The right tool for the job makes your life easier. This applies to your web design business too! I've been a solopreneur & freelancer for nearly 10 years now and I've found some amazing tools that make running my business easier than ever. These tools help me to work smarter, not harder, and they can help you too! Try these tools to run your web design business in 2019 and make it your most efficient year yet. Administrative Tools Mailerlite My email provider of choice. It makes managing your newsletter list easy and provides a lot of free services including automation & landing pages! Plutio This is a fantastic CRM that makes managing clients & 0prjects easy. ... // read more
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3 of My Favorite Planners to Organize Your Web Design Business
A new year is nearly here, and you know what that means it's time to get a new planner! Getting a new planner is always one of my favorite end of year activities, it's so full of hope and potential. There are a lot of planners out there, so how do you know which one is right for you? I'm sharing my experiences with 3 different planners that will suit any need including my current favorite planner which I'm using for the second year in a row! Passion Planner I love the passion planner (it happens to be my current planner & my 2019 planner) if you've followed me on Instagram you've probably seen me post about it (or sneak into my posts). The Passion Planer is great for anyone who wants ... // read more
4 Essential Tools for Balancing Your Web Design Business & The Holidays
The busy holiday season is approaching. That means it's time to make sure you and your web design business are ready for it now. These essential tools will keep your web design business running smoothly all year 'round, but during the busy holiday season they are essential to keeping your sanity, and ensuring your web design business runs smoothly no matter how much (or little) time you have to devote to it. 1 | Social Media Scheduler Scheduling your social media activity ahead of time is such a time saver! I went from spending an hour every day scheduling my social media to spend only an hour a week doing it! How? I got organized and devoted 1 hour every Friday just to schedule social ... // read more
How to Set Up WordPress Maintenance on Autopilot (For Free)
Performing regular WordPress maintenance is essential to maintaining your website. Remembering to do that in the midst of all the other tasks you have to keep your clients and business happy is another story. Performing regular WordPress maintenance doesn't need to be hard or time-consuming! You can automate much of your WordPress maintenance to keep your site up to date and keep the impact maintenance tasks have on your schedule to a minimum. WordPress Maintenance 101 WordPress maintenance falls into 3 categories: Updates, Backups, and Quality Assurance. Updates are essential to your themes, plugins, and WordPress itself to stay up to date. Up to date plugins, themes, and WordPress ... // read more
3 Tips to Work On Your Web Design Business (Not Just In It)
When was the last time you spent working on your web design business? Not, client work, but growing and nurturing your business. Doing all those little things like tweaking your marketing, updating your site, and making sure your own brand is spot on? Getting caught up in client work and everything else that goes into your business can make it difficult to actually spend time nurturing your business. We get stuck working in our business, not just on it. Can you relate? I know when I'm busy with client work my own business takes a back seat. Who has time to write blog posts when clients are waiting? Then when things slow down a bit and you have time to take a breath you head over to your own ... // read more
How to Empower Your Design Business by Partnering with a Developer
You slump back in your chair and rub your tired eyes. The jumbled mess of a website on your screen looks nothing like the pixel perfect mock-up you designed. The client's due date is slowly getting closer with every hour that passes. You should have completed this two hours ago, but that widget won't center and now the rest of the layout is messed up too! This isn't what you imagined, you wanted to create beautiful and perfectly designed websites, not stare at code all day. Can you relate? Imagine your web design business, is it really you frantically search for answers to the latest bug you encountered? Or is you creating a pixel-perfect design which seamlessly turns into a fully ... // read more