<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi, Tracy:</div><div><br></div><div>We contract with an incredible graphic designer here at DeWitt DL. We base our contract on a fixed dollar amount every month and an expectation of 20 hours per week. This makes the billing simple and allows for a great deal of flexibility with scheduling. </div><div><br></div><div>He's done a lot for us including, but not limited to:</div><div><ul><li>Improving/Cleaning up our logo so that it's more usable</li><li>Building a brand identity around our existing colors</li><li>Building us Canva templates for our staff to use for social media posts, digital signage, and other advertising</li><li>Continued our brand identity on our Strategic Plan Poster that we'll have printed and posted in our library.</li><li>Trained our staff in how to use the Canva templates and why the brand identity is so important</li><li>Designed other items like: mugs, t-shirts, holiday postcards, ads for publications, etc.</li></ul><div>We have definitely received a great deal of value from this relationship. Because he's a contractor, we coordinate with a job board that is checked regularly so he can work on items on his own schedule as long as they're done by the due date. It's been a really good process and it's certainly less expensive than hiring a full-time employee or outside agency. </div></div><div><br></div><div>This person has an extremely prolific background in design work for both digital and print, certification in UI/UX processes, and experience being a brand manager at for-profit, non-profit, creative agency, and governmental organizations. <a href="https://www.canva.com/design/DAGhXB3HEnU/b2T9FH54VUhuZi5V4ONBsw/edit?utm_content=DAGhXB3HEnU&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton">Here's a link to the slide presentation</a> I gave at a recent conference that illustrates some of his work.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b><span style="font-size:9pt">Glenn Fischer, <a href="https://www.si.umich.edu/programs/master-science-information" target="_blank">MSI</a> (he/him)<br>Library Director</span></b></font><span style="color:rgb(20,55,107);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:9pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">| <a href="mailto:gfischer@dewittlibrary.org" target="_blank">gfischer@dewittlibrary.org</a></span><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#474747"><br></font></span><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-size:9pt">Phone: 517-668-7081</span><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-size:9pt"> | <a href="http://dewittlibrary.org/" target="_blank">dewittlibrary.org</a></span></font></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:normal"><p style="font-size:12.8px"><img alt="" style="font-size:small"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1MOXx-Hi1zH6bIxvrsHPDlBZuaIt5WM-b&revid=0ByN4GRnftvZ4Q0lwR0lwL3d4c1Z6cVk2ZmdQYUtJWTJxQzBJPQ" width="96" height="65" style="font-size:small"></p><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM Tracy Logan via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Collective of Wisdom,</div><div><br></div><div>Do you employ someone at your library to oversee your marketing efforts? Or do you contract with someone for this service? We are exploring the idea of a marketing person on staff (or contract) and I would love to hear how you navigate this. How does it work? Are you seeing good results from those efforts? What size library are you? Thanks for your responses!</div><div><br></div><div>-Tracy</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Tracy Logan<br>Library Director<br>Cadillac Wexford Public Library<br>411 S. Lake Street<br>Cadillac, MI 49601<br>231-775-6541<br><a href="mailto:logant@cadillaclibrary.org" target="_blank">logant@cadillaclibrary.org</a></div></div></div></div>
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