Web Design Business with Josh Hall

With DIY website builders becoming more and more popular, the question is; are they a threat to designers doing custom Wordpress websites? Josh think's not and here's why.

In This Episode:

01:30 - Shoutout to podcast reviews
04:03 - Ever a time to use?
05:28 - Owning your space
08:04 - No control
09:50 - Expensive upgrades
12:25 - Limited add-ons
13:56 - Customization issues
15:30 - Designer nightmare
17:14 - Terrible for SEO
18:55 - Moving means recreating
21:03 - No support, lack of community
24:20 - Rare time that it works
27:33 - Final thoughts

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/060

Web strategist and host of The Profitable Website podcast, Wes McDowell, shares 8 keys to creating a highly effective website. In layman's terms, how to make sure your website actually converts traffic to leads or paying customers.

In This Episode

03:12 - Welcome to Wes
04:42 - Web designer to strategist
09:33 - Capitalize on content
15:50 - Use pics in a post
17:05 - Benefit of videos
21:02 - Why “three”
24:44 - Tips to avoid the “cheese”
26:42 - Deep level of content
28:42 - Planning content
31:36 - Homepage direction
36:52 - Longer content
42:32 - Readability
50:57 - What to do with content
58:04 - Showing expertise
1:02:06 - Quantity over Quality
1:04:04 - Social media help
1:08:53 - Linking benefits
1:16:31 - Final thoughts 

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/059

Jane Martinito, my first Filipino guest and a colleague of mine, share both of our experiences with how to work from from home and stay productive as parents.

In This Episode

03:20 - Welcome to Jane
05:06 - A career shifter
06:50 - Schedule at home
07:42 - Full focus on work
10:01 - Quick wrap of day
11:09 - Everyone is wired differently
14:55 - Have a plan if internet is bad
17:53 - Using time blocks
19:12 - You are the boss
21:45 - Power of deadlines
23:20 - LinkedIn Optimization training

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/058

Founder of ContentSnare.com, James Rose, walks us through how to effectively and efficiently collect content from web design clients which we all know, if not done correctly, can be one of the most frustrating and draining aspects of web design.

In This Episode

3:48 - Welcome to James
6:02 - Love saving time
9:35 - Why clients stall
11:11 - Manage expectations
12:32 - Empathy for the client
14:55 - Making it easy for clients
19:19 - Break it into bits
23:44 - Written content assistance
29:25 - Image size issues
35:27 - Communication is key
37:27 - Deadlines need to be communicated
42:43 - Reminders are easy
47:00 - It’s about momentum
50:09 - Don’t be a 24/7 designer
51:09 - Worst case scenarios
54:00 - Tool recommendations
1:00:12 - James’ final thoughts

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/057

"How do I get web design clients?" It's the most common question I get and I've talked about this a lot recently so I thought I'd switch it up and walk you though, practically, how I landed my top 15 web design clients!

In this episode, you'll see how all the strategies I've been talking about (like utilizing your personal network, professional networks, local and national SEO tactics, collaborating with colleagues, etc) brought me my top clients!

Get the show notes and full transcription at:

https://joshhall.co/056

If you're looking to get better SEO rankings, the best, quickest and most affordable place to start is to optimize your website content. To help us understand how to do this both practically and methodically, I've brought in me and my web design agency's SEO Specialist Michelle Bourbonniere to shed some light on best SEO practices and how we optimize our website content for better SEO.

Best part is, you can utilize all these strategies for you AND your client sites and even turn everything you learned in this episode into recurring income services and packages for your web design business.

A quick reminder, if this all seems a little advanced, I cover the basics of SEO in episode 052 to help prep you for this one.

Get the show notes and full transcription at:
http://joshhall.co/055

SEO can feel like a shady, scary, confusing and daunting place. Luckily, all you need to know are a few important fundamentals and have a solid foundation for the basics to feel better about SEO.

In this episode, I'm going to dish out the basics of SEO for web designers so you can feel confident with SEO and make a big impact with organic rankings for both you and your clients.

I'm intentionally going over the basics in this episode to help prep us for the next episode which dives into SEO in a little more detail and complexity. But just like most other subjects in web design, once you know the basics, you can do just about anything from there!

https://joshhall.co/054

In this "behind the scenes" case study style episode, myself along with my new CEO and partner Eric Dingler who acquired my business, open up about went on with selling my business (from my end) and acquiring the business (from his end.)

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https://joshhall.co/053

When it comes to getting web design clients, most people focus on how to get "leads." That's all well and great, but there's no use in spending all your time, money and resources into getting leads if you can't actually convert them.

In this episode, Josh dishes out the 3 keys to getting web design clients which are, in short:

1. Clients have to KNOW you
2. Clients have to LIKE you
3. Clients have to TRUST you

Get all links, resources, show notes and a full transcription at:

https://joshhall.co/052

Amr lost 90% of his income as an IT/tech head hunter back in March when the pandemic came. Luckily, he had a web design side hustle going and was able to quickly pivot and take that business full time. In this podcast episode, you'll hear how now, less than 6 months later, his web design business isn't just surviving, it's thriving.

Get all the links, transcription and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/051