Web Design Business with Josh Hall

This is part 2 of our “Buy or Sell” series! In part 1 (ep 432), we focused on what it looks like to acquire/buy a web business or their book of clients. In this one, we’ll step into the selling shoes and dig into what it looks like to create a sellable web design business. Hans Skillrud is back on and has experience selling his agency in order to go full-time with Termageddon. Jake and John Wooten...

Ever thought about acquiring (i.e. buying a web design business) or their book of business as a way to get clients and grow your biz fast? Well, you'll be thinking about it after this conversation with Hans Skillrud, now co-founder of Termageddon, but previously an agency owner who acquired a large book of business, which helped catapult his agency's growth and revenue. We also have Jake...

My fateful meeting with Nathan, at the time, the content manager of Elegant Themes. I shared what I was up to with Divi and building my little web studio to 100k/yr. He asked me if I'd like to contribute to the Elegant Themes blog. That cemented my passion for teaching what I was building and was the beginning of joshhall.co, this podcast and Web Designer Pro® 🙏 Links mentioned: All my ET bl...

Well, I’ll be. I just recently crossed 1 million in lifetime revenue to date with my community Web Designer Pro. While it was never an exact goal and there was no rush to get to the 7-figure mark, it is a cool milestone and boy howdy have I learned a lot. And that’s what I’m sharing with you here in this solo episode of the podcast. More specifically, 7 secrets (and 1 important bonus), that helped...

Alexia Lynn is a brand strategist, world-class designer, and rock star Web Designer Pro® member who 10x’d her revenue last year after going full-time in August 2025. A huge aspect of her success (other than being an amazing designer and an awesome person) is how she’s learned to offer and sell both brand and web together. In this chat, she shares her exact sales process and mindset around how lead...

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I look to Eric Dingler – CEO of my agency In Transit Studios – often for advice, wisdom and as a guiding light for hiring, team building and delegating. And in this special podcast chat, you’re gonna find out why. Eric walks us through exactly the steps he took in finding, hiring and managing the current In Transit Studios team which is comprised of a couple of full-time team members and a few con...

Josh here checking in as this week, I'm at the beach with my wife and kiddos. We'll resume interviews next week, but in this one, I'm covering: • a quick ProCon 2026 highlight tease and why IRL community hits different  • why in-person networking is surging again and how it builds trust fast  • the difference between networking groups and referral groups  • building referral partner...

You need social media to get web design clients in 2026, right? Isn’t that what they say? Well, Michelle Bourbonniere missed that memo. She’s booked out consistently with her SEO & copy services despite not being active on ANY social media.  We dive into how she’s done it. Head to the show notes to get all links and resources we mentioned, along with a full transcription of this episode at jos...

Jacob Cass recently had a post on LinkedIn go semi-viral, all about whether or not designers are cooked with the recent release or Claude Design and Chat GPT Images. I think it went viral because many designers are worried and scared. But I also think it went viral because many designers are not worried or scared. Jacob took some time with me to dig into both of these mindsets and how designers (i...

This episode is our first ever greatest hits episode. I'm doing this for a couple reasons: Number one, I am getting caught up on some podcast interviews because I've been a little busy with Pro Con recently and some other stuff going on, and number two… I wanted to dig up some episodes from the past that I think are very relevant and more applicable than ever today in 2026. And that is d...

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In this special edition episode of the Web Design Business Podcast, I’m sharing a recent live interview I did with my mate from down under – James Barnard – one of the most prolific designers in the graphic, branding, and logo design space. James invited me into his Designerrrs community for a live Q&A session which turned into a masterclass chat about how to build, grow, and scale a freelance...

Here's a recap of our recent PRO CON 2026 event with a behind the scenes look of putting on an event of this scale, takeaways, lessons and tips for you to help you grow your web design business! Full recap post to come soon... Thanks to our PRO CON 2026 sponsors: 17hats SiteGround Termageddon LocalSEOAcademy Design Day Blueprint WP Umbrella (use code JOSHHALL for a full free month) Links ment...

We're in a trust recession.  Anything in real life and in person (networking events, meetups, workshops, etc) have become a web designer's edge. In this special solo episode, I share how important this is in 2026 with getting clients and building relationships that last for years, especially in the age of AI, social influencers, and scattered online overwhelm. Links mentioned: See the la...

Over the last several months, I’ve seen more and more chatter in my community Web Designer Pro about WP Umbrella – a new platform making quite the dent in the WordPress site manager space. Personally, I wondered how there was even room for a new tool for managing WordPress sites (updates, optimizations, backups, reporting, etc) when it’s already a crowded market with tools like Manage WP, Main WP,...

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Morning routines, air-tight calendar blocks, calls at 5pm, hustle and grind culture…all very doable. Unless you have kids.. That is, if you want to be a fully present parent > a hustling entrepreneur. We’re getting into that in this conversation with my good friend Kady Sandel who’s been on the podcast before and even did a training inside my Web Designer Pro community talking about niching, pr...

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This is a first – and a very special guest for the podcast because it’s an interview with one of my best web design clients! Gary Sigrist, founder and CEO of Safeguard Risk Solutions hired me back in 2012 to do branding, graphic and web design for his new company. What he didn’t know at that time was that I was very green and new to the industry. Fast forward to 2026, his company is STILL a client...

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Imagine getting handed a project of sifting, sorting and organizing over 10,000 emails 😮 As a web design business owner, that probably sounds like a nightmare. But there are people in the world who actually enjoy this type of work. And for creatives, they are a DREAM to partner up with and hire. This is the story of how Jess Lindgren began working with online-entrepreneur legend Pat Flynn. He was...

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A special interview here for a few reasons: This one is in-person so it has a completely different feel, dynamic and I have to admit, I LOVED it. Definitely inspiring me to do more in-person interviews with local colleagues. My guest (Web Designer Pro member Andy Milligan) just took his agency to 200k+ in revenue in 2025 from 30k in 2024. So massive growth, however, it came at a cost. We dig into...