Your Mindset Dicates Your Success

Three Lessons on Marketing for Designers from the Designer Toy Industry

Six Business Lessons From My Dad About Doing Business as a Graphic Designer

Kind Words: Serena Mayen, Modern Design

Why don’t creative service providers (graphic designers, photographers, video creators) ask the client about money?

It’s important to ground your discovery call/sales interview in something real, your prospects want to know how they can make money from working with you.

Offering a cheaper deal is a WIN/LOSE

How to deal with rejection

You can’t polish a turd.

What to say, when a client says…..

The trouble with designers not being good marketers…

How to lead a sales call like a professional wrestler

What Black Metal Taught me About Branding.

How much eye contact should you make with a client when discussing price?

Why Selling Brand Strategy is a bit Like Selling a Novelty Christmas Jumper of Santa Taking a Poop

What hardcore taught me about content writing.

Back in my twenties, most weekends you’d find me at a punk show or a hardcore show.

For those of you wondering, hardcore is not something dodgy as its name might suggest.

It’s a slightly heavier version of punk music, with heavier distortion, heavier vocals and more aggression (IMO).

Are adding to the noise or breaking through the noise with your content.

WTF hayden?

I'll rephrase (because I know exactly how important this has been for my own business).

Are you posting stuff just for the sake of it? just following what every other freelance designer on IG is creating?

You don’t become a mother or father because you are ready, you are ready because you become a mother or a father.

So we can’t spend our professional creative lives waiting for the ‘right time’.

If your potential client is feeling OK, happy with the status quo and just kinda in pain… they will probably say no.

If your clients can’t put ‘brand strategy’ or ‘visual identity’ in the context of their own business, it’s hard to get them across the line.