Profitable Web Designer with Shannon Mattern

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m sharing the different web design business personalities and how to leverage yours in your business. I’m breaking down: The 6 most common ones we see, and why this test is one of the first things we have students do in the Web Designer Academy. The challenges each archetype faces...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m digging into my mid-year results and the data that led me to restructure my pricing. In this episode I’m breaking down: The difference between an expense vs. hybrid vs. investment mindset, and how your mindset affects the type of client you attract. The transformation from a hybr...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m sharing my experience with Stripe and fraudulent charges on my account. What happened: I woke up one morning to find that my Stripe account was being shut down for fraudulent activity that I couldn’t see and hadn’t received any payment notifications for, to the tune of $70,000. A...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m chatting with Melissa Burkheimer about reinventing your design business and following those nudges to pivot. Melissa Burkheimer is the CEO and Conversion Design Director of Melissa Burkheimer Studios, which designs brands and creates buzz-building strategies for product launches....

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m chatting with Josh Hall about the challenges businesses are facing right now and how to navigate them! Like me, Josh is also a Web Design Coach. He started web design as a freelancing side hustle, and over the years has managed to grow it to a six-figure business today. And, funn...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m chatting with Erica Nash about how to objectively collect data and use it for your web design business! Erica Nash is an online course designer and strategist who also works with me inside the Web Designer Academy as a Client Success Coordinator. Erica helps course creators eleva...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m pulling back the curtain on the Web Designer Academy to show you everything we do to help our students create results in their web design businesses! When you're ready, here are some ways we can help you with your web design business:​ 🎧 Subscribe to Profitable Web Designer Pre...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m sharing an interview I did on the Next Level Course Creator Podcast about creating a community in the Web Designer Academy! The Next Level Course Creator podcast is hosted by Erica Nash, an online course designer and strategist who also works with me inside the Web Designer Acade...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m talking with Rob Howard of MasterWP about increasing diversity and normalizing sustainability in web design. Rob Howard is the founder of HDC, a digital agency headquartered in Denver, Colorado. His team is behind one of the most popular WordPress newsletters out there, Master WP...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. In this week’s episode I’m chatting with Web Designer Academy student Angela Bamford about how she gained the confidence to raise her web design project prices from $1,500 to $10k! Angela Bamford is the owner of AB Designs, a UK-based web design agency that specializes in helping business owne...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. In this week’s episode I’m chatting with Web Designer Academy student Racheal Graham about growing a sustainable web design business to be your own boss! Racheal Graham is the web designer and tech strategist behind Greenhouse Creative, where she helps her clients create businesses that fit in...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m sharing the replay of a panel from the Simply Profitable Designer Summit all about getting web design clients! 3 key topics we discuss: The main opportunities and trends we see in the design industry right now. What boundaries to set to make projects run smoother and simplify you...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. In this week’s episode I’m sharing a live call for Web Designer Academy students about how to get web design clients! 3 key takeaways from this episode: 9/10 times it’s not a tactical problem, it’s a mindset problem - identify your mindtrash and you’ll start seeing results. How you think in th...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. In this week’s episode I’m sharing my keynote presentation from the 2023 Simply Profitable Designer Summit where I reveal 4 shifts we're currently seeing in the web design industry and how you can leverage them! I cover: Why businesses need websites now more than ever despite a growing number...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. In this week’s episode I’m chatting with Web Designer Academy student Caitlin Harrison about the mindset work that has to happen behind the business! Caitlin Harrison is a web designer with years of experience in print publication and magazine design. She started Caitlin Harrison Creative in 2...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. Today we're talking about creative marketing strategies web designers can use to build relationships and market to their ideal clients. I talk about: The different stages of business and what challenges I see web designers face at each level. The feelings that came up for me around acquiring t...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. In this week’s episode I’m chatting with Web Designer Academy student Kate Newnham about seeking support from a mentor to confidently grow your web design business! Kate Newnham is the owner of Up Designs LA, where she helps health and wellness businesses create professional, memorable, and aw...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. In this week’s episode, I’m chatting with Web Designer Academy student Courtney Wilson about how she tailored the WDA curriculum to grow her web design business! Courtney started her web design business, Moonsoar, with her husband after both got downsized from their jobs within a year of each...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m answering one of the most frequently asked questions I get - should you put your web design pricing on your website? In this episode I talk all about: My own personal journey with talking about pricing, starting with deprogramming that employee mindset, packaging my services to n...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. In this week’s episode I’m chatting with Lauren Newton about why she decided to invest in her business and how she broke free from the employee mindset! Lauren has 14 years of web experience, and after 5 years of freelance SEO, she joined the WDA in 2021 to add a secondary web design layer to...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week we’re wrapping part 2 of my 2022 year in review with a look at how I was my own biggest obstacle! In this episode I’m digging into: Why putting so much pressure on myself to replace my husband’s income actually backfired. How I completely overhauled a side of my business that I wasn’...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week we’re diving into part 1 of my 2022 year in review and all things mindset and numbers. In this episode I’m breaking down: What caused me to start accumulating mindtrash and how I ignored all the signs. My exact revenue numbers from 2021 to 2022. The choices I made to empower myself a...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m chatting with Web Designer Academy student Megan Harrington about how she increased her web design business revenue by 4x in just one year! Megan is the owner of Zestful Media & Design, a brand and web strategist, and also offers courses on how to build a unique brand and graphic...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m chatting with Danbee Shin about embracing your full identity as a web designer! Danbee is a web designer and global inclusions specialist, who specializes in creating inclusive websites for online coaches. She also mentors other web designers to build a successful web design busi...

👩‍💻 Get Shannon's free course for women web designers who want to make more money without working 24/7. This week I’m joined by Julia Taylor of GeekPack to talk all about building community around your web design business! Julia is a self-taught web developer, an advocate of location independence, women empowerer, and founder of GeekPack, a community that teaches highly valuable technological an...