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Feb 2024
50m 49s

How-To Grow Your Graphic Design Business...

A Graphic Design Podcast that cuts through the industry bull to help frustrated Designers charge what they're worth and build rewarding creative careers
About this episode

This week, we reveal one of our BIGGEST secrets responsible for the 7 figure success of our Graphic Design agency, zfactor. 

Spoiler alert: It's NOT about crafting a killer business plan. And it's definitely NOT about writing a killer mission statement, or even worse a vision statement. 

We're pulling back the curtain to reveal the core of our creative brand: the zfactor tenets.

These aren't just your run-of-the-mill principles; they're the beating heart of our agency's identity, guiding everything from our design philosophy to our business processes.

Join The Angry Designers, as we share how our design tenets sky-rocketed our agency, our 13 tenets, and how you can craft your own!

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