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How to self-educate?

  We need knowledge to self-realization, recognition, to achieve career success, ability to create something new. We can’t even image what it can bring to us.

The first rule is to make self-education your lifestyle.

You can travel, just walk in your city with friends, do whatever you want, but you may use every possibility to learn something new. Do it regular!

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How to get project management professional (pmp) certification

If you have experience as PM or you just curious about it, this article will be useful for you. PMP is wide discussed as high-level exam. We will walk through each requirement and describe exam preparation strategy.

Project Management Professional is an international indication offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI). PMP requires Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), higher education, and work experience in this field, PM education.

The PMP exam demands the attainments of this knowledge areas: 1) Initiating the project 2) Planning the project 3) Executing the project 4) Monitoring and controlling the project 5) Closing the project. There are ten knowledge areas in the Guide. They require appropriate skills and professional experience.

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Process groups

They indicate relationships between different processes. Each process is responsible to each project phase. They provide piecemeal implementation the project according to the knowledge area.

Structure of the PMP exam

PMP exam has computer-based testing format.  It involves optional tutorial and survey, 200 random multiple-choice questions with one right answer. There are pretest questions that don’t influence on the total score as well.  You will have 4 hours to complete the test.

Helpful tips

When you decided to pass the exam, pick the date, experts advise to apply to 2 months. Look for modern information and reliable sources of information. PMBOK Guide has to be a book number one for you that will lead you through all preparation period. It has information about tools, techniques, outputs (ITTO) and inputs necessary in project management. Use an analogy to remember the content.

You may ask why PMBOK Guide is so necessary. The point is that exam based on this book which includes the ideal sample of project management but the real work process can be another. Not to rely on your experience and read book to pass the exam.

Tools are specific techniques, benchmarking, product analysis, project management information systems and so on. Techniques in PM such as: inspection, interviews, expert judgment. Outputs include updates of the plan, project documents, and organizational settings. Inputs: schedule, Enterprise Environmental Factors, Organizational Process Assets.

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To make your study easily, find somebody who passed the exam and may advise you and answer on your questions. Also you can educate on the preparation courses because it is more fun to train together.

Use different technics to learn: visually, audio that fit your behavior. Choose a comfortable place for learning. Try not to interrupt while you are reading, select a specific time for this purpose.

PMP exam trial

Check your study progress with questions to realize what you’ve learned and what you need to read. Online websites help to feel the real atmosphere as on the exam and to see sample questions.

It’s important to emphasize tasks on each week and step by step moving to your goal. You may write your reasons why you want to get the certification to motivate yourself. Keep in mind to relax sometimes and come back to your education.

Finally, plan your time how to do all assignments within 4 hours on the exam. Keep calm and relax before the test.

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Artificial intelligence: intro

Many people from different companies talk about robots and artificial intelligence, has been widely discussed Google's AI overcoming in final Go challenge. In the science and in our daily life this item is discovered, and we are interested in this theme too, that’s why we decided to start overlook this topic.

We wrote this introductory article with short description the key moments to get better understanding what’s going on in business and other fields, because AI became an integral part of them in many cases. We will talk about AI in the medicine, business, education and e-learning in this area (in the next articles), also about artificial narrow intelligence, the bots. The information may look like surface but this is just start, the deeper discovering will be in the next articles.

Developing artificial intelligence simulates human’s language, to understand the speech and answer (Narrative Science’s Quill), and to improve human’s possibilities include new technologies.

People excited about new technologies achievements and they have great hope what AI can do for us to gain a benefit.

AI in business

Google demonstrated self-driven car as business resolution in 2014 as well. These cars provide safely navigation on the city without human error. The invention detects objects and the driverless cars have been tested within 1.5 million miles.

Software developers created driver-assist for the most autonomous vehicles. In 2030 supposed China to get 35% share of the 120 million cars for sale. Google and Mercedes-Benz presented level 3 cars with high-resolution maps.

Lux Research analysts say that changing software in autonomous cars as a key competitive factor and a security tool. Self-driving cars are predicted to be an $87 billion opportunity in 2030.

Different kinds of technologies are rising up. For example, skype translator includes artificial intelligence learning and allows translating calls in 7 languages. This tool is available for Windows users. Google suggests voice translation as well. Also they created the helpful app with image-based interpretation that may works offline.

Japanese firm was the first company in history to assign a robot for its ability  predicting market trends.

New technologies allow making insights and increasing work efficiency, reducing the payment. Algorithms from machine learning use to eliminate cyberterrorism and financial fraud.

AI in the medicine (AIIM)

AI developing helps in healthcare. There are many benefits in this field: medical knowledge engeneering, clinical decision-making system, intelligent medical information systems and so on. Artificial intelligence produces digital healthcare and medical data. AIIM has many features as well: articles, reviews, historical perspectives, editorials.

Researchers presented a tiny origami robot that will unfold and remove unnecessary objects or to care the injury.

Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI)

Mobile-phones have ANI factor for navigation, weather forecast and so on. ANI presents in email spam filter, in Facebook or Amazon recommendations based on your previous searches and interests. Google Translator is ANY program as well. Most of all, artificial narrow intelligence is used in military and finance industries.

If you are interested in this theme, start e-learning to improve your knowledge in this topic. Many websites suggest online-courses the education in artificial intelligence area. We will talk about it in our next articles.

Finally, machines and humans may work together to reach the goals. We can call it deepmind technologies. AI adopted to the humans behaviors and improve it. Business, medicine, education, military, finance and other fields involve artificial intelligence. Also new technologies allow making insights and increasing work efficiency, reducing the payment. Algorithms from machine learning use to eliminate cyberterrorism and financial fraud.

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How to train your technicians using e-learning

When you train your personal, you invest in the company’s future. Technical development demands quick learning the newest tools and technologies. 

Some new methodologies such as scrum and agile can bring customers’ satisfaction and will guide your working process up-to-date. Technical skills are very important for the career success and competitive salary.

E-learning

Use online education to save time and money. It can be short-time learning includes the main technologies and skills. The key features are flexible schedule, opportunity to study anywhere and anytime, on any devices. It teaches the fundamental skills required in the work performance.

This learning focused on the main topics and helps to pay attention and remember all the information. You can take few courses simultaneously as well.

E-learning helps to escape fear of new technologies and suited to any age.

This education fits beginners and experts, using IT words: for the juniors and for the seniors. It will adapt to each region and can be global as well.

E-learning helps to escape fear of new technologies and suited to any age. Over the past few years significantly increased the number of sites offering online training to pass. This shows their high demand. Sometimes the companies use e-learning to attract the next generation.

Simulation-based learning is very helpful with imitating the real situations. It gives time for practice without any stress.

Online-learning often involves videos that improve efficiency of the courses. These courses can be translated at any language in low price.

Post-Training

After some training period start e-learning education to consolidate the knowledge. You can assign trained employee to teach another one to improve teamwork skills.

Teamwork skills and e-learning education

Make practical part after each training or learning to face the real challenges and use new tools for these purposes.

Gamification

Gamification may be the tool to retain talented and ambitious youth. It will make studying more simple and interesting.

Youth today

Testing

Ongoing training includes teaching your employees new software and technologies, exposing them to unfamiliar ideas, giving them feedback. 

Ongoing training includes teaching your employees 

The testing will help to show their understanding the materials and what training would be better to do. Motivate your personnel to be engaged in work process and help them to learn all necessary information.

Finally, use online education to save time and money. The e-learning’s key features are flexible schedule, opportunity to study anywhere and anytime, on any devices. It teaches the fundamental technical skills required in the work performance.

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Why digital literacy is important for teachers?

Nowadays the teenagers have devices. 3 years old child can use the tablet. Young people build relationships in social networks.  They invite each other to some events in the internet and don’t imagine their life without gadgets.

That’s why education can’t be the same as it was before. If you want to teach this generation, use online-platforms, the videos. Make the educational process fun and useful, be creative and help the students to see their achievement.  

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Digital literacy is possibility to preparing for the lessons in the internet, generating the valuable content. The teachers may use digital opportunities to check students’ assignments for the uniqueness.  

Now Google is something like the books about fifty years ago. Teach them to work with this free and available information. Engage them to do creative assignments: some researches, retelling of reading based on this information.

New technologies have many good tools that made our life easier. They demand analysis skill to find qualitative information. When teachers have digital literacy they can advise good sources to find necessary content.

Good understanding how to use software and computers’ possibilities are necessary in the universities and on the work. That’s why it is teachers’ responsibilities to show youth how do it.

New technology is useful for the visual and audio learners

On the lecture the professor can explain the topic while students are watching illustrations, other learners are listening the audio. It will meet their needs.

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Actual and useful education

Try to explain new information by the associations. Give the general information without big introduction. This generation like move fast pace and young people will not waste their time on something boring.

Help the students to see their achievement with websites that have this feature. Many online-platforms have education lectures and quizzes to see your level and benefits.

Learning in the social networks

It is more comfortable for youth to learn new material from the social media than from the book.  Use it as possibilities for students to help each other to improve their skills and face with some problems in education. Also you can inspire and engage millennials in the social networks.

Motivate students to use social networks with academic, art, musical, literary goals. Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and Google+ have many resources with art and literature direction.

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Education as a game

It’s an old method explain new material and help to repeat an old material as well. You can take advantage of the apps, tools, platforms that suggest learning in the game.

Videos

This generation is hungry for videos. They spend time to find fun videos and share it with the friends.  Make video content for all themes and your students will be on a track.

As I have illustrated, teachers should know how to use new technology for the educational purpose and teach the students to take advantage from the social networks.

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The World's 7 Best Cities for Business, Life, and Innovation

Each city has the achievements and success in some area. Price Waterhouse Coopers picked out the world’s best cities for the business (education, job opportunities), life (life satisfaction, different possibilities for the sports and relax, housing and hospitals, the clean air) and innovation (the researches and technologies).

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New York City, Toronto and San Francisco were determined as the best cities in the world including 3 factors: innovation, finance and tourism. It wrote PWC (Price Waterhouse Coopers) in their research.

1)    New York was named number one as a cultural center with a huge number of the universities, the opportunities for the work and relax, the developed tourism, different kinds of the planes, sports and number two in the entrepreneurship.

2)    Toronto is number one as the comfortable city to live. It has good architecture, the possibilities for sports and relaxing, for the entrepreneurship.

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3)    San Francisco is number one through a number of people with bachelor’s degree, the possibilities for the work, the sport and the vacation. This city is number 2 for the businessmen.

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4)    Stockholm occupies the first position in the fresh air, the entrepreneurship, research and development spending, political situation. Number two in life satisfaction, literacy, and the modern libraries.

Stockholm is almost the smallest cities on this list.

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5)    Sydney is the best in some activities and possibilities to relax, easy in startups, wide variety of the houses to live, build and rent, and the second position in the life satisfaction for the pensioners.

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6)    London is good for the international tourists and for the career, and for the researchers, additional strength is the currency stability.

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7)    Chicago is perfect city with the best hospitals, the entrepreneurship, job opportunities.

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As we see all the cities were evaluated with the same criteria. That’s why we will count other cities in the list: Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Berlin, Tokyo, Madrid, Seoul, Beijing, Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, Mexico, Moscow, Santiago, Istanbul, Sao Paulo, Johannesburg, and Mumbai.  You can read about these cities in the PWC’s research.

Let’s talk about the goal of this report. The main purpose is to show how cool town has to look like. It doesn’t matter where it placed: in the Europe or the Asia, Arabic Emirates, the main thing is people’s life satisfaction. The research was made to emphasize cities where anybody wants to work and the government does everything to engage smart and educated persons.  

The second criteria, after life satisfaction is success. Of course, it includes business process, easy to startups, great area to business growth, and the education as well.

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Tech-go-to market: the future of IT sales

A go-to-market strategy (GTM strategy) is a plan that identifies how a company will increase customer audience. The plan demands the pricing and the distribution factors. GTM strategy has to find the target market for the products. 

Think how your customers think

Take into account buyer readiness. Stay focus on the clients’ wishes, what they search and what they really need. Gartner research shows that we should make updates in IT sales. They did the guidance how to work with the customers that brought new types and values to the market. They wrote that customers will be more demanding. IT companies have to become customer-driven sales organization – to be focus on the clients.

Take customers’ reality in control

Modern buyers try to look for the information and the reviews about the company in the internet. They have more choices that’s why they can select. Try to put all useful information and positive comments on your website.

Digital marketing and sales technologies have many novelties that need to become the main principles in your work.

Suggest your clients to take part in development process your staff or services. Ask them to vote what computer game to create, what T-shirts they want to buy and so on. Engage and interest them in the work process. Motivate your audience with financial reward or some gifts.

Be flexible

Each purchase is unique, try to adapt to the customer. Focus efforts on the buying situation. Then upgrade marketing issues according to it. Insights which actions will show great results and costumers’ satisfaction will make you the most effective. Remember about the flexible work process including clients’ suggestions.

A new approach to the customers

Introduce your company with your benefits, don’t write technical moments. Start with your advantages.

Modern clients are more educated, speak in their own language, their level.

Improve work process including business innovation. Guide your clients in the right side and provide the expanding customer relationships. Combine different types of selling together for the good outcome.

Be a great listener to the clients’ audience so that the customers feel value.

Figure out customers’ preferences and think about the target buyer. Make marketing and use technology to get more researches about the feedback on your company’s actions.

In the final analysis, make go-to-market strategy and identify how a company will increase clients’ audience. Stay focus on the clients’ wishes, what they search and what they really need. Suggest your clients to take part in development process, engage them with financial reward or some gifts. Focus efforts on the buying situation. Then upgrade marketing issues according to it. And introduce your company with your benefits.

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5 myths about social media - how to develop the project effectively?

Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t even imagine that Facebook will have huge success and will lay the foundation of the new culture – social networks. 

Million people from all over the world use it for the communicating and searching the inspiration and new information. That’s why it’s not true that social media can’t be serious tool to increase your clients’ audience.

# 1: SMM will not help to drive business growth

Google Analytics shows how many people and when you visit your website from the social media. It provides possibility to see real impact your business activity in the social networks.

According to the researchers, 81% of businessmen currently apply SMM for the marketing goals and increase the number of the new clients from it. 91% of the social media users confirm that SMM helps to drive business growth.

In the social media you may introduce your business to the great number of people. Also you can involve people from different countries.

 # 2: You have to spend all day in the social media for business goals

You can automate the posting with these tools (most of them create publications schedule and send posts to selected social networks):

SMM-planner

Canva (templates for social media posts)

Buffer 

Friends+me 

Feedly (searching useful information to share)

Also there are many websites that suggest monitoring:

Twitter Counter 

Tweetdeck   

# 3: Be very active

Don’t post something every hour! Your audience would get tired. If you publish great content, they’ll share it with their own audiences on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on.

Build your content strategy not as just advertising. Communicate with the people, be natural, creative and fun, use the pictures.

It’s important to know your clients’ audience, what social networks they use and be there. Experiment with some platforms and analyze audience growth and traffic generated from this platform.

# 4: Video is very expensive and ineffectual

Experts advise to use video on the social media. They predict the next: 

1) video will account for the 80 percent of global internet traffic; 

2) video will be shared every second.

According to data from Facebook:

 60% of users Facebook in the U.S. every day watch at least one video.

The number of video posts per person - 75 percent all over the world.

It can include live broadcasting from your mobile-phone which makes it very simple.

#5: Make huge number of the followers

Stay focus on the people that will be your clients in the future. Build your audience through sharing necessary and interesting content.

To sum up, save your time by automating the posting: create publications schedule and send posts to selected social networks. Build your content strategy not as just advertising. Communicate with the people, be natural, creative and fun, use the pictures. Involve video to engage your followers and focus on your specific audience.

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Как с утра проснуться бодрым и веселым? 10 лучших советов!

‪#‎доброеутро‬

Иногда по утрам просыпаться так не хочется! Чтобы этот процесс не был таким сложным, надо знать о том, что помогает нам проснуться.

1. Достаточное количество ночного сна

Всегда проще вставать после хорошего ночного сна. В среднем, взрослому человеку требуется около 8 часов сна, но необязательно все должны спать именно столько - одним сна требуется больше, другим - меньше.

2. Кофеин

Кофеин содержится в кофе, чае, горячем шоколаде или даже газировке. Хотя все эти продукты могут не всегда быть полезными для организма, в целом, они не являются и вредными.

3. Будильник

Так как большинство из нас с утра вынуждены бежать на работу, просыпаться приходится в определенное время, поэтому очень часто будильник просто незаменим.

4. Освещенность

Наше тело следует естественному ритму чередования темного и светлого времени суток, поэтому дневной свет так важен для пробуждения.

5. Режим дня

Хорошо ложиться спать и вставать в одно и то же время. В таком случае не будет возникать проблем с засыпанием, и так же легко вы будете просыпаться. Если вы все равно будете ложиться и вставать в одни и те же часы, ваш организм быстро к этому привыкнет.

6. Лечение нарушений сна

Если вы страдаете каким-либо расстройством сна, это будет негативно сказываться на возможности вовремя проснуться утром. Вредно ложиться спать как слишком рано, так и слишком поздно. Если вы не можете наладить ваш ритм сна и бодрствования самостоятельно, обратитесь к врачу и следуйте всем его рекомендациям, чтобы быстрее избавиться от проблем со сном.

7. Физическая активность

Если вы не чувствуете бодрости после пробуждения, вам поможет легкая зарядка. Сразу же после пробуждения поделайте легкие и несложные упражнения. Их не должно быть много. Зато вы сразу почувствуете себя бодрым и проснувшимся.

8. Завтрак

Завтрак - отличный способ проснуться! Даже небольшое количество еды может дать вам прилив энергии для того, чтобы бодро и весело начать свой день.

9. Возможность просыпаться самостоятельно

Если вы живете по режиму, вовремя ложитесь спать и вовремя встаете, ваш организм вовремя вас и разбудит. Будильники и прочие средства пробуждения вам уже и не понадобятся.

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‎Тест‬ - Насколько хорошо ты знаешь гитару?

ПРОХОДИ ТЕСТ ПО ССЫЛКЕ!

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Ни один рок-концерт не обходится без гитары! Ее звучание затрагивает самые мелодичные струны сердца и добавляет в музыку динамики. Электрогитара, бас-гитара, акустическая... А какие есть еще? 

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10 ‪books‬ you should read before the University

Going to university is a time of adapting to change, taking on adult responsibilities and forging your own identity. Here is a list of books to help you through the transition, from thought-provoking reads like Colombian author ‪#‎Gabriel‬ ‪#‎García‬ ‪#‎Marquez‬’s - 100 Years of Solitude, to campus-set novels like The Secret History. Read on for the best books to read before going to university:

1. From Rockaway | Jill Eisenstadt 2. Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell 3. The Rachel Papers | Martin Amis 4. Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger 5. The Rules of Attraction | Bret Easton Ellis 6. One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez 7. The Secret History | Donna Tartt 8. Brave New World | Aldous Huxley 9. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! | Dr. Seuss 10. The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Quiz Wall - cool tests for every day!

Attention of a modern people is under constant pressure, and the flow of information that we learn, not just postponed. Bright signs of storefronts, books, which we read, dreams, that we see, movies and daily news in the Web - everything carries information for our reflection and deposited in the memory.

On the Wall you will find entertaining tests and educational questions, which are directed on the language knowledge, movies, TV series, computer games, as well as for IT-topics.

Create and play interesting quizes on ITSQUIZ.COM - THAT WILL MAKE YOUR DAYS AND EVENINGS MORE COLOURFUL!

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Great art!

Underwater, 17x24,5 cm, markers on paper

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TOP-19 Best Online MBA programs in U. S.

Earning an MBA or another master's degree in business can help prospective students advance their careers in the public and private sectors.

MBA programs include five categories: student engagement, admissions selectivity, peer reputation, faculty credentials and training, and student services and technology. 

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Cloud testing platform - It's Quiz!

Itsquiz - is a cloud testing platform for knowledge testing. Please, visit our site and pass interesting tests! 

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Thinking outside the office: When entrepreneurs should consider freelance talent

Nearly every entrepreneur could use more time. There is always more you can do, but there will never be more than 24 hours in a day.

With so many demands vying for your time, enlisting freelance experts to complete specialised tasks can free you up to concentrate on growing your business.

Nearly half of business owners say marketing is the most important component to a successful growth strategy; yet nearly the same percentage (46 per cent) believe they spend far too much of their own time on it because they don't have the appropriate skills or background. In an era where marketers need to constantly crank out professional content that’s not only valuable, on brand, smartly researched, SEO-friendly and beautifully designed, utilising experts is the best way to ensure you get those deliverables off the ground. 

So when should you delegate your design needs to ensure you’re consistently creating top-notch visual content? If you’re facing any of the following limitations, it’s time to think outside the office. 

1. You’re strapped for resources.

Your company is in high-growth mode, and there’s consistently too much work for your in-house design team to handle – or you don’t have an in-house design team at all. In either case, if you need to add more capacity, delegating projects to professionals outside of your in-house team will keep things moving without detracting your full-time staff’s attention from their main work.

2. You’re faced with meeting tight deadlines, often on short notice.

Your team’s lengthy task lists are compounded by temporary pedal-to-the-metal scenarios. From planning for an upcoming conference to preparing for a big product announcement to launching in a new market, it’s important that you’re able to scale quickly as needed. 

With the ability to find and work with freelance talent online, you can have access to those skills right when you need them. On average, it only takes three days to find and engage a freelancer online so you won’t waste valuable time searching for the right person for weeks or months.

3. You’re dealing with skills gaps.

You require expertise in a relatively rare design field such as video production or 3D animation, a specific type of graphic work like ebooks or infographics or a very particular design aesthetic. That creative limitation can leave you pining for new perspectives and additional creative juices. Talented freelancers can take on some of your design work on a project basis, offering the exact skills you need on a flexible basis.

4. You don’t have the budget.

When it comes to budget, prioritisation is key. Whether you’re budgeting for a start-up to get up and running or your budget is being used elsewhere, sometimes it’s not feasible to hire a full-time designer. A great alternative is to work with a freelance designer to supplement your core team. 

Having a hybrid team will enable you to tap into flexible skills as needed for specific projects – without the overhead cost that comes with a traditional employee or the multiple layers that exist between you and the people actually doing the design when working with an agency. Not only does this approach give you the extra bonus of decreasing your administrative costs, but it moves you closer to the work.

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