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Most marketers think of Canva as a quick design tool – but it’s quietly evolved into something much more powerful. Maliha Khan digs into how Canva’s AI features can help you move from idea to execution faster, while still maintaining control over your brand and message. If creating consistent, high-quality content feels overwhelming, this conversation offers a more practical way forward.
Canva’s AI Tools Are Way More Powerful Than You Think
Many marketers and social media managers have been using Canva for years, but mostly picking a template, swapping out some text, and calling it done. It’s like owning a sports car and never taking it out of first gear.
If that sounds like you, Maliha Khan will open your eyes to just how much Canva’s AI tools have evolved. Maliha is a strategy-first marketing consultant and the creative force behind Khannect the Dots and Khancepts Studio. She’s an award-winning marketer, a national speaker, and someone who genuinely lives at the intersection of strategy, design, and AI. When she talks about Canva, you can tell she’s been in the weeds with it.
And what she shared made me realize most of us are leaving serious firepower on the table.
The AI Features You’re Probably Missing
Here’s something Maliha pointed out that I think trips up a lot of Canva users: the AI tools are contextual. That means different features show up depending on what type of file you have open. If you’re working on a presentation, you’ll see Magic Animate. Open a video file, and a whole different set of tools unlocks.
As Maliha put it, “I don’t think a lot of people register that. It really just depends on what file you’ve got open.”
So if you’ve never explored Canva’s video tools because you only work in static images, you’ve been missing an entire toolkit. The same goes for presentations, documents, and more. It’s worth opening different file types just to see what becomes available.
MagicWrite, Magic Design, and Magic Media
Let’s talk about the heavy hitters. Maliha walked through three AI features that she uses regularly, each serving a different purpose.
MagicWrite is your starting point when you’re staring at a blank page. It’s not going to replace a well-trained ChatGPT or Claude instance, but it’s a quick way to generate ideas, outlines, or draft copy without leaving Canva. Think of it as a lightweight brainstorming buddy that lives right where you’re designing.
Magic Design is where things get interesting. You can upload an image (say, a headshot) and give Canva instructions to build a flyer or presentation around it. Maliha stressed that the key here is being specific about what you want: the tone, the style, the colors. Vague prompts get vague results. Sound familiar?
Magic Media is the big one. It handles text-to-image, text-to-graphic, text-to-video, and even text-to-3D model generation. The video feature produces clips that are only 5.8 seconds long, but as Maliha pointed out, that’s plenty for social media content or quick transitions in a larger project. And the quality, she emphasized, is legitimately impressive.
The Batch Content Workflow
For me, the biggest takeaway from this conversation was Maliha’s batch content workflow. If you’re a small business owner or marketer who needs to produce a month’s worth of social media content, this approach is a game changer.
Here’s how it works: start by using your preferred LLM (ChatGPT, Claude, whatever you like) to plan out your content calendar. Get your topics, your tips, your messaging all mapped out. Then move to Canva.
Canva’s Bulk Create feature lets you connect a spreadsheet (Google Sheets, Canva Sheets, or even a HubSpot import) to a branded template. You link each text field in the template to a column in your spreadsheet, and Canva generates up to 100 graphics using that template. One click, and you’ve got a month’s worth of tip graphics, testimonial cards, or team spotlight posts.
Maliha was clear that this works best with content where you’re swapping text on a consistent template. Think tips, quotes, testimonials, “About Us” series posts. You need to have your templates set up in advance, but once you do, the production speed is remarkable.
Brand Kits and AI Finally Work Together
One of the updates Maliha highlighted that I think a lot of people have missed came in December. Canva now lets you apply your brand kit directly when using Canva AI. Before this update, AI-generated designs would come out with generic styling, and you’d have to manually adjust fonts, colors, and other brand elements after the fact.
Now there’s a simple option to select which brand kit you want applied before generating anything. Your fonts, color palette, logo placement, and brand voice guidelines all get baked in from the start.
Maliha also pointed out that Canva has expanded what you can include in a brand kit. You can now add sample charts, and the brand voice section has moved beyond a simple paragraph. You can specify what your brand should and shouldn’t do, which mirrors the kind of voice guidelines most of us already maintain for content creation.
Her tip? Pair this with a custom GPT that analyzes your existing content and generates detailed brand voice guidelines. Then plug those guidelines into your Canva brand kit. That’s a workflow that keeps your AI-generated content consistently on-brand across every tool you use.
Magic Resize: One Design, Every Platform
If you’ve ever created a Facebook post and then had to rebuild it from scratch for Instagram and LinkedIn, Magic Resize will save you real time. It’s a Canva Pro feature (about $119/year) that takes your existing designs and adapts them to different platform dimensions.
Maliha’s approach is smart: she creates all her Facebook posts first as a batch, then uses Magic Resize to generate the Instagram and LinkedIn versions. She keeps each platform in its own folder so when it’s time to schedule content, she’s pulling from an organized library rather than hunting through a mixed project file.
It’s a small workflow detail, but the kind of thing that adds up to hours saved over the course of a month.
A Word of Caution on AI-Generated Content
Maliha shared a story that’s worth hearing. Her husband tried using Canva’s Magic Media to generate a children’s video. He didn’t use any Disney or Pixar keywords, but the tool still produced images of Dory and Nemo. If he hadn’t caught it (and he didn’t, Maliha did), they could have used copyrighted characters without even realizing it.
The lesson? AI-generated content still needs a human review. These tools are powerful, but they’re working through their own growing pains. Just as ChatGPT sometimes invents testimonials or inserts placeholder text, Canva’s AI can produce results that look great but carry hidden risks. Always review before you publish.
Is Canva Replacing Adobe?
Maliha, who started her career as a designer in the Adobe ecosystem, recently let her Adobe subscription lapse. That’s not a decision she made lightly. At $119/year for Canva Pro versus $79.99/month for Adobe, the math alone is compelling. But it’s the combination of affordability, AI integration, and an increasingly robust feature set that tipped the scales.
For most small business owners and marketers, Canva gives you the control you need without the steep learning curve. As Maliha noted, Canva’s strength is that it lets you manipulate AI-generated results. You can grab elements with Magic Grab, erase unwanted objects with Magic Eraser, and refine your designs in ways that pure AI image generators don’t allow.
That said, if your work demands high-end print production or advanced photo manipulation, Adobe still has its place. The right answer, as usual, depends on your use case.
Where to Start
If you take one thing from this episode, let it be this: spend some time exploring Canva’s AI features beyond what you already know. Open a video file. Try Bulk Create with a spreadsheet. Update your brand kit with detailed voice guidelines. The tools are already there. Most of us just haven’t looked.
Canva also has a robust community where you can submit feature requests and access learning resources.
The gap between having ideas and executing them keeps getting smaller. These tools won’t replace your creativity or your strategy, but they’ll get the production work out of your way so you can focus on what matters.
Transcript from Maliha Khan’s Episode
Rich: My next guest is the founder and CEO of Khanect the Dots, a strategy first marketing consultancy, and the creative force behind Khancepts Studio. With roots in design and a sharp strategic lens, she helps organizations bridge the gap between big ideas and real execution, what she calls the ‘messy middle’.
An award-winning marketer and national speaker, Content Entrepreneur Expo, Content Marketing World, Maicon, I had the pleasure of standing side by side with her as we talked about AI at CEX. She is known for making marketing practical, creative, and human. Her work sits at the intersection of strategy, design, and AI, helping leaders work smarter and stay authentic in rapidly evolving digital landscapes.
Today we are going to be looking at how marketers and owners can leverage AI tools in Canva to take their messaging to the next level, with Maliha Khan. Maliha, nice to see you again.
Maliha: Nice to see you, too.
Rich: So what was your entry point into working with AI tools for graphics, and why the focus on Canva?
Maliha: That’s interesting. So late 2024, I found myself laid off, just like a lot of other people, and decided to start using AI, as skeptical as I was at the beginning. And truly, AI’s kind of become my co-founder.
And around the time of April 2025, Canva came out with this massive update. We’re talking Canva Code, Canva Sheets, and most importantly, Canva AI, and it’s just taken design to a whole different level.
And since then, I’ve just been a super fan and following, because I really think they’re doing a great job of bringing in features that we’ve long been waiting for to make design easier.
Rich: Alright. And I know that a lot of marketers and a lot of small business owners use and are familiar with Canva. In fact, probably more than I. I’m more of a Photoshop guy, because that was the tool that was around when I first started. But I know that my team uses Canva both for our flyte new media and Agents of Change stuff, as well as the work for our clients.
Now, I think when most people think of Canva they’re thinking about templates and drag and drop design. Why do you think that a lot of people don’t realize what Canva is capable of today?
Maliha: I think that’s actually a very great point. A lot of times when I am training and doing workshops, one of the things that we talk about is that Canva has kind of hidden certain features. So it depends on the type of file that you’re in. So your video AI tools are not going to pop up unless you’re in a video file. And I don’t think a lot of people register that. Like it really just depends on what file you’ve got open.
For example, if you’re in a presentation, Magic Animate will pop up and it will take care of your entire presentation. If you’ve selected a text box, Magic Morph pops up and kind of allows you to do fun things like turning your text into a Mylar balloon, things like that.
But I think that’s one of the reasons why a lot of people don’t realize how powerful Canva really is. It’s not as much as just select a template and adjust the text and boom, let’s go. It’s more so like you choose the template, the skeleton that you want, and really make it your own. And there’s a lot of ways that you can do that right now.
Rich: It sounds like a lot of the menu items are very contextual, as you were saying. And because of that, I’m sure that if you never thought about video, you’re not noticing all the cool video tools.
So as you mentioned, Canva’s been rolling out a lot of these AI powered features. If we’re not familiar with everything that’s been going on in Canva, what are some of the AI tools that you’re most excited about?
Maliha: I think most importantly, if we stick with the basics I think Magic is a really great way to start. If you are having what I call ‘blank page syndrome’, and you’re not quite sure what idea you want to talk about, you have the option now to just use Magic Write to come up with a brief list or to come up with a blog outline.
It’s not going to be the same as using your ChatGPT account or Claude, whichever tool you use, because obviously, you’ve trained that particular learning model. Canva Magic Write is just a simple way, without any training, if you just need a quick idea to get started. That is a great place to go.
Another really great feature is Magic Design. And with Magic Design, say I have a specific headshot that I want to use, and I can now upload that and give it instructions to incorporate it into a flyer or a presentation deck, and give it instructions on what the tone should look like, what type of design am I really looking for.
I think the trick is a lot of times people are like, wait a minute. Sometimes we get really great results, other times we don’t. And I’m like, isn’t that the problem with AI all around? I think it’s really different when you’re using Canva AI because you have to think about the work that you’re producing, what you want that to look and feel like versus if I’m just brainstorming a particular idea in ChatGPT. I might be going back and forth and actually brainstorming.
I think Canva AI only wants to know what do you want the file to look like? What type of tone it needs to have? What type of style does it need to keep in mind? What type of colors do you want it to use?
And then there are several other tools that I really like to point out. One of the most popular ones is Magic Media. Magic Media allows you to go from text to image, text a graphic, text to video. And the latest one is text to 3D model. So for anyone that needs to showcase a 3D model of some sort, that’s a really great way to do that.
Videos, I will warn, are only 5.8 seconds, so there’s a constraint there. Otherwise, Canva really gives you permission to use anything that you generate with this particular feature.
Rich: So it feels like there’s obviously prompting that happens in Canva, but it may not be the same experience that people have in a ChatGPT or Claude.
What does your workflow look like when you are trying to create the perfect image or the perfect video? Are you working in something like ChatGPT and then bringing the prompts over to Canva? Or are you just working straight within Canva when you’re trying to get your best results?
Maliha: So I’ve played with this a couple of different ways, and I like to work directly within Canva and play around and see which word does the job right.
Sometimes I’ve used the name of an Indian suite, and it doesn’t really register. And then I have to kind of specify another way to maybe call out that particular suite. And so sometimes it just comes down to semantics. Like, what words are you using? Are you getting a little too detailed? Maybe you need to back up a step and go a little bit more basic for it to get the gist of where you’re wanting to go.
It’s hard for us as humans to take the visuals in our head and translate it. And then I always like to tell people the tool is only going to give you better results if you do a better job explaining.
And I’m sure you say this probably all the time too, that weak prompts produce weak results. Strong prompts get you strong results. Same concept. So I think if it comes down to social media, I might use ChatGPT to brainstorm out what my social media content calendar for the next month or the next quarter needs to look like. And then I will use Canva to build out all of those different graphics. And that seems to be working really well for me, personally.
Rich: That sounds like a huge time saver for those of us who do need to create a month’s worth of social media posts at a time. So could you just kind of walk me through your workflow, whether it’s your business or a client’s business?
Let’s say that you use something like a regular LLM to generate the ideas for the month or whatever it may be. Is there a batch all type of approach that you can take to get 30 days’ worth of images for social media?
Maliha: Absolutely, you could totally do that. I’m glad that you brought that up because I always recommend people to batch all of their content. Canva has made it easier now with the release of Visual Studio 2.0 for you to add different pages, and then also different pages for different formats, so meaning Facebook, LinkedIn, and whatnot. And so that makes it really easy now to batch content.
I think the first approach is I like to just do it myself because I have a design background, so I just like to open up a file and start out with 10 to 15 posts. And so I like to batch them that way. It depends on if I have a specific theme in play or if I have a specific topic that I’m trying to really drill down that month. And you can just go ahead and within the same project, create all of those different images.
The other thing that I will point out is Bulk Create is a wonderful way to create up to 100 images really quickly. And I might have a spreadsheet of tips that I need to turn into social media graphics. I can now use that spreadsheet. It could be a Canva sheet, it could be a Google sheet. There’s a way to import from HubSpot, and I will go ahead and pull in that spreadsheet using Bulk Create, and then it’s as simple as just telling the tool which text needs to go to which text box. And then literally it uses that template to produce up to 100 graphics.
Notice I said ‘template’. So it’s really important to have a template in place. A lot of the clients that I work with have specific templates for tips, have specific templates for testimonials. It has to be content that is easy enough to switch the text out. I just recently learned that people have been doing this with images as well. I haven’t tried it out yet, but the tool is evolving at a rapid pace, just like every other AI tool. And so I think we’re just starting to see now Canva’s getting better and better at making it easier to produce a large amount of graphics.
Rich: So you’re creating this content so far. If I understand you correctly, what you’ve done is you take, let’s just say that you’ve got a day spa and you have 30 tips over the course of the month that you want to talk to people about skincare or something like that. You could put that into a Google doc, a spreadsheet, what have you, upload it, and if you’ve got a template that’s already branded with all your stuff, it’s going to create one of those kind of quote images, right? Where it would basically have the text, whether it’s aerial or mylar balloons, whatever you want. And it will just create that.
But what you’re also saying is you haven’t done it, but that same technology can generate images as well. So you would get not just the text, but you might also get a photo of somebody getting Botox or a massage or whatever would be appropriate for that day.
Maliha: Yeah. So like I said, it’s one of those things that I’m very, very eager to try out. But I was very surprised to learn that somebody had tried it with images, because previously we were told that it only works with text. So if you have a template where you just need the text, that’s why we say tips, testimonials, things like that, where you just need the text to switch out.
Or I mean, think about it this way. Maybe you’re doing an ‘About Us’ series and you’re wanting to post about your company. But you’ve set up the template in a way that only this text box needs to be switched out. I don’t see why you couldn’t use Bold Create to do that. You just need to have everything live within that spreadsheet. It has to be a spreadsheet, not a Google doc. And then it’s as quick as just linking the text box with the text that it’s pulled from your spreadsheet and boom, you’re done. It generates a project with you can have up to 100 images.
I don’t know about you, Rich. I don’t have a hundred testimonials lying around. I wish I did, but I don’t.
Rich: Yeah. You probably do have a hundred tips, so there you go.
Maliha: Yeah, I absolutely could come up with a hundred tips. So that’s really what I use it for. But my goal is eventually to make it to where I have a hundred testimonials that I can just pop in there.
Rich: One of the things that I do like about Canva, in my limited time there, is the brand kits that you can kind of build into this. And I know when I log into flyte’s account I see us, AOC, and all of our clients there. And by clicking on different ones, it just automatically chooses the right fonts and the right color schemes.
I’m assuming that any of the AI work you’re talking about also you can just kind of plug into your brand guidelines, and Canva will stay consistent. Is that correct?
Maliha: Yes. So remember how I said Canva keeps making all these changes and a lot of times people aren’t really tracking them? One of the beautiful changes that came in December was the fact that you can now, when you’re using Canva AI there’s an option, there’s a plus sign there, that you can actually apply a specific brand kit, which is beautiful. Before, you could use Canva AI, but not really have it apply all of those brand elements, which then you would have to later adjust. Now you are able to select exactly which brand kit you want.
So it’s very important to have updated brand kits. We don’t want to have anything in there that’s old. And so as long as you have updated your brand kit, which they’ve also expanded by the way. Brand kits now, if you haven’t gone back to take a look, you really should go back and review.
You can add things like sample charts. You can add brand voice specifics. Before I used to have a nice little paragraph in there about my particular company. Now I can go in and say, do this, but don’t do this, do this, but don’t do this, which is beautiful. And a lot of the trainings that I do teach, one of the main things that we focus on is building your brand voice guidelines, and we use ChatGPT to do that.
I have a custom GPT that allows you to upload all of your work, anything from print to social, provide website URLs, and it does a really great job of populating what your brand voice is. And it details what you should do, what you shouldn’t do. Once we do that within the brand voice builder, we literally have to just plug and play into a Canva brand kit, and it works really seamlessly.
Rich: Maliha, when you’re doing these batch jobs, can you also create it so that you can get one version that’s optimized for Instagram, another for LinkedIn, another for Facebook, so on and so forth?
Maliha: Yeah, absolutely. So the way that I like to do it, instead of adding Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, within the same project file, I work on, let’s say, start with the Facebook post, and just go through and create 10 to 15, right within that batch.
Then I like to use, this is a Canva Pro feature. So you have to have Pro, which is super cheap to get, I think it’s like $119 a year. Once you have Canva Pro, you are then able to use Magic Resize. Magic Resize allows you to then take all of those images that you’ve created as a Facebook post and resize it to Instagram or any other social media platform that you would like to resize for. Which makes it super, super easy.
Because when it’s time for posting and I’m on Facebook, that’s why I don’t like to mix them. Because when I’m on Facebook, I want to just pull from the Facebook folder. When I’m on LinkedIn and I am trying to schedule a post, I want to just work with my LinkedIn folder. And so that way it works pretty seamlessly, if that makes sense.
Rich: It absolutely does. And that’s a great workflow hack, so thanks for that.
Now, for some businesses, copyright is a big issue. And it should really be a big issue for everybody. But when it comes to creating the images, graphics, or video in Canva, what rights do we have for the content that’s been generated?
Maliha: Yes, that’s a really great question and a super important question. Because what people don’t realize is if you use Canva Stock, so anything that lives under the elements option, there are copyright licensing issues in place. When you use Magic Media, Canva’s given you rights to use that particular image.
The warning that I want to give, because my husband had a really great idea. We have toddler twins, they’re two and a half years old, and I don’t know about you, but you just keep watching Cocomelon and all these different videos, and you’re like, “Man, I could just make this, I’m tired of all these songs. And so he had this genius idea to just generate a video on his own. And one of the reasons why is we speak multiple languages, and one of the languages we don’t really have content for, so the twins aren’t learning.
And so he sat down to generate this video, and he was like, I’m just going to try to do it on my own. Guess what? Magic Media provided Dory and Nemo in one of the images, even though he didn’t say Pixar. If you use words like Pixar or Disney, it will flag it and it’ll say, “this doesn’t meet our guidelines.” But I was surprised he had not done that and we still ended up with Dory and Nemo. He doesn’t know Dory and Nemo, so I very quickly was like, you can’t use that. Red flag.
Rich: Yeah.
Maliha: So people do have to be careful. You can’t just use anything that the tool spits out. We need to remember that these AI tools are kind of working through their kinks right now. As great as they are, there are going to be times where they may produce a result that you don’t want. Similar to ChatGPT putting placeholder text or creating testimonials for your company. I’ve had that happen before. So same word of caution there, if that makes sense.
Rich: Yes. It’s unfortunate that it generated two characters from the most litigious company on the planet, but, okay.
You had talked a little bit earlier about text to image and text to video capabilities. Those always sound cool, and I love playing around with them. But what are the practical applications for a typical business? Where should or could they be using these images outside of social media, perhaps?
Maliha: I use them everywhere. I use them for presentations. I use them for almost anything. I’m a little bit cautious on using things like that for signage, because obviously, that’s large format printing. And sometimes you will occasionally get a particular image that’s not high quality, but a lot of times it blows my mind away how high quality the results are.
And so, I think you can use them anywhere. It doesn’t have to be social media, specifically. You just have to figure out the best use case for it. You know, does it make sense, is really what we need to be asking ourselves.
I think out of those three, the most popular are text to image, and then text to video. Text to video is phenomenal. I don’t know if you’ve tried it out before. I think in our workshop I probably went through it and you may have seen it with a race car. But it does a really great job of providing high quality video. It’s not a joke. Like it’s really great stuff.
And so a lot of times people ask me, but it’s only 5.8 seconds. But again, for social media content or for a quick video that you might be creating. I may only need the 5.8 seconds for a glimpse of something, and then move on to a title screen and transition into maybe another similar video.
The other thing that I’ll call out is Text to Image, specifically. They’ve recently made it to where if you have a particular image that you like, you can now upload it as a reference image is what they’re calling it. That works really great. I recently just did a presentation deck for one of my talks because it’s Women’s History Month, and so I was preparing a talk for that about my journey and I kind of went with this comic theme. And it was nice because I was able to still use images that it had generated for me before to use the same style, just give me another version. There’s a lot, really, that you can do with it that most people don’t realize.
Rich: I took my still imagery from the Agents of Change, the agents themselves, and dropped them into Canva at one point and animated them. And then also took out the background, which I thought was even slicker, so that I could put them, I still needed to put them on the same, more or less, color background, just because there are limits to the technology. But it was still pretty slick. And yes, it took multiple tries, but I ultimately got there. So I think that there are creative uses that people can have.
No, Canva is probably not ready to make a full on two-hour sequel to the MCU, but for your marketing purposes, it may be exactly what you need.
Maliha: Absolutely. And the fun fact with the background remover is most people don’t realize that you can use background remover on video as well.
Rich: Yeah, that’s very slick. That’s what I discovered, and I was like, oh, this is definitely a game changer in terms of making social media images where the animated characters could be part of that image. So, absolutely.
So there’s a lot of AI image generation tools out there. ChatGPT, there’s Dall-E, there’s Midjourney. I’ve been loving Nano Banana lately. In your opinion, where does Canva fit into that ecosystem? And do you combine those tools with Canva, do you only use Canva, or is it kind of it depends on what the use case is?
Maliha: For me, it personally depends on what the use case is. I think Canva is really great for people that still want some level of control. How many times have you sat down with ChatGPT or some other tool, and you think you’re being very detailed in describing what’s in your head, but the result is still not quite there? And I don’t know about you, I get really frustrated really fast because I could just do it myself. So that’s where I think I really like Canva. Because Canva gives me a lot of different ways that I can go about making the image my own.
For example, there are times where I might have an image of a coffee mug sitting on a desk, right? But maybe I just want to grab it and move it to the different side and add the rest of the artwork that I want. Magic Grab will let you do that. And then there are several other tools within Magic Studio that really allow you to make the image your own. So if you’re one of those people that’s like, I use ChatGPT, I use Dall-E, I use all these tools and I’m still not getting exactly what I want. Or you feel like it just looks too fake, it’s not quite generating a realistic image that you would want, then I think Canva is the direction to go. Because it really does give you some of that control where you are able to move certain things around and erase things with Magic Eraser. There’s a lot of different features available now that really allow you to go big or go home with it.
Rich: All right. If somebody listening right now wanted to take one practical step to improving their Canva AI chops, what would it be?
Maliha: I think the most important thing to notice, that Canva has a really robust community. And Canva is really good at listening to what that community is saying.
So for example, April, when they came out with a big, big update with the four major product developments, at the end of it there was a song where they literally released 47 other wishes that members of their community had submitted. So if you don’t like a specific feature or if there’s a feature that you wish there that was there, then don’t feel shy, go ahead and submit that.
And also along with that, Canva has a lot of resources available for you to learn about Canva. I don’t think people realize that there’s a Canva color palette generator. There’s an AI image enhancer. There’s a QR code generator. So a lot of times we’re going to all these other tools trying to get the QR code. And I don’t know if you’ve kind of come across this, but if you use certain free versions of a QR code generator, then it pops up with an ad before you get to the content. And sometimes I wonder if we lose people along the way. We’ll go ahead and use Canva’s QR code generator.
A lot of times people are paying a lot of money to have someone else generate a color palette. Now you can upload a particular graphic that you like, and it’ll pull out the color palette for you. So really just take a look and spend some time learning about the tool. There’s a lot of resources available. YouTube is your friend. I have several trainings that I do. So I think just give the tool a shot. I think $119 a year is well worth the money compared to paying $79.99 on Adobe.
I just let my Adobe subscription go recently. It was a huge, huge decision. Starting out as a designer, Adobe was the only place that I spent my time. And Canva’s now given me that comfort where I feel like it’s okay now to part ways with my friend Adobe and just stick to Canva.
Rich: All right. Hey, if people want to learn more about you, Maliha, or maybe they want to learn about your courses, or even look into hiring you to help them with their images, where can we send them online?
Maliha: You can go to my website, khanectthedots.com, and khanect is spelled K-H-A-N-E-C-T. It’s a play off my last name. So go ahead and go to the website and let’s start a conversation. Or you can take a look at the events tab to see all the workshops and trainings that are coming up.
Rich: Awesome. And we’ll have those links in the show notes. Maliha, so nice to see you again. Thank you again for coming by.
Maliha: Thanks for having me.
Show Notes:
Maliha Khan is a strategy-first marketing consultant, helping organizations bridge the gap between big ideas and execution by combining strategy, design, and AI to create practical, human-centered marketing. Learn more at khanectthedots.com and connect with Maliha for workshops, training, and resources.
Rich Brooks is the President of flyte new media, a web design & digital marketing agency in Portland, Maine, and founder of the Agents of Change. He’s passionate about helping small businesses grow online and has put his nearly 30 years of experience into the book, The Lead Machine: The Small Business Guide to Digital Marketing.