Today my guests are Tim Janes and Dan Foster, co-founders of MakeBuild Studio - a design and innovation studio from London in the UK.Tim’s background as a visual designer and Dan’s background digital designer and UX consultant meant these 2 were a power duo when starting Makebuild 4 years ago.Though they have designed and built a lotttt of Webflow websites, they have also been experimenting emerging technologies like AR. In fact, recently, they made an AR project with Fruitella - the sweet brand. To help launch a new jelly sweets, they created a world and then select a creature which you could see in your living room on your phone screen.Makebuild have recently hired Liam Mews and Greg Faulkner so they’re flying high and growing a team but we want to know about how they got here don’t we?!The failures that we’ll talk about in this episode are:1) Not scaling up the team early enough2) Not niching down early enough3) Not focusing on producing great workOPTIBASENever guess a website decision again - try optibase for free hereLINKS FOR TIM & DAN💻 See Website: https://www.makebuild.studio/🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tim_Janes🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/djfost🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timrjanes/🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danfoster29/TRY OUT WEBFLOW🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflail‍CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL📬 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://webflail.ck.page/8a5e37bca6🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1SAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...

Today my guest is Uros Mikic. He’s Founder and CEO of Flow Ninja Studio, an award-winning Webflow agency working with clients like Upwork.Since 2015, they have successfully led more than 100+ Webflow projects worldwide.He has a team of 40 people and his team is in Serbia. They have products like Data Goat, Six Star App & moreAt the 2023 Webflow London meetup, Uros introduced me to Rakia which, I later found out, gives terrible hangovers.He has a killer YT channel where he shares stories behind building in-house team of 40 people and how you can leverage website strategy and Webflow to grow your digital presence.But how is he so driven? And what ups and downs has he had on route to success?The failures we'll talk about in today's episode are:Scaling the team too fast - track numbers and profitabilityManagement style - how bad a manager he isThe office - one of ROIOPTIBASENever guess a website decision again - try optibase for free hereFLOW N' GROWWant to outsource your tedious Webflow maintenance tasks & earn extra cash? Click hereLINKS FOR UROS💻 See Website: https://www.flow.ninja/🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrosMikic2🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikicuros/TRY OUT WEBFLOW🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflail‍CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL📬 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://webflail.ck.page/8a5e37bca6🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1SAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...

Today my guest is Kayleigh Flaherty. She's a Webflow developer located on Long Island, New York. And if you need a reminder who she is, she was part of the killer duo with KC Katalbas for the Slater Game Challenge, obviously. And she made an incredible game called "Debug," which she was in the top three for that challenge for, but what I'm trying to say is that Kayleigh is extremely talented. And although she's not posting every day on, on Twitter and LinkedIn and stuff, she is doing amazing work every single day.She's so super, super busy. And in fact, organizing this interview was really hard because she's so busy. She's doing so much work.She's worked for Blackpeak and Ammo Studio, but she's also got her own individual clients too. She's flying high, but has it always been this way?The failures that we're going to talk about are:Learning for too long and not actually jumping into the client work itselfRelying on one agency for workaccounting for her time properlySo, embrace and learn from failure in episode 83 of the podcast with Kayleigh FlahertyOPTIBASENever guess a website decision again - try optibase for free hereFLOW N' GROWWant to outsource your tedious Webflow maintenance tasks & earn extra cash? Click hereLINKS FOR KAYLEIGH💻 See Website: https://www.kaydf.com/🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_kaydfTRY OUT WEBFLOW🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflail‍CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL📬 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://webflail.ck.page/8a5e37bca6🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1SAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...

Today my guest is Florian Bodelot. He is the co-founder of Digidop. He met his co-founder, Thomas Labonne, in school and they thought wow there's an opportunity with the no code space in France. It wasn't so well known so they doubled down on a tool called Webflow which you may have heard of.And since then, they're like a runaway train. These guys are now a Webflow professional partner, Client First certified. And in 2023, they won professional partner of the year. The rise has been pretty dramatic for Digidop. After translating Client First documentation for FinSuite a couple of years ago, they have seriously leveled up their game, growing a team and doubling down on content creation too. They have their own YouTube channel, TikTok, Instagram. These guys are going in on content, which we'll also talk about today.‍So has it all no pain au chocolat on their journey to Digidop domination for these frenchmen? Of course not.The failures that we'll talk about today are:Believing saying no to clients meant losing opportunitiestwo, selling features over benefitsforgetting how sport was making Florian a better man.So, embrace and learn from failure in episode 82 of webflail with FlorianOPTIBASENever guess a website decision again - try optibase for free here FLOW N' GROWWant to outsource your tedious Webflow maintenance tasks & earn extra cash? Click hereWEBFLOW LONDON MEETUP!Buy tickets here!LINKS FOR FLORIAN💻 See Website: https://www.digidop.fr/🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/florian_bodelotTRY OUT WEBFLOW🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflail‍CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL📬 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://webflail.ck.page/8a5e37bca6🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1SAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...

Today my guest is Erin Fleming. Now Erin came to my attention because she was doing the most outrageous challenge. 100 days of posting her work and she was cranking out designs on the daily. From it, she’s gained amost 1000 followers, got a freelance client and gained some friends along the way. She’s now building Storefront.design. The best best Digital Storefronts on the Internet. Period.Her story is fascinating as you’re about to hear - she left corporate finance to become a digital designerWere there bumps in the road?! Of course! The failures we'll talk about today are:Relying only on my partner for feedback on my designs, instead of putting my work out there.Starting a design & development studio with my partner, and expecting things to fall into place and clients to walk in the door.After we pivoted the studio to be development only, I gave upon on designing and thought I should focus on my previous skills as an account manager/sales. (Then remembered how much I disliked that.)HOW TO START AN AGENCY COURSECheck out the Slam Media Course hereFLOW N' GROWWant to outsource your tedious Webflow maintenance tasks & earn extra cash? Click here WEBFLOW LONDON MEETUP!Buy tickets here!LINKS FOR ERIN💻 See Website: https://www.storefront.design/🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/erinfleming__TRY OUT WEBFLOW🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflail‍CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL📬 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://webflail.ck.page/8a5e37bca6🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1SAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...

Today, my guest is James Abad. You may know James from making killer work for Black Peak, the team behind Wized that recently got acquired by Finsweet. He worked there for two years, and in that time, Black Peak went from being a team of three to 20 people. A few months ago, he said goodbye to Blackpeak to follow a new path where he created his own agency with Alier, otherwise known as Ald, Gallardo. The agency is called Produlis to produce scalable web apps with Webflow.But although he's had an almighty rise, he's also had some setbacks along the way. The failures that we'll talk about are:My first project, my nightmare and the best thing that ever happened to me. Four months of work, but no money.Creating an agency without prior experience of working at one first.Making work my entire life, all day thinking about it and losing myself in the process.HOW TO START AN AGENCY COURSECheck out the Slam Media Course hereWEBFLOW LONDON MEETUP!Buy tickets here!LINKS FOR JAMES💻 See Website: https://www.produlis.com/📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesabad/🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesabadfe TRY OUT WEBFLOW🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflail‍CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL📬 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://webflail.ck.page/8a5e37bca6🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1SAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...💜 Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoHg

I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is John D Suanders. Now you’ve probably heard this intro before: What is good y’all, John D Saunders here, you know the vibes. He’s a Web Designer and Founder at 5Four Digital and an Automation Expert with a decade of experience building brands online. Over more than 10 years, agency has worked with 250+ startups so pretty prolific. But what’s possibly most impressive about John is his content creation. He’s done over 150 videos on YouTube amassing more than half a million views and that’s actually where I first came across him. He’s got a course called Agency Growth Accelerator. And this is all while being a dad too.As you probably know if you listen to this podcast regularly, success comes with some face plants along the way. The failures that we’ll talk about today are:Not charging enoughNot focussing on core services fast enough (Switching just branding, UI/UX)Not developing systems in the agency soon enoughHOW TO START AN AGENCY COURSECheck out the Slam Media Course hereWEBFLOW LONDON MEETUP!Buy tickets here!LINKS FOR JOHN💻 See Website: https://www.5fourdigital.com/ 📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndavidsaunders/ 🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/johndsaundersTRY OUT WEBFLOW🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflail‍CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL📬 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://webflail.ck.page/8a5e37bca6🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1SAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...💜 Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoHg

Hello and welcome to episode 78 of Webflail.Today my guest is Grace Walker. If you’re interested in the Webflow space, you no doubt know her already - she has over six years of design experience and almost years of successful freelancing, she’s launched nearly 100 marketing sites for my clients. She’s a web designer and webflow developer that, besides being known for her clean designs and thoughtfully constructed websites, has an exceptionally pleasing twitter aesthetic. Grace shares glimpses of her minimalist home, nature on her road biking adventures and obviously stunning work. She’s just released her own course called “Fast Forward Freelance course,” for freelancers aspiring to have a thriving freelance practice which includes resources, hours of video content and office hours too.Life seems pretty rosy. But is that true? And has it been smooth sailing on the journey? he failures we’ll discuss today are:Saying yes to projects because I felt like she “should”Being afraid to break up with clientsNot asking for help when I was in over my headHOW TO START AN AGENCY COURSE Check out the Slam Media Course hereWEBFLOW LONDON MEETUP!Buy tickets here!LINKS FOR GRACE💻 See Website: https://www.gracewalker.ca/📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walkergrace/🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/graceongridTRY OUT WEBFLOW🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflail‍CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL📬 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://webflail.ck.page/8a5e37bca6🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1SAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...💜 Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoHg

Today my guest is Jeremy Leroux. You have no doubt seem Jeremy on a livestream. As one third of No code north, a keen visual designer and developer and data base and API integrationer, he’s no slouch in the webflow space. Fascinatingly though, Jeremy has had an unusual path to Webflow development. He came to web design and development form working in the Entertainment industry as a writer / director. He’s also the founder of countryeverywhere which celebratingLGBTQ+, BIPOC, & Disabled Country music communities.A fascinating podcast ahead. The failures we’ll discuss today are:undervaluing the work and my skill. Doing free / low paying work for much longer than needed. Eg even up to a year ago I did a free site and after i had put so much work and effort in, the person i built it for a few months later without even letting me know took it down and replaced it with a few links on a page. Glorified linktree.Building Country Everywhere with a "Field of Dreams" mentality. Where in actuality if you build it they won't necessarily come.Putting all eggs in one basket. A steady year of work is not a guarantee of another.Webflow London Meetup!Buy tickets here!LINKS FOR JEREMY💻 See Website: https://www.jeremyleroux.com/📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-leroux/🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyblerouxTRY OUT WEBFLOW🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflail‍CONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL📬 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://webflail.ck.page/8a5e37bca6🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1SAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...💜 Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoHg

Today my guest is Jacob Sussman, CEO and co-founder of BX Studio. Now BX studio is interesting - it’s a webflow exclusive agency. They offer custom development, site migration, and ongoing maintenance and support services. Now what’s wild is that the studio launched in January 2022. Since then, BX studio has not only become a webflow enterprise partner, but has also created award winning work with brands in a variety of industries such as Headspace, Zipline and Square Roots. That’s mental health, drones and vertical farming. You may have seen Jacob talk about the most recent Webflow conf, or seen him on Twitter where very active.As anyone who has seen Taylor Swift’s documentary though, a meterioric rise to fame and fortune doesn’t come without it’s sacrifices and head in hand moments.Getting fired from one of my first client accountsNot holding internal team members to reasonable standardsNot hiring project managers at BX Studio for 5 months despite scaling the agency significantly - overwhelmingWebflow London Meetup!Buy tickets here!LINKS FOR JACOB💻 See Website: https://www.bx.studio/📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bxstudio/🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bx__studioTRY OUT WEBFLOW🚀https://webflow.grsm.io/webflailCONNECT WITH WEBFLAIL📬 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://webflail.ck.page/8a5e37bca6🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackRedley1SAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...💜 Leave a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5834...💜 Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoHg