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I'm a Creative, not an Investment Banker!

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Occasionally I’m asked to jump in on speculative pitches for work. Often these are based around design – a number of different concepts are worked up and presented to a prospective client, along with a spiel on how and why the concepts were created.

These types of pitches seem to be par for the course working in creative services, but they have never sat easily with me.  Years ago I was negotiating a PR contract with a potential client.  They were happy with our credentials, impressed with our client list and confident that we were the right company for them,  then they asked if we’d work for free for a month before signing contracts – just to prove ourselves. [Read more…]

Filed Under: battleplan, Business Development, Creative Services, Marketing, PR Tagged With: creative partnerships, creative services, design, Marketing, new business, PR, speculative pitches

Time management and the scourge of the home worker….

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OK, so the clear desk policy hasn’t really worked out – at all – in fact things are worse than ever.  On the plus side I have within reach pretty much every item I could ever need in my day-to-day working life (and then some). [Read more…]

Filed Under: battleplan, Working Days Tagged With: building, creative services, Home worker, Summer holidays, time management

holding page….

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It’s been a busy week… this is meant to be a post considering the commoditisation of creative services, and it will be – one day. In the meantime I’m off on holiday with my lovely family to laugh, play, read and sleep. Feel free to add some thoughts if you drop by while I’m away, otherwise I’ll pick it back up on my return…

Filed Under: Skiving off... Tagged With: commoditisation, creative services, family, holiday

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