Learn how to get graphic design clients, price your services confidently, and build a profitable design business that gives you freedom. You’re not meant to chase cheap clients or work nights just to stay afloat. Hosted by Kady Sandel, brand strategist, agency owner, and design business coach helping freelance, brand, and web designers build scalable, profitable businesses.You’ll learn how to:• Get graphic design clients and sell high-value offers• Build systems that simplify your design business• Write proposals that convert leads into clients• Grow your confidence, income, and freedom
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Episode #227
From $65 Logos to a $35,000 Branding Agency | EP 227
Aug 18, 202622 min
There's a version of ambition that tells you the answer is always more. More hours, more clients, more effort, more grinding until something finally gives. I believed that for years, back when I was doing sixty five dollar logos off Craigslist and staying up half the night to keep clients happy. What I eventually learned is that more hours was never the lever. It was just the thing I reached for because I didn't understand my own business yet. This episode is about how I built a premium branding agency while working four to five hours a day, and why that has almost nothing to do with hustle and everything to do with pricing, focus, and the discipline of saying no. I talk honestly about raising my rates from three thousand to twelve thousand during nap times with a newborn, narrowing my agency down to skincare, and what a genuinely short workday actually requires behind the scenes. This is a conversation about business strategy, premium positioning, and building a company that gives you your life back instead of quietly taking it. If you're an early business owner or founder building something that feels slightly off, already making money but sensing you should be further ahead, this one is for you. It's about designing the business around the life you want, one small decision at a time. Links to Connect: Media & speaking: https://kadysandel.com My skincare branding studio: https://aventivestudio.com For designers: https://aventiveacademy.com/profit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kadysandel/
Things I Added to My Contract After a Client From Hell | EP 228
Aug 11, 202619 min
The longer you run a business, the less your systems are based on theory and the more they're based on experience. Every process, every boundary, and every clause usually exists because something happened once and you decided you never wanted to solve that problem again. A simple Instagram post about my contract unexpectedly started a much bigger conversation about business boundaries, difficult clients, founder standards, and why clear systems aren't there to make your business harder to work with. They're there to protect your time, your team, your creativity, and the quality of your work. This is a conversation about entrepreneurship, service businesses, client management, contracts, and the small decisions that quietly shape the kind of business you end up running. Links to Connect: Media & speaking: https://kadysandel.com My skincare branding studio: https://aventivestudio.com For designers: https://aventiveacademy.com/profit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kadysandel/
Welcome to Off By 2 with Kady Sandel. In this episode, I'm sharing why I decided to rename the podcast and move away from teaching graphic designers how to grow their businesses. Over the past year, I've realized I'm more excited by conversations about entrepreneurship, business, leadership, branding, and building a life that actually fits the way you want to live. That's the direction this podcast is heading. I also share the story behind the name Off By 2, what it means to me, and why I believe every founder gets to define success on their own terms. If you're building a business and want honest conversations about growth, difficult decisions, ambition, and creating a business that supports your life instead of taking it over, you're in the right place. Welcome to Off By 2. I'm excited you're here. Links to Connect: Media & speaking: https://kadysandel.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kadysandel/ My skincare branding studio: https://aventivestudio.com For designers: https://aventiveacademy.com/profit
Your Business Can Be Successful and Still Be the Wrong Business | EP 224
Jul 28, 202624 min
A business can work perfectly on paper and still leave you feeling completely disconnected from it. The invoices get paid, the clients are happy, and by every external measure you've built the thing you said you wanted, and yet you open your laptop and feel nothing. That flat hum of boredom is easy to dismiss when the money's fine, but it's often the most useful signal a founder can get, and this episode is about what happens when you finally decide to listen to it. I'm talking honestly about the years I took every client, ran a coworking space, and kept saying yes to work that paid but didn't interest me, and how a business that functions can quietly become a trap. I get into the nap-time decision that made me raise my pricing from three thousand to twelve thousand, the slow narrowing toward skincare branding, and the five thousand dollars I spent on ads that taught me the difference between busy metrics and real alignment. If you're building a business that feels slightly off, one that's making money but doesn't fit the life you actually want, this is a grounded look at how alignment gets built through small decisions over years rather than one dramatic pivot. It's about the difference between a business that runs and a business you genuinely want to run, from a branding studio owner who spent too long confusing the two. Links to Connect: Media & speaking: https://kadysandel.com My skincare branding studio: https://aventivestudio.com For designers: https://aventiveacademy.com/profit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kadysandel/
The Real Reason I Became So Picky About My Design Clients | EP 223
Jul 21, 202621 min
Building a profitable design business isn't just about attracting more clients. At some point, it becomes about deciding which ones deserve a place in the business you're creating. That shift is much harder than most people expect because it forces you to stop measuring success by how many opportunities come your way and start measuring it by how your work actually feels every day. Over the past twenty years as a designer and eleven years running my agency, I've gone from designing for anyone who would hire me to becoming incredibly selective about the founders I work with. That journey has changed my approach to branding, niching, client relationships, and what I believe a successful creative business should actually look like. If you've been wondering whether it's time to niche down, raise your standards, or build a business that feels more aligned with the life you want, this conversation might resonate more than you expect. Links to Connect: Media & speaking: https://kadysandel.com My skincare branding studio: https://aventivestudio.com For designers: https://aventiveacademy.com/profit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kadysandel/
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