
267 episodes

Web Design Business with Josh Hall Josh Hall
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5.0 • 88 Ratings
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The Web Design Business Podcast with host Josh Hall is here to help you build a web design business that allows you to have freedom and a lifestyle you love. As a web designer and web agency owner of over a decade, Josh knows the challenges, struggles and often painful lessons of building a web design business without any guidance, proven strategies or a mentor to help you along the way, which is why this show exists. Think of this podcast as your weekly dose of coaching, mentorship and guidance to help you build your dream web design business. All while having a good time doing it. Through interviews with seasoned web design business professionals and online entrepreneurs, solo coaching episodes with Josh and even case studies with his students, you’ll learn practical tips and strategies for web business building along with real-world advice and trends that are happening right now in the wild and wonderful world of web design. Subscribe if you’re ready to start or level up your web design business and for all show notes, links, full transcriptions for each episode, head to https://joshhall.co/podcast
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265 - AI in Web Design...Friend or Foe? with Stephanie Hudson
Stephanie Hudson of FocusWP.co and Bertha.ai shares her insight on how AI is impacting web design right now and whether or not it’s a friend to web designers or a foe that’ll take us all over terminator style one website at a time.
In This Episode
00:00 - Introduction
02:48 - Greeting to Steph
04:53 - Will ai replace builders
10:11 - Learn from the past
17:12 - ai coaching
19:07 - Creating in ai
29:38 - Machine ethics
33:11 - ai concerns
35:02 - Tools for ai
45:36 - Ways to try it out
53:03 - A security solution
59:13 - Simplified explanation
1:02:48 - How to humanize
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264 - The Current State and Future of WordPress with Adam Preiser
Adam Prieser of one of the largest WordPress tutorial brands online (WPCrafter.com) shares his insight and perspective on where WordPress is in the website market and where it’s heading; the good and the bad.
In This Episode
00:00 - Introduction
03:17 - Greeting to Adam
08:40 - Where is WP going
14:01 - How to choose tools
17:56 - Financial situations
21:53 - WP post 2020
26:31 - Open source projects
32:51 - Who calls the WP shots
37:01 - Current products
40:31 - What you don’t know
43:42 - Harder but no worries
45:42 - How to stand out
53:35 - Where to find the data
59:07 - Divi thoughts
1:06:17 - Polarizing views
1:17:30 - Old school resources
1:20:03 - Future speculations
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263 - Handling Rejection & Negative Feedback in Business with Alexis Teichmiller
Partnerships Manager at Circle.so, life coach and entrepreneur Alexis Teichmiller shares her tips and strategies for learning how to overcome rejection, negative reviews, feedback and managing emotional boundaries in business.
In This Episode
00:00 - Introduction
03:40 - Greeting to Alexis
08:40 - Urgent matrix
10:13 - Boundaries
12:19 - Emotional attachment
15:45 - Rejection reflection
19:21 - Feedback tool
24:53 - Different comfort levels
29:36 - Shifting your mindset
34:23 - Better inner narrative
39:28 - Community feedback
48:53 - Weigh it differently
57:50 - Ego control
1:01:01 - Favorite boundary
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262 - From Likes to Clients: How to Turn Social Media Engagement into Sales with James Barnard
Logo Designer and Content Creator James Barnard shares how he grew his social media audience to hundreds of thousands of followers and how he uses his social channels to land logo design clients.
In This Episode
00:00 - Introduction
02:45 - Greeting to James
06:34 - Social media success
10:19 - Toying w/price points
12:51 - Why freelance worked
17:24 - Starting with logos
20:11 - Leads from social media
24:16 - Pricing on site
29:53 - Video evolution
34:03 - How you appear to clients
37:30 - Adding YouTube
41:25 - How to get them to stay
45:40 - Repurpose
48:40 - What to talk about
53:12 - Different tools to use
58:22 - Building confidence
1:01:08 - Bulk recording
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261 - How to Gather Website Content Like a Pro (10 tips)
Josh shares his top 10 proven strategies for collecting content for web design projects.
In This Episode
00:00 - Introduction
02:35 - Big three E’s
Education
03:59 - 1) Where and when
08:37 - 2) Tools for images & media
09:45 - 3) How to send
Expectations
10:56 - 4) Client ownership
12:20 - 5) Repercussion
14:41 - 6) Deadline
Empowerment
16:55 - 7) Organize a project
18:41 - 8) Phase the project
19:33 - 9) Use a tool
24:34 - 10) BONUS TIP
26:37 - Recap
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260 - Navigating Tough Times in Business with Shannon Mattern
Shannon Mattern of The Web Designer Academy shares her insight on how to navigate tough times in business, both when new web design projects are sparse and when things get tough on other sides of the business, sharing openly about a huge challenge she’s currently facing with her payment processing platform.
In This Episode
00:00 - Introduction
03:07 - Greeting to Shannon
05:15 - Challenges of business
09:09 - Navigate the failures
11:00 - Skills and strategy
15:31 - Seasons of muscle building
19:17 - Having courage
22:33 - Be proactive
29:32 - Be creative
32:31 - Give then ask
36:33 - Don’t be a commodity
44:04 - Check your stripe account!
56:55 - Leaders go first
1:03:13 - Don’t victim blame
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https://joshhall.co/260
Customer Reviews
A must listen for any new web designer
I’m branching into web design and don’t know much about the business side. Josh’s podcast is amazing and has helped me so much and given me so much advice. His podcast is amazing, that I can only imagine how great his courses must be. I’m can’t wait until I am able to enroll in some of them.
Awesome Podcast
Josh delivers an informative yet dynamic podcast episode every week. The topics he covers and guests he hosts are diverse but so informative for all entrepreneurs, not just limited to web designers.
Great tips and lessons
I love listening to Josh, he’s got so many great ideas and spells them out clearly in a field where few things are clear when you’re first breaking in. Signed up for Web Designer Pro and it os SO WORTH IT! Already jumping in to the communities and getting so much help from Josh and the other members. Thank you Josh!