News for 2008-05
iMagic increases creative output and decreases administration with Streamtime – 11th May, 2008
“Streamtime allows my company to focus on doing what it does best – creating exciting design for our clients not wasting time on administration. The staff love it because it is so simple and it saves us so much time overall. Streamtime is allowing us to grow and take on new projects, increase our portfolio and improve client satisfaction and overall profitability.” Paul Fairbairn, Managing Director, iMagic
Challenge:
Leading creative communications studio iMagic had experienced rapid growth and 12 years from its beginning was flourishing. New business was coming in quickly and the design team were happily inundated with projects. The ...
Killer Pitch, Win the jobs you want! – 3rd May, 2008
According to a recent Design Council survey, free pitching is a way of life for most designers. Almost half of all design agencies (44 per cent) and freelancers (43 per cent) say they have to pitch creatively for free either always or frequently.
Yet less than a third of the designers surveyed agreed that free pitching should be just accepted as a routine way of winning business, and fees should be adjusted accordingly. At the opposite end of the scale, 23 per cent thought designers should insist on being paid for the full cost of preparatory work.
Interestingly, the Design ...
Creative people aren’t always so keen on organising their lives and keeping up with the admin side of things – but a solution is at hand, in the form of Streamtime
Let’s talk some truth here. You have a business that sells ideas: a skill some clients treat like a commodity. You know it's not, but the way some ...
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