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Are You On the Hunt for a Graphic Designer?
So, let’s be honest for a minute … With an abundance of “easy to use”, drag and drop design and web tools available right at your finger tips, you might be wondering, “Why should I hire a graphic design professional when I can just learn to do it all myself?”
Well, as a business owner, you are constantly being pulled in many directions while wearing many hats. One of which being, how to spend your marketing budget. Truthfully (and we both know it), you don’t have time to take on the world but trying to learn new programs and tools on how to professionally design everything your business needs. Especially if you’re a start-up … You already have enough to worry about. Plus, it is not only about the design itself but also how your market it to the world. So, when it comes to building your brand, hiring a graphic designer needs to be a big part of the discussion.
Design affects us all on an emotional level … whether it’s good or bad (aka. the “deadly sins”) design. If you hire a graphic designer, they will be able to clearly communicate your ideas by enhancing these emotions, altering the viewers attitudes and perhaps even their imagination. As it only takes a few moments to make a good impression.
Any designer who knows what they are doing (and no, not someone self taught through YouTube — not that there is anything wrong with learning on YouTube) understands that image – including brand story — is everything. But what they also understand is that budgets are a reality.
Having constraints comes with the territory, but there are always work-arounds to keep your designs good and your budget in check! You still have a business to run! Professional graphic designers are available to help ease the process, not break your wallet. They should want to help you and your business excel past the moments you’ve only dreamt were possible but now becoming reality. They should want to help you build your brand – and it’s story – to its fullest potential so that you have something you are proud of, not something that’s just “good enough for now”.
(#TruthBomb: That’s one thing that ahs always bothered me and still does with some clients … “good enough for now” – UGH, there is no such thing! It’s good now or good never!)
We as graphic designers are in the business of communication.
We are here to help you achieve what you really want, need and #AllTheThings in between — all the while looking sharp yet professional while packing a punch!
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ~ Michael Jordan
It has been known that sometimes we as business owners (myself included), know what we want but are not able to fully explain it. We have this grand vision but can’t quite spit out the details …! Well part of the “job” of a professional well-trained graphic designer, is to unravel (or “untangle” as we like to say here at VU) all of your ideas. This should be done through a few good solid brainstorming sessions to help you make decisions about your brand. You know, bring your “story” to life! 
This process usually also includes the brand itself, such as: logo, fonts, colours, voice etc. Then help you find the “flow” you need to push things along into your marketing, advertising, website, social media, email signature, envelopes … so on and so forth. I’m sure you get the idea.
So, by sitting down with a professional graphic designer, you can get a stronger handle on your vision for your business. On how to truly achieve your BIG DREAM by having the designer showcase your experience, credibility, expertise, products and/or services. And, think about it … since you have already put in all the hard work to make your dream a reality, you owe it to yourself and to your business to find the best damn graphic designer you can to help promote everything that you do best.
Finding yourself on a gruesome hunt for the “perfect” designer?
Consider this as an opportunity to reach out to us to voice your brand and graphic concerns.
We’d love to offer you a free 30-minute consultation so you can let out your virtual frustrations and we can see what we can to do help!
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Crystal Kordalchuk
Crystal is an artist, a writer, an organizer, a dreamer, a doer, and down-right proud of it NERD!.
Struck with a love for #AllThings creative at a very young age, Crystal dreamed of a life fueled by her passion for creating and bringing the stories and images in her mind into reality.
As she worked toward her dreams, she earned a diploma as a Computer Applications Specialist then another in Graphic Design and from there began to develop her extensive background in multimedia and the arts. She began her worked in the magazine industry as a layout designer and had a succession of design jobs thereafter. It was her role as a graphic/web designer that gave her the first real glimpse of her future. Soon she began a side job as a freelance designer while keeping one foot in the corporate world. A spark was lit! She turned her freelance gig into a full-time business combining design work with her other passion: creating organization from virtual chaos.
Crystal is one of the most organized individuals on the planet. She is by all means a Zen master of her crafts. She excels at helping others become “untangled” and provides her clients with tools to run their businesses smoothly while she takes care of the details behind the scenes. Thus Virtually Untangled was born. A successful business where her work as a top notch creative in graphic and web — with a twist of virtual assistant — married into one amazing place where clients can come with their virtual messes and become magically untangled. Crystal can always make sense of even the most unorganized chaos and offers a virtual detox of order and peace, so her clients can get busy doing the work that they love the most.
