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092: 5 Steps to Easily Set Up Member Areas
Member Areas is a new feature rolled out by Squarespace that allows you to host an online course, offer a membership or other content behind a paywall or offer free curated content for specific users, all on your website.
In Blog + Video No. 091, I walked you through the steps for setting up a login page so that your students can sign into your program. In this video, I want to show you the first four of the five steps you need to make your online course/membership content available for purchase.
091: How to Set Up Login Page for Squarespace Member Areas
There’s a lot to cover about Member Areas but for today, I want to address only one thing and that is how do enable a login feature so that your students can sign into your program.
090: What James Clear's Website Taught Me About Presenting Your One Thing
With the start of the new year, you may be thinking of giving your website a fresh new look. But before you scroll through new templates or change up the font or the color, I suggest you look at your website and ask yourself this question:
Is my website clearly presenting my no. 1 goal to my visitors within seconds of them arriving on the site? This single question will prove to be more effective in using your website to help realize the goals you have for your business.
089: Social Media: To Do Or Not To Do?
Earlier this year as the pandemic was just getting its hold on American soil, I quit all my social media except for my YouTube channel. I closed down my Facebook account, Pinterest and Instagram. I didn’t have a Twitter account so nothing to be done there.
088: Success Habit of Millionaires That Will Speed Up Your Business Success
Do you know how many books you read in 2020? I am asking this not to make you feel bad if you didn’t - hey, 2020 has been tough on many fronts, needless to say. But the number of books and what type of books you read can be a key indicator and a key contributor to your financial and business success. And when you borrow books from the library, this new habit doesn’t cost you a dime.
In this article, I will share some data on how many books millionaires and billionaires read to inspire you and to inspire myself to read more books in 2021 - in order to learn, grow and make a bigger positive impact in our world.
Let’s get started!
087: 5 Traits of A Successful Web Design Business Owner
You want to run a web design business that is successful? Of course, you define what success is and it will be different at each stage of your business. And to create that success, you need to develop the traits that will help you get where you want to go. These are the traits that will not only help you achieve that revenue goal you are aiming for but also help decision-making easier, serving your clients better, and even articulate yourself better in both client communications and content creation. It’s a win-win-win!
So let’s get into some of those traits that I believe have helped me tremendously to move the needle in my business in recent months.
086: Inner-Circle Method of Finding Your First or Next Web Design Client
Finding your first client as a new web designer might feel like climbing Mount Everest - an arduous, unfamiliar and challenging endeavor. But once you have the right approach and strategy, it doesn’t have to be. In this article, I will share with you one of many (web design) client finding strategies that you can put into practice today.
085: How to Connect A Parked Domain to Your Squarespace Website
Did you purchase a domain name on Squarespace just so that you could secure it now and use it later when you are ready for a new website? Or you have a website already with a it’s own domain but now you want to direct to it a second domain that you had previously purchased on Squarespace?
In either case, if you have a “parked” domain name, a domain name sitting in your account but not being used anywhere, and want to connect it to a new or existing website, then this blog + step by step video will help you get that done.
084: How to Grow Your Web Design Business Using the BBB Strategy
On your journey to building a successful design business, you will inevitably run into challenges. These are the bottlenecks to your progress. Each challenge, once you overcome it, brings you to the next level. Solve for the bottleneck and you unlock the next level. Knowing what kind of a challenge you are facing will help you tremendously in breaking through that bottleneck. In this article, I will share with you how to spot bottlenecks and ways to solve them using the Business Bottleneck Breakthrough Strategy.
083: 6 Ways to Save Time in Your Business with Squarespace Scheduling
6 Ways to Save Time in Your Business with Squarespace Scheduling
Workflows. Processes. Systems.
Making the most of these will surely help you save time and streamline your business. But what if you can use a tool that not only saves you time but also opens up a streamlined way to generate new revenue in your business?
Enter Squarespace Scheduling.
082: How to Open A Free Trial on Squarespace - the Exact Steps Demo
How to Start A Free Trial On Squarespace
It’s important that you get a feel of the website building platform before you go ahead and hire a designer or start building your website yourself. So how do you do that? Start with a 14 day free trial. You won’t need a credit card. Just an email address.
So here’s how.
There are at least 5 good reasons why I think so:
081: 5 Reasons Why I Love Squarespace: The Best Website Builder for Online Entrepreneurs
5 Reasons Why Squarespace Is the Best Website Builder Out There for Online Entrepreneurs
As you might have guessed, as a Web Designer who specialized on Squarespace websites, I am a big proponent of Squarespace for building your online presence. If you are an entrepreneur of any kind - whether you are an author, an artist, or a creator or if you are someone who has an idea, someone who wants to inspire and impact positive change, Squarespace is your platform - the best platform in my opinion and experience.
There are at least 5 good reasons why I think so:
080: How to Remove Background from Photos using Canva
In this video tutorial, I take just over 5 minutes to show you how to remove background from your photos using an app called Canva. Also get the complimentary link to try Canva Pro for 30 days!
079: The First Two Steps To Creating Leveraged Passive Income With Digital Products
Let’s begin with a pop-quiz!
Pop-Quiz: If you want to create a passive income stream with digital products, which of the following do you think would be your first two steps?
Pick from the following options…
Why rearrange your priorities?
During these days where the world seems to be grasped by the events surrounding COVID-19, the above quote from Ajahn Brahm makes a strong point. It’s not just death but the ongoing uncertainty and the realization of how things are impermanent that makes us reassess our priorities.
Uplifting Audiobooks: A Collection
Audiobooks that Sophia and Cristof have volunteered to record for other authors.
How to craft a mini-retreat at home?
Taking time off to go on a ten-day meditation retreat is a wonderful way to rejuvenate our tired minds from the hustle-bustle of our busy lives and to deepen one’s meditation experience. I have done this thrice in the last few years and have found immense benefits of shutting off from the world.
But a ten-day meditation retreat is not always feasible. Many people may not have the opportunity to take ten days off from work and be away from their kids and family. Or the idea of a ten-day meditation retreat sounds simply too daunting.
The 4-day workweek: Why I choose to work only 4 days a week and you can too
What I discovered through this process was not something new - I had known this all along but now I became more fully and clearly aware of it. And now I am working only 4 days a week. Let me show you how you can too.
The process of finding out what’s truly important to you
If I were to ask you, “What’s truly important to you?” what would you reply? This question has once again become important to me because recently I found myself feeling uncomfortable sensations in my stomach - a gut feeling that something’s not right and that something needs to change. Not knowing what that “something” is, I have begun an introspective process for myself so that I can follow this inner-calling, figure out what the cryptic messages mean and then go about taking actions towards it. But before I can take action, I need to unearth from deep within me, what that message is and what that new path is meant to be.