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The Futur with Chris Do

239 - Productize design — with Brett Williams

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9998 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Brett Williams is a designer and entrepreneur who runs DesignJoy, a design subscription service. He is essentially a one-man design agency that operates at scale and earns upwards of $1 million in annual revenue. In this podcast episode, Brett gives us a peek into how his business operates, the tools he uses, and what he’s learned after running a design subscription service for six years. It’s not for everyone, but to make something like this work you need two things: to be good and to be fast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Your natural tendency as a designer as a business owner your fear is to price yourself out of markets

0:06.0

Not knowing and understanding that that actually propels you into a better market that is huge and exists out there.

0:14.0

It was an instantaneous turning point

0:16.2

in every aspect of my business.

0:18.7

And lo and behold, the business, the demand

0:21.6

did not slow down it increased.

0:23.6

The I'm going to do things. They might say go eat that food or go to this country. who sometimes

0:55.0

we do it, and sometimes we do it,

0:56.0

and most of the times we don't.

0:57.4

But Brett, you're one of those people

0:58.6

where our mutual friends on the internet

1:00.2

said that you guys should have a conversation,

1:02.4

and I saw your profile,'m like let's talk but beyond

1:05.3

that I've not prepped for this call so I'm going to be discovering things as our audience

1:09.7

and listeners are going to find out about them so So first of all, Brett, please introduce yourself

1:13.7

and tell me a little bit about who you are and what you do.

1:16.4

Fair enough.

1:17.2

Yeah.

1:18.0

So my name is Brett Williams.

1:19.2

I really am a designer by trade.

1:22.1

I've been designing since 2009 so a little bit and I run a not so

1:29.2

fairly known agency called Design Joy which is a design subscription service.

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