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Interviews with successful Webflow designers about their 3 biggest failures as creative entrepreneurs.
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Ep 89 | How to get Webflow clients from Twitter | with Christina Liubynska
Hello and welcome to episode 89 of Webflail.
I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Christina Liubynska.
She is constantly juggling different projects.
With Supercharged, she she helps early stage startups by consulting, designing and developing websites that bring them higher profits and happier clients.
She also freelances with agencies like Nexus Creative with Dylan Harrocks and with ViDesigns with Vimalam Vijayasekaran.
With Navbar Gallery, she’s building the home to the best navbars on the internet. She’s one of those people that’s a multi-talented but for someone as young as Christina is and as talented as she is, she’s pushed her comfort zone a lot.
Naturally, failure has been part of her story just like any successful webflower we have on the pod!
The failures we’ll talk about in today’s episode are:
Not building an audience earlierWasting a year designing for free for a startupNot getting any projects or work in nearly a yearOPTIBASE
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LINKS FOR CHRISTINA
💻 See Website: https://www.supercharged.design/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Suupercharged
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khrystynaliubynska/
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Ep 88 | How to get consistent Webflow work | with Stephen Wise
Hello and welcome to episode 88 of Webflail.
I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Stephen Wise.
He’s a creator and entrepreneur. He started as a freelance web designer but now he does a range of things like writing, making videos, running his agency, DEMAND FLOW.
He’s obsessed with figuring out how we can live better and build profitable internet businesses.
Demandflow is design and development on demand for different subscription packages.
There are now 7 people in the agency despite only launching in 2022.
So, the agency is moving in the right direction and he seems to be managing to maintain a balanced lifestyle too but has it always been rosy?
The failures that we’ll talk about in today’s episode are:
The 3 week project that turned into 3+ years…Ignoring the scary S word… Not running things like a businessFocus, Focus, FocusOPTIBASE
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NO CODE UK
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WEBFLAIL FREEBIES
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Webflow 2024 Planner
10 Step Process To Land Your First Webflow Clients: The Ultimate Guide
LINKS FOR ROB
✍️ Rob's Course: https://showthem.com/
🎥 Rob's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/robhope
💻 See Website: https://robhope.com/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robhope
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robhope/
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Ep 87 | How to create a successful side project | with Rob Hope
Episode 87 of the Webflail podcast is with Rob Hope! Yo! Podcast creator, One Page Love Founder and prolific creator with over 15 other projects that were either sold or slowed...
Rob was a freelancer for a decade designing and building websites for clients BUT HE NOTICED A PROBLEM
Clients used adjectives to describe what they wanted for websites but there wasn’t Godly or Landing Love like there is now.
So Rob started collecting website references to show to clients
As you may have guessed, this led to the creation of ONE Page Love. Since 2008, he’s curated over 8,000 single page websites.
Now Rob is a prolific creator.
He’s started dozens of other projects from hosting companies to audio recording apps, to domain names to a Music social network and blog creator called Rock Lifestyle.
Of course, some worked, some didn’t.
One Page love has been far from smooth sailing too. If you are one of the OGs that’s listened to 86 episodes of the pod, you know some of the most successful people have had some of the most epic fails…
The failiures we’ll talk about in this episode are:
1) Starting a hosting company
2) Going all in on one stream of monetization on One Page Love
3) Hiring someone full time when it wasn’t right
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LINKS FOR ROB
✍️ Rob's Course: https://showthem.com/
🎥 Rob's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/robhope
💻 See Website: https://robhope.com/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robhope
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robhope/
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Ep 86 | 3 key lessons learnt leading teams at Webflow, Twitter and Cloudflare | with Jess Rosenberg
Today my guest is Jess Rosenberg. Jess is an obscenely talented individual.
Jess is a design & creative leader, designer, manager, ideas person with 18+ years of experience helping brands tell their stories in differentiated and breakthrough ways.
You may know her because she was the director of Brand Design & Creative at Webflow - she scaled Brand Studio team from 8 to 18 in under two years.
She’s worked at Twitter, Cloudflare, Mural, Webflow and her ideas and leadership have influenced many tools and products you use today which is wild.
And she’s just launched a podcast called Ladies Who Create with Liz Meyer which is excellent with guests such as Grace Walker, Jessica Strelioff & Danielle LaRoy and Steph Jeong
Basically, she’s a big deal.
The failures we discuss are:
1) Desiring to be liked by everyone as a manager early on
2) Imposter syndrome
3) Being hands on in the work
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LINKS FOR JESS
💻 See Website: https://www.hellomynameisjess.com/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessperate
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicarosenb/
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Ep 85 | Accenture employees to Webflow Enterprise Agency Founders | with Tim Janes & Dan Foster
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 enough
2) Not niching down early enough
3) Not focusing on producing great work
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LINKS 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/
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Ep 84 | Getting clients on Upwork to re-building Upwork's website | with Uros Mikic
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 & more
At 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 ROIOPTIBASE
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LINKS FOR UROS
💻 See Website: https://www.flow.ninja/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrosMikic2
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikicuros/
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