Byline Graphic Design Proposal Template Made Easy

How to write a graphic design proposal

what's up everybody I'm Jesse Showalter and today we're talking about contracts proposals and all sorts of client documents because if you're gonna be doing any sort of freelancer contract work where you're actually working with a client you're gonna want to be professional keep yourself safe keep the project on track and try not to get sued I mean I've never personally been sued by a client but that's because I use these types of documents this video is kindly sponsored by the people over at wondershare who make an awesome product called PDF element let's get real for a second PDFs are kind of a pain in the butt they're not the fun part of doing creative work or client work but they're a necessity you always have to open them up the clients need stuff in PDF format you can assign things and send things and revise things and there's very few good platforms to help you take care of PDFs well PDF element kind of changes all of that it allows you to really easily and simply take control of your PDFs update things on the fly without having to open up your design software again wondershare has kindly offered 20% off to subscribers of this channel you can find the link and the discount code down in the description so go check out PDF element because it's something you're gonna have to deal with so why not make it a little bit more fun ok first up let's talk about proposals proposals are a super important document that you're gonna send to clients after you've made that initial contact so you've done a little meet-and-greet you figured out who they are and what their needs are and what the project scope might look like and then you're gonna go back to your desk and you're in a workout proposal and send it to them and the idea is that you are proposing to them you're proposing almost like in marriage saying will you take me to be the person who does this work for you now similar to marriage the proposal has to be really impressive just like a wedding ring because they might be getting proposals from other suitors as well so you want to make sure that your proposal really stands out by hitting the mark and telling them everything that they wanted to know as well as a few things they never knew they wanted so what goes into a proposal what should be in this thing the first thing I like to do is start a proposal off with a really beautiful cover letter and a little section about myself Who I am what I do what I specialize in as well as some client testimonials and a few pieces from my portfolio that match the type of work that the proposal is meant for the next section should really have to do with the project itself an overview of what...