Your Competition Is NOT Who You Think It Is
Posted: April 7th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Business | No Comments »By Jeanna Pool
Founder & President of the Freelance Design Marketing Association
As freelance graphic designers or web designers, competition seems to be all around us.
If others “do what we do” and “offer what we offer.” How do you compete? How do you get more clients? How do you leave your competition in the dust. Yes, competing with other designers in your industry can be a challenge at times.
But…
This is not the competition I am speaking of. In fact, your competition is NOT who you think it is. Your competition is NOT the thousands of others in your industry or the hundreds of others located in the same area of town in which you work. Nope.
Your competition is something you may not have even thought of. In fact, your competition may be eating your lunch and costing you thousands of dollars and you don’t even realize it!
Who is this competition you say…your competition is YOU.
Surprised?
There are way too many designers out there who would be so much more successful if they would just get out of their own way. They’re holding themselves back and they’re hindering their business from growing. They blame the economy, they blame clients, they blame competition, when really they should blamed themselves.
How about you? Are you your own worse competition?
Here are some things to think about…
