RevThinking™

“We only know the answers because we are looking for those questions with you.” – Tim Thompson Now for something completely different: in this episode, RevThink client Marcel Ziul, Creative Director / Founder at STATE Design, takes over the RevThinking podcast. Ever brash, bold, and blunt, Marcel turns the tables on RevThink in a candid conversation exploring the why, how, and what of RevThink does in the world in its work with owners of creative firms. Curiously, Marcel even challenges the term, "consultants." RevThink may never be the same.

"One of the great things about being a creative in the twenty first century is that most things are being done already. There's a certain way of doing things, and once you understand the codes and conventions, then you can gain great traction by doing the opposite." – Richard Holman In this episode of the RevThinking podcast, Richard Holman on the topic of Creativity, Love, and the Power of Ideas.If  you are a creative and you get stuck coming up with great ideas, what do you do? You know great ideas are out there, but where do you find them? What about the art of a beautiful pitch? What makes a pitch more beautiful or creative than the next one? What about the power of pictures or the power of words? These are some of the topics Richard lives and breathes. 

"When I came in, narratives were rousing battle poems that got lost in a PowerPoint deck that just got filed away. But I think right now and what we are trying to do is to be able to translate that into things that can be experienced by more people. " – Matt Taylor

In this episode of the RevThinking podcast, Matt Taylor at Deloitte Digital. Unless your head has been in the sand these last few years, you know that these big agencies have been invading the turf normally reserved for the big advertising and marketing agencies. So what's changing? Matt just so happens to be director of experience design at Deloitte Digital in Sydney, Australia. Plus, he also ran his own motion design studio years ago before it was acquired by Deloitte.

“To be honest with you, there’s like hundreds of thousands of other motion graphics studios that does what we do… and I think… when you start to understand the why of why you’re doing what you’re doing, that’s what makes you different” – Andre Foster In our ongoing Profile of the Creative Entrepreneur series, we interview inspiring creative entrepreneurs to learn about their journey navigating the intersection of creativity and commerce.In this episode, Joel Pilger speaks with Andre Foster and Guy Allen, Partners at First Fight. Andre and Guy discuss their journey to building trust with their clients and sharing their expertise as they continue to grow and evolve. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/support

Introducing RevThoughts, our newest show on the RevThinking podcast: snackable conversations between RevThink Consultants and impromptu guests. Our first topic is “Marketing Is Not A Website.”

RevThought episode 002, our newest show on the RevThinking podcast: snackable conversations between Joel Pilger, Tim Thompson, and impromptu guests. Our first topic is “Wishing and Snapchatting.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/support

"We all didn’t necessarily get into this to only do client work… A graphic designer didn’t start drawing at 5 years old and love that for their entire childhood… to just sit around and go, ‘Why didn’t you pick me? Why didn’t you pick me?’ Like, make something. It doesn’t have to be in the industry... That’s my argument. Don’t make stuff for the industry. The industry doesn’t care.” – Dallas Taylor

In our ongoing Profile of the Creative Entrepreneur series, we interview inspiring creative entrepreneurs to learn about their journey navigating the intersection of creativity and commerce.

In this episode, Dallas Taylor, Owner at Defacto Sound,discusses his journey out of the "pick me" mentality and the surprise popularity of his podcast Twenty Thousand hertz.

"We go through that creation process, we look at what's there...so we know exactly what's going on. We know the trends, we know what works, we know what doesn't work, and we know what brand is doing what." – Yann Lhomme

In this episode in our Profile of the Creative Entrepreneur series, Yann Lhomme, CEO and founder of Thinkmojo. 

In our ongoing Profile of the Creative Entrepreneur series, we interview inspiring creative entrepreneurs to learn about their journey navigating the intersection of creativity and commerce.

"The question I really wish they would ask is, "Should I even charge by the hour?" To me it's like a collective hallucination that this is the way professional services are bought and sold." – Jonathan Stark 

In this episode of the Revthinking podcast, Jonathan Stark speaks about eradicating hourly billing, once and for all. The issue with hourly billing, and what is it about charging by the hour (and structuring your creative business accordingly) that is so harmful.

"What is it that makes you as the brief writer, what bit of yourself do you put into? Because otherwise it's just a flat piece of paper that could have been written by a robot." – Tim Hughes the Brief Doctor

In this episode in our the Revthinking podcast, Tim Hughes, the Brief Doctor discusses the rising importance of this little-understood thing known in our industry as “the creative brief.” As well as tackle questions like “When a creative brief is rescued from mediocrity, what is now possible?”