Need Help Making Your Clients’ Deadlines?

Your clients pay you to make advertising and marketing deadlines, not excuses. If you have a business in the advertising or marketing specialties, meeting client target dates and marketing schedules is nothing new to you. Making deadlines is how you make your clients happy and stay in business. You need clients and customers or else you have an expensive hobby. If you market your business well, you can win more clients than you can handle and you can get behind on your work. If you get behind on your workload, you stand the chance of losing clients. I’m sure this is academic to most marketing directors, communications directors, or owners of advertising and marketing firms. You don’t stay in business by making excuses to your clients.

 You Can’t Build a Successful Business on Making Excuses

People don’t hire people and firms because they like hearing excuses for not getting the job done. They hire people and firms to complete their project to client specifications before the deadline. Perhaps they have a media schedule to meet. Maybe they have a client deadline they have to meet. Whatever the deadline, you have to meet the deadline if you want to keep your client. Unhappy clients find other advertising and marketing professionals who can get their job done on time.

How to Know When You Are Behind on Deadlines

I have listed a few questions that may suggest that you are behind on your projects.

1. Are you behind on your clients’ marketing project deadlines?
2. Do you have more work than you have time to complete your project?
3. Does your well-paying client have a history of waiting until the last minute to give you the details on their graphic or web design projects?
4. Is your marketing department swamped or understaffed for your project load? Did a key member of your creative team have an emergency or have to leave work suddenly?
5. Do your clients call you asking where the finished project is more than asking if you are available for new projects?
6. Did the freelancer you normally work with start working only with a different client?

If you answered “yes” to these questions, you are most likely behind on your projects. Possibly you make more excuses than deadlines. If you make excuses instead of your advertising and marketing deadlines, you need my help. I help people meet their advertising and marketing deadlines.

Need Help Meeting Deadlines?

There are many ways a creative freelancer can help you. How do I know? I am a marketing and advertising freelancer, and I help you meet your deadlines. I help marketing directors, creative agencies and other advertising and marketing professionals like you stay ahead of their deadlines and their clients’ target dates. I am a graphic designer working in Adobe Creative Cloud. I am also a web designer working in Adobe Dreamweaver, WordPress, and most text editors. I also write for business online and in print.

No matter how you need your digital or print media, I have the technology, the expertise, and the determination to meet your target dates.  You’ll like my responsiveness, and you’ll love my results.

 

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Happy Thanksgiving 2015!

As the legend goes, the first Thanksgiving Day is a day in America begun by the settlers in the Plymouth Colony. They set aside the day for giving thanks for surviving the brutal winter of 1620 and for a bountiful harvest in 1621. There is a great deal of debate regarding the origins of Thanksgiving Day. The wide varieties of settlers in North America including Canada give us different origins for our holiday. Maybe the first Thanksgiving was a large feast celebrated with the indigenous people of North America. Maybe it was a large feast around present day San Antonio in 1536. Maybe it was a group of Spanish settlers and explorers in 1565 in St. Augustine. Canada celebrated their first Thanksgiving Day on April 15, 1872. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Thanksgiving Day into becoming an official holiday on December 26, 1941, as the fourth Thursday in November every year. No matter the history of the holiday, it is a tradition in the United States to give thanks for the prosperous preceding year.

These days, many people celebrate the holiday with family and a large turkey dinner. In my childhood, I remember travelling to my family members homes, having turkey dinner after dinner until I didn’t want to eat for a few days…or at least the next afternoon. Watching football and the afternoon nap could be on or holiday agenda. No matter how you celebrate the holiday, it is a day for giving thanks for everything we have in our lives.

I have a lot to be thankful for this year. Three years later after building the first MichaelNeelyFreelancer.com site, we are finally building the business with new clients. I thank all of our clients from MichaelNeelyFreelancer.com for your business, and we look forward to helping you meet your goals in the years to come.

We wish you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving with many more to come!

What?!? You Still Don’t Have a Website For Your Business?

It’s the 21st century. Are you still wondering if this thing called the Internet is going to catch on? Here’s a clue. I built my first website in 1999! That was over 15 years ago! When I started to work on website design again, I had to begin my education all over again. The old website design profiles of the past were gone. And good riddance! They built websites filled with tables and very slow to open in a browser, even with today’s super-fast Internet speeds.

1. If you don’t have a website for your business, you’re probably lucky to be in business. If you work from your home or in a retail location that is not visible to people, then you need a website to let people know where you are. People can find your website when they are searching for your business, products, services, location and more.
2. Internet search engines have replaced the Yellow Pages. If your website isn’t on the Internet, the search engines can’t find your business, and you are losing money.
3. If you think that the Internet is just a fad, you are in serious denial. According to the 2010 U.S. Census results, (scroll down after opening the link) 80.23% of all households have Internet access. That’s 95,907 households in the United States alone that could be searching for your business but can’t find it if you don’t have a website.
4. Your website is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year whether your website is for e-commerce or just advertising your location. 
5. A good web designer (like me) can change your website anytime with minimal effort! It doesn’t take days or even weeks to update your web presence. It takes a few hours worst case!
6. Your business website is extremely cost-effective! Desktops and laptops are out of fashion. Mobile is “en vogue.” If you don’t have a website, how are you going to optimize your page for mobile.You’ll just get an app made? Great! One problem. The app is designed to draw attention to your website. Without one, there is no reason to have an app. 
7. With a website, you can reach a market that has discretionary income to purchase your products or services.
8. Does your competition has a better website than you do? If this is the case, then you need to get in the game! If your business doesn’t have an internet presence, your competition probably does. If your competition has a better web presence, then you are losing business and losing money.
9. If you don’t have a website or it is poorly designed, then you are losing business that could be yours.
10. Your Facebook isn’t enough. Social media is a great marketing tool, but it is there to attract visitors to your website. Without one, your business is severely limiting its sales.

Not convinced? Check out this article. Your website could be a powerful part of your marketing mix. Don’t neglect it or leave it to the kid down the street to maintain. Hire a professional (like me) to build, and maintain your website to improve your sales results.

Contact me to get started today!