This is so amazing!! So glad I’ve managed to help with igniting your passion through my videos 😭 thanks for your kind words x

Thank you so much!!

Yaas, love this!! Thanks for the constant support lovely! X

I always charge 50% before I do the final design. If they don't want to pay the rest at least you got 50% of the payment. But you should know how to pick your clients. this kind of things shouldn't happen. at least not often ;)

Really appreciate it, thank you 😊

Thank you for your kind words! It means a lot ☺️ glad to know my videos are of help!

Glad it was helpful!

Love to hear this! Thank you very much, hope my videos can continue to inform and inspire people😊💛

You're so welcome! Glad I could be of help :)

Glad it was ☺️

Thank you!! Glad you found it useful 👏

My pleasure! Will note it down ☺️

Amazing to hear, I wish you all the best 😊

@@abiconnick Thanks so much! just working on my intro video today - thanks again for the tips!

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@@designwithanandhu5692 yo

I’m glad they have helped!

Do I?

No problem! If you can build and engaged community on social media you'll never struggle for clients again!

@@abiconnick Great 💟. Thank you for your response.

Glad you enjoyed it😊

Thank you James, appreciate it! Yes you certainly can! When you have a bigger name, business and brand people will happily come to you for other services, just have to build that trust first! I would say start doing passion projects it really allows you to grow your skills and find your unique style!

You're welcome

Hey!!💛

I have a video on if you need a degree or not here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eZaFYJmg0s_WYp8.html hope it helps! Sorry to hear you're feeling burnt out, I actually don't have a degree and am mostly self taught, I believe passion projects is one of the best ways to grow and improve as a designer, it lets you explore your creativity, create your own style, and it makes you enjoy the work and fall in love with being a designer, I would highly recommend you give one a go! 💛

Hey, I would recommend getting a website, if you are using adobe you coudl even try adobe portfolio or behance! I worked on Fiverr for a while think i reach level 2, but i would not reccomend fiverr, personally i found the clients wanting low quality of work or ask me to copy work, as well as, if there is any problems even if its the clients fault fiverr sides with the client... Even if its against your agreements and Fiverr's terms and conditions...

@@KamiAlicja I've got a website but no one seems to engage with it much and can't seem to get my SEO noticed!

@@stephen.create totally understand i have the same problem it can be difficult to get traffic! Social media can be helpful and Facebook groups

Try adding contracts, welcome packets and when sending deliverables send it as a pdf presented to the client, these little things can add value and make clients pay more due to this value, not sure how that would work on fiverr but just an idea. Fiverr is a confusing place but if you need the money totally understandable, look at top gigs and take inspo like keywords. I wish you all the best and good luck!

I wish I could but where I am my option are very limited : I am from Madagascar and here, most peuple don't have any use for a bank account as they don't have any money to store, to compensate this, all banks make the financial requirements to create one incredibly high, so high that even a lot of people with some very high paying works here can't afford them. And while I try my best to get some saving from local works, the reality is that our economics is just so bad that there is almost no local clients and the pay rate is incredibly low so I just can't afford to make an account even with all the saving I do as if now. So getting direct work from international clients won't work for me as there is no way for them to send me the payment afterward. Similarly, I would guess most clients would like to have some secure payment while working directly with a designer instead of a direct bank transfer, and even if I managed to make a bank account finally, PayPal, and other similar services just don't work in my country (you can use PayPal for making payments but not for receiving payments). I've thought during a lot of time about all my options and all the pathways design related or not I've explored so far would get all cut off by all of these same hard blocks. The only option that would get me through there block I found was to use websites like fiverr, as they don't require you to put any card information to get started so my plan was to finish a lot of client works from there until I would have around 2000$ in my fiverr account. Only then I would be able to safely use by small savings and borrow from people to open a bank account as I would be able to repay everything right away and would still have some left for investing in my local projects that would let me able to maintain everything even if the fiverr traffic was fluctuating. This was just one of the only plans I have to get past all the issues I had but the other are not design related so I won't bother you with them, so far none is working as excepted unfortunately but that won't stop me from trying

I used briefbox before it was helpful to get started and build my portfolio

I would tailor your projects to the clients you want to attract!! So for example if it’s specifically clothing brands, then make a project based around this! But if you’re not sure what business you want to attract and just want to start then I bring out design briefs each week on my Instagram page!! X

Thats a really good idea! Definitely gets your name out there to that specific brand, as well as, in general!

Hey, yes definitely!! I would try every idea you’ve got and just see the response you get from it👏