The Best Stock Photo Sites in 2025
Ready to find the best stock photo sites? Having great photos is critical when it comes to creating a high-converting website. Nothing ruins credibility (and beautiful design) faster than poor-quality images. But you don’t have to hire a photographer and plan a photoshoot to get great-looking images for your (or your client’s) website. You can…
Read More5 Books to Refresh Your Creative Business
Is it time to refresh your creative business? You can’t quite put your finger on it (or maybe you can!) but your business just isn’t working for you the way that it used to. It might be your offers, your marketing, the hours you’re working, or all of the above. Your business needs a refresh.…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Marketing Cheat Sheet Guide
Want a simple and easy marketing cheat sheet that you can reference at a glance? Awesome, because today, you’re going to create your very own marketing cheat sheet! How many times have you completed marketing activities like an ideal client avatar or a value message only for it to live in a folder on your…
Read MoreHow to Connect With Your Potential Clients (Without Feeling Sleazy)
Struggling to connect with your potential clients? Connecting with potential clients can be hard, especially if you’re worried about coming off as pushy or sleazy. Like, how the heck do you talk to someone when your goal is to get them to buy from you–but you don’t want to sound like a used car salesman?!…
Read MoreCrafting the Perfect Value Message: A Magic Formula That Works
Do you know what your value message is? If you don’t, it’s going to be hard to convey the value you provide to your potential clients. Our message needs to be clear in order for us to be clear in our marketing. We need to be able to say what we do in a very…
Read MoreClient Awareness Stages: Do Your Clients Know They Have a Problem?
How aware are your clients that they even have a problem that needs to be solved? I know, weird question, but in reality, many people are walking around unaware of what their problem really is or that they even have one. And if you’re trying to sell a website to someone who doesn’t know they…
Read MoreIdeal Client Avatars That Don’t Suck
Most ideal client avatars are based on an imaginary person. We’re not doing that. Why would we base our business on an imaginary person with imaginary problems? That’s just silly. Yet, that’s exactly what most ideal client avatar exercises have you do. And that’s exactly why most ideal client avatars don’t work very well. So…
Read MoreHow to Niche Your Web Design Business the Right Way
Are you trying to niche the wrong way? When most web designers get started, they go through some exercises to help them establish a niche and an ideal customer so that they can establish some marketing language and create a service. And that’s great, except most of the time, this is taught incorrectly. The focus…
Read MoreMarketing Strategy: Why You Need One in Your Web Design Business
Most web designers don’t have a marketing strategy. Instead, they’re hopping from social platform to social platform and wondering why they’re not getting clients. Facebook. Instagram. Tiktok. There’s always something new and shiny we’re told we HAVE to be a part of in order to successfully market our businesses. But the truth is that joining…
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