The Design Business Show

Christi Cooper is the principal designer and creative strategist at Cooper & Heart Creative and brings 19+ years of design-industry experience to the table. She works with heart-centered business owners to help them grow their businesses through beautiful, strategic sales pages and websites that connect with their people in an impactful way. Here's what we cover during episode 049: Her experience...

Chrissy Marquardt is a Web Designer + Brand Strategist for visionary, creative and soulful entrepreneurs who are doing transformational work in their industry. She helps her clients and customers go from invisible to unforgettable by creating beautiful brands and websites that convert.  Here's what we cover during episode 048: How she went to school for finance, became interested in web and graphi...

Erika Lyremark (Lira-mark) is the mastermind behind The Daily Whip where she works with female leaders, influencers, and experts to help them … Cultivate cutting edge personal brands Develop WINNING products & services Create custom-built marketing plans Construct whip-smart sales funnels Shape powerful promotional strategies Showing early entrepreneurial skills when she let her brother throw a pi...

Promise Tangeman is the CEO, Creative Director and certified digital marketing strategist of the web design agency, GoLive. It's mission: helping businesses launch the website of their dreams. GoLive has created over 3,000 websites (and counting!), for brands such as Girlboss, We Wore What, Sadie Robertson, A Beautiful Mess, Create & Cultivate, Jasmine Star, Life With Me by Marianna Hewitt, TLC's...

We first met Lexi on episode 12 , and hear about her journey of starting a successful coaching and consulting business, and creating her design business. After realizing that she wasn't into the 1:1 design work, she created a website theme shop to serve more people. We talk about the struggles she had with creating the theme shop, and what she did to make it easier. She made a quantum shift, and s...

Ruby Rayne is a multidisciplinary designer, photographer, strategy coach, and founder of Moto. Red Design House LLC, a brand, web design, and marketing company operating in Washington State. Ruby has helped hundreds of clients develop and promote their high calibre products, life-changing services, and award-winning talent. She continues to support entrepreneurs and industry leaders to establish,...

Marie Poulin is the co-founder of Oki Doki, a creative collaboration uniting Marie's strategy & design background with Ben, Marie's partner, and his design & programming background to form one kick-ass digital creative agency. They create purposeful, unique, and results-focused digital experiences that integrate your brand across all touch-points. Where Marie sees the big-picture possibilities, Be...

Stephenie Zamora is an author and life coach, business and marketing strategist, designer and developer, and founder of Stephenie Zamora Media. Stephenie's company has been merging the worlds of personal development, healing, digital media, branding, and online marketing to help individuals build purpose-driven lives and businesses for nearly a decade. Her body of work helps catalyze individuals o...

Brandi Bernoskie is owner and Chief Alchemist at Alchemy+Aim, a website development and business strategy agency that helps thought-leaders and entrepreneurs craft custom websites to enhance client experience and help them step into their genius work. She has always sought to find new ways to co-create with collaborators and clients, and to connect people with each other and help them craft bigger...

Illiah Manger, the Creative Director + Owner of C&V, collaborates with women in business to craft brands that tell their unique story. Illiah creates branding poised for long term growth, allowing her clients to build connections and credibility. She infuses their personality and voice in their visual brand to open doors to possibilities they never would have imagined for their business. Also the...

We first met Lilah Higgins on episode 23 of the podcast, and after the episode, I noticed that she was very active on social media, and had created multiple products to help her build additional income streams. So, I invited her back to give us the scoop! Here's what we cover: The breakdown of all of the additional income streams she's created Why creating these products has helped her take on les...

Adriana Koc-Spadaro has been a graphic designer and art director since graduating from the IDEA Program at Capilano University in 2007. Adriana is a very visual person and loves to create solutions and stories through photography and visual art. She believes in creating solutions to communicate good values and out of the box ideas. Her passion is to create images that disrupt the norm and offer be...

How can designers get high-end clients? First off, it's important to realize that not every design client is meant for every offer. And that some people frankly don't want to pay for design work. Those aren't your ideal clients. :) So, listen to episode 37 to learn exactly how you can land high-end design clients and 5 strategies you can use to get high-end clients now! Links Mentioned: Natalie Mc...

Mistake #1: Not charging enough for the work they do. Most designers don't value their work or even know how to price projects, so they under charge and way over deliver. Even worse, they keep these working relationships because they don't think they can do any better. And, they keep these clients who nickel and dime them for Every. Little. Thing. (sigh!)   This is a cycle that needs to stop now,...

Sarah Ancalmo-Ashman is the founder of Public Persona Studio, a company focused on helping entrepreneurs and influencers uplevel their business, elevate their influence, and increase their perceived value through branding. She has over 15 years of experience as a brand strategist and creative director for influencers, thought-leaders, and business owners developing and creating compelling and cohe...

Kimberly Folkes is a graphic designer, DIY crafter, paper lover, wife and Mom of 2 little boys. She graduated in 2012 from Georgia State University with a degree in Fine Arts focusing on Graphic Design. She started Bliss Creative Atlanta while working as a Graphic Designer in Buckhead, Atlanta. After 7 years of working full-time as a designer and printer she took her business full-time. In July 20...

In today's episode of The Design Business Show, we're flipping the script and I'm being interviewed by my new friend Stephenie Zamora, who we first met on episode 10 of the podcast. My birthday was earlier this month, so we thought it would be fun for her to ask me questions instead of me always asking questions. We didn't plan any of this, so grab your ear buds and get a behind-the scenes update...

The Design Business Show 032: Creating and Growing a Successful Design Business with Michelle Martello A passionate advocate for universal education through technology, Michelle Martello has been involved in e-learning and interactive design since the late 90s. She started her company Minima Designs in order to serve others by creating dynamic online and interactive experiences. She's helped hundr...

On Today's show, I interview Mary Alvizures. We first met Mary on episode 10 ! She's the founder of MINTGEM, a branding + web design company based in sunny Los Angeles. Mary is a designer, foodie, traveler, optimist and lover of life! You can find her being a girl boss and branding expert at MINTGEM. Specializing in branding, website design and instagram marketing, she loves working with purpose d...

Natasha Lakos has been called "the go-to creative" for the next generation of thought leaders. She's worked with a handful of Oprah's SuperSoul 100s and a long list of big-hearted entrepreneurs. Through her practice as a designer and creative director, she's learned that when your personal brand reflects your true identity, the world re-arranges itself to gather at your feet. Learn more at natasha...

  Kraig Mathias is the founder of Mathias Media and he's a husband, father, brother, son and uncle. His family means the world to him. He's from Minnesota and enjoys traveling, spending time outdoors, eating good food and doing great work. He got into the websites and internet marketing business 12 years ago, sort of by accident. After graduating from college, a position at a small, growing compan...

Chris Beltran is an award winning graphic designer who has worked with some of today's top online entrepreneurs that run six & seven figure brands. As a leading expert in personal branding, he has worked with notable TEDx speakers, Bestselling authors and world renowned influencers that lead massive passionate followings. He helps online experts be more intentional with their brand so they can gai...

Natalie McGuire creates award-winning web designs and digital strategy with beauty and brains for purpose-driven solopreneurs. She knows your website shouldn't just be a pretty picture online, it should get results, too. She takes a design-meets-strategy fueled approach to her work, and works with clients, like PBS, David Siteman Garland from The Rise to the Top, and Amy Porterfield. She's also a...

Krista is a WordPress developer, co-host of the Get Back To Design Podcast, and creator of the Simply Profitable Designer Summit. She specializes in collaborating with passionate designers to craft websites that directly support their clients' goals, while helping them simplify their businesses to spend more time doing what they love - design. How she left her full-time job as a developer and star...

We first met Joana Galvao in episode 9, and heard her whirlwind business story about how she went from pulling an all nighter to do her first sales page, to now managing a team of 10 designers and developers at her agency in Porto Portugal. Today we're talking about her experience speaking, being on podcasts and making that a priority once she realized it helped her get clients. Here's what we cov...