Kiss My Aesthetic Podcast 061 Life According to Web Designer Georgia G Kaye
Georgia is a St. Louis-based WordPress and Showit web designer and developer, with 50+ sites to her name in just 2021 alone. She specializes working 1:1 with entrepreneurs on a day rate basis during her "Designer Days" to create small-scale websites, blogs, sales pages, marketing collateral, and template customizations. She is also the co-founder of Studio N°88, a Showit website template shop for female entrepreneurs.
Georgia has worked with clients across all industries including real estate, marketing agencies, construction firms, wedding professionals, and educators, several of which have been featured in Forbes, Medium, Realtor.com, The Knot & more.
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In today's episode, we cover:
- Georgia’s background story
- Designer Days in a website capacity and how she came up with the idea
- What’s her Designer Day process like
- Pricing a brand new service you have yet no experience to showcase
- Top 3 mistakes/recommendations to avoid
- The importance of setting clear client expectations
- Difference between a web design project from someone coming with full branding vs. someone having one font and two colors picked
- Partnering up with other professionals
- How to approach entrepreneurship friendship
- Learning how to prioritize in your business
- Setting boundaries and having a clear communication
- Tips to getting started as a web designer
- As a web designer, should you cold pitch a potential client?
- The importance of having a portfolio as a creative
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RESOURCES:
- Georgia's favorite tools and resources
- Designer Day Masterclass (day rate training for designers)
- Kiss My Portfolio Challenge V
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Guest info:
For more on Georgia, you can find her as @georgia.g.kaye on Instagram, and on TikTok, and for more about working with her, head over georgiagkaye.com.
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