Web Design Business with Josh Hall

For the first episode of 2021, Founder and CEO of UX design agency amsd.co and host of The 6-Figure Freelancer Podcast, Avani Miriyala shares her experience with hiring designers and freelancers along with how to effectively build and manage a remote team. In This Episode 03:59 - Welcome to Avani 09:00 - Going with the flow 12:21 - New kind of “agency” 16:25 - Building the team 19:48 - Good people...

Josh recaps 2020, gives actionable takeaways that you can apply to your business for the New Year and gives you a lookahead at what to expect in 2021! In This Episode 00:35 - 1) 2020 Review 02:32 - Launched two courses 06:24 - Selling the agency 07:15 - Update and automate 09:20 - Podcast commitment 12:05 - Getting help to grow 12:35 - Shoutout to listeners 14:38 - Big celebrations 15:31 - Members...

Josh shares about how doing short, personalized videos can immediately help you grow your business, stand out from competition and create clients for life. In This Episode 01:25 - Featured Podcast Review Shoutout 04:15 - Why personalized video 10:22 - Where and when to send 19:04 - How to do video 21:19 - Josh’s challenge to you Get all links, resources and show notes at: https://joshhall.co/082

CEO of Voy Media, a digital marketing agency based in New York, Kevin Urrutia shares how he went from being a gamer and Silicon Valley coder to embracing his entrepreneurial spirit by building multiple businesses and now running a digital agency with 25+ team members. In This Episode 04:25 - Kevin’s Introduction 05:31 - A little history 10:08 - Building experience 17:47 - Going to California 22:09...

Josh gives practical tips for how you can finish off the year strong and effectively plan the start of the new year. In This Episode 02:05 - Feature review shoutout 05:46 - 1) Top of Mind W/Clients 11:10 - 2) Keep income strong 13:55 - 3) Plant money seeds 17:40 - 4) Learn from year 22:07 - 5) Plan intentionally  27:21 - Recap! Get all links, resources and show notes at: https://joshhall.co/080

Josh interviews business advisor, consultant and coach Patrick Dichter who, after working with all types of businesses and industries in 2020, shares with us which businesses and personality types are thriving during COVID. In This Episode 04:19 - Greeting to Patrick 06:27 - Some business impact 10:49 - Don’t do nothing 11:03 - Partner over vendor 14:47 - Proactive not reactive 16:12 - Comfortable...

Josh covers why growth can often be misleading, overrated and costly and empowers those of you who want to stay small with how to practically do so. In This Episode 03:40 - Feature review shoutout 04:55 - No discouragement! 05:45 - Problems with growth 08:28 - Personality differences 09:43 - Growth expenses 12:11 - Implement “Small” 17:11 - Prioritizing systems 23:30 - Build community 25:28 - Focu...

Host of The Self Made Web Designer Podcast, Chris Misterek shares how he doubled his income with a web design side hustle and how that propelled him to go into web design full time. In This Episode 03:58 - Greeting to Chris 05:32 - Variety of design 12:45 - Where to start 17:59 - Starting to teach 20:19 - Side hustle & job 27:46 - Have confidence 32:24 - The rate dance 37:44 - Portfolio bulkin...

Josh shares his thoughts on having a personal brand vs business name for your web design business and gives you some tips to help you decide depending on your long term goals! In This Episode 01:56 - Featured review shoutout 05:29 - Pros for Personal 11:43 - Cons for Personal 20:57 - Pros for Business name 23:39 - Cons for Business 28:17 - How to choose 31:18 - Final thoughts Get all links, resour...

Co-founder of FocusWP, Stephanie Hudson, shares her insight of running a website maintenance plan from the technical perspective. Her and Josh cover tools and processes for running website maintenance or "care" plans to help empower you to do the same In This Episode 03:07 - Greeting to Stephanie 05:25 - Need of Maintenance 09:50 - Tools for Maintenance 15:57 - Why it’s important 21:01 -...

Josh dives into why Staying Power is more important than Starting Power and guides you through 10 steps on how to build longevity for you and your business. In This Episode 01:49 - Featured Podcast Shoutout 07:50 - Have a mission 10:29 - Make commitment 15:03 - Be ok with failure 17:38 - Expect challenges 19:42 - Build routines 23:02 - Enjoy mundane 26:07 - Challenge yourself 27:39 - Celebrate win...

Josh interviews his agency's top white label referral partner, Kirby Hasseman, CEO of Hasseman and uncovers what marketing agencies are looking for when hiring whitelabel web design partners. In This Episode 04:06 - Greeting to Kirby 08:08 - Trusted partnership 12:58 - Communication is key 17:48 - Be a marketing student 21:30 - Sense of intent 23:40 - Transitioning into it 28:27 - Feeling the...

Josh gives you a peek into his 5-phase, web design process for planning, building and launching a website effectively. In This Episode 02:51 - Featured review 04:16 - Diving in 05:00 - 1) Planning 15:13 - 2) Layout/design 21:04 - 3) Revisions 27:03 - 4) Revise/Optimize 33:17 - 5) Empower/launch 38:41 - Recapping Get all links, resources and show notes at: https://joshhall.co/072

Josh interviews Chris Badgett, Founder and CEO of LifterLMS which is one of the most popular learning management systems for Wordpress about his journey from living on an Alaskan glacier running Sled Dog tours to becoming an entrepreneur and building LifterLMS. In This Episode 03:58 - Greeting to Chris 06:21 - Lobster history 10:36 - Learning & adapting 13:59 - Being content 15:16 - Searching...

Josh explains why you can make a good living in web design NOW more than ever before and tackles 3 common objections to getting into web design. In This Episode 01:36 - Featured Review Shoutout 03:37 - Three main questions 11:16 - Oversaturation 19:51 - Building organically 22:51 - Quality over quantity 23:33 - Success is... 24:39 - Feelings on luck 32:09 - Recap and courses Get all links, resourc...

Senior Content Manager of Pat Flynn's brand Smart Passive Income, Karen Beattie, shares with us what they learned with planning, building and running their successful membership at SPI Pro. In This Episode 03:26 - Greeting to Karen 06:22 - Different reasons 10:11 - Bring tribe together 13:36 - Launch Plan 15:14 - Why paid not free 19:20 - Purposeful 23:46 - Platform decision 30:58 - Setting u...

Josh teaches you how to speed up your website design process through 9 tips from his experience with building websites for clients for a decade. In This Episode 02:15 - Featured podcast review 03:24 - Plan before you build 06:15 - Start with staging site 08:40 - Set global styles 11:14 - Save, reuse layouts 14:58 - Save coding snippets 18:07 - Limit new tricks 19:58 - Make a deadline 23:25 - Get i...

Creator of the Freelancing School Jay Clouse has a mission of helping people start and build their freelancing business. One of the hardest areas of doing so is finding the confidence (in your services and in yourself) to be able to sell when you're just starting out. But in this episode, Jay dishes out practical advice, strategies and tips that you can implement right now to help! In This Ep...

This month, October 2020, my web design agency In Transit Studios turns 10! It's been an amazing decade of lessons learned, experience gained and amazing relationships formed and in this episode, I wanted to highlight the top 10 "most important" lessons I learned in the decade of starting, building, running and eventually selling my web design agency. There are countless other tips...

Author of The Profit Planner book series and Co-owner of Kickstart Accounting, Danielle Hayden, shares with us some practical steps and strategies on how we can make our web design businesses more profitable. I.e. making sure we're actually MAKING money in our business, not LOOSING it. In This Episode: 03:25 - Greeting to Danielle 04:16 - Promise to keep fun 07:30 - Why Profit is important 09...

Choosing the right tools for your business is an important decision. In web design, our tools are the foundation of our business and will be where we "live" for years to come. In this episode, I'm dishing out 10 tips for helping you decide which tools will be best for YOU and worth investing in and adding to your toolbox. In This Episode 01:16 - Featured podcast review 04:29 - Know...

Founder of RemoteVideoTeam.com, David Kilkelly, shares some invaluable video marketing tips that we can implement into our web design businesses to help grow our business and make better connections with our clients. We also cover a lot of strategies for getting better on camera and how to get started with video. In This Episode 00:28 - Video is King 04:06 - Greeting David 08:27 - Visual, engaging...

Josh outlines the most common traps that most web designers fall into and more importantly, why you should avoid them! In This Episode: 01:10 - Featured podcast review 02:46 - The “trade work” trap 08:11 - The “exposure” trap 10:27 - The “little now and percentage as we grow” trap 12:57 - The “outside your offering” trap 15:42 - The “friend/family” trap 19:04 - The “comparison” trap 22:05 - The “e...

CEO of Kanopi.com, a web design agency of nearly 50 fully distributed teams, Anne Stefanyk shares her experience with building an agency that's based around creating long-lasting websites and clients which is key for longevity in web design. In This Episode 03:39 - Greeting Anne 05:27 - Focus on building relationships 07:24 - Maintenance is the beginning 11:38 - What matters most 14:10 - Not...

With DIY website builders becoming more and more popular, the question is; are they a threat to designers doing custom Wordpress websites? Josh think's not and here's why. In This Episode: 01:30 - Shoutout to podcast reviews 04:03 - Ever a time to use? 05:28 - Owning your space 08:04 - No control 09:50 - Expensive upgrades 12:25 - Limited add-ons 13:56 - Customization issues 15:30 - Desi...