The Web Design Business Podcast with host Josh Hall is here to help you build a web design business that allows you to have freedom and a lifestyle you love. As a web designer and web agency owner of over a decade, Josh knows the challenges, struggles and often painful lessons of building a web design business without any guidance, proven strategies or a mentor to help you along the way, which is why this show exists. Think of this podcast as your weekly dose of coaching, mentorship and guid ...
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386 - Getting Web Design Clients on LinkedIn with Joe McKay
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55:30Iām not currently active on LinkedIn but ironically, if I was starting a web design business today, itās the place Iād spend most of my social media/online connection time. Why? Well, mainly because I know itās geared towards connecting professionals rather than social media algorithm entertainment. If youāre interested in whatās working well for gā¦
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385 - Designing Your Business Around You with Lindsey Freeman
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1:15:15Something Iāve learned over my 16 years of being self employed is the importance of designing your business around you. Not designing your life around your business. Thatās exactly what Lindsey Freeman, founder and creative director of Designed to be Human, and I dive into in this episode. Itās easier said than done of course. And there are times wā¦
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384 - Will Etch Save WordPress? with Kevin Geary
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1:02:54WordPress is in a tricky spotā¦and while still over 43% of websites on the internet use it, other platforms and builders are picking up steam and gaining in market share. My big questions are: Has WordPress reached itās potential? Is WP just for old dudes? Will Gutenberg (aka the block editor) EVER improve? Do people care more about WordPress or theā¦
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Here's the replay from the most recent live Q&A that was held on my YouTube channel! Special offer extended to you as a podcast listener š Use code JUNE50 to get 50% off your first month of Web Designer Pro, either for the courses or community tier. This offer expires at the end of June 2025. https://webdesignerpro.com In this one, we covered: ⢠Reā¦
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383 - Mastering Your Nervous System (to help you in business) with Jonny Miller
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57:50How does working on your nervous system help you as a web designer apart from the obvious fear of public speaking and large group settings? Turns out, it affects (either positively or negatively) EVERY aspect of your day to day as a web designer and business owner. In the name of sustainability, longevity and just being healthy and happy as a businā¦
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382 - Looking at a $2,000 Paid Discovery Offer with Racheal Graham
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1:03:00Paid Discovery is a HOT topic right now in web design. The idea of getting paid for a discovery call ā before wasting an hour of your day with someone who has a budget of $300 ā is dang intriguing for pretty much every web designer. But then the questions come up⦠Is it just a consult/strategy call? How much do I charge for it? What if I donāt haveā¦
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I'm away with my family for vacation this week but, aside from skimming back through the podcast catalog, here are some recommendations check out this week! Curated podcast playlists, head to: joshhall.co/playlists Recap of our first ever WDP CON in person conference: webdesignerpro.com/wdpcon2025 *** special offer to join Pro with 50% OFF your firā¦
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381 - WDP CON 2025 Recap, Expense Breakdown & More
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1:02:47A full recap and look-back with takeaways, lessons learned (and a breakdown of expenses) of the amazing weekend that wasā¦Web Designer Proās first in person event conference WDP CON 2025!! Go to the full post with pictures, video embeds and more here: https://webdesignerpro.com/wdpcon2025 Watch the highlight reel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?ā¦
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380 - Walkthrough of my 15k website proposal (real world paid example)
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24:54Here's a walk through of one of my real world, paid 15k web design proposals. I walk you through what I included, how I structured it and the 3 keys I recommend that every web design proposal have. This audio is taken from a recent video I posted on my YouTube channel so I highly recommend checking out the video version if you'd like to see all theā¦
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Here's the replay from the most recent live Q&A that was held on my YouTube channel! Special offer extended to you as a podcast listener š Use code MAY50 to get 50% off your first month of Web Designer Pro, either for the courses or community tier. This offer expires at the end of May 2025. https://webdesignerpro.com In this one, we covered: How toā¦
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379 - Selling Growth Plans (& Transformation) for Web Designers in 2025 with Shannon Mattern
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1:11:47Recently, my friend Shannon Mattern interviewed me on her The Profitable Web Designer podcast all about what's working well for web designers killing it in 2025. She's kindly offered to let me repurpose the whole convo for you! It's a bit of a 2-parter with part 1 being all about becoming more than just a web designer for clients, but a growth partā¦
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378 - Managing Maintenance Plan Support Requests with Phil Storey of Glow
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53:38Having a ton of maintenance plan clients is awesome - especially for the recurring revenue. But with ongoing support clients come with ongoing support requests. Managing this with a dozen or so clients is pretty easy. And as we all know ā not all clients ping you every month with requests. But once you get to 30, 40, 50, 100 + maintenance plan clieā¦
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377 - Lessons from a Web Designers' First Year in Business with Megan Fletcher
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1:21:33Do you remember your first year in business as a web designer? Are you there now? One thing is common for all of us in the first yearā¦itās a rollercoaster of highs and lows, ups and downs, incredible days and perhaps dreadful days. But if you can survive that first year, chances are youāre going to make it. Iām so excited to bring onto the podcast ā¦
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Jump into Web Designer Pro⢠for your first month at 50% off with code APRIL50 at webdesignerpro.com. This special offer expires at the end of April 2025, so don't miss your chance to access all courses and join our thriving community! In this Q&A session, we dive deep into what's working right now in the web design industry, answering listener quesā¦
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Josh here popping in with a special bonus episode on my thoughts on Ai for web designers. This was taken from a recent panel discussion about Ai on the Small Business Sweet Spot podcast. For the full episode and to hear other opinions on the good and bad of Ai for small businesses in 2025, check it out at: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ā¦
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376 - Are you a Web Designer or Brand Strategist? with Jacob Cass
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1:11:21Web designers do a lot more than just web design⦠Itās not uncommon for us to be graphic and brand designers, photographers, strategists, copywriters, etc⦠So, should we call ourselves more than just a web designer? Award winning branding and design studio founder Jacob Cass, whoās worked with Disney, Nintendo and Jerry Seinfeld, has done it all anā¦
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375 - 5 Years In and Thriving with "Web Designer for Speakers" Kristin Adkins
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1:13:25Thereās nothing better than talking to a web designer whoās enjoying their work, loving their clients, making good money and whoās just all around thriving. And thatās why Iām pumped to share this recent convo I had with Kristin Adkins of Crash Design Co whoās found a suite niche by becoming the trusted āweb designer for speakersā Kristin was on thā¦
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Quarterly Income Report & Recap - Q1 2025
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43:13I'm doing a first for my business in 2025...sharing quarterly recaps and income reports! In this first-ever quarterly income report, we'll get into how we achieved $115,655 in revenue with over $88,000 in profit while building Web Designer Pro to $346,459 in annual recurring revenue. Highlights include: ⢠Moving course sales pages from joshhallco tā¦
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374 - How to Get Web Design Clients through Social Media Videos with Blaze Smith
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1:07:47The social media video and reel game is a hard one to play (and win) when it comes to landing clients. Every platform is beyond saturated, the competition is only growing and unless youāre getting quality leads fairly quick, it can be difficult to stick with. But as Roberto Blake has recently been quoted in saying: āWhile there may be saturation inā¦
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373 - Offering a "Light Branding Package" with Jamie Starcevich
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51:49Ok web designer ā tell me if this sounds familiar⦠You sign on a new client for a website project! But then, they send you their atrocious logo⦠Now what? Do you design the website based on their terrible logo/existing brand? Do you try to upsell an unexpected logo/brand package? Do you pause the website project and tell them to hire a new logo desā¦
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Broc (named āBroccoliā by my daughter Annie) is our new Ai assistant in Web Designer Pro⢠and it's available now as a part of your membership to Pro! ā¶ļø Watch the video walkthru of Broc here It'll help you find lessons, resources, posts, threads, members, past calls, etc. It pulls from strictly from Web Designer Pro⢠source material so everything yā¦
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372 - Rebounding from Losing $6k in MRR (in One Week) with Steve Schramm
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1:04:04They say business is like a roller coasterā¦ups and downs and highs and lowsā¦and ātheyā couldnāt be more right. My guest in this chat, friend of the podcast, king of the Subscription Web Design model and founding member of Web Designer Pro Steve Schramm can also confirm. Recently, he shared a thoughtful, transparent and inspirational post in Pro aboā¦
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(BONUS) Marriage and Entrepreneurship...10 lessons from 10 years
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33:54My wife and I recently celebrated our 10 Year Anniversary š Here are 10 lessons I've learned in balancing marriage and entreprenership. To get my upcoming newsletter entry diving into these in more detail, sign up for my weekly email hereBy Josh Hall
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371 - Selling and Running a Maintenance Plan of 200+ Sites with Cami MacNamara
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57:49Web designers often have similar dreams⦠Build a sustainable, freedom-based, lifestyle business. Build a healthy, awesome client base. Grow Monthly Recurring Revenue month after month. Do it all while enjoying the journey. My guest in this podcast episode has achieved all of this and more which is why Iām excited to share my conversation with Web Dā¦
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370 - Presenting with Confidence with Smart Passive Incomeās Voiceover Guy John Melley
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1:28:58If youāre nervous, anxious, jittery or just plain distraught before sales calls or meetingsā¦youāre not alone. I honestly canāt believe this isnāt talked about more. After all ā you pour your heart and soul into building awesome websites and refining your craft but in order to get paid for that hard workā¦you gotta sell! Luckily, there are many thingā¦
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369 - Following your Intuition in Business with Alyssa Williamson
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1:00:59Trusting your gutā¦it usually pays off, maybe not on the books, but personally. But following your intuition is not always easy. Especially if sales are down, confidence is low, etc. You may have no idea where your intuition is leading you. So to help with this topic, Iām here to share my recent convo with business coach and mentor Alyssa Williamsonā¦
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(BONUS) Takeaways from my Convo with Chris Do
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22:22Listen to my full interview with Chris Do (ep 368)By Josh Hall
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368 - Pricing Your Design Services with Chris Do
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56:29I teased about this recently on my social media and got a HUGE response which tells meā¦youāre pumped to see Chris Do on The Web Design Business Podcast and Iām pumped to share our full conversation with you! Chris is known for helping web designers charge their worth, price value over time, get higher-paying clients, how to negotiate during a salesā¦
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(BONUS) How to Offer Paid Discovery with Shannon Mattern (audio training)
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1:16:43This was a recent live guest expert training held in my community Web Designer Proā¢. To get all the resources mentioned, along with the links, slides and access to the extended Q&A session, you can get it as a member of Pro! In this training, Shannon Mattern covers how to offer paid discovery and more specifically, how and when to add it into your ā¦
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367 - Building an Online Community (for Your Web Design Clients) with Carol Dunlop
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1:03:30As a web designer, you may eventually get to a point (or maybe youāre there now) where you want to connect, support and continue to empower your clients in one place. One way to do that is by offering a customer membership or community. Itās a great way to build MRR, stay top of mind, create powerful customer relationships, partnerships, etc. I getā¦
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366 - 50% Marketing - 50% Services with James Barnard
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1:14:44Ever wondered how to have time to market your business while still having time to get design projects done? Well, thereās no magic formula and striking the balance between the two is tricky. But a great example of someone doing this well is my dude from down under, word-class logo designer James Barnard. James follows a simple 50/50 approach. Meaniā¦
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365 - How to Create Landing Pages (that actually convert) with Alisha Conlin-Hurd
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1:04:02Building landing pages or sales pages that convert isnāt rocket science. But there is some science to it. Most of which is proven and can be learned from (and implemented) into your own sales pages very quickly. So, letās cut right to the chase on how to create high-converting landing/sales pages with an expert whoās been around the block MANY timeā¦
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364 - Managing ADHD as a Web Designer with Rob Chaplin
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1:15:37An unexpected topic of conversation Iāve consistently had over the last couple years when coaching members of my community Web Designer Pro privately is around managing ADHD and running a web design business. When thinking about ADHD, Iām probably not alone in immediately jumping to the visual of the wild 7 year old kid who canāt sit down in class.ā¦
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363 - Scaling A Web Design Business (from owner and contractor point of view) with Sandy Burns and Alexis Myers
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1:13:45Many web designers donāt want to scale. I get it - because I had that mindset too. I never wanted to be an agency with overhead, payroll, extra stress from managing people, etc. But the good news is, especially nowadays, you can scale a web design business your way. In a low-stress, low-pressure way that works for you no matter where your business ā¦
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362 - Change Your Money Story - Change Your Business with Austin Church
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1:14:33Letās talk about money. Howād that make you feel? Nervous? Icky? Excited? Opportunistic? Weird? The very thought of money brings a variety of emotions depending on how you feel about it. And I firmly believe how you feel about money today all goes back to your money story ā and every one of us has a money story largely based on how we were raised. ā¦
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361 - Email and Content Marketing for Web Designers in 2025 with Michelle Martello
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1:17:23No better way to kick off the year than to plan some new marketing strategies to get more leads and convert more clients, right? I honestly believe email marketing ā along with some focused forms of content marketing ā will be a HUGE differentiator for web designers who choose to go this route. Which is why Iām a big proponent and supporter of it. ā¦
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360 - From 125k Down to Best Year Yet...My Business Rebound
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43:51Happy New Year friends! I wanted to kick off 2025 with a special episode of the podcast to share what I learned from having two down revenue years (125k down from 2022-2023) to having the best revenue year yet in 2024! This episode is broken down into 2 main parts: What caused my business to have two down revenue years How I rebounded to having theā¦
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359 - My 5 Step Annual Goal Setting Framework
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23:47For the last episode of the year, I think itās only fitting to look ahead and share some goal setting tips for 2025! In this episode, Iām sharing a lesson from my Web Design Business Course on my 5 step, annual goal setting framework. Weāll dive into: Setting an achievable revenue goal Separating Net vs Gross Rocks, Stones & Boulders goals Pricing ā¦
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Since this is Christmas week, weāre going to take a break from talking about business and dive into a much more important subjectā¦Christmas movies. Iāll break down my top 10, what I love about them, why some have remained in the top 10 and why some newer ones have made it and Iāll even give you a bonus which has an incredible business lesson that Iā¦
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357 - My 2025 SEO Strategy Consult with Michelle Bourbonniere
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1:27:41Iām in a bit of an SEO pickle⦠Since 2017 Iāve built up all my resources - including this podcast - on my personal brand site joshhhall.co but now that my main product (my web designer membership Web Designer Proā¢) is on webdesignerpro.com I feel Iām entering new SEO territory. In short, what content should stay at my personal brand at joshhall.co ā¦
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356 - Productizing Website Design (as a course) with Whitney Bateson
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1:17:00At some point, most web designers dream of moving from lengthy, time-intensive, custom web design projects to a more āproductizedā or ātemplatizedā web design service. Something that clients can purchase, that has clear boundaries, constraints and limitations. There are a lot of ways to go about productizing your offers - and one way - is to frame ā¦
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355 - Introvert Friendly Sales Strategies with Michelle Warner
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1:05:14If youāre on the shallow or deep end of the āintrovert spectrumā spectrum, Iām guessing the sales part of web design is your least favorite part of the job, right? For some, going to in person networking, business meetups, chamber of commerce events or even calls can be energizing but for others, itās draining. It is, however, part of being a web bā¦
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354 - Solo Web Design Agency Model with Payton Smith
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59:47Ahā¦the tug and pull between wanting to avoid being a burned out agency owner but also not being a stressed out, overwhelmed freelancer⦠Surely thereās a happy medium between the two? Good news, there is. My whole web business education model is focused around this hybrid approach to having a business that runs like a true business/agency but havingā¦
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353 - Personalized Copy = More Web Design Sales with Emily Aborn
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1:03:22Copy, written by a human, with its flaws, oddities, and personally lived experience beats out corporate, stale, or AI-generated content every time. From home pages to service pages, to lead generators, blog posts, email sequences, and sales postsā¦the more personal and genuine you come across, the more itāll stand out in todayās AI slop world. To heā¦
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352 - Web Designer Pro⢠2.0 (tiers) is live! š
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49:23Josh here with big news! Web Designer Pro⢠2.0 (tiered model) is live now!! š Up to this point, Pro has been one membership tier which gave full access to all of my web design courses, the amazing community and coaching with me directly with a member cap of 250 active members. We're closing in on capacity but the exciting news is...we now have two ā¦
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351 - 5 Year Podcast Anniversary (AMA with Josh)
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2:01:58The Web Design Business Podcast turns 5 today!!! š What a ride itās been so far (and I have no plans on slowing down.) For this special milestone, I polled my community Web Designer Pro⢠for questions and they delivered, asking some GREAT conversation starters. So in this special, 5 year anniversary podcast episode, Iām dishing out the longest AMA ā¦
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350 - How to Launch a Web Design Business (and Get Clients Fast) with Alexia Lynn
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1:27:51I donāt know about youā¦but I didnāt officially ālaunchā my web design business when I got started. I just kind of fumbled through starting my freelance journey. But if I were starting today, I would put much more effort and emphasis on creating an official ābusiness launch.ā Now to the big questionā¦how do you launch a web business successfully? i.eā¦
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349 - Is WordPress for Old People? with Mark Szymanski
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1:04:51Letās get real and share exactly how it isā¦WordPress is not the tool of choice for most web designers getting into the game today. It may be where most end up, because WordPress is the most popular, customizable, and only open-source platform online but as a starting point, itās not where most new web designers are starting. Drag and drop platformsā¦
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348 - How to Offer (and Sell) Conversion Rate Optimization with Leigh Scott
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1:07:46Clients donāt really want a pretty websiteā¦they want a 24/7 sales machine. You work hard creating beautiful designs that are built solid and have intentional messaging and copyā¦but how do you know all that work is paying off for your client? How do you measure results? How do you keep your clients coming back for ongoing work over and over again? Wā¦
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347 - If I started today, how I would get web design clients (5 ways)
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29:57I recently published a newsletter sharing 5 ways I would get clients if I were starting out in web design today in 2024. It got a lot of great feedback from both early-stage web designers and established web designers looking for a revenue boost alike - so I decided to expand on these 5 strategies as a full podcast! Weāll dive into each of these stā¦
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