What’s the biggest thing you need to know going client side from agency? Those that made the jump what do we need to know?

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Lose the agency attitude. Especially for creatives.

Just accept that you're now a cog in a bigger machine. Learn to build lasting relationships. Learn to not fight for ideas all the time. Pick and choose your battles carefully.

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Get used to teaching and fighting to be in the room. This all starts with building relationships and starting with the basics (solid project organization, file systems, ample communication). When design maturity is low in a place, any clean up of current processes that you’re a part of helps win folks on your necessity and value as a creative.

Agree with Freelance.

The money isn’t necessarily better.

The work can be boring AF.

Politics are different and arguably harder to navigate.

Where you went to school can matter at a lot. How long you’ve been there can matter a lot.

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Following.

Your clients are your coworkers. That changes the entire dynamic of what you’ve been used to. It has it’s pros and cons, mostly pros in my experience.

If you thought you needed to push hard to make shit happen in an agency, prepare for a surprise.

Budgets and timelines are not automatically better just because you are inside.

Prepare for meetings. Lots of them.

And there’s probably a lot more I am forgetting but yeah…

Seems like quite a few creative opinions. Anything more account focused since OP is a supervisor?

I’m in strategy. It’s largely all applicable regardless of role. [especially the comments from Freelancer 1]

Work well with others. build relationships. check the ego. be a generalist not a specialist.

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