Josh shares his top 10 proven strategies for collecting content for web design projects.

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
02:35 - Big three E’s
Education
03:59 - 1) Where and when
08:37 - 2) Tools for images & media
09:45 - 3) How to send
Expectations
10:56 - 4) Client ownership
12:20 - 5) Repercussion
14:41 - 6) Deadline
Empowerment
16:55 - 7) Organize a project
18:41 - 8) Phase the project
19:33 - 9) Use a tool
24:34 - 10) BONUS TIP
26:37 - Recap

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Shannon Mattern of The Web Designer Academy shares her insight on how to navigate tough times in business, both when new web design projects are sparse and when things get tough on other sides of the business, sharing openly about a huge challenge she’s currently facing with her payment processing platform.

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
03:07 - Greeting to Shannon
05:15 - Challenges of business
09:09 - Navigate the failures
11:00 - Skills and strategy
15:31 - Seasons of muscle building
19:17 - Having courage
22:33 - Be proactive
29:32 - Be creative
32:31 - Give then ask
36:33 - Don’t be a commodity
44:04 - Check your stripe account!
56:55 - Leaders go first
1:03:13 - Don’t victim blame

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Hans Skillrud of Termageddon shares his insights and what he’s learned on how to sell without being “salesy”

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
02:34 - Greeting to Hans
04:48 - First selling experience
10:11 - Tighten up the sell
12:57 - Education through Groupon
17:52 - Be transparent
28:07 - Keeping a balance
33:32 - Use client verbiage
36:52 - Niching
42:35 - Match the energy
51:25 - Personality perspective
56:40 - How to say no
1:07:40 - Working together

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Josh shares 3 keys for helping you choose the right website builder for your web design business.

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
02:00 - The builder

• Do you like the tool itself (even if you are a beginner)? 
• Do you enjoy being in it, find it user friendly, like the UX, have fun and see yourself growing with it over the years.
• Does it suit your need for empowering clients (ie client access, etc)

06:27 - The community

• Does it have a supportive community?
• Is the community behind it large enough and helpful enough to help when you get stuck, want to partner up for scaling or hiring, have resources for training?

11:22 - The company

• Do you trust the company behind it?
• Is the company that built and runs the platform established, trusted and empowering to their customers? 
• Do you trust that they'll be there for the long haul?

16:55 - Recap

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Web Design Professional April Ray shares how she offers and sells email marketing to her web design clients and what’s involved with her plans, how she manages them and more!

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
03:44 - Greeting to April
06:25 - Have three offers
14:02 - Email practicality
18:35 - Social media posting
23:21 - Different strategies
26:46 - Setting expectations
29:22 - When to sell email
40:55 - Pricing email
49:33 - Email & SEO
53:04 - Scaling with superpowers
1:00:40 - How to start email sales

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Dean Jones of WPML.org, one of the leading multilingual plugins for WordPress, shares best practices for translation services on websites from optimizing personally, using AI and multilingual tools.

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
03:32 - Greeting to Dean
05:29 - Partners more than ads
09:00 - Sites that need translation
13:52 - Localization
18:09 - Cultural nuances
21:04 - Research
24:54 - AI & WPML plug-in
29:16 - Why not Google
36:25 - How many languages
43:02 - Human translator
47:10 - Recent success story
49:11 - Currencies
53:39 - Future plans

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Josh shares the second phase of his journey exploring how he went from agency owner to full time course creator.

In This Episode

03:42 - Fall 2019 started the podcast (formerly Josh Hall Web Design Show)
05:23 - Spring 2020 completed suite of web design courses
07:55 - Summer 2020 sold In Transit Studios to Eric (view josh.intransit studios.com) for my freelancer example site
15:15 - Fall 2020 launched my web design community (formerly Web Design Club)
17:22 - Winter 2021 launched the student center/deleted facebook groups
19:11 - Spring 2021 launched a (minor dud) course
22:22 - Summer 2021 started my instagram
24:12 - Fall 2021 maintenance course 2.0
25:03 - Refined and supported courses
25:12 - Grew the club
27:52 - Spring 2022 rebranded the podcast
29:39 - Went through wild family season
32:20 - Winter 2022 sold Divi Web Designers FB group
33:57 - Winter 2023 rebranded the club to Web Designer Pro

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Lawyer/web designer Ann Koppuzha of powerhouse-legal.com shares her insight on the legal side of web design including what web designers need to know and have in place with contracts, copyrights, tax setups and more.

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
03:52 - Greeting to Ann
05:09 - Being a unicorn
07:32 - Starting out
12:39 - Good rule to remember
15:41 - Contracts
23:51 - Two sections
29:50 - Business entities
34:58 - S.Corp or LLC
40:48 - Start-up expenses
42:13 - Established business
47:00 - Insurance
54:47 - Taking legal action
59:49 - Imitation flattery
1:07:43 - Trademark thoughts
1:09:57 - Finding Ann
1:12:59 - When to take it seriously

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Networking coach, personal friend of Josh and author of the new book “Networking Essentials for Success” Chris Borja shares his proven framework for making networking easy, fun and doable for even the world’s most introverted introvert.

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
03:04 - Greeting to Chris
06:28 - Current landscape
10:53 - Networking tip
15:32 - Helping others
18:10 - Personal development
21:12 - Dominate a “major”
23:47 - Cringeworthy moment
30:26 - Step 1 Clarity
33:15 - Step 2 Mindset
36:57 - Step 3 Tools 
38:45 - Step 4 Meeting people
40:57 - Step 5 Build relationships
45:36 - Step 6 Brand & network
47:18 - Step 7 Collaborations
51:12 - Trust travels
56:01 - Final suggestions

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Josh shares some insight on how web designers can utilize YouTube to get clients and repurpose video content for client training. This is a clip taken from a recent weekly coaching session in Web Designer Pro™

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
01:59 - Getting going
03:06 - Pixels to profit
04:25 - Making content
05:59 - Have a plan
07:24 - Regretting YouTube
08:44 - Different playlists
09:43 - Web Designer Pro

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