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5 Ways to avoid underselling your services Becoming Profitable

5 Ways to avoid underselling your services

It's really difficult to get paid what you're worth, especially if what you do is service based (like most Creative/Digital businesses). But there are 5…

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The 6 Reasons you should be using Contractors (and 3 reasons you shouldn’t) Uncategorized

The 6 Reasons you should be using Contractors (and 3 reasons you shouldn’t)

Joergelman / Pixabay Outsourced Contractors are members of your team that aren't on your payroll. For example, imagine a client asking for a 3D walk…

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Forecasting didn’t work for Michael Fish, (but it can for you) Uncategorized

Forecasting didn’t work for Michael Fish, (but it can for you)

Everyone knows the story. In 1987, Michael Fish in his now infamous forecast told the nation not to worry as there wasn't a hurricane on…

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The 3 Part secret of getting paid on time Becoming Profitable

The 3 Part secret of getting paid on time

With the rise of modern accountancy and cloud-based accounting systems like Xero, then this is becoming less of a secret, but here's the 3 part…

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We didn’t design our own website Uncategorized

We didn’t design our own website

In theory, we could have though. There's loads of tutorials online showing us how to: Set up webhosting Install Wordpress, Buy and install a theme…

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How To Maximise Your Profits (So You Can Spend More Money on Cake) Becoming Profitable

How To Maximise Your Profits (So You Can Spend More Money on Cake)

Want more money? Let’s not beat around the bush here – naturally as a creative agency you want to expand your skills, and learn new…

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Why creating a budget will instantly increase your luck with the opposite sex Uncategorized

Why creating a budget will instantly increase your luck with the opposite sex

Creating a proper budget for your creative agency could be the difference between living happily every after with the most beautiful person in the world,…

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Iconic Art

Collaboratively administrate empowered markets via plug-and-play networks. Dynamically procrastinate B2C users after installed base benefits. Dramatically visualize customer directed convergence without revolutionary ROI. Efficiently unleash…

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Reduce your Marketing Spend by 80% Becoming Profitable

Reduce your Marketing Spend by 80%

Did you know that according to Bain & Company, it costs on average six to seven times more to acquire a new customer than it…

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Outsourcing Success Stories Uncategorized

Outsourcing Success Stories

Are you struggling along in your creative agency with too many tasks and not enough time? Or perhaps you’re teaching yourself a new skill, putting…

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We all have our favourite clients Uncategorized

We all have our favourite clients

Does your face light up when certain clients call you? Do you find yourself avoiding some emails more than others? Do you have a list…

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How The Heck Do Dragons Value Businesses So Quickly? Uncategorized

How The Heck Do Dragons Value Businesses So Quickly?

We’ve all seen them on TV. Those power hungry, business gobbling Dragons, who take one look at business and know exactly how much they’re worth.…

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How To Outsource Properly For Your Creative Agency Uncategorized

How To Outsource Properly For Your Creative Agency

OK, you should now be convinced about the values of outsourcing - having of course read our previous blogs on its rise amongst businesses just…

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Creative Tasks That You Can Easily Outsource Uncategorized

Creative Tasks That You Can Easily Outsource

If you’ve gotten this far in our series on outsourcing, then you’re probably well and truly convinced it’s something which can help your creative agency…

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The Meteoric Rise Of Outsourcing Becoming Profitable

The Meteoric Rise Of Outsourcing

Outsourcing might seem like a relatively new thing. If you’ve got a small creative agency, you may have only thought about it in terms of…

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10 Reasons To Outsource Work for your Agency Becoming Profitable

10 Reasons To Outsource Work for your Agency

In the modern globalised world in which we live, the way we do business and the way we act as consumers is constantly changing. Keeping…

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Collaboratively administrate empowered markets via plug-and-play networks. Dynamically procrastinate B2C users after installed base benefits. Dramatically visualize customer directed convergence without revolutionary ROI. Efficiently unleash…

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How I Work: Christian Hill, Project Simply Uncategorized

How I Work: Christian Hill, Project Simply

Recently we interviewed Christian Hill, Director of Strategy of the rapidly-growing Project Simply, based in Manchester. We asked him about his work day, how he…

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Fancy writing for us? Uncategorized

Fancy writing for us?

Regular readers will know that we love collaboration. With this in mind, do you fancy writing for us? We're looking for: One-off guest posts, Regular 'columnists',…

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The Way You Feel About Digital Is the Way We Feel About Accounting Systems Cloud Accounting

The Way You Feel About Digital Is the Way We Feel About Accounting Systems

We get the geek thing. We really do. photo credit: x-ray delta one via photopin cc You see, most of our clients are in the…

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