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Free Pitching: 03 Advice for Design Buyers
Is the method you’re using to choose your agency going to deliver the maximum return on your design investment?
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Is the method you’re using to choose your agency going to deliver the maximum return on your design investment?
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Free pitching: 04 Example Response to Requests
How do you tackle client requests to free pitch? DBA members can adapt and use this example response to requests.
Financial, New business & client relations
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Free Pitching: 05 Industry Points of View
How do other businesses take a stance? Why doesn't free pitching pay? What are the alternatives? Access industry points of views.
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Draw the line: managing ‘scope creep’
Scope creep can turn into a big issue. What's your best defence to combat it?
Financial, Legal
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Official launch of the 2025 What Clients Think Report
Up to the Light’s ‘What Clients Think’ report in association with the DBA is the definitive annual snapshot into the complexity of client/agency relationships. Catch up with author of the report, Director of Up to the Light and DBA Expert, Jonathan Kirk, in conversation with Adam Fennelow, Membership Director at the DBA, as they explore the report’s unparalleled insights directly from 680 clients.
Advice for clients, Business skills, New business & client relations
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Deconstructing design effectiveness | DBA webinar
What makes design effective? Catch up on this unfiltered look at design that reshaped markets and shifted human behaviour. DBA Chief Executive, Deborah Dawton led the conversation with esteemed judges Olivia Salisbury and Pernilla Johansson who dissected standout projects that delivered change and break down the work that didn’t just meet expectations, it redefined them.
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Fireside chat with Dr Mary McBride | Designing action
Designers possess a unique superpower: the intrinsic ability to apply a creative lens to complex problems and envision a future that doesn’t yet exist. Catch up on this conversation between Dr Mary McBride, Chair and Professor at Pratt Institute and DBA Chief Executive, Deborah Dawton. They won’t hand you a roadmap, but they will challenge, galvanise, and energise you to take decisive action.
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The value of design: what’s next?
Have we reached a turning point for design? Catch up on this webinar with Deborah Dawton, Chief Executive at the DBA and Kevin McCullagh, Founder of Plan, as they discuss how we can ensure design maintains its valued and hard-won position as a driving force for change and unpick the inherent skills of designers to find brand new opportunity in challenge.
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Data on Staff Turnover Rates: 2024 DBA Annual Survey Report
Available to download and utilising data from the 2024 DBA Annual Survey Report, this special report focuses on staff turnover trends within agencies across the last three years.
Financial, HR
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Data on Staff Benefits: 2024 DBA Annual Survey Report
Available to download and utilising data from the 2024 DBA Annual Survey Report, this special report focuses on DBA member staff benefits including pensions, parental leave, health and travel benefits and bonuses.
Financial, HR
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