The Good Ship Illustration Pricing your illustration work đ¸ & how to handle ghost-clients that disappear đť Bit of a scary episode. Sorry about that.
Welcome aboard the Good Ship Illustration podcast! In this spooky, scary episode, we tackle one of the trickiest areas for illustrators: pricing and negotiations. (Aaaagh!)
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**Show Notes:**
In this episode, we dusted off the crumbs from our Greggs Vegan sausage rolls (v good lunch Helen, thank you) and settled into Taniaâs living room for a thorough no-holds-barred chat about MONEY STUFF.
One of our favourite things to talk about is how different the money/pricing stuff can be in different markets, and different bits of the illustration industry.
We put the world to rights and covered everything from knowing whatâs ânormalâ in the industry, to how to negotiate fees for different types of projects. Budgets can really vary depending on the market. We also bang on about the importance of charging what youâre worth. (And weâll carry on doing that until the starving artist myth is where it belongs â in the bin.)
Ghosting from clients? It happens to the best of us. We share some tips in this episode on how to deal with it, and why itâs important not to take the silence personally.
Katie gets excited about how much she loves using automation to manage the behind the scenes stuff in her business. And to wrap things up, we remind you to think of yourself as a business, not just a creative. Your creativity brings HUGE value to your clients. Donât forget it.
Charge your worth.
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Timestamps:
00:06 â Navigating pricing as an illustrator
01:00 â Negotiation tactics and client budgets
03:06 â Understanding the publishing world
10:55 â Dealing with clients ghosting you
14:52 â The Smeg Story đ and rejections
15:54 â Business systems and processes
19:37 â Final thoughts and one of our nice traditional awkward Good Ship goodbyes
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