How to Thrive as a Freelance Graphic Designer w/ James Barnard
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- Ever wondered if focusing on a niche like logo design can truly skyrocket your business? 🤔
Join Chris Do as he sits down with James Barnard, a freelance logo designer who transformed his career by specializing. This insightful conversation unveils how specialization can lead to exponential growth and stability in the design industry.
What You'll Learn:
🎯 The power of specialization in increasing business visibility and client leads.
💡 How creating targeted content can lead to viral success and a substantial following.
🛠 Practical tips on using social media and SEO to attract high-value clients.
✏️ In This Episode:
00:00 - Intro
09:16 - Hacks for Designers
11:20 - Securing Your Next Client
14:16 - Sponsorship Deals
28:04 - Effective Client Onboarding
32:37 - Freelancer vs. Agency
39:01 - The Power of Specialization
44:24 - Leveraging Public Speaking
55:15 - Educate & Inspire
1:00:16 - Conclusion
1:04:47 - Outro
📢 This conversation reveals how a niche focus on logo design can not only enhance your skills but also significantly expand your business opportunities. Ideal for designers looking to refine their focus or expand their market reach, this discussion provides actionable strategies for real-world application.
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Thanks for having me Chris! And to everyone watching, can you tell how nervous I was? Chris is my hero! 🤩
😂...you are really inspiring me lately...your course is amazing...it actually making me to follow the rabbit hole of logo design...you and Aaron Draplin are my current teachers...love you guys
My pleasure, great convo. We'll have to do it again soon.
Just a heads up: Google tells me your website is unsafe and warms me not to access it. When I proceed I get a "404 NOT FOUND".
You held yourself together well mate !!
Hi James, I tried to go to your website to look at your course and I keep getting a 404 error. Is the course still on Skillshare by any chance???
I’m still not there yet! But I started saying no to a lot of work outside of UA-cam content and brand videos for clients. No more wedding, parties, events and that helped my business a lot. I think I’m getting to the next phase where I’ll only work with entrepreneurs that want to grow on UA-cam.
All the best buddy 💯
I always say Solo Studio instead of Freelancer.
Never thought that Tiktok can generate B2B leads, I thought it's just a place for scrollers not businesses that afford paying for services. Thanks for this.
Oh no it's a hidden secret B2B goldmine cause nobody does it don't tell anybody
Just like James and thousands of other designers I find myself daily drawn into all my interests in terms of working in graphic,web and motion design, logo, icon and illustration work, photography, video and 3D - I am getting to the point where finally after yearrs I might be settling more towards a combination of putting best use of my photography of people and products, twinned with 3D work as part of product design/animation/vfx - its not yet clear how I can manage this its been an idea a long time in the making and its still not entirely niched but if I can steer that direction and stay afloat it could be the answer ive been searching for all these years
Always something new to learn here. Thank you Chris. Watching from Nigeria.
Awesome! Thank you!
Super chill dude been following for a while, love the honest talk 👌
Super valuable episode! 🙌 Love that quote Chris mentioned, "one teaches to learn" & "one teaches, two learn".
This was so dope man, James is awesome! Kudos to both of you and the whole Futur team.
Thank you
Swoop! Am I gonna see you at Adobe MAX again this year?
@@barnardco It's possible! haha, fingers crossed.
super interesting to hear the differences of opinions between being a freelancer, studio, and agency
Brilliant content again Chris, and James
I listened to this few weeks ago on the pod, it was full of gems! So I HAD to give it a watch to really let those points sink in my brain.
Nice, thanks for tuning in again.
Hahaa those balloons when Chris got in the zone😂
Very inspiring conversation indeed, please do more of this! Thank you Chris!
You got it!
There's some really great nuggets of wisdom in here! I really liked what you shared about the medical community and how they remember their procedures, learn it - do it -teach it!
this was a great convo and I think a good example on specialization since Chris is always trying to push for people to have a better understanding of it😅
Great stuff, I am an entrepreneur in construction and the presentation here always have something of value to boost revenues and reduce stress.
I also focus on logos. Appreciate u Chris, always on point who would best for your audience. Questions are real...much love. watching from Ghana
Appreciate that
That was a great Collab 🔥
We agree!
Teaching as a strategy for learning appeals to more than intending to gain status or making money. Something in this video was confirming of that for me. So cheers and much gratitude for that.
Thanks for sharing!
been starting freelancing for a while but haven't got any client, I guess its time to watch all the futur videos😂
Don't stop pushing referrals might also get you clients
heck y eah Barnard.and Chris, gods collab
Good stuff, I'm an illustrator guy and Photoshop... I would love to hear more about sponsorships and how they work?
Designerrrrrr
James is a legend/
DESIGNERS!!!
Nice niche, educating and focusing down on the Adobe updates that some may have missed. It’s very easy to get stuck in a routine of doing things your own way and ignoring these later updates. Particularly for dinosaurs like me who started on Photoshop 5 and Freehand in the mid 90s😅 But it is the age old question. How do these content creators get past the YT algorithm? You know the one, where it delivers 200 (or thereabouts) impressions before giving up and not delivering your videos anywhere else so nobody gets to see your work/ content. As a 40+ year old designer I have a mortgage and bills to pay, I don’t have time to spend tickling the social algorithms. Sorry hope that doesn’t come across as too negative but I find it frustrating that’s all. Nice content as always. 😊
Make good content. It's simple as that. Ask yourself is what I'm making good, valuable and sharable? Put in the reps produce 500 videos.
Was there a released podcast before this upload? Sounds familiar
Yes, our podcast team and video team are on different schedules.
@@thefutur Alright, this content is truly packed with great value. Thanks
Love this dude. Found him after seeing some great cringe faces and had to subscribe lol. Nice to see him getting some attention!
He’s pretty funny
I'm not even a creative yet the is the best marketing channel so far lol
Thank you
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