Web Design Business with Josh Hall

Josh teaches you how to speed up your website design process through 9 tips from his experience with building websites for clients for a decade. In This Episode 02:15 - Featured podcast review 03:24 - Plan before you build 06:15 - Start with staging site 08:40 - Set global styles 11:14 - Save, reuse layouts 14:58 - Save coding snippets 18:07 - Limit new tricks 19:58 - Make a deadline 23:25 - Get i...

Creator of the Freelancing School Jay Clouse has a mission of helping people start and build their freelancing business. One of the hardest areas of doing so is finding the confidence (in your services and in yourself) to be able to sell when you're just starting out. But in this episode, Jay dishes out practical advice, strategies and tips that you can implement right now to help! In This Ep...

This month, October 2020, my web design agency In Transit Studios turns 10! It's been an amazing decade of lessons learned, experience gained and amazing relationships formed and in this episode, I wanted to highlight the top 10 "most important" lessons I learned in the decade of starting, building, running and eventually selling my web design agency. There are countless other tips...

Author of The Profit Planner book series and Co-owner of Kickstart Accounting, Danielle Hayden, shares with us some practical steps and strategies on how we can make our web design businesses more profitable. I.e. making sure we're actually MAKING money in our business, not LOOSING it. In This Episode: 03:25 - Greeting to Danielle 04:16 - Promise to keep fun 07:30 - Why Profit is important 09...

Choosing the right tools for your business is an important decision. In web design, our tools are the foundation of our business and will be where we "live" for years to come. In this episode, I'm dishing out 10 tips for helping you decide which tools will be best for YOU and worth investing in and adding to your toolbox. In This Episode 01:16 - Featured podcast review 04:29 - Know...

Founder of RemoteVideoTeam.com, David Kilkelly, shares some invaluable video marketing tips that we can implement into our web design businesses to help grow our business and make better connections with our clients. We also cover a lot of strategies for getting better on camera and how to get started with video. In This Episode 00:28 - Video is King 04:06 - Greeting David 08:27 - Visual, engaging...

Josh outlines the most common traps that most web designers fall into and more importantly, why you should avoid them! In This Episode: 01:10 - Featured podcast review 02:46 - The “trade work” trap 08:11 - The “exposure” trap 10:27 - The “little now and percentage as we grow” trap 12:57 - The “outside your offering” trap 15:42 - The “friend/family” trap 19:04 - The “comparison” trap 22:05 - The “e...

CEO of Kanopi.com, a web design agency of nearly 50 fully distributed teams, Anne Stefanyk shares her experience with building an agency that's based around creating long-lasting websites and clients which is key for longevity in web design. In This Episode 03:39 - Greeting Anne 05:27 - Focus on building relationships 07:24 - Maintenance is the beginning 11:38 - What matters most 14:10 - Not...

With DIY website builders becoming more and more popular, the question is; are they a threat to designers doing custom Wordpress websites? Josh think's not and here's why. In This Episode: 01:30 - Shoutout to podcast reviews 04:03 - Ever a time to use? 05:28 - Owning your space 08:04 - No control 09:50 - Expensive upgrades 12:25 - Limited add-ons 13:56 - Customization issues 15:30 - Desi...

Web strategist and host of The Profitable Website podcast, Wes McDowell, shares 8 keys to creating a highly effective website. In layman's terms, how to make sure your website actually converts traffic to leads or paying customers. In This Episode 03:12 - Welcome to Wes 04:42 - Web designer to strategist 09:33 - Capitalize on content 15:50 - Use pics in a post 17:05 - Benefit of videos 21:02...

Jane Martinito, my first Filipino guest and a colleague of mine, share both of our experiences with how to work from from home and stay productive as parents. In This Episode 03:20 - Welcome to Jane 05:06 - A career shifter 06:50 - Schedule at home 07:42 - Full focus on work 10:01 - Quick wrap of day 11:09 - Everyone is wired differently 14:55 - Have a plan if internet is bad 17:53 - Using time bl...

Founder of ContentSnare.com, James Rose, walks us through how to effectively and efficiently collect content from web design clients which we all know, if not done correctly, can be one of the most frustrating and draining aspects of web design. In This Episode 3:48 - Welcome to James 6:02 - Love saving time 9:35 - Why clients stall 11:11 - Manage expectations 12:32 - Empathy for the client 14:55...

"How do I get web design clients?" It's the most common question I get and I've talked about this a lot recently so I thought I'd switch it up and walk you though, practically, how I landed my top 15 web design clients! In this episode, you'll see how all the strategies I've been talking about (like utilizing your personal network, professional networks, local an...

If you're looking to get better SEO rankings, the best, quickest and most affordable place to start is to optimize your website content. To help us understand how to do this both practically and methodically, I've brought in me and my web design agency's SEO Specialist Michelle Bourbonniere to shed some light on best SEO practices and how we optimize our website content for better S...

SEO can feel like a shady, scary, confusing and daunting place. Luckily, all you need to know are a few important fundamentals and have a solid foundation for the basics to feel better about SEO. In this episode, I'm going to dish out the basics of SEO for web designers so you can feel confident with SEO and make a big impact with organic rankings for both you and your clients. I'm inten...

In this "behind the scenes" case study style episode, myself along with my new CEO and partner Eric Dingler who acquired my business, open up about went on with selling my business (from my end) and acquiring the business (from his end.) Get the show notes and full transcription at: https://joshhall.co/053

When it comes to getting web design clients, most people focus on how to get "leads." That's all well and great, but there's no use in spending all your time, money and resources into getting leads if you can't actually convert them. In this episode, Josh dishes out the 3 keys to getting web design clients which are, in short: Clients have to KNOW you Clients have to LIKE...

Amr lost 90% of his income as an IT/tech head hunter back in March when the pandemic came. Luckily, he had a web design side hustle going and was able to quickly pivot and take that business full time. In this podcast episode, you'll hear how now, less than 6 months later, his web design business isn't just surviving, it's thriving. Get all the links, transcription and show notes at...

Jamie Starcevich, founder and creative director of Sprucerd.com, takes us through her “Zero Revision Method” and teaches us how to refine our process in order to limit revisions to save both time and sanity for both us as designers and our clients. Get all links, resources and show notes at: https://joshhall.co/050

Jake and his agency Artillery Media have brought 150+ clients onto their hosting and maintenance plan in 2.5 years. Learn how to sell a hosting/maintenance plan of your own! Get all the show notes and links mentioned at: https://joshhall.co/049

Co-founder of Termageddon Hans Skillrud gives us a basic overview of website compliance like ADA Compliance, GDPR, Privacy Policies, User Tracking and more so we know how to protect ourselves and our clients from potential lawsuits. Get all links, resources and show notes at:    https://joshhall.co/048

Do you struggle with imposter syndrome? You're not alone and luckily, knowing the cause (usually comparison) can help you combat it. Author, entrepreneur and public speaker Renee Vidor and I talk about how this related to us as web designers and how we can fight comparison and imposter syndrome and thrive in our businesses. Get all the show notes and links at: https://joshhall.co/047

Entrepreneur, digital nomad and web design agency CEO David Blackmon knows a lot about how to land higher paying clients. In this episode, he shares with us the tips, tricks and information you need to know in order to do the same! Get all the show notes and links mentioned at: https://joshhall.co/046

This is a special episode as Josh lets you in on some exciting news, a look ahead at the rest of 2020 and an offer to sign up for updates and founding member access if interested in his upcoming membership/mastermind community! In This Episode 00:00 - Introduction 00:56 - Announcement 04:17 - When it’s stable 08:09 - Big aspirations 11:48 - A red flag 14:11 - Site restructure 17:01 - Starting a me...

Elegant Themes Design Director Kenny Sing shares with us the story of Divi and how they created, named, evolved and continue to innovate the world's most popular and powerful WordPress Theme and Page Builder. Kenny also shares invaluable insight from someone who's worked for companies like Google and Apple and was very transparent about things like imposter syndrome and other struggles t...