Webflail

For Episode 13, my guests today are Nkenna and Asmah. 

In this episode we talk about: 

1) Not having a website/portfolio to showcase our work early enough which meant clients couldn’t easily access our services and see how we solved similar problems for other brands 

2) Not having detailed project agreements that protected us from project mismanagement, overspilling of project scope and payment structure 

3) Not having a lead generation strategy to avoid the feast or famine cycle - while we were getting referrals, we weren’t putting any strategy in place to consistently stay fully booked 

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For Episode 12, my guest is my guest is Julian Kreth, founder of Agentur 201720, a data driven advertising agency based in Germany.

My favourite part of this episode is about the hiring process. The hiring process is something that we haven’t talked about a lot in Webflail so far despite the fact that it seems to plague a lot of freelancers trying to transition to agency owners. Julian’s process for hiring is enlightening not just for aspiring agency owners but freelancer’s too - by ensuring that hiring process is quite long with over 7 steps, it ensures it is a good fit for the candidate and the agency.

I hope you get as much out of this episode as I did!

The 3 failures we talk about in this episode are:

1) MONEY MANAGEMENT - Founding an event management company that failed after 1 event and what this taught Julian about money and expectations with his agency

2) HANDLING CLIENTS - Giving unlimited reviews to first website clients causing endless frustration

3) HIRING PROCESS - Hiring 6 of the wrong employees in our first year of the agency before working out a hiring process that worked

CONNECT WITH JULIAN
📬 See his website: https://www.201720.agency/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Agentur_201720

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For Episode 11, my guest is Kaela Williams the founder of BTB studio, the studio that creates impactful brands and websites for business growth.

Kaela’s honesty about imposter syndrome was the part of this interview that was most thought provoking for me.

At the start of your journey, it’s a struggle. You’re putting in hours in to trying to get clients, learn skills, carefully think about your processes etc and even though you’re putting in tonnes of effort, you may not feel even half as good as other Webflowers that you see on social media. It can be quite debilitating to see people post their amazing work and wins that you are not having.

The 3 failures we talk about in this episode are:

1) Creating Systems In your Business

2) Letting impostor syndrome get in the way of opportunities

3) Not building balance into your week (being a workaholic/perfectionist)

CONNECT WITH KAELA
📬 See his website: https://www.btb-studio.com/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kaelabrookew


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For Episode 10, my guest is Žiga Fajfar, the co-founder of FlowOut Studio, the Unlimited Webflow design & development subscription service.

1) Focussing on the general market or niching
2) Pros and cons of fixed price projects
3) Being too attached to individual projects and clients

CONNECT WITH ZIGA
📬 See his website: https://www.flowout.com/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FlowoutHQ

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For Episode 9, my guest is Felix Meens,an experienced digital designer and Webflow developer based in Finland and founder of Webflix Studio. 

In this episode we talk about:

1. Failing to focus on only a key channel to get clients
2. Failing to stay calm under pressure with clients
3. Failing to negotiate projects as favours.

One of the biggest mistakes that Felix talked about, and that I made myself as a Webflow freelancer, is to focus on being relentlessly active on every platform and channel to get clients - Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, writing a newsletter, and more.

As Felix says, when you focus your marketing efforts on one of these channels in particular, and become more clued up on how that platform works, you are more likely to get consistent clients. The problem with trying to get clients everywhere is that you will spend hours learning the ins and outs of each platform and becoming a generalist marketer rather than just focussing on one or two platforms to get clients to be a Webflow freelancer.

CONNECT WITH FELIX
📬 See his website: https://www.webflixstudio.com/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FelixMeens
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For Episode 8, my guest is Corey Moen, Senior Brand designer at Webflow and Digital Lead at Shapemaker studio. In today’s episode we talk about failing to communicate with clients effectively, failing to get buy in from your team, failing to do website checks before hitting launch projects.

As we see from this episode, even at Corey’s level, he is not perfect. I find it humbling that despite having worked with clients for over a decade, he is still trying to work out how to communicate as effectively as possible with clients, manage his time well and get buy in from his team.

I think the lesson from this is that even when you are so good at Webflow that Webflow wants to hire you, failures and mistakes still happen. You are constantly learning from these failures and from this, you grow and develop. So, instead of beating yourself up when failures happen, ask yourself what can you learn from them just like Corey has.

CONNECT WITH COREY 📬

See his website: https://www.coreymoen.com/
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For Episode 7, my guest is Shais Ahmad,  the founder of Pristine Digital. In 400 days, he has grown an agency and now has 5 employees, 20 monthly clients and 8K monthly income.

As with anyone that grows fast though, Shais has made mistakes along the way. These failures were almost catastrophic for Shais but he managed to learn from them quickly and get back on track.

The important lesson from this is episode is that in Shais' experience, cold emailing less effective than freelancer platforms. A lot of people start by cold emailing people to try and get their first client. Do you ever respond to cold outreach? Probably not. Neither does the potential client your emailing. Instead, put time in to practicing the craft. Ensure you have 3 great sites that you can show potential clients. You can even make these cloneables and share them on Webflow which may get you some attention.

Then, go to freelancer platforms and find clients that are already looking for you. Bark, Upwork, Yuno Juno

CONNECT WITH SHAIS
📬 See his website: https://www.pristinedigital.co.uk/
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For Episode 6, my guest is Emily Lonetto, the Director Of Community at Webflow, the company which inspired this podcast.

In today’s episode we talk about pushing automations too early, using personal devices for company marketing efforts and the marketing tactics going hideously wrong.

We also discuss how to build a community, building relationships and the imminent plans for Webflow community.

The 3 “fails” she covers:

1) Pushing an automation too early
2) Making a bot that sent free money linked to her personal phone!
3) The lego marketing ploy that went hideously wrong

CONNECT WITH EMILY
📬 See his website: https://www.emilylonetto.com/
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For Episode 5, my guest is Harry Roper, CEO of Imaginary Space. The agency helps companies who are going through a seasonal slump, lack sales being generated from their website, and are looking to move their business forward.

In today’s episode we talk about:

1) Scaling too fast.
2. Agreeing to work that you can't do. Whether thats budget or just pure skills.
3. Overpromising!

The most interesting part of this episode for me was choosing to transition from freelancing to agency. It's important to freelancing and understand all the different parts of the webdesign process first. A lot of people ask whether they should start an agency or just be a solo freelancer but before asking that question, Harry advocates working out what parts of the client process do you like and dislike.

After working with a few clients, you might realise you dislike the design part of the project but like the development part. If that's the case, potentially finding someone to do the design part of projects would be necessary.

If you hire a freelancer to do this work and you get on well.

CONNECT WITH HARRY
📬 See his website: https://www.imaginaryspace.co.uk/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Harry_Aldian
📸 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-roper-434a8a130/


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For Episode 4, my guest is Jenna Manthe is the founder of Holy Moly Creative Studio based in South Africa. She designing and develops Webflow websites that make you say ‘holy moly’.

In today’s episode we talk about:

1) Failing to communicate with clients effectively
2) Failing to get buy in from your team
3) Failing to do website checks before hitting launch projects.

The biggest lesson from this to make a homebase document! Write down your 6 month goals. Have financial goals (eg. earn x consistently) but also community goals (eg. make 5 webflow templates for the @webflow community).Refer back to this doc when feeling unmotivated or low and see how far you have come!

CONNECT WITH JENNA
📬 See his website: https://www.holymolycreativestudio.com/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/holymolycs
📸 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenna-manthe/


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