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Favorite Squarespace + Adobe Font Combinations
Customizing your website to stand out from the rest, doesn’t have to be difficult. With an Adobe Fonts account and your eye for design, you can update your website to go beyond the standard settings and truly make it your own.
How to Add a Testimonial Slider in Squarespace
Showing off client testimonials is a great way to engage with potential new clients and show off a little bit more the quality of your services. There are multiple ways to highlight testimonials on your website but one of my favorite ways is through a summary block slider on your website. Check out the following steps to achieve this look.
How to Become a Squarespace Designer
Creating a custom website is a huge need in the design work for all types of business owners. There are multiple platforms out there for developing and designing a website, but to those of you who are new around here - Squarespace has always been my platform of choice. Becoming a Squarespace designer is a relevantly easy process, but there are a few steps to get you ready to release this service to the masses. Check out my tips!
How to Use Facebook & Instagram Advertising to Grow Your Design Agency
Attracting new clients to your design agency can be a tedious process. Cold calling and emailing, networking or word of mouth are all basic ways to grow your agency, but these tend to take a lot of time and energy – two resources which no business owner can afford to waste! Running paid ad campaigns on Facebook and Instagram to promote your agency is yet another (relatively) simple way to get your name out there that doesn’t require you to spend hours networking at an event or calling hundreds of ‘potential’ clients only to be told that they are not interested, most of the time.
How to Start Your Own Design Business
Now more than ever, people are wanting to make the move to creating their own online business. If you have an interest in design or a background in the industry, here are some of my top methods for starting your design business.
How to Use Location Based Hashtags to Grow Your Instagram
Using hashtags on Instagram can be one of the most effective ways for your business to organically reach a new audience online. Not only do they categorize your content to a very specific, niche audience and make it more discoverable by users, they are also an effective way to reach more followers and increase your overall engagement and brand awareness even as the Instagram algorithm changes over time.
What To Include In Your Graphic Design Portfolio
When it comes to your portfolio, less is more. You might be thinking, “Wait — shouldn’t I showcase all my work? I want clients to know I’ve got the experience.” Trust me, I get it but we’re going for quality over quantity here. You want to showcase the cream of the crop, not every single project you’ve ever worked on.
Pricing for Freelance Graphic Designers
Pricing is something I struggled with for a long time in my business and I know it’s something other designers struggle with too. Back then, I was undervaluing my expertise, which attracted clients that didn’t value me or my work.
Business Plan For Graphic Designers
So you have a super amazing, awesome, kickass business idea but you're not sure where to start?
Why You Should Niche Your Design Business
As a business owner, it’s so important to become a specialist in your industry and stand out as a go-to option for potential clients. An easy way for you to do this is by niching your design business.
4 Reasons Why I Mock Up My Squarespace Sites In Adobe XD First
I used to think that mocking up a Squarespace website first would be a waste of time and just add more steps to my process, but by adding this step to my client experience, I’ve actually been able to wrap up projects faster (and with fewer revisions).
Enable Rich Pins in Squarespace
Pinterest is a great way to drive traffic to your website, gaining you new visitors and potential new clients along the way. While traditional pins on Pinterest are still helpful to your site traffic, rich pins are the way to go with gaining the most views and click throughs (clicks to your website). They allow Pinterest to import the extra information from your website into their platform. It makes your content more likely to show up when someone searches for it.
Migrating from Wordpress to Squarespace
Making the move from Wordpress to Squarespace can take a few steps but it certainly does not have to be a complicated process! You may think your Wordpress site is already the way to go, but I am a huge fan of Squarespace and think it is a better fit for your online business. Read this post for more about why you are going to want to make the switch! In this blog post, I will be covering what you need to do to migrate from one platform to another.
Squarespace SEO Launch Checklist
It’s one thing to build a beautiful Squarespace website but if no one ever sees it what’s the point?! Setting you website up for SEO success is one way to ensure traffic to your website. Luckily with Squarespace, they make it really easy to get your website set up on the back end for SEO success.
How to Find Clients
Hands down, the most frequently asked question I get is “How do you find clients?” I wanted to share some of the ways I have found business when I was just starting out and some of the strategies that are still effective for me today. Use these tips to implement in your own business, but I encourage you to adapt and adjust as needed for your industry and needs as well!
Squarespace Vs Wordpress
Squarespace, Wordpress, or something else entirely?
When you’re trying to build a website, you can easily get bogged down in research mode. There’s tons of website builders out there and just as many opinions on them.
How to Use Pinterest to Drive Traffic to Your Website
You might have heard about how great Pinterest is, but did you know that it’s the one fastest growing social network? With over 100 million monthly users who love to share content, Pinterest is an excellent way to connect with your audience.
How to Use Reviews to Boost Your SEO
We are trying to get the popcorn ceiling in our home removed and I have been going down the rabbit hole of trying to decide if we DIY it or hire somebody. In my search for a painter to give us a quote, I have been relying heavily on online reviews. I found that companies with ratings and reviews ranked higher in my search and I was also more likely to contact the company based on the amount of reviews they had.
How to create a free resource library in Squarespace
If you have an online business you know the importance of growing your email list and today I’m sharing the most successful way that I have found to grow my email list: a resource library on my Squarespace website.
Take your brand from DIY to OMG
Over the last few weeks you’ve gotten a crash course in branding. We’ve covered what it is, why you need it, and what it can do for your business.
You’ve also learned the do’s and don’ts of DIY-ing your brand and you’re ready to get started.
But maybe you’re still a little fuzzy on how to put all the pieces of your brand together. You know the what, but you’re still trying to figure out the how.