Posts by Kady Sandel
Boundaries: How to Set Them With Your Freelance Clients
Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed sometimes? Or even in a state of panic? Do you feel anxious? Maybe you have design clients you dread? When you decided to go out on your own and start a freelance business, you became the CEO of your new organization! The buck stops with you. And when…
Read MoreWhen a Design Client Ghosts You…
Welcome to The Profitable Graphic Designer podcast! Have you ever had an amazing client show up in your inbox… and maybe you even had calls with them, or they put down a deposit… then, they disappeared?! In this episode, Kady Sandel talks about what to do when a freelance graphic, brand, or web…
Read MoreDon’t Have Freelance Clients? Do This!
Welcome to The Profitable Graphic Designer podcast! In this episode, Kady Sandel shows you what to do during client lulls and dry spells in your freelance graphic design, brand design, or web design business. Freelancers often fear those time periods between clients, but if you’re strategic, they offer the perfect opportunity to improve…
Read MoreBeing Yourself In Your Design Business with Destiny Washington
Welcome to The Profitable Graphic Designer podcast! Have you ever tried so hard to seem “professional” for your freelance clients that you no longer felt like yourself? Is your content feeling stagnant and boring? In today’s episode, brand strategist & guest expert Destiny Washington sits down with Kady for an incredible conversation about…
Read MoreHow to Find Your Niche as a Designer
Going out on your own as a freelancer is an exciting decision. You could taste it all when you determined to try the freelance life — the freedom, the potential, the income, and the profitability possibilities! Reality tends to knock us down a notch or two. The bills keep coming in. The clients come…
Read MoreAdd More Value and Increase Your Prices
Welcome to The Profitable Graphic Designer podcast! Want to crack the code of charging more while working less in your design business? This is the episode for you! Kady Sandel shows you how to explain your value to clients (and add the services they really want!) so you can charge more than other…
Read MoreReduce Your Design Revisions
Welcome to The Profitable Graphic Designer podcast! If your freelance design clients constantly want tweaks and revisions to your projects… you can learn how to limit revisions effectively & spend less time on them in this episode. Kady Sandel shares honest business advice around how you can massively reduce revision requests in your graphic,…
Read MoreHow to Set Your Freelance Graphic Design Rates
For freelance graphic, brand, and web designers, one of the hardest moments of starting your business usually involves determining your pricing. You have a service, you have a freelance platform, you know your stuff… and you have a prospective client. But what should you charge them?! Crazy thoughts go through your head. Maybe…
Read More12 Essential Business Tips for New Freelance Designers
We’ve learned a lot along the way, and we want to tell you our shortcuts! Yes, that’s right. Becoming a profitable freelance graphic, web, or brand designer doesn’t need to take a long time. It can — especially if you don’t take the initiative to learn freelance business skills. And for us, it did.…
Read MoreDoubled Her Rates! How This Freelance Designer Grew Her Business
Have you ever wondered how to start your own graphic design business? Or maybe you want to hear from real-life freelance designers and learn about their real-world business results! Our Aventive Academy graduates have grown their freelance graphic, brand, and web design businesses — from doubling their prices, to finding their niches, to signing…
Read More