Brands that Book with Davey & Krista Jones

One thing we've realized after 10+ years as business owners is that it's actually harder to take a vacation as a business owner than it was as an employee. My current boss is WAY more challenging than my previous ones ever were. ;) After a few vacations that involved way too much time in front of a computer dealing with tasks that "had to be done" at that moment, we've learned that when it comes t...

Are you experiencing burnout? After an uncertain past 2 years, we know many of you are faced with challenges that result in burnout. Today Davey & Krista explain how to avoid burnout and share tips to work through if you're already in the season of burnout. 6:22- Take time to rest 11:43 - Set work boundaries 17:08 - Invest time in hobbies 18:48 - 10% Project 21:52 - Make a BIG routine change

Is there a way to build website traffic quickly? We think so! In this episode, you will learn how to gain traffic to your website quickly by leveraging other people's audiences through collaborations. We share the best practices for you and your business to authentically grow an audience. 4:40 - Long term play - show up consistently 6:10 - Repurposing your content 7:22 - Leverage other people’s au...

An effective landing page can make-or-break a lead generation campaign or product launch. This episode covers what we look for whenever we're reviewing a client's landing pages—or whenever we're designing our own! 3:15 What is a landing page? 6:15 Mobile responsiveness vs. desktop responsiveness 7:05 How to organize a landing page? 12:25 What content is needed on a landing page? 14:05 How can I in...

Interested in getting started as a website designer? In this episode, Davey & Krista cover everything from learning the skills to building a portfolio and finding clients. This episode is jammed packed with practical considerations for getting started in web design. If you’re interested in getting started as a website designer and you’re looking for some additional direction, send us an email....

Trena Little, YouTube strategist and creator of the Video Strategy Academy, joins me on the podcast today to chat about how to start and grow your YouTube channel. Trena and her team helped us jumpstart our YouTube channel over last year and we're happy with the results. They know what they're doing so we're excited to share the episode with you. If you're interested in growing your channel, be su...

Copywriter Olivia Carson joins me on the podcast today to discuss crafting copy with soul. While our conversation focuses primarily on website copy, Olivia also dropped some tips for other copywriting activities like writing Instagram captions. One quick announcement last week, we launched our spring line of website designs including two new full website designs and what might end up becoming our...

The entrepreneur, YouTuber, and Business Coach Graham Cochran joins me on the podcast to discuss how to automate and optimize your life and work. He shares with me the framework he uses to grow his business while only working five hours per week. If you don't know Graham I highly recommend checking out episode three of the podcast to learn more about his story because it's a remarkable one. I'm re...

Gavin Wade, founder of CloudSpot joins me on the podcast today to discuss how photographers can make more money using their online gallery. Gavin dropped some real gems that are super practical when it comes to selling like, how to seed the sale so that it becomes a lot easier to make that sale later in the experience. You will want to stick around for this episode. You might remember Gavin from a...

Today we are chatting about optimizing your Google business profile formerly known as a Google My Business listing. If you're a local business looking to show up in local searches this is something that you want to pay attention to. We also have an extended conversation about the impact reviews can have on ranking and local SEO. A big thanks to Leah our SEO specialist over at Till Agency for joini...

Becca and Chad Campbell from the Course Company join me today for a discussion about how to create and sell an online course. You may recognize Becca’s voice from another early Brands that Book interview that I would highly recommend checking out if you're creating an online course or if this subject interest you. Especially if you're currently providing a service and are interested in learning ho...

Pinterest expert Vanessa Kynes is back for our annual episode on Pinterest and what businesses need to do to be successful on Pinterest in 2022. If you're new to Pinterest I highly recommend checking out my other episodes that I've recorded with Vanessa on Pinterest. Be sure to check out the show notes at DaveyandKrista.com for the resources that we mentioned during the episode and to check out al...

Krista and I sit down in today's episode to chat about how to make content more shareable. Content takes time to create, and you want to make sure that you get the most out of it. Today we're sharing a few things we do to our content to make sure it gets as much visibility across the web as possible. For show notes visit... https://daveyandkrista.com/how-to-make-your-content-more-shareable-on-soci...

Leah MacDaniel, SEO Specialist and Account Manager over at the Till Agency, joins me for another Brands that Books Show and Stuff Marketers Say podcast crossover episode. After chatting with her last week, we decided to follow up that episode about SEO for 2022 with another episode chatting through some of our favorite website optimization tools. In this episode we chat specifically about our favo...

Leah MacDaniel SEO specialist and account manager over at Till Agency joins me for this special Brands that Book and Stuff Markers Say podcast crossover episode. We're discussing SEO for 2022, what's the next big Google update, and what should people be focusing on to see SEO success in 2022. This is a live episode where people could ask questions live. If you're interested in learning more about...

In today's episode Krista and I are chatting about some our favorite end of year activities just to reflect on the past year. But then, we turn our attention to a few things that you can do on your website and get it looking fresh for the new year without having to do a full website redesign. Many of these activities don't take long but can really level up your website or at least give it a fresh...

If you've listened to the podcast for any significant amount of time you know that my systems for organization and productivity have evolved. So, in an episode like this where I'm sharing my 3-step 5-minute system for being as productive as possible, know I'm not trying to sell anyone on committing to a specific system. But hopefully, if you're listening and thinking that you could really use some...

Vanessa Kynes is back on the podcast today chatting with me about how to prepare for a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale. We originally were going to stay focused on how to prepare your website for a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale and we still chat about that, but we also talked broadly about running a successful Black Friday/Cyber Monday campaign. If you haven't thought about Black Friday/Cyber Mond...

Bonnie Bakhtiari from “B is for Bonnie Design” is on the podcast today chatting about the three most common pricing mistakes that she sees designers make. Even if you're not a designer, these are pricing mistakes that any service-based business needs to be aware of. We're diving into those price mistakes and then we chat about what businesses should do instead. Bonnie is a brand designer and strat...

Today’s podcast is about – podcasting. Melissa Guller of Wit and Wire joins me to discuss how to get started with podcasting. We cover a lot in this episode, including why now is the best time to start podcasting, the advantages specific to podcasting, the gear and tools you need to get started, and how to grow your podcast. You’ll probably notice, as I did, that Melissa has taught this stuff befo...

In today's episode Krista and I are covering the components of a strong visual brand identity. We're diving into a few things to consider when it comes to client avatars, logo design, fonts, colors and more. If you're getting ready to tackle brand design project, be sure to check out our Anatomy of a Brand Guide—it's a free download and one of our biggest guides yet. We received some stellar feedb...

In today's episode Krista and I cover five website mistakes that we commonly see people make. If you're looking for higher conversion rates on your website you will want to make sure that you're not making one of these mistakes. If you find this episode helpful you might also like our ten common DIY design mistakes episode which covers more design specific mistakes that we see when people customiz...

Today's episode is a fun one because I get to share a little bit about another business of mine that I haven't shared much about on this podcast while also sharing some behind the scenes of the stack of tools that we're using to make that businesses website work. The business is farm fed box and you can learn more about it at farmfedbox.com. Just for some context for any new listeners we recently...

In today's episode is a bit random but Krista and I thought it would be fun to have a quick casual conversation about 7 fun ideas for your website. Hopefully you find one or two of these ideas interesting and if nothing else it gave us quite a few ideas for future podcast episodes. As Krista mentioned in beginning the episode just because you find idea interesting, cool, or fun doesn't mean that y...

Today's episode is a special crossover episode with my other podcast over at the Till Agency, Stuff Marketers Say. In this episode I chat with one of my co-founders Jesse about the importance of lead generation and the elements of a high converting landing page. Basically it's a lot of the stuff of what we've learned through creating our own landing pages and what we've learned now through running...