Instant design team minus the overhead.

The Creativ Shop is a marketing design studio based in North America. We provide a marketing design subscription service that delivers high-quality solutions quickly for nimble & strategic SMB marketers, matching their needs and helping them get results faster. ⏩⏩⏩

Our most satisfied customers are small B2B & B2C marketing teams with less than 5 marketers and are in one of the following situations:

1. You're a founder or the founding marketer or just have a ton of strategic, foundational work on your plate. You know what needs to get done but directing & managing multiple freelancers or entry-level designers is just not the most effective way to use your time. You're looking for an experienced, business-minded creative partner that you can kick ideas around with and execute on your vision.

2. You finally got your marketing machine going but now you need to up your marketing copy & design game. You are not quite ready budget wise for an in-house creative team, yet the junior designer or freelancer you have just isn't experienced enough to get you what you need anymore.

3. You prefer spending more time on strategies and programs rather than being the hands-on art director or creative project manager, wrangling freelancers, and directing less experienced designers.

We're a great fit for business professionals who:

• are also great communicators that can benefit from the effectiveness & efficiency of asynchronous communications, prefer it over unnecessary real-time calls & meetings.
• would rather spend time on growth strategies for their business than managing and art directing designers.
• want to work with seasoned creatives who are also mature professionals (dependable, organized, strategic).
• give design directions & feedback by way of communicating business goals, strategies, brand standards, customer personas, competitive landscape, technical requirements, etc.

On the other hand, if you’re an aspiring creative who wants to get his/her hands dirty on every esthetic decision, we are probably not the best fit for you.

That's okay, we won't hold it against you. 😉

Have a unique situation? Let's jump on a quick call to see if we can help!

That’s certainly worth considering if you have the budget & need. But the average salary for a senior designer (8+ years of experience) is upward of US$100,000 (not counting benefits, onboarding, payroll tax, etc.), so it may not make financial sense if your business has not reach the point to justify the cost, or don't have a steady stream of work for them.

Another thing to keep in mind is that, your budget will be locked into whatever skill set the designer has. When your needs change, you'll have to hire another specialist and may have to let the designer go. 😥

On top of our ability to source the right creative specialist base on your needs, our monthly plan's pause option also scales with your needs, so you don't have to waste a dime when things are slow.

could be a cheaper option, as long as you have the time and/or the help with directing and managing the work.

Let’s say you need a set of social posts, a trade show booth banner, and a landing page design. That could easily be three specialists you'd have to vet, hire, direct, and manage. 😩

That's where we come in. Our turnkey solution is supported by a small group of experienced and diverse creative professionals. That means you don't have to worry about managing multiple freelancers. Instead, you can focus on what you do best: building and optimizing other parts of your business.

A few things stand out:

1️⃣ First, our pricing model is refreshingly simple. You pay a flat fee with no complicated contracts, no cap on hours, or limitations on revisions.

2️⃣ Second, we don't do any proposals, pitch meetings, sales calls, rate estimates. Why? Because we want to be helpful by getting you exactly what you need (quality work) fast. No pitching. No upselling. No dragging our feet just so we can bill you more hours.

3️⃣ Finally, we're obsessed with making designs that move the needle, not winning design awards. We don’t try to perfect the design on your dime but get you what works well when you need it.

Ether started The Creativ Shop. He and a few of his favorite designers, writers, and developers are the Oompa Loompas behind it.
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Ether has worked at agencies, startups, and in corporate world for almost 20 years. He has done everything between production design to creative direction, from managing projects to managing teams. His experience covers branding, marketing design, communication design and visual design.

Having helped multiple growth stage startups & small teams scale design efficiently and effectively, he started The Creativ Shop with the goal of using what he learned to help even more growth stage SMBs scale with quality design that's affordable & effective, while still satisfying his own creative itch.

Simple! You'll get access to a private request board (via Trello). Once you have filled out a request card, mark it as Ready and we’ll start tackling it!

If you have questions at any time, you'd be able to just message us from within the request board and we'd get back to you on the same day; usually within an hour or so.

Everyone new client will get a detailed step-by-step onboarding guide immediately after signing up. If you want a demo first, just schedule a no-obligation call and we'd be happy to walk you through everything!

You can submit as many requests as to the queue! 🙌 We'll work on them one by one in the order you submit them. Need to reprioritize? Just rearrange it on your private request board. No emergency calls. No additional fee. Simple!

1 to 2 business days turnaround is the average of all the requests we get.

Similar to working with your own full-time senior designer, we can usually turn around simple asks & fixes on the same day.

As for common marketing needs, things like banner ads, social / blog / email images, a landing page, email layout design, a one-pager /sales sheet, etc., with a brief & finalized copy, we're almost always able to turn those around for review in 2 business days or less.

Longform content and more complex projects (an ebook, a presentation deck, a complex infographic, anything involves custom illustrations, motion / video, and development) will take longer: about a week.

The turnaround time also hinges on our client's ability & availability in providing feedback and approval, once we have done our part.
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We always let our clients know ASAP if we think a request will take longer than expected, sometimes even before we get started.

If a client tells us ahead of time that an upcoming request has a hard deadline, we will give them a conservative estimate, or let them know if we aren't confident in our ability to deliver, so that they will have ample time to make necessary adjustments or arrangement.

It comes down to our obsession with clarity and focus, as well as our decade-plus marketing design experience.

We structure all communication around the following:
1) All requests follow a robust yet simple brief.
2) Communications are done in writing, screen-recording, and audio-recording.
3) Projects are prioritized and tackled one at a time.

This gives us clear objectives and directions on every project, while minimizes confusion & disruption and maximizes focus & quality.

Our experience and numerous studies has long shown that task-switching is the biggest enemy of productivity.

Our clients happen to share our view.

With this process, both our team and our clients are able to work more strategically & efficiently. It leads to more effective design & better business outcome.

Just let us know! We’ll work with you to revise it until you're satisfied!

Clients on our Monthly plan can just pause their subscriptions anytime.

Sure! The pause option allows you to pause your monthly plan so that you can take full advantage of your subscription at a later time.

For example, you want us to create a small set of ads so that you can run them for a week to see how they perform before doing anything else. Instead of wasting a week's time, you can pause the plan immediately after getting the ads from us, and then resume the plan when you're ready to submit another request.
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It's that simple!

In case of emergency, our subscribers can get a hold of us and get a response within 2 hours outside our regular business hours (10am–5pm MT).

Emergencies happen and the next business day could be too late! Since our ability to help is much greater with brands / clients that we're most familiar with, we offer this service to our Quarterly & Annual plans subscribers.

We are highly proficient with the Adobe Creative Cloud apps, Figma, DaVinci Resolve, Notion, Webflow, and the Affinity design suite. We also help clients set up templates in Canva, MS PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, Google Slides, and other similar platforms.

As far as file transfer/delivery, we usually use Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, WeTransfer, and from within Trello. We can also use other platforms you prefer. Just let us know!

We try our best to meet your needs, but due to the custom nature of design, there's no refund.

Glad you asked! We work to live and there are only a few of us here, so we do take breaks.

We typically close for 2 weeks mid-year and 2 weeks around the end / beginning of the year.

During that time, we won’t be delivering work and will only maintain limited communication with our clients.

Anyone with a subscription overlapping those periods will receive a prorated refund or extended service period. If you have a preference, just let us know.

Absolutely! We want you to make an informed decision before subscribing. Feel free to book a no-obligation 15-minute call with us at your convenience.

You can also email us your questions at inquiry@thecreativ.shop.