hello good morning and welcome to a little bit of a different one i'm gonna film a
day in the life of a graphic designer shop owner slash youtuber i have many a job titles a day in
the life of me so um firstly this morning we've got a bunch of orders to package package said that
really weird um a bunch of orders to package from like the calendar and the launch day and
everything thank you so much to the response on my previous vlog by the way everyone was so so kind
and i think it's really valuable um in the long run for everyone for me to like document the ups
and downs of owning a business so yeah thank you so much for the support we do have some
more orders to package which is great thank you if you have collected collected purchased something
um and also there are some things left so if you haven't yet checked out the new products
on my website i will leave the links to those in the description but without further ado we are
going to package some orders mama is helping me today because she's the best so let's go package
orders are packed we've tied it up when i say we my mom helped i would not have got those orders
done anywhere near as fast without my mom's help so i'm really glad that she helped me out
and we got done just in time because i now have a zoom meeting thing with a brand we're doing like a
focus group effectively on a product of theirs and there's a bunch of influencers doing it
so that is the next task on my list and apparently it's going to take about an
hour so that will get me to 12 and then i will get on with some of my my own work so let's go
it is now almost half 12 that went on a little bit longer than i expected but it was actually
really really interesting i very much enjoyed that um now i'm gonna quickly head over to my
emails emails are the worst thing for me i don't like replying to emails so i try and get them done
as soon as possible um so i'm gonna quickly reply to those
see if there's anything that i need to immediately do and then i will report back
i have just finished replying to emails and i also went onto my youtube comments and replied to those
so that's the sort of like type in admin portion of my day done for now unless something else comes
in i think right now i'm gonna quickly update some things on my website if you didn't know
i have a website and on there i'm gonna try and develop even more throughout next year hopefully
now especially i've got my mum as a staff member i've got more resources to do it i want to
create like a hub of design creative resources at the moment on there there are a few tutorials
and there is the creator toolkit which if you put your email address in and sign up to my
newsletter you get access to the creator toolkit and in there is lots of info lots of resources
information about the packaging suppliers i use the printer all that kind of stuff so yeah that's
what the creator toolkit is however i've just gone on it and realized i haven't updated it
with my new printer and a few different bits of info so i'm gonna quickly do that um and then i
think i'm gonna get trying to design something new i literally only release products the other day if
you haven't seen those products by the way i'll leave links to those in the description one of
them is my new favorite thing ever and it is this calendar if you want some positivity in your 2021
soul & fire has created a year of positivity calendar and i'm very happy with it a few people
have actually started receiving those on instagram so i'm going to repost those on instagram too so
that's another thing i need to do see this is kind of where i've got a lot of different platforms to
deal with i've got my emails i've got youtube i've got instagram for both my main instagram and my
soul and fire instagram and then on top of that i need to post orders i need to design new products
i need to make sure they're getting shipped out there's just a lot of different things to juggle
yeah i'm going to quickly do my website and then i'll show you what it looks like so yeah this is
my creator toolkit i'll not scroll on all of it so it doesn't ruin everything i am eventually
going to update these assets and freebies that i offer i just need to get around to it and
then down here is a list of resources that i use equipment that i use things that i have and love
and get a lot of questions about so if you're interested in sort of learning a bit more about
the behind the scenes process and at the same time getting access to like creative assets and things
um head over to my website creator toolkit is updated i'm now going to update the
welcome email on my email marketing platform i use a platform called flodesk i think it's quite a new
platform and it's definitely not as high-tech as other platforms such as mailchimp however i have
used mailchimp previously and i found it very overwhelming i'm not trained in email marketing
and i don't particularly like writing emails i prefer making things and drawing things as opposed
to writing things so i like flowdesk because it's easy and it's simple and it's aesthetically
pleasing um i do have a link for flodesk you can get 50% off with my link um it is an
affiliate link so if you click that i get a little something too i can't really remember what but in
here i have a sign up link that goes to my adobe illustrator online course and when people sign up
for my course they'll get an automatic email from me with links and updates and stuff telling them
about the course effectively so i need to update that because i haven't actually changed it since
it was like before the course had launched so i have been sent a copyright not copyright a piece
of text that i need to include within that email from um international open academy who my course
is with and i just need to copy that over so i'm going to do that and i'll show you the process
it's actually so easy i love how easy it is and in the flow desk at the moment i have two workflows i
do want to work on this if anyone watching this is good at email marketing please get in touch
i would love some guidance um but i'm gonna just click edit and it's gonna pause the workflow so if
anyone signs up whilst i'm editing it they're not gonna get an email and i'm presuming it gets like
listed and then it will send as soon as i publish it again so when a subscriber is added to the
segment illustrator course so basically when someone puts their email address into
um the sign in box they will receive this email so this is the email i want to edit
so i'll just click edit and then i'm literally just going to change the text
because at the moment it says you are officially on the list of amazing people
who will be the first to know when the course is out whereas obviously the course is now available
if you aren't aware of my adobe illustrator course there is a link in the description too
anything that i mention will be linked in the description um so at the moment let's just do this
hey there i wanted to stop by to introduce myself and thank you for signing up
you are officially on the list of amazing people who'll be getting bonus materials and content okay
cool i can't wait to see you in class speak soon alice okay cool and i really like on this email
platform that they have this signature font thing um and it's so easy to do you literally
just drag and drop everything if you want to add something you press a little add button
and you can change colors and fonts and layouts i just find it so intuitive and it's so affordable
when you compare it to other platforms this sounds like an ad it isn't i'd love it if flodesk worked
with me because i love them but this isn't an ad so i think that is the majority of my laptop-based
work done for today i'm going to give myself a bit of a break because i have been staring at my
laptop since like nine o'clock this morning and it's now 2pm so i think i am going to get a start
on packaging up some of my weekly planners i'm not going to do all of them but i only have two
left in my stock drawer that are like packaged and ready to go so i need to make sure that i've
got like a stock that's ready so i'm going to get the stuff out for that and whilst i'm doing that
i'm gonna watch a little program because i feel like doing one of those tasks that doesn't involve
too much brain power for a second and then once that's done we're gonna design some new products
all right i've packaged up all those planners and i did that in the hopes that i could find
a place for them to go and i haven't found a place so they're still in the box so i need to
ideally i need a bigger office but that's hopefully gonna come in the near future when
i've got my own place but um for now i'm just gonna have to leave them there anyway
i am now going to work on some product designs i am thinking of doing notebooks of some sort
let me know if you'd like me to do that so what i'm going to do is firstly i'm going to go into
pinterest i do have a board on there already that is for merch stuff um and like other people's
ideas that i love the look of so i can sort of gather gather my thoughts but i'm thinking
like a list pad but a notebook version so i love a list and i know a lot of people also do so maybe
on one side it could be like a note section on the other side it's a list and then it's just a book
like throughout and you can like tear pages out and stuff so i'm thinking something along those
lines we'll see um first job is to sort of gather some ideas so i'm gonna gather ideas on pinterest
then i'll go on my ipad and we will um sort of sketch out some initial thoughts
oh okay it is now i think it's like almost it's almost half four and it is starting to get dark
outside i've just turned the brightness up on my camera so that you can tell
but i'm tired um i'm probably going to end up working for the rest of the night most likely
going to be like admin stuff i want to plan some of my videos i don't really have a schedule at
the moment i well i have a schedule i upload every thursday but i don't have like a plan at
one point in my life i had like months ahead of video ideas planned so then when i get to like
the day of filming i can sort of look on my calendar i've sort of fallen out of that routine
because i've been so busy do you know what i think it was my adobe illustrator course that did that
so what i'm gonna do before i sign off for the night i'm gonna just plan video ideas if there's
anything you'd like to see on my channel let me know in the comments or if there's a particular
video style of mine that i already have done that you really like and you'd like me to do again
let me know because it's valuable hearing your feedback um but yeah i'm gonna try and plan some
videos i might see you again in a little bit but i don't know let's see let's see how much i can do
okay can you see the candle light flickering on my face i've got a candle burning it is now 8
p.m almost and i've been slowly sliding down here please don't tell me how bad this is for my back
i know i sit at my desk equal amounts as i do sit on the bed but i just find the bed comfier
um but yeah it's been a productive day i have got the stuff done that i wanted to i've planned
videos i've made a start on those um notebooks let me know what you think and yeah i hope you enjoyed
this little day in the life video let me know like i said any video ideas that you'd like me to do
and i'll see you soon for the next one also if you are watching till the very end of this video and
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