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Hello guys! To give you some context, I started making an automated email sender for freelance designers and I'm at the stage where in a few weeks I'll have the actual project ready but however, I'm trying to get potential customers before I launch it. Some advice on how to do marketing would be really appreciated, thank you.

Studio Mate

Genuine question for freelance designers here.

How much of your week is actually spent designing vs doing admin? Emails, proposals, chasing clients, writing contracts...

I've been building an AI tool specifically for freelance designers to handle all of this — you describe what you need and it writes it for you in seconds. Currently looking for a few people to try it for free in exchange for honest feedback.

Drop a comment or DM me if you're interested — would love to get some real designers involved early.

Genuine question for freelance designers here.

How much of your week is actually spent designing vs doing admin? Emails, proposals, chasing clients, writing contracts...

I've been building an AI tool specifically for freelance designers to handle all of this — you describe what you need and it writes it for you in seconds. Currently looking for a few people to try it for free in exchange for honest feedback.

Drop a comment or DM me if you're interested — would love to get some real designers involved early.

Okay so I've been nerding out on productivity lately and decided to actually track where my time goes each week.

Turns out nearly 40% of my "working" hours weren't spent designing at all.

Chasing a client who's 3 weeks late on an invoice. Writing a proposal that took 2 hours and then never got a reply. Sending the same "just checking in" email for the fifth time. Rewriting a contract because the last one was too vague.

It's genuinely demoralising. I became a designer to design, not to run a one-person admin department.

Anyone else feel like the business side of freelancing is slowly eating the creative side alive?

How bad is it for you — what's the worst admin task you deal with regularly?

Genuine question for any freelance graphic designers here.

How many hours a week do you reckon you actually spend on admin? Things like writing proposals, chasing invoices, replying to enquiries, sending client updates, writing contracts...

I feel like it must eat up a massive chunk of time that could be spent on actual design work. Curious how bad it actually is for people.

What's your biggest admin headache?

Genuine question for any freelance graphic designers here.

How many hours a week do you reckon you actually spend on admin? Things like writing proposals, chasing invoices, replying to enquiries, sending client updates, writing contracts...

I feel like it must eat up a massive chunk of time that could be spent on actual design work. Curious how bad it actually is for people.

What's your biggest admin headache?

Genuine question for any freelance graphic designers here.

How many hours a week do you reckon you actually spend on admin? Things like writing proposals, chasing invoices, replying to enquiries, sending client updates, writing contracts...

I feel like it must eat up a massive chunk of time that could be spent on actual design work. Curious how bad it actually is for people.

What's your biggest admin headache?