Webflail

Welcome to Episode 18 of Webflail with Yannick Lorenz (also known as Yaya). 3 years ago, he co-founded the a creative studio called Shadow. Believing it was the way to success and life he wanted, he hired stuff quickly, made up systems and processes as he went along for staff, and said yes to client requests to satisfy their demands. The combination of internal and external pressures almost forced...

Welcome to Episode 17 of Webflail with Jamie Windell. He is the founder of Khula Design Studio (an official Webflow Partner) based in Canada, though he has a remote team. Jamie is a beast at the operations side of running an agency after experience as an account manager and then a traffic manager. The three failures Jamie talks about in this episode are: 1) Fear of failure 2. Failing to keep track...

Welcome to episode 16 of Webflail with Marcelo Russo. Marcelo is the CEO and Creative Technologist of Fri3nds Agency. Marcelo is an Argentinian computer grad that cut his teeth working for different tech companies before starting his own agency. We'll dig in to this during this episode! Fun fact - Marcelo is a salsa dancer and met his wife dancing salsa. The three failures Marcelo talks about...

Hello and welcome to episode 15 of Webflail, the podcast dedicated to uncovering the greatest failures behind the greatest Webflowers. Because success often comes after learning from many failures. I’m your host, Jack Redley, a failure connoisseur and today, my guest is Matt Evans, Webflow Developer & UI Designer for 8020, a global no-code agency. Before this, Matt ran a subscribtion based cof...

For Episode 14, my guest is Ben Celinski, a Webflow designer and developer based in Ireland. A few years ago, Ben was working as a lawyer in Poland and had no IT experience whatsoever. His path to where he is now was paved with many challenges, inspirations and wonderful people helping him move to UX, Webflow and Ireland which we will talk about. CONNECT WITH BEN 📬 See his website: https://lnkd.i...

For Episode 13, my guests today are Nkenna and Asmah.  In this episode we talk about:  1) Not having a website/portfolio to showcase our work early enough which meant clients couldn’t easily access our services and see how we solved similar problems for other brands  2) Not having detailed project agreements that protected us from project mismanagement, overspilling of project scope and payment st...

For Episode 12, my guest is my guest is Julian Kreth, founder of Agentur 201720, a data driven advertising agency based in Germany. My favourite part of this episode is about the hiring process. The hiring process is something that we haven’t talked about a lot in Webflail so far despite the fact that it seems to plague a lot of freelancers trying to transition to agency owners. Julian’s process f...

For Episode 11, my guest is Kaela Williams the founder of BTB studio, the studio that creates impactful brands and websites for business growth. Kaela’s honesty about imposter syndrome was the part of this interview that was most thought provoking for me. At the start of your journey, it’s a struggle. You’re putting in hours in to trying to get clients, learn skills, carefully think about your pro...

For Episode 10, my guest is Žiga Fajfar, the co-founder of FlowOut Studio, the Unlimited Webflow design & development subscription service. 1) Focussing on the general market or niching 2) Pros and cons of fixed price projects 3) Being too attached to individual projects and clients CONNECT WITH ZIGA 📬 See his website: https://www.flowout.com/ 🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Flowou...

For Episode 9, my guest is Felix Meens,an experienced digital designer and Webflow developer based in Finland and founder of Webflix Studio.  In this episode we talk about: Failing to focus on only a key channel to get clients Failing to stay calm under pressure with clients Failing to negotiate projects as favours. One of the biggest mistakes that Felix talked about, and that I made myself as a W...

For Episode 8, my guest is Corey Moen, Senior Brand designer at Webflow and Digital Lead at Shapemaker studio. In today’s episode we talk about failing to communicate with clients effectively, failing to get buy in from your team, failing to do website checks before hitting launch projects. As we see from this episode, even at Corey’s level, he is not perfect. I find it humbling that despite havin...

For Episode 7, my guest is Shais Ahmad,  the founder of Pristine Digital. In 400 days, he has grown an agency and now has 5 employees, 20 monthly clients and 8K monthly income. As with anyone that grows fast though, Shais has made mistakes along the way. These failures were almost catastrophic for Shais but he managed to learn from them quickly and get back on track. The important lesson from this...

For Episode 6, my guest is Emily Lonetto, the Director Of Community at Webflow, the company which inspired this podcast. In today’s episode we talk about pushing automations too early, using personal devices for company marketing efforts and the marketing tactics going hideously wrong. We also discuss how to build a community, building relationships and the imminent plans for Webflow community. Th...

For Episode 5, my guest is Harry Roper, CEO of Imaginary Space. The agency helps companies who are going through a seasonal slump, lack sales being generated from their website, and are looking to move their business forward. In today’s episode we talk about: 1) Scaling too fast. 2. Agreeing to work that you can't do. Whether thats budget or just pure skills. 3. Overpromising! The most intere...

For Episode 4, my guest is Jenna Manthe is the founder of Holy Moly Creative Studio based in South Africa. She designing and develops Webflow websites that make you say ‘holy moly’. In today’s episode we talk about: 1) Failing to communicate with clients effectively 2) Failing to get buy in from your team 3) Failing to do website checks before hitting launch projects. The biggest lesson from this...

For Episode 3, my guest is Ethan Suero,  an incredible webflow freelancer and 🐑 of the Flux community. He has given hundreds of portfolio reviews while also designing and building some rather spicy websites. This episode will be useful for anyone switching from full time job to freelance freedom (?). In today’s episode we talk about failing to communicate with clients effectively, failing to get...

For Episode 2, my guest is Dexter Washigton, founder of Crafted Studio. In today’s episode we talk about: 1) Trying every new strategy I came across versus being myself authentically, posting and talking about the results and letting the work speak for itself. 2) Not vetting people well enough and finding not only someone with good work and strong skills -- but a finding a good personality fit tha...

For Episode 1, my guest is Melissa Mendez, a web designer and growth marketer based in Orlando Florida. In today’s episode we talk about: 1) Financial responsibility 2) Hustle culture 3) Naivity The biggest lesson for me in this episode is that it's important to understand you can't do everything as a freelancer. There are skillsets that you don't have and frankly there are other pe...