business Without a Massive Team
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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41 Hiring a Team to Support Your Vision
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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40 How to Book 10k Clients Working 5h a Week
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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39 Six-Figure Goal Setting in Your Design Business
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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38 Designing for a High-Ticket Client
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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37 Messaging & Positioning to Get to Your Next Level
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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36 Grow Your Design Business with Blogging & SEO with Jacob Cass
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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35 Do This if Your Marketing Isn't Working
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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34 3 Reasons Why I Get $12k Design Clients and Other Designers Don’t
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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33 Personal Branding for Designers with Lucian Grofsorean
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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32 Promote Your Design Business Without Burning Out
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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31 I Won a Year-Long Adobe Subscription Because of My Client From Hell
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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30 Designing Your Portfolio to Look Expensive
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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29 Sell Your Design Services Using Instagram Stories with Alyssa Moorhead
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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28 Collaborate with Copywriters to Get More Design Clients with Natalie Gates
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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27 How I Grew My Branding & Design Studio
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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26 The High-Ticket Client Mastermind - October 2022
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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25 Mindset Shifts to Grow Your Creative Business with Jeremy Mura
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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24 How to Choose the Right Mentor with Prajin Shee
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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23 How to Fine-Tune Your Niche & Get Your Best Clients Yet with Faith Rodriguez
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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22 Stop Calling Yourself a Graphic Designer!
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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21 When a Design Client Ghosts You...
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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20 Don't Have Freelance Clients? Do This!
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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19 Being Yourself in Your Design Business with Destiny Washington
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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18 Add More Value and Increase Your Prices
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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17 Reduce Your Design Revisions
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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16 How to Get Freelance Clients on Social Media with Dot Lung
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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15 Client Red Flags to Watch For
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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14 How to Get a Design Client Tomorrow
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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13 My 5 Biggest Freelance Marketing Mistakes
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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12 What Does a $10K Month Look Like?
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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11 How to Brand Your Design Business
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May 31, 2022 |
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10 Design Skills vs. Business Skills: Which Do You Need?
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May 24, 2022 |
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09 How Much I Charge as a Designer
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May 17, 2022 |
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08 Scared To Niche Down? Listen to This Episode!
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May 10, 2022 |
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07 Design Proposals That Clients Say Yes To
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May 03, 2022 |
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06 Why Your Competitors Don’t Exist
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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05 The Client Didn't Like My Designs
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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04 How To Attract High-Paying Clients
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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03 Creating a Design Portfolio That Sells
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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02 Is Freelancing For You?
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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01 How I Started My Freelance Graphic Design Business
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Apr 05, 2022 |