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Outsourcing Guide
How To Know If You Need Staff Leasing For Your Business
May 21, 2020
As a company grows, the workload gets heavier and managing its day to day operations gets harder. This is the main reason behind the increased demand for staff leasing services today.

As a company grows, the workload gets heavier and managing its day to day operations gets harder. This is the main reason behind the increased demand for staff leasing services today.

Staff leasing is an appealing option since it addresses many of the challenges that a business faces as it scales and grows. Companies also find that there are multiple advantages to staff leasing as opposed to hiring full-time in-house employees for their business.

Do you need staff leasing for your business? Check out these five signs that your business is in need of staff leasing ASAP:

1. Your employees are overwhelmed by their heavy workload.

Stress is always a part of a business, but if you notice that your employees are getting swamped and frustrated by working on tasks that are not part of their job description, then it’s time to reevaluate your work distribution process.

Remember: overworked and stressed employees are unproductive employees, and you don’t want that for your business.

2. Your budget is getting tighter.

Budget is always an important factor to consider in running a business. Maintaining an in-house team means that you will have to allocate more of your budget for hiring employees and updating your office equipment accordingly.

By choosing to staff lease from an offshore company, you will only pay the cost of acquiring the service. Staff leasing from countries such as the Philippines would also mean that recruitment and operational costs would be lower and therefore more manageable and optimal for you.

3. You can’t focus on core business activities.

Do you find yourself focusing on the minutiae of day-to-day business activities? Do you catch yourself micromanaging tasks constantly just to get things going? This is definitely not a good thing both for you and your employees.

By choosing offshore staff leasing, you can free up your valuable time and focus on your more important, core business activities that require your undivided attention.

4. Your customers are starting to complain.

It is a big red flag when you start to receive negative feedback from your customers for not being able to respond to their needs right away. They need to be able to contact a representative that can handle their inquiries like a pro 24/7.

If this is kind of customer service is something you cannot do considering your existing staff, then it could be a smart move to outsource the work and lease the staff you need.

5. You can’t strike a good work-life balance.

Do you regularly spend 15 hours in the office and still find that you don’t have enough time to finish all of your office tasks? Do you have a growing list of missed birthdays, events, and milestones?

When you start to miss out on the important moments in your personal life because of your heavy workload, it is definitely time for you to look for solutions. Instead of driving yourself into the ground, it is more logical to find people to lighten your workload for you.

Do any of these things ring a bell? If this sounds like your business, then it may be time for you to make the smart decision of outsourcing your work to a staff leasing company that is dedicated to providing unmatched solutions for your business needs.

At KDCI, we specialize in Offshore staffing. We are experts in Creative design and Digital marketing, and with us, you can easily hire your own custom dedicated resources to support your entire production process.

Interested in getting more work done with less effort? Get in touch with us today to learn more.

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Meet the Amazing KDCI Human Resources Team
May 21, 2020
Discover how the KDCI HR team drives talent acquisition, oversees internships, and plans engaging company activities, with notable projects on the horizon.

Meet our amazing KDCI Human Resources team!

They are in charge of looking for great talent to add to our growing team, as well as building the company’s professional network. They are also the brains behind our Internship program, outreach programs, and all our fun company activities.

They have some amazing projects lined up this year that we are really excited about!

Are you interested in becoming part of a fast-growing Creative and Digital outsourcing company? Contact our awesome HR team today to learn more!

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KDCI Leaders' Down Time: Insights from Japan
July 20, 2023
KDCI Leaders' Winter Adventure: Exploring Japan's Madarao Ski Resort! Discover how our President, Ray Jamin, and Senior Project Manager, Allan Hernandez, unwind with snowboarding in Nagano Prefecture. Learn about their passion for extreme sports and work-life balance, illustrating why KDCI is a top outsourcing company in the Philippines.

After another busy year of work, it was great to cap it off with a little rest and relaxation.Last December, our company President, Ray Jamin, together with our Senior Project Manager, Allan Hernandez, travelled to Japan to spend the holidays snowboarding at Madarao Ski Resort. The ski resort, located at the snowy peaks of Nagano Prefecture, was a great place to catch the cool mountain air and take a breather from work.https://youtu.be/ZTa1V2FveMoUnbeknownst to most, our company president, Ray, enjoys extreme outdoor sports such as snowboarding and wakeboarding. Allan, our senior project manager and a longtime friend and colleague of his, introduced him to these extreme sports. They’ve also both started to play with drones, so hopefully we can see some neat aerial shots soon!In our company, our leaders serve as examples of how having a good work life balance can help drive success. This is the same principle that we apply to our teams, and this is exactly why KDCI is one of the leading outsourcing companies in the Philippines today.

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A Sneak Peek at KDCI's Awesome Content Curator Team
May 21, 2020
Meet the awesome KDCI Content Curator team!

Meet the awesome KDCI Content Curator team!

They helped our client in the software industry gain 10 million monthly subscribers for their services – an amazing milestone!

With their expert content and data management skills, our Content Curator team is truly an invaluable part of the KDCI family.

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Framework CEO's Visit to KDCI Manila Office: A Recap
May 21, 2020
Visiting the office this week is Alister Harris, owner and CEO at Framework Solutions LLC, together with Raymond Jamin, our President.

Visiting the office this week is Alister Harris, owner and CEO at Framework Solutions LLC, together with Raymond Jamin, our President.

Alister came to visit the KDCI office in the Philippines to interview some up and coming web developers that specialize in Miscrosoft's dynamics framework. Alister also met with the KDCI back office team to develop an outsoucing strategy to help take his business to the next level.

Framework Solutions LLC. is a company focused on building scalable custom applications for corporate clients. It is the company behind Shopodex.com, a turn-key eCommerce platform that offers a complete and scalable eCommerce management system for all business sizes.

It was great meeting you, Alister!

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A Coachella KDCI Year-End Party: The Highlight of the Year
July 25, 2023
Experience KDCI's Year-End Party Magic: Embrace the Coachella Vibe! On December 8, 2018, KDCI celebrated with a Coachella-themed bash at The Stockpile, Sapphire Bloc. Discover the excitement, fashion, and highlights from speeches by the CEO and President, as we reflect on the past year's achievements and look forward to a bright future.

On December 8, 2018, KDCI celebrated its annual Year-end party at The Stockpile at Sapphire Bloc. Coachella was the theme of choice, and everyone came to the celebration wearing their best music festival-inspired outfits.

At 8 o’clock, people started arriving, all eager and excited to sign up and get their entry tickets to the party raffle.

The venue was soon buzzing with excitement, with everyone having fun mingling and catching up. Opening remarks were made by our Creative Director, Ian Rañosa, and the celebration commenced with fervor.

The party went on well into midnight, with everyone enjoying the amazing food, flowing drinks, and exciting games.

The party came to a conclusion with inspiring statements from our CEO, Anthony Layug, as well as our President, Raymond Jamin. They thanked everyone for their hard work for the past year, and they went on to discuss the big plans for the company in the near future.

We at KDCI are thankful for all our achievements this past year, as well as all the new additions to our ever-growing family. This Year-end party was the perfect celebration to cap off the year and to propel us forward, towards the company’s future which grows steadily brighter.

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Powerpoint vs Google Slides: which is better?
Design & Marketing
PowerPoint vs Google Slides: Which Is Better?
May 21, 2020
Presentation slides are essential for effectively delivering messages, and choosing between PowerPoint vs Google Slides involves factors like affordability, accessibility, backups, special effects, embedding, and templates, with each offering unique advantages. At KDCI Outsourcing, our graphic designers excel in both platforms, providing superior presentations for various clients over 15 years.

Whether you are doing a product launch or a speech, a presentation slide is an effective way to deliver your message with the use of multimedia to capture audience’s attention. But which presentation software is better -- Powerpoint vs Google Slides? Below is a comparison of the two!

Affordability

Powerpoint has been around 30 years now and since it is part of the Microsoft Office package, a license is needed to use it. It costs around $70 - $150 yearly, but once installed on your PC, easily access it without internet connection.

With Google Slides, have the software right at your fingertips without paying extra. Just connect to the internet, register and freely enjoy all Google Docs softwares.

Accessibility

As mentioned, PowerPoint requires the Microsoft Office software installed to run properly. Files will be saved on your hard disc and accessible thru your personal computer. If you need to have it online, register to Microsoft’s cloud storage OneDrive and upload it there. PowerPoint also offers a free online version, however, it is more basic than the desktop-based product.

Google Slides enable real time collaboration. Simultaneously edit the presentation deck online with colleagues is the platform's biggest selling point. Just send an invite and you both can edit the same file at the same time.

Backups and Storage

PowerPoint doesn’t offer an automatic savings unless you have the latest version. It saves a copy of your document every few seconds on OneDrive. It has AutoRecover feature in case crash happen.

Since Google Slides is cloud-based, every 5-10 mins, your work is being saved on Google Drive without hitting the button. All changes are automatically saved to the cloud. Also, Google Slides it has a history review. Check out previous versions and restore them any time.

Special Effects and Embedding

Another good thing about PowerPoint is its many features such as special effects which are only available in the desktop version. Easily drag images or draw your own.

Freely embed video and audio files in PowerPoint. It supports a number of formats compared to Google Slides. Have a Youtube video in your presentation if you want to.

Google Slides, in contrast, offers basic animations and transitions compared to PowerPoint. Customizing different images and shapes is also limited.

There’s a few restrictions when it comes to embedding files since they only support a few formats. YouTube video allowed as well but audio files are not.

Templates

When it comes to templates, PowerPoint offers wide gallery of ready-to-use templates for various purposes.

Google Slides comes with a gallery of pre-made basic templates which you can edit and change according to your preferences.

Presentation slides has been the standard material when doing launches, lectures and speeches, and here at KDCI we recognize the value of it.

For over 15 years, making creatively engaging and high quality presentations to a wide variety of clients has been one of our strengths. We worked with small, medium and large organizations to attract potential customers towards their services and products.

This is just one out of hundred presentations we did over the past years.

Outsource Presentation Design

Choosing between Powerpoint vs Google Slides? At KDCI Outsourcing, our graphic designers are experts at both!

Discover the benefits of working with outsource graphic designers and outsource your graphic design team for superior PowerPoint and google slide presentations!

Sources:  envatotuts+ | MonsterPost | LinkedIn

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Ice Cream Packaging Design: KDCI's Tutti Frutti Concept
July 24, 2023
Product packaging is a crucial determinant in consumer purchases, often being the difference between a product's success or failure. KDCI's design for Tutti Frutti showcases minimalist appeal, striking the balance between familiarity and contemporary aesthetics.

Product success and failure rely on a lot of key factors, and every year, 95 percent of new products fail. The reason is simple - consumers use shortcuts in their purchases. They just don’t have the time nor the energy to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of the products they place in their shopping carts - consumers use shortcuts, and the most effective one is Product Packaging.

Packaging is powerful because it is the face of your product and brand - it sets you apart from your competitors either positively or negatively. One wrong element, one mistake in design, may cause a sharp decline in sales due to unfamiliarity, lack of appeal, or misinformation.

Developing a design that would both feature legacy elements of previous packages and creative elements that would make the packages demand attention, is definitely a hard task to accomplish. Unfortunately, most companies forego optimizing their packages to suit the current retail landscape and in turn lose out to more ambitious companies that are willing to invest in development and innovation.

Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt has acknowledged this fact and has hired KDCI a branding and design company to conceptualize and develop new packaging designs for their Frozen Yogurt Ice Cream Bar product line. With a goal of mixing in contemporary design philosophies and tried-and-tested layouts, to feature a fresh and endearing packaging design that resonates with previous customers and new ones - KDCI has produced a series of gripping and tastefully woven product packages that leverage on a simple yet appealing minimalist design.

Here are the product packages that are ready to hit your local retail and eCommerce stores:

tutti frutti apricot
tutti frutti blueberry
tutti frutti strawberry

The importance of packaging design cannot be stressed enough. Retail companies should not be afraid of investing a part of their resources on reinventing their product packages because sometimes the difference between a purchased product and an ignored one is how great it looks like.

Overstuffing graphics and copy to a product package are considered as one of the greatest sins in packaging design. Being an international design company, we have put this philosophy to heart, as seen in the packages that we have designed for Tutti Frutti. But how balanced is balanced? The answer might be simple for experienced design companies such as KDCI, but most companies don't know that consumers highly prefer simple packaging designs over content-heavy packages.

When our team of expert designers conceptualized the Tutti Frutti packages above, we based the general design layout of the packages to feature a neutral light gray tone as the white space, while including vibrant colored elements to help accentuate the key product details placed on the packages.  We identified that in the current retail landscape, minimalist designs attract more consumer purchases than graphic-congested product packages.

We made sure that the graphics and copy that we included in the packages would be as straightforward as possible because we know that minimizing the content and only featuring the key benefits would raise consumer purchase of the product - given that it makes their buying experience easier and less tedious.

Our senior designers made sure that the color theme would be constant all throughout, giving the packages a sense of consistency - this is done to make sure that the packages stand-out of store shelves because a cohesive color theme attracts more eye attention than color saturated packages.

Tutti Frutti took the leap and are now ready to face the 21st-century consumer. Are you?

If by any chance you're interested in improving your product packages or in need of professional design or branding advice, feel free to contact us.

We have a creative division filled with expert designers that are available to help you out.

Contact us by clicking the button below and let's get started today.

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Top Graphic Design Software & AI Tools In Creative Outsourcing
Discover the top graphic design software and AI tools used by offshore graphic designers in 2024: Photoshop, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Figma, Dall-E, Invideo AI, Microsoft Designer, Autodraw, Looka

Getting amazing graphics and designs, but unsure of how your outsourced graphic designer is making them?

Whether you're a business owner learning about how designers produce art works or you’re a designer looking for software to use, this guide gives a quick overview of what you need to know about the top graphic tools available, ranging from photo editing to AI.

Top 5 Graphic Designs Software

Graphic design software are the bread and butter of digital design, bridging imagination to life. Below are some industry favorites, each offering unique functionalities:

  • Adobe Photoshop: As a tried and true classic, Photoshop is the most used design tool among graphic designers. Because of its proven reliability and flexibility, it remains a top choice whether you’re photo editing or creating intricate digital paintings.
  • Sketch: For Mac users, Sketch is a vector-based software, ideal for creating sleek interfaces, web elements, and engaging app designs. It’s particularly useful in designing icons, banners, and social media graphics.
  • Adobe Illustrator: For designers who use vector graphics heavily, Adobe Illustrator allows you to create scalable designs that maintain their crispness regardless of size, making it a favorite for creating logos, illustrations, and intricate pattern designs.
  • Adobe InDesign: Merging design with publishing, InDesign is a tool that provides a lot of control over layout, text formatting, and image placement, making it easy to create polished magazines, brochures, and reports.
  • Figma: A design tool that prioritizes collaboration, Figma is a browser-based tool that allows multiple users to work on the same project simultaneously. This makes it perfect for UI/UX design, prototyping, and creating interactive animations. 

Top 5 AI Design Tools

With technology rapidly evolving, designers must learn to utilize AI tools, to help scale design operations and cut costs. Below are some rising stars in the design industry:

  • Dall-E: A pioneer in AI-driven image generation, Dall-E provides instant images from text descriptions, streamlining the creation of unique designs and enriching visual content in projects where traditional photography or illustration falls short.
  • Invideo AI: Adding to the suite of creative video editing tools, Invideo AI offers innovative AI video editing capabilities that seamlessly integrate artificial intelligence to enhance user productivity and creativity in multimedia projects.
  • Microsoft Designer: For those looking to design layouts and styles, Microsoft Designer helps you automate design processes. Through analyzing text and images, it suggests optimized layouts, color schemes, and typographic styles that best suit your purpose.
  • Autodraw: If you’ve already sketched some designs, you can use Autodraw as to transform rough sketches into more polished drawings. It's particularly useful for creating simple illustrations or diagrams quickly, without needing advanced drawing skills.
  • Looka: For those designing logos to help establish a brand identity, Looka can help. Simply input you preferences, and it will give you logo options and branding elements, catering mainly to startups and small businesses

The Designer's Arsenal

While software forms the core, a graphic designer's toolkit extends beyond the digital realm. Let's explore some essential companions:

  • Pen and Paper: The timeless duo – pen and paper – remain fundamental. Sketching initial ideas, brainstorming concepts, and jotting down notes all find their perfect medium here. Don't underestimate the power of low-fi exploration!
  • Your Computer: The unsung hero, your computer acts as the workhorse that drives your design software. Invest in a machine capable of handling demanding programs. A high-resolution monitor is a designer's dream, offering a crisp canvas for visual precision.
  • Stylus and Graphics Tablet: For those who enjoy working with their hands, they can get the same experience as pen on paper while enjoying all the perks of a digital canvas with a graphics tablet.
  • Storage Devices: Design files tend to be hefty, so ample storage becomes crucial. Cloud storage solutions or external hard drives ensure your creations are safe and readily accessible. Aim for at least a terabyte of storage to accommodate your growing design library.
  • Camera: For designers incorporating original photography into their work, a high-quality camera becomes indispensable. While smartphones offer convenience, a DSLR camera delivers superior image quality, perfect for capturing stunning visuals.

Choosing the Right Tools

With many options available, designers can easily become overwhelmed. To help anyone navigate, here are some tips.

  • Start with the Basics: Begin with a foundational toolset like Photoshop and Illustrator. These versatile programs equip you with a solid skillset applicable across design disciplines.
  • Specialize as You Grow: As you discover your design niche, explore software catering to specific needs. For web design, Sketch might be a perfect fit, while motion graphics artists may gravitate towards After Effects.
  • Free and Open-Source Alternatives: Don't let budget limitations hold you back. Several free and open-source design programs offer robust features. Explore GIMP for image editing or Inkscape for vector graphics.
  • Explore New Technologies: With the advent of AI, designers who enhance their work using new tools and software gain a considerable advantage over their competitors, especially in terms of scale and cost-effectiveness.

Remember, the most important tool is your own creativity! Experiment, explore, and don't be afraid to push boundaries. As your design journey unfolds, your toolkit will naturally evolve alongside your skills and artistic vision.

Work With An Outsourced Graphic Designer

The design world is constantly evolving, so it’s important to adapt new technologies and tools as they emerge. 

At KDCI Outsourcing, our outsourced graphic designers prioritize keeping up with design trends in order to produce next-level designs for our clients. By utilizing tried and tested tools while trying out new design technologies, we help our clients streamline their design processes and cut costs.

Maximize graphic design software for outstanding designs. Hire an outsourced graphic designer today!

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