Tag: business

September 2026 marks 13 years of running Branch full-time.

Over the last 13 years, I’ve led a team across close to 4,000 client projects to bring their big ideas to life.

What if we ignored the voices who told us that our decision had to be an “either / or” and instead embraced the “yes, and?”

Twelve years is a long time to do anything. It’s long enough to know what you stand for and to recognize the moment when everything you’ve built is ready to shift.

The start of a rebrand doesn’t begin with opening a design file and pushing pixels. Before that happens, the harder questions must get answered first.

This simple phrase is something that I’ve often repeated during my last 15 years as a designer. It can be easy to get caught up in the comparison game and to feel like everyone around you has life figured out and is producing better work / making more money / achieving more, especially with a…

Remember, just because you CAN offer more services to your clients doesn’t mean that you SHOULD. Over the last year, I’ve whittled down all the services we offer to 6 signature packages. That’s it. These six packages cover a lot of ground across strategy, brand and web design. This is a big shift from the…

I’m tired of reading posts about Instagram metrics tanking. It’s time to focus LESS on metrics and MORE on personal value. Yes, nearly everyone I know has felt a shift in their engagement but I also believe that you can reframe situations to work for you. If you feel more aligned with your reasons for…

At the beginning of March, things weren’t going as planned. 3 projects we’d agreed to take on got put on hold all at once (this had never happened before). Our projected schedule was now way out of whack. As current projects wrapped, there was a gap in incoming work…and we’ve never had a ‘slow’ period…