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There are escrow sites you can sign up for, but you should know that they will take a percentage of the payment. The best thing I do is just to have payment right before starting the job. If they can’t trust me, it will be hard to do business together.

I like using Adobe Animate, After Effects and Blender to work. This is because they are mostly free and you can navigate the software easily unlike the complicated ones. Which software do you like to work with?

Graphics design is a skill that can be learnt in a boot camp. You can choose to learn it online or offline, and the more you work on your skills the better you become. So you do not need any academic degree to become a good designer.

You have made the whole point by saying one has to market consistently. You need to treat it like your full time job and work hard to reach a wide audience. Only then will you get more clients consistently.

This is exactly the right approach to have towards those kinds of feedbacks. No business is 100% perfect, so when you get those kids of response you should know how to make use of them to improve.

We do have people like you that cannot afford to be distracted a bit while working. So to them music can be a lot of distraction. its good you have known what works for you and what does not.

Of course there is fierce competition. That is why one has to be good in his craft. You need to set yourself different from your competitors so as to have clients consistently.

There are times when I don’t really get what the client wants. Also it might be that I have a lot on my hands, so I just call a fellow trusted designer to carry out the project.

Exactly. AI is there to help us improve our designs, but it’s just that many seem to overuse it. They depend solely on it and tend to lose their own personal touch.

I cannot even recall how many times I have been scammed, because I submitted the project without receiving payment first. It’s surely not gonna happen again.

We are all learning, no matter how professional we might be. So there are times when you have to make research and do a lot of practice before you get a project right. As long as you are open to learning, you won’t consider it as hard or a challenge.

There is no doubt that having a good presence will increase your chances of getting clients. So you can make use of any social media platform and post your services there consistently.

Once you have delivered a job to your clients, they can make use of it in a way that will portray them as the designer. This is rampant in cases when the work is outsourced. This can get to some designers, if they see their work watermarked and claimed by others even if they got well paid for...

If you set it up yourself then it is not an escrow service. It is one that you would need a third party intervention. It is all to prove to your clients that you are genuine, it most probably will not be needed after some gigs.

I understand what you mean, I’ve been there. There are times when I will just give up on it. But at times it can come handy as well. The trick is to know the right prompts to use.

We all want to get feedbacks from our work, but most times we tend to shift towards the positive ones. So when we get negative feedbacks we do not know how to handle them. How do think negative feedbacks can help in design works?

It is not enough to be working with just one random client every month. To make a living as a designer, one needs to get consistent gigs. I have been thinking of possible ways to get consistent clients, one thought that occurred to me is having a good relationship with the clients you work...

There are times when you just can’t seem to get a hold of what the client wants. It does not matter if you have been a graphics designer for a long time, it can be hard to visualize some requests. When this happens, how do you think inspiration can be gotten?

The AI is there to make designer’s work easier. You can use it to generate ideas, to critique your work or to fine tune it when you are done. AI can be a productive tool if it is used properly and in the right way. Do you make use of AI when making designs?

When you are working out a payment structure with clients, especially for the first time it can be hard to determine who is real and who is not. All the more so if the clients are expecting services before payment. It can be the same on their end too. How do you deal with this?