Why does work-life balance matter? Not only can a lack of balance lead to burnout, stress, and unhappiness in your position as a small business owner — but a lack of balance can also mean a lack of creativity, passion, and purpose in your position, too. With more balance, you can bring your most joyful, creative self to your business, and in turn, serve your clients well. We’re going to discuss how to design your small business with work-life balance in mind — how to create a strong, sustaining business from the ground up.

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About Brand It, Build It Podcast: The Brand It, Build It Podcast — a chart-topping small business marketing podcast hosted by Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold® — equips you to grow your creative small business with purpose and strategy.

About With Grace and Gold®: Honored as Showit Designer of the Year, With Grace and Gold® has proudly served thousands of small businesses worldwide through award-winning, elevated brand and web design since 2014. For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

According to a recent Google study, visually complex web designs are actually considered to be less beautiful overall than clean and minimal web designs. The study goes on to explore how complexity can color visitors’ first impressions — impacting how easily visitors can understand a website’s content, or how willing visitors are to continue exploring a website further. Today, we’re going to share why — and how — less is more in web design, and how you can prepare for your next web design with purpose and strategy. Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time.

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About Brand It, Build It Podcast: The Brand It, Build It Podcast — a chart-topping small business marketing podcast hosted by Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold® — equips you to grow your creative small business with purpose and strategy.

About With Grace and Gold®: Honored as Showit Designer of the Year, With Grace and Gold® has proudly served thousands of small businesses worldwide through award-winning, elevated brand and web design since 2014. For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Discover 5 ways to elevate your visitors’ experience — 5 tools you can use and add to your website to ensure your visitors are receiving a great experience, forming a meaningful and lasting connection with your business, and ultimately, confidently choosing to purchase your products and book your services. Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time.

Helpful Links: Podcast Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ With Grace and Gold on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free

About Brand It, Build It Podcast: The Brand It, Build It Podcast — a chart-topping small business marketing podcast hosted by Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold® — equips you to grow your creative small business with purpose and strategy.

About With Grace and Gold®: Honored as Showit Designer of the Year, With Grace and Gold® has proudly served thousands of small businesses worldwide through award-winning, elevated brand and web design since 2014. For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

What does it mean to have a web design rooted in purpose, growth, and success, reflective of your unique vision and goals? Today, we're exploring one simple — but sometimes challenging — decision of yours that can make all the difference in exactly how successful your website can work be.

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About Brand It, Build It Podcast: The Brand It, Build It Podcast — a chart-topping small business marketing podcast hosted by Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold® — equips you to grow your creative small business with purpose and strategy.

About With Grace and Gold®: Honored as Showit Designer of the Year, With Grace and Gold® has proudly served thousands of small businesses worldwide through award-winning, elevated brand and web design since 2014. For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

This week’s episode is Part 5 of 5 of our New Business Roadmap Series. This 5-part series has been an exploration of how we would approach starting a brand new small business from scratch today. Whether you’re starting a new business or you’re simply adding a new offering to your existing business, these episodes are really a step-by-step journey toward successfully and confidently debuting something new. 

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About Brand It, Build It Podcast: The Brand It, Build It Podcast — a chart-topping small business marketing podcast hosted by Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold® — equips you to grow your creative small business with purpose and strategy.

About With Grace and Gold®: Honored as Showit Designer of the Year, With Grace and Gold® has proudly served thousands of small businesses worldwide through award-winning, elevated brand and web design since 2014. For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

We’re discussing systems, processes, and workflows — how to begin running your new business or offering your new offering — from a place of preparation and purpose. Systems not only equip you to serve your clients and customers through a smooth process, but they also equip you to run your business smoothly and successfully, too. Through systems, you can ensure you always know what to do — how to lead and guide your clients through a client-focused process they will enjoy and value.

Resource Discussed: With Grace and Gold's Small Business Resource Library

Helpful Links: Podcast Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ With Grace and Gold on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free

About Brand It, Build It Podcast: The Brand It, Build It Podcast — a chart-topping small business marketing podcast hosted by Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold® — equips you to grow your creative small business with purpose and strategy.

About With Grace and Gold®: Honored as Showit Designer of the Year, With Grace and Gold® has proudly served thousands of small businesses worldwide through award-winning, elevated brand and web design since 2014. For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

This week, we’re sharing about your must-have minimum viable product — or MVP. An MVP can mean starting your business in a minimal, curated way — simply to ensure there are customers ready to purchase from you or book with you, and to learn from those prospective customers or clients before investing time, energy, and money into a fully-developed business with a full range of products or services you aren’t yet sure your prospective clients or customers will confidently choose, purchase, or book.

Helpful Links: Podcast Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ With Grace and Gold on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free

About Brand It, Build It Podcast: The Brand It, Build It Podcast — a chart-topping small business marketing podcast hosted by Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold® — equips you to grow your creative small business with purpose and strategy.

About With Grace and Gold®: Honored as Showit Designer of the Year, With Grace and Gold® has proudly served thousands of small businesses worldwide through award-winning, elevated brand and web design since 2014. For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

This week, in part 2 of 5 of our New Business Roadmap series, we’re exploring the foundation-building to-dos needed to form a solid foundation for your small business. In other words, now that you’ve answered the foundational questions from part 1 of 5 — who you are, what you do, who you serve, what your minimum viable product will be, and what resources you need to get started — what should your next steps be?

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About Brand It, Build It Podcast: The Brand It, Build It Podcast — a chart-topping small business marketing podcast hosted by Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold® — equips you to grow your creative small business with purpose and strategy.

About With Grace and Gold®: Honored as Showit Designer of the Year, With Grace and Gold® has proudly served thousands of small businesses worldwide through award-winning, elevated brand and web design since 2014. For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Through this 5-episode series, I’ll be using my business education and our 7 years of small business experience to go back to the drawing board and share how we would approach starting a new business from scratch — the questions we would ask, the decisions we would form, and the steps we would take to create a successful, sustainable small business.

Helpful Links: Podcast Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ With Grace and Gold on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free

About Brand It, Build It Podcast: The Brand It, Build It Podcast — a chart-topping small business marketing podcast hosted by Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold® — equips you to grow your creative small business with purpose and strategy.

About With Grace and Gold®: Honored as Showit Designer of the Year, With Grace and Gold® has proudly served thousands of small businesses worldwide through award-winning, elevated brand and web design since 2014. For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Being committed to releasing weekly episodes has meant creating consistency — a commitment to brainstorming topics, writing outlines, recording each episode, blogging about each episode, and marketing each episode — week by week. And this weekly routine actually inspired today’s podcast topic — consistency. We firmly believe in the power of consistency as small business owners… how seemingly small, daily actions can lead to long-term business success. How the seeds you planted in months or years past can make all the difference in your business today. That’s why, today, we’re exploring 5 areas to aim for consistency in — because the routines and consistency you create today can truly make all the difference for your business.

Helpful Links: Podcast Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ With Grace and Gold on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free

About Brand It, Build It Podcast: The Brand It, Build It Podcast — a chart-topping small business marketing podcast hosted by Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold® — equips you to grow your creative small business with purpose and strategy.

About With Grace and Gold®: Honored as Showit Designer of the Year, With Grace and Gold® has proudly served thousands of small businesses worldwide through award-winning, elevated brand and web design since 2014. For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com