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If you’re a freelancer who’s got a steady stream of work coming your way - either from the same loyal clients who know you and trust you, or from referrals from said loyal clients, or you’re very good at selling yourself and you...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
The entire creative industry is talking about purpose. The purpose of a project. Doing work with purpose. ‘Great innovation. World changing idea. #purpose’. But no one’s talking about their own. So, as part of this year's D&AD...
Posted by: Emily Jeffrey-Barrett
We all know the overused retail mantra 'the customer is always right'. It's been rammed into our consciousness since we got our first Saturday shops as grumpy teenagers and began having to deal with The Great British Moron. In my experience, the...
Posted by: Creativepool
Anyone that’s been working within the creative industries for any significant length of time will probably have a few horror stories to share when it comes to being on the receiving end of an unwarranted torrent of abuse. We don’t like to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Asking people to part with their money has never been an easy thing. It’s why sales skills are still seen as incredibly desirable traits by employers and it’s why advertising exists in the first place. I mean, what is good advertising...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We don’t live in a perfect world. If we did then we wouldn’t currently be watching one nation committing unprovoked atrocities against another. But one area that we are starting to see in more black and white terms is the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I’ve been married 21 years this year. That’s apparently celebrated via the gift of Brass things (which seems a bit mean). But it’s rare to see a design agency celebrate past paper (1 year) or cotton (2) or leather (kinky - but also...
Posted by: Simon Manchipp
December is a bit like the Valentine’s Day of freelancing - a chance to show appreciation to your significant clients for everything they’ve done for you since you first met. This may involve sending freelance holiday cards, gifts and...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The holiday season is upon us, and with it, the temptation to give in to end-of-year slump. If you were thinking about taking a break from freelance marketing until New Year’s, think again - a lot of other freelancers will be thinking exactly...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
When just starting out, it’s normal for most freelancers to jump from one project to another. At this early stage of your freelance business, your retainers are few and far in between - if any - and your earnings are just as inconsistent. Often...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
It is a widely known fact that big clients do things differently. The largest organisations in the modern brandscape will have millions of dollars to spend in marketing budget, but they obviously won’t be keen on spending them all in a risky...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Based in North East England, Wonderstuff is a wonderfully ambitious branding agency with a great heart, committed to making each client's journey unique. Wonderstuff does not pitch. The team has been expanding solely through referrals and word of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Albeit a relatively small and young brand (it was founded in 2012, just 9 years ago), Farmdrop has a big pulsing heart that is driven by a desire for change and positive impact in the food industry. Committed to "fixing the foodchain", Farmdrop...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Love the new Conscious products made-in H&M. At least 50% of Conscious products is made from sustainable materials! And the remaining half, well… We don’t care about that, do we? H&M often makes the headlines for all the wrong reasons,...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Among the many innovations that the 2020 Covid crisis accelerated, remote filming is certainly the most interesting. If anything, because it was a proper life-saver for an entire sector. Both the events and the production industry have been forced...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Being one of the world’s largest creative communities, Creativepool is in a unique position to understand to what extent the creative industry is recovering from the COVID-19 outbreak. We had the power to make a difference by asking about the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
To say that 2020 hasn’t turned out exactly as predicted for advertisers and marketers would be an understatement. So, if the experts can’t get it right - why do we as humans still need predictions in times that are seemingly...
Posted by: Posterscope
As a bright-eyed and not-so bushy-tailed 14-year-old, metal was everything to me. Whilst I’d discover the more nuanced delights of alternative rock and electronica by the time I’d left high school, as a young teen it was all about...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
80% of your work comes from 20% of your clients. Returning clients are what will keep you in business and constantly working. So, be sure to keep good relationships with the people you have previously worked with so your phone is always...
Posted by: Hashmukh Kerai
Finding clients, or ‘new business’ is tough. They are often like buses, you wait ages for one, then all of a sudden two or three arrive at once. This is evident more so for creatives, as we are not very tuned to the business side of...
Posted by: Hashmukh Kerai
Modern communication technologies have changed working life for marketing professionals. Many moons ago, before the advent of the World Wide Web, the only way to effectively engage with your clients was by setting up lengthy in-person meetings....
Posted by: Prezi
Why would anybody choose to launch a content agency in the middle of 2018???? Type content agency London into google and 291,000,000 hits come up. I got tired of counting how many specific agencies there are doing it when i got past 500. Every PR...
Posted by: JSR Agency
Who'd have thought that greeting people would become such a 21st century problem? Of course, the protocols for saying 'hello' and 'goodbye' have varied from culture to culture, country to country, for millennia. Indeed, in France (where they're very...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
As he famously promised 30 years ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger is indeed back, and in a big way. This summer saw the release of the latest Terminator movie, which also marked the former California governor's return to the big screen blockbuster scene...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Creativepoolers in the fortunate position of holding down a fulltime staff job will be familiar with the warm glow of the monthly payslip. Sure, you'd probably like the net total to be larger, but at least your earnings show up on a predictable...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
by Magnus Shaw. A couple of years ago an ailing roadside restaurant chain called in a radical TV chef to boost their menu and therefore their revenues. They refurbished some tired looking outlets, hired new people and ran a fairly hefty marketing...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Printed.com. Every small business strives to win bigger and bigger clients who have more money to spend, but if you're going to to do this you need to pitch your services in a way that appeals to them and gives them confidence that you can...
Posted by: Creativepool
The Great Depression aside, there has rarely been a worse time to apply for a job. And yet for anyone leaving college or school, or simply attempting to recover from the cruelty of redundancy, it has never been more essential. So with high hopes and...
Posted by: Creativepool
by John Fountain If there's one thing that creative people and account handlers have in common it is that neither are telepathic, telekinetic or have the power to read minds. Yet it seems many clients think otherwise. Work that has been carefully...
Posted by: Creativepool
How did you get into the industry? My background is in fashion, I used to have my own clothing label; that’s where I started getting interested in what builds a brand - realising that the brand can be stronger than the products alone. So, when...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This is our chat with Alexander Fahie, CEO & Founder at Ethical Angel as part of ‘Design For Good’. Ethical Angel’s technology makes it easy and rewarding to give employees experiences for development and positive impact. The...
Posted by: ADLIB
This week we're shining our company spotlight on an award-winning creative company named Independent Agency of the Year by Campaign and Small Agency of the Year by Adweek. JOAN is all about inclusion and diversity and its Co-Founder and Chief...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s finally happened. 2023 has been, and always will be remembered as, the year when AI finally entered the mainstream conversation. To say its evolution has been swift would be a dramatic understatement, with the emergence of AI tools like...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
To launch the eagerly awaited fourth installment in Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo series, B-Reel has revealed its new campaign daring gamers to taste something no one on earth has ever tried before: a Demon Meat Shake. After the open Beta...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? An old high school buddy of mine (who I later produced 20+ years of work with) brought home a Sony ½” reel to reel video camera/deck during a Christmas break from college. We played around with it over a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week, we’re shining our company spotlight on Ewan Burns, a one-man Swiss army knife when it comes to photography, videography and filmmaking. How was your company born and where are you based? It was born under a bright star, born out of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial