Web Design Business with Josh Hall

Josh explains why you can make a good living in web design NOW more than ever before and tackles 3 common objections to getting into web design.

In This Episode

01:36 - Featured Review Shoutout
03:37 - Three main questions
11:16 - Oversaturation
19:51 - Building organically
22:51 - Quality over quantity
23:33 - Success is...
24:39 - Feelings on luck
32:09 - Recap and courses

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/070

Senior Content Manager of Pat Flynn's brand Smart Passive Income, Karen Beattie, shares with us what they learned with planning, building and running their successful membership at SPI Pro.

In This Episode

03:26 - Greeting to Karen
06:22 - Different reasons
10:11 - Bring tribe together
13:36 - Launch Plan
15:14 - Why paid not free
19:20 - Purposeful
23:46 - Platform decision
30:58 - Setting up
34:38 - Active members
41:10 - Pricing
43:59 - Maintaining is work
52:29 - Final thoughts

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/069

Josh teaches you how to speed up your website design process through 9 tips from his experience with building websites for clients for a decade.

In This Episode

02:15 - Featured podcast review
03:24 - Plan before you build
06:15 - Start with staging site
08:40 - Set global styles
11:14 - Save, reuse layouts
14:58 - Save coding snippets
18:07 - Limit new tricks
19:58 - Make a deadline
23:25 - Get in a flow state
27:01 - Follow a process
30:34 - Recap of tips

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/068

Creator of the Freelancing School Jay Clouse has a mission of helping people start and build their freelancing business. One of the hardest areas of doing so is finding the confidence (in your services and in yourself) to be able to sell when you're just starting out. But in this episode, Jay dishes out practical advice, strategies and tips that you can implement right now to help!

In This Episode

03:32 - Greeting to Jay
04:25 - Being a “Creator”
07:14 - Changing a work style
09:35 - Creating confidence
12:12 - Anyone can advocate
14:33 - Realistic expectations
16:37 - Reinforcing yourself
18:57 - Small celebrations
25:29 - Comfort in certainty
27:29 - Action steps
32:12 - Pricing tell a story
34:26 - Everyone listen!
37:17 - Investment not cost
41:47 - Exciting start
45:15 - Opportunity cost
49:34 - Qualified definition
55:16 - Seasonal coaching
56:30 - Forming habits
1:00:12 - Capacity advantage

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/067

This month, October 2020, my web design agency In Transit Studios turns 10!

It's been an amazing decade of lessons learned, experience gained and amazing relationships formed and in this episode, I wanted to highlight the top 10 "most important" lessons I learned in the decade of starting, building, running and eventually selling my web design agency.

There are countless other tips and important lessons learned but if I were to sit down with an inspiring agency owner and dish out my top 10, these are it.

I hope they help you in your journey whether you're just getting started or have been at it for a while!

In This Episode

02:22 - Featured Podcast Review
03:31 - Naming the company
07:21 - 1) Constant learning
11:36 - 2) Market and innovate
15:00 - 3) Choose your “Why”
18:24 - 4) Caring for clients
22:13 - 5) Value relationships
26:52 - 6) Share knowledge
30:32 - 7) Invest in your business
33:01 - 8) Your strengths
36:30 - 9) Ignore nay-sayers
40:16 - 10) Enjoy the mundane

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/066

Author of The Profit Planner book series and Co-owner of Kickstart Accounting, Danielle Hayden, shares with us some practical steps and strategies on how we can make our web design businesses more profitable. I.e. making sure we're actually MAKING money in our business, not LOOSING it.

In This Episode:

03:25 - Greeting to Danielle
04:16 - Promise to keep fun
07:30 - Why Profit is important
09:42 - Fulfill your goals
10:40 - Pricing
13:59 - Charging more
17:41 - Watch the numbers
21:44 - When to review
22:31 - Weekly review
25:29 - Monthly review
27:51 - Days to review
30:39 - Setting goals
35:05 - Time blocking
37:49 - P&L
41:12 - Getting help
44:31 - Saving three months
47:57 - Planning ahead
54:39 - Start now
57:22 - Don’t hide from it

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/065

Choosing the right tools for your business is an important decision. In web design, our tools are the foundation of our business and will be where we "live" for years to come. In this episode, I'm dishing out 10 tips for helping you decide which tools will be best for YOU and worth investing in and adding to your toolbox.

In This Episode

01:16 - Featured podcast review
04:29 - Know needs first
06:07 - Company research
08:16 - Community values
10:10 - Real world examples
12:03 - Talk to someone
14:18 - Fit the budget
16:46 - Shiny tool syndrome
19:58 - Replacing other tools
22:07 - “Like” being inside it
25:48 - Trust your gut
26:56 - Recap

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/064

Founder of RemoteVideoTeam.com, David Kilkelly, shares some invaluable video marketing tips that we can implement into our web design businesses to help grow our business and make better connections with our clients. We also cover a lot of strategies for getting better on camera and how to get started with video.

In This Episode

00:28 - Video is King
04:06 - Greeting David
08:27 - Visual, engaging
12:27 - Outside comfort zone
19:53 - Power in editing
26:48 - YouTube search engine
29:14 - Social media snack
33:42 - Scheduling posts
37:42 - LinkedIn thoughts
41:52 - YouTube thoughts
44:30 - Marketing funnel
52:01 - Editing tools
55:57 - Showing personality
58:09 - Best clients


Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/063

Josh outlines the most common traps that most web designers fall into and more importantly, why you should avoid them!

In This Episode:

01:10 - Featured podcast review
02:46 - The “trade work” trap
08:11 - The “exposure” trap
10:27 - The “little now and percentage as we grow” trap
12:57 - The “outside your offering” trap
15:42 - The “friend/family” trap
19:04 - The “comparison” trap
22:05 - The “eggs in one basket” trap
24:53 - The “shiny new tools” trap
28:25 - The “growth” trap
30:15 - The “can’t say no” trap

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/062

CEO of Kanopi.com, a web design agency of nearly 50 fully distributed teams, Anne Stefanyk shares her experience with building an agency that's based around creating long-lasting websites and clients which is key for longevity in web design.

In This Episode

03:39 - Greeting Anne
05:27 - Focus on building relationships
07:24 - Maintenance is the beginning
11:38 - What matters most
14:10 - Not working with crusty stuff
15:08 - Tips for redesigning
19:00 - Initial benchmarks
22:07 - Full site lifecycle
23:21 - Customer decision journey
27:40 - Website more a flywheel
29:05 - Change the client mindset
32:19 - Tracking CRM tools
36:19 - Leading back to your site
34:22 - Minimize to maximize
46:52 - Building to sustain
53:08 - Hive network
56:58 - Rewards of hiring out
1:04:22 - The breaking point
1:17:09 - Failure is learning

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

 https://joshhall.co/061