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The Gap Cost: What Hiring the Wrong Designer Really Costs
Josh Mckenna 7/20/26 Josh Mckenna 7/20/26

The Gap Cost: What Hiring the Wrong Designer Really Costs

The real cost of hiring wrong is not the second designer's fee. It is everything that stacks up in between. I call it the gap cost, and once you add it up, doing it right the first time looks like the bargain it always was.

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