Originally Posted by DamageX

I agree with this. At the very base a designer is only that, a designer. When I hired my designer to make me TGP/MGP designs, he made the most beautiful things I had ever seen. And totally counter-productive, I might add. A couple of months down the road, he knows damn well what he's doing. His mindset has changed from creating pretty stuff, to creating pretty stuff that sells.

Unfortunately most designers' mindsets never change. A big contributing factor to this is the fact that they never actually get a lot of feedback about how their stuff does. The few who get good results might get back to them and tell them what a good job they did. The rest won't, they'll just stop buying. Designers are so limited to designing that they have no idea about after sales contact with your client and what that can do to improve the service you provide them with. Selling a design is easy as hell, just drop the price low enough and someone will buy, eventually. Selling a design that works, for the right price, now THAT is a whole different ball game. In the long run, I'm pretty sure that very few people in this biz don't know that you get what you pay for.