Chris Do, founder and CEO of brand strategy consultancy Blind, is both a brilliant art director and a brilliant businessman. In this talk he holds nothing back, revealing his time-tested techniques for increasing your value to companies as a designer. (It is targeted towards graphic designers but the industrial designers among you should be able to find the intersections.)

We've broken the entire video down into chunks, cueing it up into segments, so that you can skip to specific parts if you're pressed for time. (But at some point you should watch the entire thing.)

1. Intro: Answering the question "How do you break down what to charge the client?" Three examples from the audience.

2. Answering the question "Why can somebody charge 1x, versus 10x or 100x? Why will some companies pay $1,000,000 for a logo?"

3. "Why My Rates are Higher Than Yours:" Chris breaks down his own rates and why he charges what he does.

4. Why Flat Rate is Better Than Hourly.

5. Answering the question "Are your high prices are based on your value, or the client's? Where does the valuation come from?"

6. Ask the Right Questions to Get the Right Price 

7. Answering the question "Why should I pay your expensive price, when this other good designer is offering a cheaper price?"

8. How to Raise Your Rates

9. The Quality You Must Have for Clients to Pick You Over the Competition

10. A trick for getting clients to reveal their revenue, so that you can decide what to charge. (This is the longest segment, and a very important one.)

11. The HUGE benefits that come when you stop seeing yourself as a designer, and start seeing yourself as a business-savvy consultant.

For those of you with the time, here's the entire video: