u/Memsical13

I have a client who is looking for a window decal product that will allow them to remove and reapply as needed. They want one that will be on their front door (applied from the inside) that they can put up when they are closed for a private event. They would like it to be opaque and reusable.

I've been looking around, and the only thing I've come up with at the moment is Window Clings. But I worry that using it over and over again would cause it not to stay on the Glass after some time. Any suggestions on a product we can use?

They also want something they can put on bathroom mirrors. This one will be rotating graphics that they will put up for specific events throughout the month.

I'd love your opinions!

I am looking for directions on how to connect our Business Email (eg, email@abcde.com) to our Wix so that outgoing emails are seen as coming through us and stop going to people's junk/spam folders.

The problem I'm finding is that our domain for the website doesn't match our business emails.

Our business emails are for our Main company "abcde" (which has it's own domain), but our website has the domain "fghij" that is for our secondary company. Our clients know we have two different websites as each site is for a different type of product/service. Combining them is not an option as I get no say in the other site. I am only allowed to deal with the secondary company/site.

I've tried requesting help through our IT (which is an outsourced company, not in-house), and they are absolutely useless. If I need specific information from them to do this, can someone tell me what it is so I can tell them?

Or will it just not be possible since our domain isn't the same as our emails?

I feel like I’m losing my mind at my job right now.

I’ve worked at a small advertising/print shop for almost 5 years. I started as a graphic designer, but over the past year I’ve shifted into more of a project manager role (focusing on web design and running our eCommerce).

When I took over the website, it was basically a portfolio showing what we offer (and even that is a stretch). We handled everything through email, phone calls, and walk-ins. Since then, I built out a system where one of our larger clients (with multiple franchise locations) orders almost entirely through a custom section of our site. I manage that client almost entirely on my own, and it’s been amazing actually. There are fewer random emails, fewer mistakes on orders, and way more organization overall.

The problem is… that level of organization doesn’t exist anywhere else in the company. As I said, this is our ONLY client using this online system right now, so everything else is still email, phone, and walk-ins. Thankfully, those are mostly handled by the other designers on our team.

Most of our records are still paper-based. Invoices and completed jobs get printed/are sometimes handwritten and shoved into filing cabinets. There’s a shared Excel sheet the owners use to keep track of orders/pricing, but it’s inconsistent and inaccurate. The pricing we do for people is an absolute mess. My bosses will try to make it easier on themselves and just copy repeat jobs and paste them without actually updating what it costs or what we should have charged, and there’s no reliable system behind anything.

It took the printing team and my team in graphics over a year to convince our head boss that we needed SOME sort of system because people kept getting yelled at for losing money (due to pricing things wrong). So we finally have a standardized way to do our CTP, but that’s about as organized as everything else is.

So anyways, now we’re onboarding a second client to use the website with their company and their subsidiary companies, and I’ve been trying to standardize their product catalog and pricing based on past orders. And, man, it’s awful.

There is zero consistency in pricing. Our supposed baseline is at least a 40% markup, but I’m actually seeing everything from giving items away to 800%+ markup. There’s no pattern or logic I can follow to rebuild a standard pricing structure.

I'm just staring at this sheet and wondering how we are making any money being so inconsistent. At this point, I feel like I’m trying to build an organized system on top of complete chaos.

I’ve tried getting a new job a few times because of all this, but I was offered this new position last year and now I get to work completely remote. So I’ve decided to stay (for now) because I’m gaining experience managing systems and clients, but my GOD it’s exhausting!

I’ve also been slowly working on creating my own setup so I can freelance as a designer and work with local shops to produce for my own clients. If anything, this experience is teaching me exactly what NOT to do.