don't miss out on today's opportunity to score some really useful and some really
handy resources that will help you as a graphic designer
freelancer or business owner the first of six items in today's list is the
sponsor of today's video and that is the newly updated version of PDF element by
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decide to purchase it using my link so now on to the other editions in
today's video on how to streamline and boost your business as a graphic
designer
so this resource really is a treasure trove for any freelance designer or
graphic designer that's running a business firstly take notice that there
are articles on the left as well as tips and even a consulting option for
freelancers but one thing that I know many of my viewers want to see is that
this website has a rundown of legal agreements between you and clients as
well as a contract of sorts now you can use this to implement into your business
workflow and also educate yourself on exactly what these are useful and how to
send lis your documents and again as I mentioned there are so many resources
located at the bottom of this website for graphic designers and freelancers to
use as a means to optimize that business so do go ahead and check out this
website if you want to utilize these awesome free resources
the next edition in today's video is actually an app that's going to help you
optimize your time as a graphic designer or a business owner there are various
different aspects that its app but the main appeal is probably that you can
track what time you spend on certain aspects of your workflow with real-time
graphics and charts you will also have access to data to review whenever you
want to this app does have a free version but the paid versions are really
cost effective on a monthly basis one of the key aspects to a successful business
or freelancing is that you want to optimize your time and have time
management so if you do find yourself wasting time or just not keeping track
of your time as a designer do check out this app link down below
I've had so many people ask me for contract templates and in today's video
I actually have two free stellar contracts for you to use this is the
first contract template by will foo and as you can see you just need to type in
your details and the aspects of your contract and then click use from the
option below wufu also has many other resources and templates for your
business and again this one is linked down below for you to check out in your
own time
the second contract today is by dog sketch and you can easily download the
PDF right here so I suggest you use the illegal jargon from the freelancing
resources that we looked at earlier and then apply those to either this contract
for the second one you should have enough resources now to professionally
send contracts and invoices to your clients as a graphic design freelancer
so lastly today a surface that I personally use and have also been sent
by clients to and that is hello sign in this day and age it really is useful and
wise to electronically sign a contract or a legal form and hello sign will help
you do just that you can use Google or even Dropbox to sign into hello sign and
that's something I personally do just due to sheer convenience
there are free versions and also paid versions too but it really is easy to
use you just fill out the details of the person you want to send the documents to
and the other details too and then just click send
so there were some resources and some apps that you can use to streamline your
work and your graphic design business it doesn't matter if you're a freelancer a
business owner or part of a company you can use all of the resources today to
better help your graphic design workflow will say be sure to check out PDF
element who were sponsoring today's video link down description box below
PDF element is really unique and it is a really handy resource I'm gonna be back
soon with more graphic design content for right here at Satori graphics and of
course until next time guys design your future today peace