Web Design Business with Josh Hall
Josh Hall
The Web Design Business Podcast with host Josh Hall is here to help you build a web design business that allows you to have freedom and a lifestyle you love. As a web designer and web agency owner of over a decade, Josh knows the challenges, struggles and often painful lessons of building a web design business without any guidance, proven strategies or a mentor to help you along the way, which is why this show exists. Think of this podcast as your weekly dose of coaching, mentorship and guidance to help you build your dream web design business. All while having a good time doing it. Through interviews with seasoned web design business professionals and online entrepreneurs, solo coaching episodes with Josh and even case studies with his students, you’ll learn practical tips and strategies for web business building along with real-world advice and trends that are happening right now in the wild and wonderful world of web design. Subscribe if you’re ready to start or level up your web design business and for all show notes, links, full transcriptions for each episode, head to https://joshhall.co/podcast
Episodes
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Sep 21, 2020 • 1h 3min
057 - Collecting Content From Your Web Design Clients
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 Episode3:48 - Welcome to James6:02 - Love saving time9:35 - Why clients stall11:11 - Manage expectations12:32 - Empathy for the client14:55 - Making it easy for clients19:19 - Break it into bits23:44 - Written content assistance29:25 - Image size issues35:27 - Communication is key37:27 - Deadlines need to be communicated42:43 - Reminders are easy47:00 - It’s about momentum50:09 - Don’t be a 24/7 designer51:09 - Worst case scenarios54:00 - Tool recommendations1:00:12 - James’ final thoughtsGet all links, resources and show notes at:https://joshhall.co/057
Sep 17, 2020 • 38min
056 - How I Landed my Top 15 Web Design Clients
"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
Sep 14, 2020 • 1h 19min
055 - Optimizing your Website Content for Better SEO with Michelle Bourbonniere
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
Sep 10, 2020 • 41min
054 - The Basics of SEO for Web Designers
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
Sep 7, 2020 • 1h 23min
053 - Behind The Scenes Selling my Web Design Business with Eric Dingler
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.)Get the show notes and full transcription at:https://joshhall.co/053
Sep 3, 2020 • 37min
052 - The 3 KEYS to Getting Web Design Clients
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:Clients have to KNOW youClients have to LIKE youClients have to TRUST youGet all links, resources, show notes and a full transcription at: https://joshhall.co/052
Aug 31, 2020 • 1h 37min
051 - Pivoting to Web Design During a Pandemic with Amr Selim
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
Aug 24, 2020 • 1h 10min
050 - How to Limit Client Website Revisions with Jamie Starcevich
Jamie Starcevich, founder and creative director of Sprucerd.com, takes us through her “Zero Revision Method” and teaches us how to refine our process in order to limit revisions to save both time and sanity for both us as designers and our clients.Get all links, resources and show notes at:https://joshhall.co/050
Aug 17, 2020 • 1h 17min
049 - Selling Website Hosting & Maintenance Plans with Jake Kramer
Jake and his agency Artillery Media have brought 150+ clients onto their hosting and maintenance plan in 2.5 years. Learn how to sell a hosting/maintenance plan of your own!Get all the show notes and links mentioned at:https://joshhall.co/049
Aug 10, 2020 • 46min
048 - An Overview of Website Compliance (ADA, GDPR, etc) with Hans Skillrud
Co-founder of Termageddon Hans Skillrud gives us a basic overview of website compliance like ADA Compliance, GDPR, Privacy Policies, User Tracking and more so we know how to protect ourselves and our clients from potential lawsuits.Get all links, resources and show notes at: https://joshhall.co/048
