How to choose colors for a website using the 60-30-10 color rule
Wondering the easiest way to choose a color palette for your website? In this video, I’m sharing how to use the 60-30-10 color rule to decide how and where to best use your brand colors in your web designer website and the custom websites you are designing for clients.
Asana Tour: How I Organize My Life & Online Business (Task Batching, Productivity, and Zero Meetings!)
Want a peek behind the curtain at how I use Asana both as a project management system and as my calendar for planning my life & online business (for more productivity, better task-batching, and almost zero meetings with my team?)
How much do freelance web designers really earn & work these days? (770+ designers answered!)
Wondering how much web designers really earn? How much they really work? How other designers find clients? How long before they were able to quit their day job? We asked 770+ designers all the questions you’re dying to know but too shy to ask!
How to create a web design portfolio with no paying clients
Is your lack of web design portfolio keeping you from booking your first or next client? In this video, I share the secret to using conceptual design projects to attract your dream clients and build your web design portfolio before you ever land that first paying client!
5 easy steps to starting a profitable web design business in 2022
Dreaming of ditching your day job and earning a killer income online while working from home (or wherever there's wifi?) 🏝 No more putting it off! Follow these 5 simple steps to starting your own freelance web design business TODAY and finally wave buy-bye to your 9-5 for good!
How Michelle productized her web design services for more passive income
Wondering how you can work less and earn more with your web design services? In this interview, past Square Secrets™️ & Square Secrets Business™️ student Michelle is sharing how she launched a new productized service for more freedom and much more passive income, and how she tailored her business to better support her life (in a way her web design clients LOVE).
Creating web design packages that actually fit with the way you like to work
Is your business set up to work around your life? Or the other way around? In this video, I share how you can set up your web design packages to not just make your clients happy, but actually support the way you like to live and work so you can avoid burnout, and find more freedom, joy, and fulfillment when working with clients.
How to put a stop to endless web design client revision requests
Tired of non-stop emails from your web design clients saying they want yet another thing changed about the design? I’m sharing 4 simple things you can start doing TODAY to cut back on how many requests you receive, while still keeping your web design clients happy and raving about your customer service!
I doubled the prices of my services. Here's what happened next.
Back in July I doubled the price of my web design services from $2,500 - $5,000.
😯 Bold move, I know.
I proceeded to get asked a LOT of questions about how I mustered up the courage to do it, and what happened after. The most common question I received was, did doubling the prices tank the number of inquiries and bookings I was getting?
I'm sharing all the details here and answering those questions!
8 ideas for more dreamy client referrals as a web designer
Wondering how all these other web designers out there seem to be constantly booked up on word-of-mouth referrals alone? No more operating in marketing burnout mode. Follow these simple tips and tricks for getting the right clients to come to you!
6 unexpected ways to find inspiration as a web designer
Feeling stuck in a creative rut in your web design business? Like you’re out of original ideas, and every single design you create is starting to look and feel exactly like the next? It’s time to dust of that creative thinking cap and check out some of these unexpected sources for inspiration your next custom client design!
6 changes that took my web design business from hot mess to success
Hot mess would be a good term to describe my first attempt at going full time with my web designer business. It took all of two weeks for me to quit and go crawling back to my 9-5. So what did I do differently the second time around? I’m sharing those 6 changes that took me from embarrassing hot mess to “I love my life” success as a freelance web designer!
Complete Honeybook setup checklist for web designers
Congrats on deciding to streamline your client process through the use of the best CRM out there - Honeybook! Think you’ve got everything set up and ready to start using with your first client? Check your work against this complete Honeybook setup checklist for web designers first!
How to find your 1st client as a new web designer
Worried about where your first or next web design client is going to come from (so you can actually pay the bills now that you've ditched your cozy 9-5 paycheck?) Here's how I would go about finding those first few paying web design clients if I had to start my business all over again!
My entrepreneurial story: How I became a successful Squarespace web designer
When I tell people I’m a web designer a common question is, ‘oh, did you study computer science?’ 😂
No ma’am. I have a undergrad and Masters degree in - wait for it - Recreation and Leisure. I never took a computer science course in my life.
2 simple email scripts for better client testimonials
Your clients are clearly obsessed with their new websites…so why does getting a testimonial from them to use in your web design portfolio feel like pulling teeth? I’m sharing 2 simple email scripts and the best practices for using them to start collecting client-winning testimonials with every new project you wrap up!
Unrelated degree? Start your freelance web designer business anyway!
Ready for some honesty?
I am a website designer with an undergraduate and Master's degree, however they're both completely unrelated to what I do in my business now. Still, I have found that there is more than enough space to be successful and fill a need in the website design space.
The same goes for you. A degree in the field of your passion project is not completely necessary. It's all about carving out your area of the field and providing something in a way others cannot.
5 lies imposter syndrome tells you as a web designer
Tired of letting imposter syndrome run your web design business? I’m sharing 5 lies you might secretly be holding onto and how to let go so you can get back to confidently doing what you love!
How to stop constantly comparing yourself to other web designers
Feeling paralyzed by comparison? Whether you’re stuck comparing your designs, your brand, your marketing strategy or your packages and services as a web designer, today’s video is for you!