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How to Build a Rate Card for Your Creative Studio

A clear rate card helps you quote faster, protect your margins, and avoid awkward client conversations. Here’s how to build one that works for a small creative studio.

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Retainer vs. Project-Based Pricing: What’s Best for Small Agencies?

Running a small agency is not for the faint of heart. You wear a lot of hats, juggle multiple clients, and somehow still need to find time Pricing is one of the most crucial and most complicated decisions a small creative agency has to make. It’s not just about setting a number. Your pricing model […]

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5 Important KPIs to Measure in Your Ad Agency

If you want to understand your creative agency’s performance and where you can make improvements, it’s important for you to be measuring the right KPIs (key performance indicators). By measuring the right metrics, you can set new business or growth goals or set new ones. There are literally dozens of KPIs to grow and improve […]

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How Small Agencies Can Overcome Their #1 Challenge: Revenue Growth

If you’re running a small creative agency, there’s a pretty good chance you’re wearing more hats than you’d like to admit—you’re the project manager, the creative director, the sales lead, HR… and probably even the office therapist. But no matter what hat or fake mustache you’re wearing, there’s always one challenge that consistently gets in […]

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Other Free Resources

20 Years. Never Looking Back.

Snack

Snack is a boutique creative agency based in Toronto, Ontario, with over 25 years of experience and a team of eight. They work across branding and identity, print, infographics, environmental installations, digital, and internal communications — serving clients in pharmaceutical, finance, private education, transportation, and non-profits.

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20 Years. Never Looking Back.

SkyeLine Studio

Skyeline Studios is a Connecticut-based digital marketing and web design agency that has grown through referrals and long-term client relationships. With a lean team of five managing roughly 50 active clients, their success depends on one critical factor: knowing exactly where time is going.

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22 Years. 10 Clients. Zero Wasted Hours Since they Found FunctionFox!

O’Bayley Communications

O’Bayley Communications built a 22-year reputation in Palm Springs on one principle: clients should always understand exactly what they’re paying for. Here’s how accurate time tracking turned that p
romise into a practice they could keep — every single month.

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