The Captain Coder Podcast

Do you provide high ticket offers? As a coach or consultant, you know that you need to get people on the phone (or a video call) in order to turn that lead into a sale.

Filling up your calendar with discovery calls can be the key to exploding your online business. It’s the best way to introduce someone to your business, build a relationship with your leads, and make sure you’re the right fit to help them.

And yet your calendar stays pretty empty.

How do you turn that around?

You can book more discovery sessions by implementing just one simple thing into your business.

In today's episode, we're going to learn how YOU can change one thing and get more discovery calls on your calendar.

Mentioned Resources:
5 Ways to Book More Discovery Calls
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Does your ideal customer visit your website and yet do nothing once they’ve landed there?

I’m talking - don't fill out a single form, schedule a call, or even make it off of your homepage.

If you feel like your website does nothing for your business, it’s because you’re not actually telling the people who visit your website how to work with you.

Today, we’re going to learn the strategies that keep customers on your website and actually get them to take action.

Hint: it’s all about clear communication.

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Has your business run comfortably on referrals but now those leads are starting to dry up?

You can’t capture leads when they don’t have anywhere to go and learn more about you and your business - in a single easy place.

They don’t want to hunt for that information through your Instagram feed.

When you run your business online, your business needs a home online.

This week, I’m going to teach you exactly how you can capture those leads and not miss out on a huge revenue stream with your own marketing foundation.

Have you been banging your head against your desk wondering how to charge for a website? After all, customers don't see the value, right?

In our world, we're often feeling like we're fighting for the lowest bid and yet we know that that is not the way to build a profitable business.

You know the customer, you understand what they need, and you know you can help them, but we often get caught up in price.

"We should charge this, but will they pay it?"

In this episode, we're going to talk about how exactly to charge for a website.

Let's start earning our actual worth as web designers and developers.

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Have you been wanting to add new habits to your daily routine and you're just absolutely struggling?

I've always been a routine person. I've been taking daily asthma medications since I was 16 and if I don't follow the same basic routine every day, I might forget to take that medication.

But even though I like routines, adding new habits that I know will help me can be hard.

Creating healthy daily habits can aid in growing your business, getting your mindset right, and even improving that little thing we all neglect - work/life balance.

Today, I'm going to walk you through the trick I recently used to create an entirely new morning and evening routine, help me getting better sleep, and start my day not already stressed.

Plus, I'm giving away free sample pages of my journaling process that works!

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Have you been running your web design business for a while, but you don't know why your customers don't stick with you for years after years?

A lot of businesses seek out a new company when it's time to redo their website right?

It doesn't have to be that way! You can delight your customers to a point that they'll be unable to imagine going anywhere else. When they need that redo, you can be the first one they talk to.

While you can do a lot to keep your customers happy after you launch their websites, a lot of their initial impressions are going to come in the first few days and weeks of you building their website.

It's hard to undo a bad first impression, after all.

I've had countless clients come to me after a bad experience and complain about these very issues. If you want to provide stellar customer care, get referrals, and keep your clients, you really just need to avoid doing these 6 things.

Ready to make creating your marketing content feel like a breeze?

There is a way to make it all easier, I swear!

Last week, we broke down your other options for digital marketing beyond social media.

In today’s episode, I’m going to walk you through how to put that plan into action the easiest way possible by batching your content and breaking it up into multiple pieces.

There’s no reason for you to be asking yourself on a daily basis what you’re going to talk about. In fact, if you follow this method, you can get your entire month’s marketing done in just a few hours in one shot instead of a few hours every week or even an hour a day.

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Today, we're going to step away from talking about helping clients and focus on building your own website agency.

You do your own marketing right? You're working hard to find new clients, attract people to you, and land those high-dollar clients.

While you might be going to job boards or answering RFPs, I know a lot of agency owners will work on building up their own digital marketing.

When that's not your area of expertise, I find that a lot of people default to social media.

Even for my students in my digital marketing class at Wichita State, it's a common misconception that social media is the be all end all for marketing online.

Not only is social media not your only outlet, it's dangerous to put all your eggs in that basket.

In today's episode, I'm going to outline why you may want to focus on more than just social media and then give you some alternatives that you can add into your digital marketing plan. (And hint - it's actually pretty easy to expand out and include these!)

Growing a business is hard. Growing a web design and development business can be a special kind of difficult.

Want to know a shortcut to improving your marketing's effectiveness, increasing your leads, and getting a better connection up front with your prospects?

Inject some humanity into your marketing!

I know, this sounds a bit crazy. You're selling a service to a business, right? Yes, but behind every decision is at least one decision maker who is, well, human.

In today's episode, I'm going to walk you through what adding some humanity into your marketing looks like, how you can connect to those essential human needs, and how you can change up your own marketing to improve the leads you're getting.

Mentioned Resources:
Episode 32 - Discovering What Your Target Audience Wants
Episode 39 - 7 Mistakes Web Designers Make with Social Media
Marketing Rebellion by Mark Schaeffer 

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be a woman in tech? It was International Women's Day yesterday, March 8, so I thought it would be the perfect time to share my experiences.

When I first started to learn to code, it was 2000, I was 13, and most people were still using Yahoo instead of Google.

I've always been self-taught, so my experiences in tech don't come from classes like some might, but I've also been working as a web developer since I was 18.

Let me preface this all by saying that I know that I've been very lucky in my journey. I've had wonderful mentors, leaders, and jobs where I "missed out" on a lot of the more negative experiences some of my female peers.

But my journey also hasn't been all sunshine and roses, either.

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