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119: New Artist Website on Squarespace Brings Happy Tears to My Client
When a client sheds happy tears when they see the website you’ve created for them, then you know you’ve got a job well-done. Recently, I was fortunate to experience such a moment with my client, Debra Hille.
118: 7 Perks of Being A Successful Freelance Web Designer
I love being a web designer. I have a design business which allows me to help people with an online presence that they love and that helps them grow their business or spread their message.
I started my self-employed work in 2016 when I was focussing mainly on email marketing with ConvertKit. Then in 2018 that I began building websites professionally. At that time, I tried a lot of different things to get booked. And it was not easy. I had the skills and I knew I could do excellent work. But I didn’t know how to convey that to my potential clients.
117: 4 Ways to Create Interactive Maps for Squarespace
Recently, I had a prospective client ask me about an important feature they wanted to add on their website. Their business offers domestic and commercial cleaning services but only for postal codes within London.
In Squarespace, there’s no in-build way of doing that except of placing a map. So I did some research and there’s a ton of information out there. I sorted through it all and here are my three suggestions on how to add an interactive map to your Squarespace website.
116: Becoming Like A Tree - How I am working through my content creation block
I feel like I have been censoring myself. Recently, when I got inspired to write a blog post or make video, I told myself that I already talk about it in my coaching program, so why post about it. When I got an idea on how web designers can raise their pricing, the thought arose, “I teach that within MWD”. Or when I came up with a perspective to share on how to handle the workflow of a design project, again my mind said, “Don’t you share that in-depth in the coaching program curriculum? Why give it away for free?”.
115: What is Your Biggest Business Challenge Right Now?
Please help me by sharing what’s the biggest challenge you are facing in your business right now. Or think of this question: What one thing do you need to solve in your business that will make everything start working as you envisioned it.
114: How to Integrate Zoom with Squarespace Scheduling
Zoom is now a part of every day life! When you use Squarespace Scheduling for your online booking system, it’s really helpful that one can integrate with Zoom. This way, when a new client books an appointment with you, a zoom event is automatically generated. All you then have to do is go into your Zoom account and start the meeting at the appointed time!
Watch this quick step-by-step video where I show you how to integrated your Zoom account with your Squarespace Scheduling or Acuity Scheduling account.
113: Four Books from January 2022
This month, I wanted to read two books. I managed to read four. This was only possible because I scheduled 25 minutes for reading every day and entire Sunday mornings for reading. This month, I also read on a couple of Sunday afternoons and one Saturday evening.
This is all in an effort to get a lot more reading done this year. In the past, reading has fell through the cracks of my calendar as other urgent things have taken up my time. But I love reading books and feel a great sense of happiness and satisfaction when I can read a book without feeling that I “should be doing work in my business”. And so I have scheduled time in my calendar so I can “officially” read and not have a voice of guilt nagging my conscience!
112: What I need to feel successful
One month of 2022 has come to an end. January, goodbye. Hello, February!
Financially, this was again a record month. I got to build Websites In A Day and serve clients with a variety of website related needs. I am grateful.
111: How to enable comment box on Squarespace 7.1 (why is it not showing and how to fix it)
I ran into this issue recently and wondered why is the comment box not showing up on my Squarespace site. It turns out that there’s a simple fix. Watch the short video tutorial or the steps listed below the video.
110: Squarespace Website for Mental Health Counselor in Philadelphia
This month, I had the pleasure of being hired to create a Website In A Day for a Mental Health Counselor and Professor in the Philadelphia area.
109: How I am simplifying my web design business in 2022
In the course of this year, I will be simplifying my business even further with the aim of streamlining my work, getting more focused on the main priority and being effective during my 4-day work-week. Here are some more details on each so that you know what’s coming up in 2022 and how it will effect you as the participant of the Abundant Creative community, client of my design services or as students of the MWD program.
108: 25 Books from 2021
2021 was a really full year. A lot got done. But one of the things that I am most happy about is that I made time for reading - one of my priorities which in the past would get sidelined by money-generating projects. I love to read and the challenge was to make time for it and get it done.
So when I sat down to review all the books I read in 2021, I was delighted that I kept up an average of 2 books a month and have a total of 25 books read during the year. Here they are listed in hopes that you may be inspired to pick one or two of these titles from your local library:
107: Inside the Circle Platform for my group coaching program
Recently, I made the switch from Member Areas to Circle for my group coaching program, Millionaire Web Designer. I share the many reasons why I love Circle in the video below and I also give you a walkthrough of what my students will see inside the MWD platform (built on Circle).
106: Walkthrough of Student Experience of Member Areas in Squarespace
In this video, I’d like to show you how a student experiences your course materials inside Member Areas.
105: How to deal with scope creep on web design projects?
In November, we re-opened doors to the Millionaire Web Designer, my group coaching program for helping web designers build a thriving web design business. And I created three live events as part of the promotion for it. Here’s the first one where I share some tips and actual email conversations on how to turn situations when clients want to add more tasks to your list into profitable interactions.
104: What to do when a client starts negotiating your prices?
In November, we re-opened doors to the Millionaire Web Designer, my group coaching program for helping web designers build a thriving web design business. And I created three live events as part of the promotion for it. Here’s the first one where I share how to handle price negotiations from a client.
103: How do I find my next web design client?
In November, we re-opened doors to the Millionaire Web Designer, my group coaching program for helping web designers build a thriving web design business. And I created three live events as part of the promotion for it. Here’s the first one where I share how I find my web design clients or rather how they find me!
102: One Big Reason To Create Content
Recently, I spoke with a graphic designer + web designer, Anna Roszak, regarding creating a logo for Millionaire Web Designer, my exclusive group coaching program. And we had a great chat about that. But at one point she mentioned how she loves my YouTube videos and that recently a client emailed her asking her about something and she sent her my video tutorial as it explained exactly what she needed. And this made me so happy. Now, of course, I know that designers share links and resources with their clients. But to hear her share with me how my video helped her solve the client’s problem filled me with utter happiness and satisfaction. This one video that I created saved people time and helped solve a problem! Wow. I am myself amazed at how happy that make me feel. Like super happy.
101: Learn Squarespace CSS Tricks From These Six Experts
Now, it’s a given that you can build a decent website using the pre-designed layouts and templates from Squarespace. But from time to time, you will want to add a design element to your Squarespace Website that will requires a some CSS code. I’m self-taught when it comes to CSS and I have many of my talented colleagues to thank for showing me their tips and tricks when it comes to adding that special look to any Squarespace website. And I’d today, I’d like to share 5 of them with you so that you can tap into the wealth of resources they have created. Let’s get started.
100: Turbo-Charge Your Email Marketing with Evergreen Lead Magnets
I am celebrating. 🎉 My article just got published on Honeybook's website!! And to celebrate, I am sharing an in-depth 45 minute video presentation in which I show you how to implement one of these lead magnets (a digital library) using ConvertKit.
It's called, Turbo-Charge Your Email Marketing with Evergreen Lead Magnets (Within An Afternoon)