Fonts make or break your brand in 2024.

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A big reason Designjoy makes millions 💰:

You can ⏸️ pause subscriptions.

Here's how that works and why it's such a big deal: Most companies do not have a constant flow of design needs at all times.

Design requests pop up sporadically, so subscribing to a $5,000/m service may not make sense.

If you go 2 weeks without a request, that's $2,500 for nothing, right?

Running a $1,500,000/year design agency by yourself is no easy task. I couldn't do it without the right tools.

No more gatekeeping.

Here are the tools that allow me to do this. @figma / @webflow / @stripe

These are obvious, but without them, nothing else matters.

I design essentially everything in Figma, from logos to mobile apps.

I build client websites (and my own) in Webflow.

Stripe handles the subscription payments.

Running a $100k/m one-man design subscription services seems impossible to most. 🤔

Here's how I actually make it work: "Unlimited" agencies get a bad wrap, and it's largely our fault.

You can't expect 100 designs at the same time and expect them all at once.

The "one request at a time" rule prevents this, making it impossible to abuse/exploit the system.

Designjoy has had 727 clients as a design subscription agency. 🤯

That’s millions in revenue.

Here’s how I’d get clients if I were to start all over: Product Hunt.

I say with hesitancy because for most of you, this won’t work out unless you have an:

- audience
- kick-ass landing page
- target an untapped niche

But it’s so easy to do, it would likely be my first stop. You have nothing to lose.

Running a $100,000/m design agency alone has taught me some valuable lessons.

Here's 11 things I've learned over the years: 1. Make your offer irresistible.

I launched my design subscription service at just $449/m.

It was the steal of a lifetime.

Getting clients at that rate required zero effort given my skill level.

It reduced the risk for clients to try something new, and I learned a lot.

Fonts can make or break your brand. 🔥

Here's 10 fonts you've probably never heard of that I can't get enough of lately: 1. Brockmann

This newly released font has blow up in popularity.

Get it here: https://t.co/Yfb6DVaKfEatipofoundry.com/fonts/brockmann

Literally everyone in my feed is starting a design subscription service. 👀

You’ve probably seen it too.

Here’s 10 reasons why that’s happening: 🧵 It all starts with MRR.

A subscription service quite literally has recurring revenue built into the core of the business.

Landing a freelance client is great. But once the work is done, they usually move on, and you’re back to square one.

Not so with a subscription service.

I've made millions from my design subscription service.

Thousands of people are building them as we speak.

Here's 7 more things you can sell as a subscription: Content-as-a-subscription:

Focus on landing page copy (headings, body copy, CTAs, micro copy, etc.).

Could also easily include email copy.

Delivered in 48 hours. $3,000/m.

Example: Pagetear (pagetear.com)

Here's how I'd build the Designjoy of development and make millions.

Keep reading ⬇️ Development is much different than design.

But Designjoy is only one way of productizing a skill.

Let's look at another way:

My one-person design business has done $611,996 this year already.

It costs me $275 per month to run it (plus Stripe fees).

Here's a breakdown of the tools I use: Design: @figma ($15/m)

Probably obvious, but I spend most of my day here.

I use it to design nearly everything from branding to full-scale product design.

Busting 10 of the most popular Twitter startup myths: 🧵 1. You don’t need a big social media following.

It’s never been easier to bring attention to your product with online communities. Join them. Participate with them. Share what you’re building.

Here’s a list of all the big changes coming to Designjoy to make it 10x better than it already is. 🧵 Updated pricing: just released new monthly, quarterly and yearly plans giving clients better flexibility and reduced pricing for longer term engagements.

Here’s how I’d launch a productized development service (by popular demand) 👇 Instead of unlimited requests like Designjoy offers, I’d structure my subscription packages around a fixed number of hours per month.

The reason is that development is far more complex than design. This option adds a more predictable outcome than an unlimited model would.

Here’s how I manage a million dollar design service alone 👇 I run an off-the-shelf style design solution called Designjoy. I sell subscription plans to companies with ongoing design needs.

For a fixed recurring cost, companies can request as many designs as they’d like, and they are executed one at a time.

Hi 👋 I’m Brett, and I run a million dollar, one-person design business. Here’s the full story. 👇 I launched Designjoy in 2017, offering design subscription packages to businesses.

Fixed pricing and clearly defined parameters, this was a welcomed alternative to hiring expensive agencies or unreliable freelancers.