what is up people welcome back to Satori graphics and today I'm going to show you
a few things that you can tweak and manage within your graphic design career
that is guaranteed to make you become more professional and have a better
presence in the graphic design industry
so in today's video every single point on this list my things you can do right
now to better your professionalism as a graphic designer
and they're almost all free there are a few things that you might need to pay
for but again it's not going to be that expensive and there are free versions of
everything in today's video so your email signature is important as any
other part of your corporate identity using a badly designed email signature
is just like writing your details on a piece of paper and then handing it to a
client or prospect even though an email has emerged as one of the primary forms
of communications this century employees don't often realize that corpora
electronic communications reflect the tone of an organization just as much as
letterheads and business cards the better an email signature is the more
value adds to our brand and regarding you as a graphic designer it really is
giving an impression to whoever sees an email from you now again link down below
are several resources which some of them are free as you can see on the screen
now with the top ten free email signature providers but also have added
some paid versions too of course it should go without saying that the paid
versions will be better quality but that's just how the world works right
but yeah I'm sure you've seen email signatures before they do look
professional and they can link people back to your social media and link just
about anywhere you want and I personally don't like adding imagery or anything
like that in my signatures but some of these do look pretty needs however this
chocolate cake one I think looks too busy for my liking and of course as a
graphic designer it would be awesome to link our
portfolios as this person has done here so be sure to check the links below and
see what email signatures you can grab because they are easy to set up an
add-in to email accounts so here's my current email signature and as you can
see it's very very simple but it has my social media links on there
I'm also probably going to add my portfolio website linked here too but
yeah I do like how crisp and how clean it looks so do check the links below at
the very end of the video to find some free and also some paid for email
signature solutions so moving on from email signature we actually have the
email name itself now of course you can go with a hotmail or at outlook these
are free and they don't look so great when it comes to being professional and
having a business you ideally want to have your name or your company's name as
the actual email address itself I'm gonna show you how to do just that right
now the goal of branding your company or your business is to ensure that their
potential customers know exactly what your brand is all abouts all your
business is all abouts just like you have a custom URL on your website you
also need a professional email address to provide consistent branding and cross
your entire business so also with the method that I'm gonna show you you can
technically create infinite amount of email addresses all under the umbrella
of your brand name so to get a custom email name that does represent you or
your a company you need a domain name first and foremost and then you need to
get some hosting and you might also need a gmail account depending on the method
you want to use but I'm going to show you how to do this without two gmail
accounts and to do that you do need to do a through hosting uh and by the way
nobody is a sponsor in today's video this is just the methods I would use so
firstly let's get a domain name for you and this is easily found on places like
GoDaddy Namecheap dinah dots and other registrar's - I'm gonna link many places
down below where you can grab a domain name but it is possible to get them for
as little as one dollar sometimes now I suggest searching for deals on Google so
for example looking up the current deals on GoDaddy you can sometimes find a comm
domain here for $0.99 things like having half price off udemy
in purchase but yet do have a look around and see what bargains you can get
and the prices you can see on the screen now our entire bat and that's because
that's where I am today but anyway the other alternative to GoDaddy is named
cheap and so let's say I want to get an email address based around story
graphics in 2019 I can search for that here named cheap and have a look at the
prices and I would almost always suggest going for the calm extension if it is
available and as you can see it's only eight bucks you are going to probably
find it cheaper elsewhere if you do some looking for example a website called one
two three reg but yeah just have a look around and see what bargains you can get
now secondly you're going to need hosting and one of the cheapest hosting
plans out there is hosting a but they're also actually really professional too
once you have hosting a setup come into the management section and then head
into the email accounts so here you can see I have my Satori graphics accounts
and I can just simply attach my name in the front and then a password and then
this will in fact generate my email address now this is a very very easy way
to grab yourself a custom email address and let's just quickly give it a test
run I'm going to head into the email section and then send an email to my
Hotmail accounts now there are other ways to get a custom email accounts
without the need of hosting her I'm gonna link some information down below
about that but like I said you will need a gmail account
having a custom email looks professional and it will set you apart from the rest
when cold-calling potential clients or just conversing with people in industry
so moving on from the email side of things we're now going to check out the
contracts which is going to be branded and tailored to your own business or
your own kind of niche market so the importance of a contract of your graphic
design career has been mentioned before on my channel it is vastly important for
financial reasons but also as a legal one to going the extra distance to make
sure it looks aesthetically pleasing and in line with your brand was simply
further your professionalism as a graphic designer
here is a quick contract I made for you guys and later this week I will actually
have a tutorial on how to make a contract pretty similar to this one here
as well as handing over a PDF file for you to keep an edit but as you can see
I've made a placeholder logo because I'm currently redesigning my logo so for now
I'm just gonna slap an S here and the color of the content is in line with my
brand and I've also added a back side to the contracts which will look even more
professional when printed but its contract can also be used digitally
speaking of course and also for prints but do you remember to add in the bleeds
on your document if you are intending to print it out but like I said I will have
a video next week based around how to make a contract just like this so do
make sure to stay tuned to Satara graphics for the contract video next
week
it is said that first impressions are lasting and you really want to make you
know a good impression of yourself you really want to leave a good lasting
image in their minds and these are just some ways that you can do that remember
I do make lots of different content on this channel ranging from Adobe
Illustrator tutorials to graphic design theory based videos and even business
themed videos like today's upload so if you do want to keep boosting your
awareness and your skills as a graphic designer
go ahead and subscribe to my channel for weekly graphic design content I'm
actually quite tired as you can probably guess so I'm gonna log off now but yeah
make sure to have a great day and until next time design your future today peace
you