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PODCAST: 5 Ways To Get The Best Work From Your Creative Team, Part 2: Know Thyself

“I'll know it when I see it” is a phrase creatives hear a lot, and it’s a phrase we can usually resonate with quite well. Sometimes we don’t know, specifically, what we are about to create. We just have a hunch, intuition, or shadow of an idea. The end result will show itself along the way. We completely understand the "I'll know it when I see it" mentality. It is a perfectly normal creative process.

PODCAST: 5 Ways To Get The Best Work From Your Creative Team, Part 1: Directional > Executional

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If there’s one thing professional creative teams loathe, it’s being hired for a gig, then being directed, step-by-step, how something should look or function.At best, it sends contradictory messages.

PODCAST: 5 Ways To Get The Best Work From Your Creative Team, Introduction

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Whether you have hired an agency, or are working with an in-house department, there are ways to get the best work from your creative team.You have expectations of getting ideas brought to life for the betterment and profitability of the product, and your creative team wants to unleash their power on your product to make it worthy of their portfolio and bragging rights. It should be a win-win thing, right?

Announcing the Brand Shepherd Podcast

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Brand Shepherd is rolling out a new way to learn what we believe to be true about product branding: The Brand Shepherd Podcast. This is a product-focused podcast that will explore the various approaches, best practices, expertise, and experts in products, guided and brought to you by Brand Shepherd.

Building, Branding, Guiding Better Products: We Are Brand Shepherd

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Today we announce a focused direction for Brand Shepherd, one that specializes in working with the kinds of brands we find ourselves working with most often, resulting in years-long productive relationships: Brands that make, sell, or manage products.

ABC News Looks To Brand Shepherd For Take On New Sports Apparel Brand

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Cincinnati, Ohio ABC News affiliate, WCPO 9 On Your Side, interviewed Brand Shepherd Creative Director, Dan Crask, for a take on a new niche sports apparel brand aimed specifically at tennis enthusiasts. It was a pleasure to contribute some thoughts on why this new tennis apparel brand could be a big hit with its customers.