Web Design Business with Josh Hall

Katie Lake of StudioLagoDesign.com shares exactly what she did in order to get a swarm of web design clients fast after starting 2023 with a dry pipeline of leads to being fully booked out by Summer time. In This Episode 0:02 - From Scarcity to Success 4:49 - Transitioning From Scarce to Swamped 14:23 - Marketing Strategy and Sales Power 24:01 - Business Cards 30:20 - Content Creation Strategies f...

Josh reflects on 6 years of joshhall.co and answers questions fielded from colleague and web designer attorney Ann Kopphuza. In This Episode 0:02 - Building a Web Design Business Reflection 12:16 - Evolution of Josh Hall.co 17:22 - Building Online Courses 26:31 - Web Design Business Advice and Plans 40:02 - Past Experience and Future Approaches 47:18 - Web Design Subscription and Recurring Income...

Business consultant Jessica Lackey shares her top tips for dealing with growing pains as your business grows and lays out how you can practically scale small and one little step at a time if you want to avoid becoming a big web agency. In This Episode 0:00 - Navigating Growth Stages in Your Business 3:52 - Choosing the Path to Business Growth 17:53 - Accounting and Scaling Tips for Business 26:11...

Josh shares how to turn things around if your year has been less than a 5 (out of 10) or what to do to continue to make the year amazing if you’re over a 5 (out of 10) In This Episode 01:08 - Maximize Web Design Business in 2023 04:06 - Encouragement 06:32 - Five and Under 08:17 - Switching Gears and Doubling Down 11:10 - Over Five 18:34 - The World Needs You Get all links, resources and show note...

Founder of TheAdminBar.com (and the #1 WordPress community on Facebook) Kyle Van Deusen is finally on the show to share what works for him for pricing and estimating web design projects. In This Episode 00:00 - Pricing and Estimating Web Design Projects 05:25 - Web Design Pathways and Options 09:14 - Pricing Challenges in Web Design 13:47 - Determining Pricing Ranges and Finding Comfort 16:23 - Ni...

Leigh Ann Dillon of hilltopwebsolutions.com (a student of Josh’s and member in Web Designer Pro™) shares how she built her web design business up after building websites for friends through networking, how she’s raised her rates and solidified her services over time and what she’s doing right now to get higher conversion rates on her proposals. In This Episode 00:00 - Success in Web Design Busines...

Josh makes web design marketing easy by sharing a simple framework on choosing a Major marketing channel, a Minor marketing channel and one or two Elective marketing channels that work for you, your personality and your business. In This Episode 0:02 - Choosing the Best Web Design Marketing 2:44 - What is Marketing 5:12 - Framework 8:55 - Have a Minor Channel 13:18 - Marketing Strategies Discussio...

Kirby Hassemen of hassemanmarketing.com shares his proven TARGET framework for reaching, attracting and landing the best fit clients for your web design business. In This Episode 0:00 - Treating Social Media Like Real Life 4:15 - Knowing Your Target Market's Importance 14:25 - Identifying Metrics for Ideal Customer Avatar 18:04 - Maximizing Marketing Strategies 27:55 - Building Reach and Prov...

Sara Dunn of SaraDoesSEO.com shares her proven and top strategies (that are working today) for getting better rankings for both local SEO and general search results. In This Episode  0:00 - Deep Dive Into Local SEO 4:01 - Wedding Industry SEO and Web Design 10:06 - SEO and Web Design for Conversion 16:53 - Basics and Social Media Platforms 28:57 - Local Strategies and Client Expectations 38:54 - O...

Josh shares his proven framework for funneling web design leads and filtering out “bad fit” client leads. In This Episode 0:02 - Filtering and Funneling Web Design Leads 3:18 - Lead Categories 4:42 - Questionable Lead Strategy 8:51 - Qualified Lead Proposal 10:26 - Differentiating Between 10:47 - Package Pricing 13:03 - Investment Mindset 17:25 - Quick Recap Get all links, resources and show notes...

CEO of In Transit Studios, Eric Dingler, is back on the podcast, this time sharing what’s worked for him in getting more web design leads…at least 16 leads per month to be exact. And how he’s converted at least 4 per month. In This Episode 0:00 - Strategies for Generating Web Design Leads 6:47 - Measuring and Nurturing Sales Leads 15:10 - Retention for Studios 29:17 - Networking Importance 38:22 -...

In part 2 of a Q&A with Josh about digital marketing and strategy, Josh answers general online marketing questions, shares tips, insights and resources on selling and launching courses, building memberships and online community and marketing with a podcast. In This Episode 0:02 - Digital Strategy and Marketing Tips 6:47 - Social Media and Email Strategy 11:31 - Future of Digital Courses 17:08...

Josh answers questions about digital marketing strategies and best practices for creating courses, launching a podcast and building an online membership. In This Episode 0:02 – Digital Strategy Q&A for Webpreneurs 11:41 – Podcasting 23:29 – Creating and Growing a Course 26:46 – Launching Online Courses 30:00 – Membership Success 36:48 – Community Scaling Resources 49:47 – Building a Community...

Course curriculum designer and client success coordinator of The Web Designer Academy Erica Nash shares her tips and proven strategies for not taking client results (both good and bad) personally. In This Episode 00:00 - Detaching Emotionally From Client Feedback 07:26 - Diversifying Results 22:58 - Measuring and Sharing Business Results 37:19 - Web Design Pricing 43:50 - Managing Client Opinion 4...

Agency owner and web design business educator John Saunders shares his insight on building and scaling a 7-figure web and design studio and how you can do it effectively in today’s landscape. In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 02:45 - Greeting to John 05:54 - Time to pivot 08:37 - Niche clarity 11:23 - Partnerships 14:30 - WebFlow hosting 16:38 - Benefit to being small 21:51 - “Where” doesn’t ma...

Stephanie Hudson of FocusWP.co and Bertha.ai shares her insight on how AI is impacting web design right now and whether or not it’s a friend to web designers or a foe that’ll take us all over terminator style one website at a time. In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 02:48 - Greeting to Steph 04:53 - Will ai replace builders 10:11 - Learn from the past 17:12 - ai coaching 19:07 - Creating in ai 2...

Adam Prieser of one of the largest WordPress tutorial brands online (WPCrafter.com) shares his insight and perspective on where WordPress is in the website market and where it’s heading; the good and the bad. In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 03:17 - Greeting to Adam 08:40 - Where is WP going 14:01 - How to choose tools 17:56 - Financial situations 21:53 - WP post 2020 26:31 - Open source proje...

Partnerships Manager at Circle.so, life coach and entrepreneur Alexis Teichmiller shares her tips and strategies for learning how to overcome rejection, negative reviews, feedback and managing emotional boundaries in business. In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 03:40 - Greeting to Alexis 08:40 - Urgent matrix 10:13 - Boundaries 12:19 - Emotional attachment 15:45 - Rejection reflection 19:21 - Fe...

Logo Designer and Content Creator James Barnard shares how he grew his social media audience to hundreds of thousands of followers and how he uses his social channels to land logo design clients. In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 02:45 - Greeting to James 06:34 - Social media success 10:19 - Toying w/price points 12:51 - Why freelance worked 17:24 - Starting with logos 20:11 - Leads from social...

Josh shares his top 10 proven strategies for collecting content for web design projects. In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 02:35 - Big three E’s Education 03:59 - 1) Where and when 08:37 - 2) Tools for images & media 09:45 - 3) How to send Expectations 10:56 - 4) Client ownership 12:20 - 5) Repercussion 14:41 - 6) Deadline Empowerment 16:55 - 7) Organize a project 18:41 - 8) Phase the proje...

Shannon Mattern of The Web Designer Academy shares her insight on how to navigate tough times in business, both when new web design projects are sparse and when things get tough on other sides of the business, sharing openly about a huge challenge she’s currently facing with her payment processing platform. In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 03:07 - Greeting to Shannon 05:15 - Challenges of busi...

Hans Skillrud of Termageddon shares his insights and what he’s learned on how to sell without being “salesy” In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 02:34 - Greeting to Hans 04:48 - First selling experience 10:11 - Tighten up the sell 12:57 - Education through Groupon 17:52 - Be transparent 28:07 - Keeping a balance 33:32 - Use client verbiage 36:52 - Niching 42:35 - Match the energy 51:25 - Personal...

Josh shares 3 keys for helping you choose the right website builder for your web design business. In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - The builder Do you like the tool itself (even if you are a beginner)?  Do you enjoy being in it, find it user friendly, like the UX, have fun and see yourself growing with it over the years. Does it suit your need for empowering clients (ie client access, e...

Web Design Professional April Ray shares how she offers and sells email marketing to her web design clients and what’s involved with her plans, how she manages them and more! In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 03:44 - Greeting to April 06:25 - Have three offers 14:02 - Email practicality 18:35 - Social media posting 23:21 - Different strategies 26:46 - Setting expectations 29:22 - When to sell e...

Dean Jones of WPML.org, one of the leading multilingual plugins for WordPress, shares best practices for translation services on websites from optimizing personally, using AI and multilingual tools. In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 03:32 - Greeting to Dean 05:29 - Partners more than ads 09:00 - Sites that need translation 13:52 - Localization 18:09 - Cultural nuances 21:04 - Research 24:54 - A...