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Branding Your Creative Department by Cassandra Wesenhagen RGD [Video]

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Cassandra explains benefits for building your own brand within the corporate structure

For Corporate Canada and tech start-ups alike, in-house creative teams are a cost-effective, nimble and highly-engaged alternative to hiring an outside firm. And the benefit to designers? For ambitious creatives, it’s the opportunity to define your own role and the impact your team will have on the brand(s) you work with.

Whether you’re a one-person department or a team of 20, the foundation for impact is in your identity. Let’s talk about how your creative department benefits from building your own brand within the corporate structure. A name. A logo. A section on the company’s intranet, your own forms and processes, your own benchmarks of success. There are certainly pain points to building an internal “agency”, but equip yourself like an entrepreneur and your team will have the structure it needs to succeed.

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– How a separate identity …

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Starting a Business [Video]

Starting a business can be one the most exciting things you'll do in life. It can also be the scariest. According to the latest statistics on the percentage of businesses that fail in the United States, we see that of the 678,135 new businesses that were started in 2015, more than one-fifth (20.4 percent) closed after their first year in operation.The percentage of businesses that fail increases to 30.9 percent in the second year and 38.6 percent in the third year. By the fifth year in 2020, the new business failure rate reaches 50.0 percent. Needless to say, it's hard! The ones that succeed do so not only because they work hard and get lucky. These entrepreneurs spend an immense amount of time creating a plan and execution strategy. It takes a lot of discipline to overcome the challenges. In this episode I'll discuss the basic questions you want to ask yourself when starting a business.