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Editorial and strategic content: vision, decisions, market analysis.

2025

Instagram Stories: Apps, Templates, and a Workflow for Producing Stories

Instagram Stories: Apps, Templates, and a Workflow for Producing Stories

How to produce Instagram Stories with apps, templates, an asset library, an editorial calendar, approvals, and measurement.

Tools to Manage and Grow Your Clients' YouTube Channels

Tools to Manage and Grow Your Clients' YouTube Channels

How agencies and freelancers manage and grow their clients' YouTube channels with tools for analytics, SEO, and competitor research.

Fiverr, Upwork, and Freelancer: where to find clients as a creative

Fiverr, Upwork, and Freelancer: where to find clients as a creative

A comparison of Fiverr, Upwork, and Freelancer.com for freelance creatives and agencies, with pros, cons, and strategies to land more clients and projects, based on a decade of experience.

5 Product Launch Types Your Agency Can Orchestrate for Clients

5 Product Launch Types Your Agency Can Orchestrate for Clients

The 5 product launch types your agency or freelance practice can orchestrate for clients: seed, internal, instant, flash, and challenge.

Adobe Alternatives: How to Choose Tools Without Breaking Your Workflow

Adobe Alternatives: How to Choose Tools Without Breaking Your Workflow

Free or affordable alternatives to Adobe and how to integrate them into a content workflow with templates, assets, and brand control.

How to test and measure new content formats without wrecking your editorial calendar

How to test and measure new content formats without wrecking your editorial calendar

How to plan, test, and measure new content formats with controlled experiments, without breaking your editorial calendar.

Instagram Insights: How to Turn Metrics Into Content Decisions

Instagram Insights: How to Turn Metrics Into Content Decisions

How to read Instagram insights and use them to improve your editorial calendar, formats, assets, campaigns, and measurement.

X Threads for Client Campaigns: Storytelling That Converts

X Threads for Client Campaigns: Storytelling That Converts

A guide for agencies and freelancers building X (Twitter) threads for their clients, covering narrative, real-time engagement, and measurable ROI.

Managing Negative Comments: Protect Your Clients' Reputation

Managing Negative Comments: Protect Your Clients' Reputation

A guide for agencies and freelancers managing clients' negative comments: process, owners, brand tone, follow-up, and lessons learned.

Selecting Influencers for Client Campaigns: Metrics, Industry, Risk

Selecting Influencers for Client Campaigns: Metrics, Industry, Risk

A guide for agencies and freelancers: select influencers for your clients' campaigns by audience, engagement, industry, risk, usage rights, and fit.

YouTube Thumbnails: How to Produce Thumbnails You Can Measure

YouTube Thumbnails: How to Produce Thumbnails You Can Measure

How to design YouTube thumbnails with a brief, templates, an asset library, brand control, testing, and metrics.

Influencer briefs: deliverables, rights, and approval

Influencer briefs: deliverables, rights, and approval

How to agree on deliverables, creative freedom, disclosure, exclusivity, usage rights, review, and metrics with an influencer.

AR Filters as Campaign Assets for Your Clients

AR Filters as Campaign Assets for Your Clients

A guide for agencies and freelancers producing AR filters (Spark AR) as campaign assets for their clients, covering design, publishing, and virality.

Brand identity: a style guide and asset library to stay consistent

Brand identity: a style guide and asset library to stay consistent

How to build a style guide and asset library so your brand stays consistent across every piece, channel, and team.

How to digitize a client archive without creating another messy folder

How to digitize a client archive without creating another messy folder

A workflow for agencies and freelancers to turn photographs, documents, and physical material into a searchable, reusable archive.

Closing or migrating a brand's Instagram account without losing assets or control

Closing or migrating a brand's Instagram account without losing assets or control

How to close, deactivate, or migrate a brand's Instagram account while archiving assets, metrics, access, and campaigns without losing control.

Social media reputation: an approval protocol and response library

Social media reputation: an approval protocol and response library

How to manage your reputation on social media with an approval protocol, a response library, and measurable corrective content.

Crisis Management for Agencies: Protect Your Clients' Reputation

Crisis Management for Agencies: Protect Your Clients' Reputation

A guide for agencies and freelancers managing their clients' reputation crises with monitoring, response, and recovery.

Instagram User Behavior: Signals for Planning Content

Instagram User Behavior: Signals for Planning Content

How to interpret Instagram user behavior to improve your editorial calendar, assets, formats, campaigns, and measurement.

How to Connect Your Clients with Gen Z: A Consumer Strategy

How to Connect Your Clients with Gen Z: A Consumer Strategy

A guide for agencies and freelancers: how to adapt your clients' communication to Generation Z, the most demanding and visual consumer generation.

How to Offer Food Photography Services as a Freelancer

How to Offer Food Photography Services as a Freelancer

A guide for freelancers and agencies: how to offer food photography to restaurants by caring for the venue, the dishes, the team, the light, and composition.

Food Photography: How to Produce and Organize Dish Photos for Campaigns

Food Photography: How to Produce and Organize Dish Photos for Campaigns

A guide to planning, shooting, approving, and reusing food images across social media, menus, ads, and restaurant listings.

Making-Of: How to Organize and Reuse Your Production Assets

Making-Of: How to Organize and Reuse Your Production Assets

How to plan a making-of and, above all, organize and reuse its assets: clips, photos, permissions, and versions by project, client, or campaign.