Joe Diaz from Diaz Sign Art, an award-winning designer at a small family business that's been providing quality signs and designs for well over thirty-years, highlights the major design components of running a successful small sign business. Joe reveals the ways that Diaz Sign Art has solved common problems and explains everything from design pricing to helping clients make better design decisions and protecting intellectual property. Over the years Joe has created policies and systems to solve the many bumps in the road that he's experienced as a designer in a family sign business. He'll review the top 6 problems they faced relating to offering design services and how they now prevent those same problems. Learn from his experience so you can avoid the bumps altogether.
Topics covered:
- Design pricing and design ownership solutions
- Creating systems designed to up-sell
- Protecting intellectual property
- In-house color matching with custom color palettes
- Creating sellable concepts for a portfolio
- Establishing authority and helping clients make good design decisions
