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How to launch a brand by Fabian Geyrhalter

In this book review edition, we are taking a look at “How to launch a brand by Fabian Geyrhalter” your step by step guide to crafting a brand from positioning to naming and brand identity. It’s an easy to read, comprehensive guide to launching your brand.

Back in February this year I contacted Fabian about taking part in our designer interview which he was more than happy to take part in so over the months we have been collaborating to put together Fabian’s interview.

He offered to send me signed copies of his book’s “Bigger than this” and “How to launch a brand” in this article we will be reviewing his first book “How to launch a brand by Fabian Geyrhalter”.

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Just Go Ahead and 80/20 Everything

I want you to do me a favour. Everything that has anything to do with your business or marketing your business, I want you to 80/20 it.

Just go ahead and 80/20 everything. Every. Damn. Thing.

It’ll work, I’m sure of it.

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Brand Mistakes to Avoid

In this article we are we’re going to be discussing Brand Mistakes to Avoid

This article will contain some of the most common brand fails, here at The Logo Creative we work with a lot of clients both UK and international. We produce lots of graphic design work for clients usually logos and marketing materials plus web design projects

We also help them with their brand strategies and through the years we have found that there are some pretty common errors that clients make if they try to build a brand on their own without getting professional advice and guidance from the professionals

We thought it would be useful to run through these brand fields and let you know what to look for and what you can fix.

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How to Answer the Question: What’s Your Hourly Rate?

What do you say when a prospect or client asks, “What’s your hourly rate?” In this article we discuss How to Answer the Question: What’s Your Hourly Rate?

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Change Your Process, Land Higher Paying Clients

Are you currently frustrated because you’re landing low-paying clients? I get it. I was frustrated for years and tried every piece of advice that came my way about how to charge more. From endlessly talking about what’s stopping me, to charging more with every new client, nothing worked consistently.

I would hear things like, “It’s all mindset. You just need the confidence to charge higher prices.” And while that’s true, where does the confidence come from? Do we just need to muster enough to be able to charge more? Or was there something else to it?

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How to Write The Perfect Freelance Case Study

Not all case studies are created equally. Most are pretty shit actually. For freelancers that aren’t professional writers, it can be quite daunting or difficult to see the benefits. Join us in this article as we discuss How to Write The Perfect Freelance Case Study

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Crafting Your Personal Branding As A New Designer – In 8 Steps

Having a strong personal brand is crucial if you want to build a successful design career.

When you’re applying to jobs or reaching out to clients, a strong personal brand can help make you more memorable, showcase your style and tone of work, and convince people that you’re truly passionate about design outside of your 9-5 job. It also shows that you have an opinion or point of view about design and are willing to boldly attach that opinion to yourself for everyone to see!

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Why advanced freelancers shouldn’t use Bidding websites (Like UpWork, Freelancer.com, PeoplePerHour)

Freelance bidding websites attract a lot of freelance projects. They do this by encouraging competition and cheap prices. In this situation, nobody wins. The customer only gets what they paid for (not a lot). And the freelancer can’t grow their business beyond the platform. To win a bid, you must compete on price. To lower your price, you must perform a basic service or reduce your costs. This goes against an advanced freelancers way of thinking. If you focus on adding as much value to a customers business as possible, everybody wins.

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Designing a Better Logo Design

In this article we discuss Designing a Better Logo Design

Have a browse around the internet, you may be left with the impression that designing a logo is easy; most logos look very simplistic and you may be under the impression that not alot of work goes into them. Actually, there’s more to crafting a brand’s visual identity than just placing a name in a box or next to some clip art and calling it a day.

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How to handle these 6 types of freelance clients

There are so many client personalities it’s hard to generalise them into just a few. But here I’ve noted the most common types that I came across and how I handled it.

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