If you’re nervous, anxious, jittery or just plain distraught before sales calls or meetings…you’re not alone. I honestly can’t believe this isn’t talked about more. After all – you pour your heart and soul into building awesome websites and refining your craft but in order to get paid for that hard work…you gotta sell! Luckily, there are many things you can do to build confidence and calm before a sales meeting. And that’s what we’re diving into today. I’m pumped to be joined by voiceover profes...
Mar 10, 2025•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Trusting your gut…it usually pays off, maybe not on the books, but personally. But following your intuition is not always easy. Especially if sales are down, confidence is low, etc. You may have no idea where your intuition is leading you. So to help with this topic, I’m here to share my recent convo with business coach and mentor Alyssa Williamson who has some SOLID advice and principles for leading your business through intuition and following what works for you. As someone who faced burnout a...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listen to my full interview with Chris Do ( ep 368 ) When you join Web Designer Pro™ (on any tier) you'll get instant access to the new private audio course feeds for: Web Design Business Course Maintenance Plan Course Scale Your Way Course Join Web Designer Pro™ and enjoy instant access to these courses in audio format along with the full courses inside Pro!...
Feb 27, 2025•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast I teased about this recently on my social media and got a HUGE response which tells me…you’re pumped to see Chris Do on The Web Design Business Podcast and I’m pumped to share our full conversation with you! Chris is known for helping web designers charge their worth, price value over time, get higher-paying clients, how to negotiate during a sales call and how to price for the life you want to live and somehow, we covered all of that and more in our very fast hour together. Enjoy the full convo...
Feb 24, 2025•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast This was a recent live guest expert training held in my community Web Designer Pro™ . To get all the resources mentioned, along with the links, slides and access to the extended Q&A session, you can get it as a member of Pro! In this training, Shannon Mattern covers how to offer paid discovery and more specifically, how and when to add it into your sales calls. If you’re interested in getting paid before you get paid, getting paid for your ideas and/or having a clear separation between free ...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast As a web designer, you may eventually get to a point (or maybe you’re there now) where you want to connect, support and continue to empower your clients in one place. One way to do that is by offering a customer membership or community. It’s a great way to build MRR, stay top of mind, create powerful customer relationships, partnerships, etc. I get it, as a web designer, you didn’t sign up to be a community builder BUT you might be sitting on a golden opportunity here so to dive into this subjec...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ever wondered how to have time to market your business while still having time to get design projects done? Well, there’s no magic formula and striking the balance between the two is tricky. But a great example of someone doing this well is my dude from down under, word-class logo designer James Barnard. James follows a simple 50/50 approach. Meaning 50% of his work is dedicated to marketing (social media, videos, speaking, interviews) and 50% is dedicated to service work (proposals, calls, logo...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Building landing pages or sales pages that convert isn’t rocket science. But there is some science to it. Most of which is proven and can be learned from (and implemented) into your own sales pages very quickly. So, let’s cut right to the chase on how to create high-converting landing/sales pages with an expert who’s been around the block MANY times over. This is a chat with Alisha Conlin-Hurd who’s worked on, optimized and deployed thousands of high-converting sales pages across hundreds of dif...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast An unexpected topic of conversation I’ve consistently had over the last couple years when coaching members of my community Web Designer Pro privately is around managing ADHD and running a web design business. When thinking about ADHD, I’m probably not alone in immediately jumping to the visual of the wild 7 year old kid who can’t sit down in class. But since the conversation around this has become more prevalent for me both personally in my coaching DM’s and in the web design community at large ...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Many web designers don’t want to scale. I get it - because I had that mindset too. I never wanted to be an agency with overhead, payroll, extra stress from managing people, etc. But the good news is, especially nowadays, you can scale a web design business your way. In a low-stress, low-pressure way that works for you no matter where your business is in revenue and profitability. Sandy Burns, a founding member of my community Web Designer Pro is a perfect example of this. She was on the podcast ...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Let’s talk about money. How’d that make you feel? Nervous? Icky? Excited? Opportunistic? Weird? The very thought of money brings a variety of emotions depending on how you feel about it. And I firmly believe how you feel about money today all goes back to your money story – and every one of us has a money story largely based on how we were raised. When you build a web design business, you probably don’t realize that you’re subconsciously making business decisions based on your money story. And i...
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast No better way to kick off the year than to plan some new marketing strategies to get more leads and convert more clients, right? I honestly believe email marketing – along with some focused forms of content marketing – will be a HUGE differentiator for web designers who choose to go this route. Which is why I’m a big proponent and supporter of it. After all…as Abe Lincoln once wisely said “He who sendeth the email gets thine customer.” Now, you know I’m not going to just tell you to go “do somet...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy New Year friends! I wanted to kick off 2025 with a special episode of the podcast to share what I learned from having two down revenue years (125k down from 2022-2023) to having the best revenue year yet in 2024! This episode is broken down into 2 main parts: What caused my business to have two down revenue years How I rebounded to having the best year yet in 2024 As I and many other entrepreneurs have learned, business is not always up and to the right. There are hard months, quarters and...
Jan 01, 2025•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast For the last episode of the year, I think it’s only fitting to look ahead and share some goal setting tips for 2025! In this episode, I’m sharing a lesson from my Web Design Business Course on my 5 step, annual goal setting framework. We’ll dive into: Setting an achievable revenue goal Separating Net vs Gross Rocks, Stones & Boulders goals Pricing that aligns with goals How and when to measure Again, this is just one lesson inside my signature Web Design Business Course available now (along ...
Dec 30, 2024•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Since this is Christmas week, we’re going to take a break from talking about business and dive into a much more important subject…Christmas movies. I’ll break down my top 10, what I love about them, why some have remained in the top 10 and why some newer ones have made it and I’ll even give you a bonus which has an incredible business lesson that I’ve held strong to even today. In short, my top 10 Christmas movies are: Christmas Vacation Home Alone Home Alone 2 Jingle All The Way Christmas Story...
Dec 23, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast I’m in a bit of an SEO pickle… Since 2017 I’ve built up all my resources - including this podcast - on my personal brand site joshhhall.co but now that my main product (my web designer membership Web Designer Pro™) is on webdesignerpro.com I feel I’m entering new SEO territory. In short, what content should stay at my personal brand at joshhall.co and since all roads are leading to webdesignerpro.com now - what content should be there? Here are my SEO pain points/challenges: It’s now a little co...
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast At some point, most web designers dream of moving from lengthy, time-intensive, custom web design projects to a more “productized” or “templatized” web design service. Something that clients can purchase, that has clear boundaries, constraints and limitations. There are a lot of ways to go about productizing your offers - and one way - is to frame it as a program or course. Especially if you’re empowering your clients with any sort of marketing or growth help. A shining example of how to do this...
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you’re on the shallow or deep end of the “introvert spectrum” spectrum, I’m guessing the sales part of web design is your least favorite part of the job, right? For some, going to in person networking, business meetups, chamber of commerce events or even calls can be energizing but for others, it’s draining. It is, however, part of being a web biz owner if you’re the one doing the selling… There must be some strategies for making sales easier as an introvert, right? There is! And that’s why I...
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ah…the tug and pull between wanting to avoid being a burned out agency owner but also not being a stressed out, overwhelmed freelancer… Surely there’s a happy medium between the two? Good news, there is. My whole web business education model is focused around this hybrid approach to having a business that runs like a true business/agency but having the freedom and flexibility of a freelancer. Though I never had a great name for it - someone who does is fellow web design business educator Payton ...
Nov 25, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Copy, written by a human, with its flaws, oddities, and personally lived experience beats out corporate, stale, or AI-generated content every time. From home pages to service pages, to lead generators, blog posts, email sequences, and sales posts…the more personal and genuine you come across, the more it’ll stand out in today’s AI slop world. To help us get practical and tactical with writing personalized copy that sells more websites, I’m excited to bring on copywriter, podcaster, and speaker E...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Josh here with big news! Web Designer Pro™ 2.0 (tiered model) is live now!! 🎉 Up to this point, Pro has been one membership tier which gave full access to all of my web design courses, the amazing community and coaching with me directly with a member cap of 250 active members. We're closing in on capacity but the exciting news is...we now have two lower tiers available! Available in Web Designer Pro™ now is: Courses tier = $49/mo Includes access to my entire suite of courses + the private ...
Nov 11, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Web Design Business Podcast turns 5 today!!! 🎉 What a ride it’s been so far (and I have no plans on slowing down.) For this special milestone, I polled my community Web Designer Pro™ for questions and they delivered, asking some GREAT conversation starters. So in this special, 5 year anniversary podcast episode, I’m dishing out the longest AMA session I’ve done to date at 2 hours! The questions that came in were mainly in 3 categories: Questions about the podcast (including guest selection,...
Nov 04, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast I don’t know about you…but I didn’t officially “launch” my web design business when I got started. I just kind of fumbled through starting my freelance journey. But if I were starting today, I would put much more effort and emphasis on creating an official “business launch.” Now to the big question…how do you launch a web business successfully? i.e. Get clients fast? Well, my guest in this podcast chat, Alexia Lynn launched her web design business in June of 2024 and got 3 new clients in her fir...
Oct 28, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Let’s get real and share exactly how it is…WordPress is not the tool of choice for most web designers getting into the game today. It may be where most end up, because WordPress is the most popular, customizable, and only open-source platform online but as a starting point, it’s not where most new web designers are starting. Drag and drop platforms like Framer, SquareSpace, and ShowIt and even more robust platforms like WixStudio, WebFlow, and Duda seem to be where young whipper-snapper web desi...
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Clients don’t really want a pretty website…they want a 24/7 sales machine. You work hard creating beautiful designs that are built solid and have intentional messaging and copy…but how do you know all that work is paying off for your client? How do you measure results? How do you keep your clients coming back for ongoing work over and over again? Well, at the end of the day…one of the best ways is to offer some sort of CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization) as a service. But I’m sure you have a lot ...
Oct 14, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast I recently published a newsletter sharing 5 ways I would get clients if I were starting out in web design today in 2024. It got a lot of great feedback from both early-stage web designers and established web designers looking for a revenue boost alike - so I decided to expand on these 5 strategies as a full podcast! We’ll dive into each of these strategies, how I would go about them and how I would execute on them in detail. In short: Join a referral group Utilize LinkedIn Create local SEO targe...
Oct 07, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you’re an established web designer, think back to your first year in business. What was your highest paid project? Aside from some exceptions, I’m guessing it was in the low-thousands…or hundreds. Well, Ben Forred, a web designer who’s still in his first year of business, building it as a side hustle alongside full-time corporate employment recently landed a $7,500 website package and in this podcast chat, shares the entire journey on how he did it. We cover: What Ben did to speed-learn and b...
Sep 30, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s been a little while since we’ve talked about accessibility on the podcast and one area we haven’t covered at all to this point is specifically how to make accessible eCommerce websites. Everything is more complex with eCommerce sites and accessibility, while complex even at the basic level, gets even trickier. So, to help understand all of this, accessibility expert Bet Hannon (CEO of accessicart.com) is on the show as we dive into: The very basics of accessibility Easy accessibility wins y...
Sep 23, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast You’ve heard of work/life balance…but what about life/work balance? What if, instead of prioritizing our work and living life around that, we set our calendars, schedules, and weekly routines to have our work revolve around our ideal week? As freedom based lifestyle web designers, that’s exactly the option we have available to us But it takes a proactive approach to make this happen, otherwise calls, meetings, design and troubleshooting will take up our entire week. So, to help dig in on how to ...
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