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If Johnathan and his team can foster entrepreneurship in Camden, NJ, what can you do in your city?
Johnathan Grzybowski
Hiring local talent and nurturing face-to-face relationships in your backyard. It may not be sexy, but it works. It also serves the local community in ways that fancy big-brand tactics do not. In today’s episode, Johnathan Grzybowski, a rogue risk taker turned serial entrepreneur, shares how his graphic design company (www.penji.co) is impacting their local community while empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Camden, New Jersey has been named the most dangerous city in the United States more than once. Penji.co is committed to hiring students from Camden in order to change the landscape of business in their city and give people career opportunities that were not available to them previously.
Through their old-school approach to business, www.Penji.co provides unlimited graphic design at one flat monthly rate. While they use social media to raise awareness and build their personality, they attribute their success to the relationships they establish less than 30 miles from their office.
Networking events, customer interviews, and working with local businesses and organizations – Johnathan shares how they created a product that people actually want and need while building a team that is more like family than simply co-workers.
Key Takeaways
- Bring the best version of yourself to work every day – there are people who are counting on you.
- Making an impact in your local community has to be more than a nice idea.
- Find your first 100 customers in a 5-30 mile radius from your base/office.
- When hiring people for your team, ask them: What is your dream? How can we help you get there?
- Entrepreneurs often focus so much on themselves that they don’t actually focus on the things that really matter.
- Ask questions. Get people involved in your process. If we built it, would you buy it?
- Your corporate mission and social mission can be different – one is for your customers, the other can be for your local community. What is the impact you want to serve?
- You have to be able to show off your personality – in the way you show up to your customers so they can get to know you, like and remember you.
What is Penji?
Penji is an on-demand graphic design service that offers unlimited designs for a flat, monthly rate. This means that you can send as many design requests as you can in a month. It is ideal for startups, agencies, marketers, and businesses, big or small.
Aside from the students they hire from within their community, today, they hire staff from all over the world. This means that they have a team of professional graphic designers adept in a multitude of design categories. Their services include web design, custom illustrations, social media graphics, print materials, and many more.
How Does It Work?
When you sign up for Penji’s service, you will get access to their design platform. To start the process, you’ll write a description of your project and submit it. The system automatically assigns it to the best designer for the job.
Their turnaround time is anywhere from 24 to 48 hours, depending on the complexity of your request. After you receive your design, you can send revision requests if needed. The designers will work on your revisions within 12 to 24 hours.
When you’re happy with the design, you can download it straight from the platform. You don’t have to wait for emails to get your designs. You just go to the dashboard and download them there. In addition, you get full ownership of the designs, which you can use any which way you want.
High-Quality Graphic Designs
Finding the best graphic designers can be a challenge. This is the reason Johnathan and his co-founder created Penji. They understood how difficult it is to find designers and get high-quality designs that are affordable. With Penji, you no longer have to go through the lengthy recruitment process. You just sign up and get designs.
Penji only hires the top 2% of designers in the industry. This assures you that you get designs that are high in quality. You don’t even have to hire a different designer for each project. Their team is composed of experienced designers in a wide range of genres, ready to take on any type of design category.
Penji Pricing
Penji has three affordable plans to choose from. They are as follows:
Pro, $399 per month:
- Unlimited design projects
- Unlimited brands
- One designer
- Two users
Team, $499 per month:
- Everything in Pro
- Website and app design
- Custom illustrations
- Infographics
- Five users
Agency, $899 per month:
- Everything in Team
- Two designers
- Ten users
- Prioritized support
No Commitments
Unlike hiring freelance graphic designers that you pay for each project they make for you, Penji only charges you a fixed price each month. When your workload is low, you can cancel your subscription anytime you need to and come back again when you need it. They have no contracts that will bind you and pay for services that you don’t use.
Penji also offers a 15-day, 100% money-back guarantee to make it risk-free for you. If you pay their quarterly or yearly subscription rates, you’ll get discounts of up to 15%. To avail of more deals, use this code: LOTPODCAST15.
Resources
Connect With Johnathan Grzybowski and the Penji Team
- Website: www.penji.co
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dotpenji
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/grzybowskij
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grzybowskij
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