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7 Reasons Why We Chose Squarespace (Over Wordpress, Muse, Wix, Godaddy, etc.)

We have been around the block once or twice online and have tried our hand in many platforms, hosting services, and domain providers, but when it came time to rebrand we were stuck. We pondered for months over who or what we should choose, but once we finally made the decision we never looked back! Squarespace is by far the easiest platform to use, with the cleanest interface. Choosing them is hands down the best decision we’ve made for our business and blog.

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What is Intentional Design and How it Can Benefit Your Business

When it comes to building websites, many people place most of their focus on aesthetics. While it’s important that a website is attractive and grabs visitors’ attention, intentional web design goes beyond just looks and takes into account multiple factors that impact your website’s performance. When you hone in on things like your goals, SEO, etc. and consider them along with your web design strategy, it’s possible to create something that’s both stunning and that drives results.

In this post, we’ll be breaking down the importance of strategic and intentional website design and sharing a look at our design process and its effects on our clients!

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Service Providers Making More Than $20k Per Month: Essential Skills You Need For Sustaining & Growing Your Business

We know firsthand how challenging it can be to build and grow a business that can withstand the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. We’ve worked with service providers in all stages of business, and while they can all equally be difficult to navigate, they each come with their own unique struggles. For the service providers who are already hitting $20k months and beyond, there are essential skills needed in order to continue building a sustainable business and experience continued growth.

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Making Less Than $20k a Month, Read This

There comes a time in every service provider’s career when you feel like you’ve hit a ceiling on your income and time. You really want to hit those $20k months, but you would need 24 hours of daylight alone to be able to make that happen or at least a few clones of yourself. At this point, it’s crucial that you start scaling your business, thinking about hiring, raising your prices, cleaning up your systems, and more– all the things that, coincidentally, we love talking about and have had numerous conversations about on our blog and podcast.

To save you the time, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to compile our resources on all of the topics you need to be learning about right now so that you can get unstuck from this rut and grow a thriving service-based business.

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Service Providers Earning Less than $5k Per Month: Essential Skills You Need to Have a Successful Business

There’s undoubtedly a flood of information and resources on the internet for service providers looking to grow their income to $5k+ months. Unfortunately, that also means that it can be difficult to know where to look, what to search for that’ll actually be helpful, and find reliable resources. When you’re a smaller business, your number one priority is essentially increasing your revenue, and there are a number of skills that are essential to have in order to make that happen.

In this post, we’ll be giving you our best resources to help you hone in on those skills so that you can finally break free of the feast or famine mode that so many small service-based businesses find it hard to come out of in the beginning stages of business.

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Top Website Design Trends in 2023

The main point of design trends is to break expectations. We want an element of surprise, whether that’s through color, shapes and patterns, animation, or overall layout. This’ll be reflected in the trends we’ve noticed that we’re going to break down for you in this post, but don’t let these trends intimidate you– there are a lot of ways to add in that organic surprise that feels really true to your brand direction.

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How We Are Working With Clients in 2023

Sometimes, being in business since 2015, makes us feel a little prehistoric. Our company has certainly had its fair share of evolutions and pivots as not only we have grown, but our clients as well. We’ve had the privilege of working with folks from across the globe whether they tune in to our top-charting podcast, get sucked into our rabbit hole with our Trello for Business course, join our growing community of creatives, work with us in an intimate group setting or hang out with us 1:1 to tackle the big stuff. We thought it was time for us to update you on our suite of offerings and give you insight on how you can make magic happen with us.

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Maximizing Your Potential: Understand the Relationship Between Capacity and Business Goals

One of the largest issues we see in the service industry, specifically related to CEOs and their time, is that they aren’t aware of what their capacity is or how to best split their time to focus on all of the areas that need their attention. Without the knowledge of what baseline their capacity should cover (i.e. 20% in this area and 10% in another), they also aren’t able to see the clear path forward to reaching their goals. In this post, we’ll be breaking down how your time should be spent as a CEO and how to understand your capacity and its effects on your business goals.

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Success in Your Service Based Business: This is the Key Factor You Must Get Right

There is, without a doubt, one thing that can make or break your service-based business: capacity. This is something that has dramatic effects when not practiced carefully or correctly, and the people who are doing it wrong are often those who are overworked and underpaid. By not understanding your capacity in an in-depth and intimate way, you’re constantly sacrificing your mental health and wellbeing, you probably feel like everything is working against you, and you may not be making the progress you’d like to see in your goals.

In this post, we hope to leave you with tons more clarity on how capacity works, its cause-and-effect nature, and how to finally leave the path of burnout.

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The Brand New Incubator

We recently wrote about whether or not service providers should pivot your offer or start over (you can read that post over here). We wouldn’t be Boss Project if we didn’t practice what we preached, so we’ve had a change in the works regarding our program, The Incubator. After 18+ months of data from clients going through our program, we saw a need for our own pivot. We’ve always prioritized not adding fluff and making sure that our offers aren’t overwhelming, so we analyzed our data and cut what wasn’t making a difference.

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How to Know When You Should Pivot or Start Over in Your Business

There comes a point in every service-based business owner’s journey (especially in this market) where they hit what feels like a huge cement wall. Leads feel harder to come by, prospects feel harder to close, and it seems the only way to get through it is to either demolish the wall or change directions. In this case, that would mean pivoting your offer or scrapping everything you’ve built and starting over.

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Master the Art of Connecting With Your Ideal Clients: How to Use Your Website to Speak Their Language

When designing websites, our clients’ ideal clients are always in the back of our minds. With every word we decide on when writing copy and every page of their website we design, we want to ensure that the ideal client will feel tuned in and that much closer to becoming a lead. You want your website to speak your ideal client’s language so that they’ll feel comfortable in their decision reaching out to you and, after a couple of calls, booking with you.

Some may say you could even call this an art (“some” as in us, lol). And in this post, we want to deep dive into what factors of your website have the potential to spark a connection with your ideal clients.

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3 Proven Ways to Drive More Leads on Your Website and Grow Your Business

One of our biggest goals at Boss Project when designing websites is to turn them into lead funnels that will work for you to convert visitors into leads. We do that by focusing on three major pillars when it comes to design and copy. These are surefire ways to ensure you’re putting your best foot forward and encouraging visitors to book a call or complete your lead form. Keep reading as we break down these fundamental steps!

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Uncover Hidden Growth Opportunities with our Free Website Audit

Marketing as a service provider can sometimes feel like driving a car blindfolded. Other than surefire networking and referral strategies, you aren’t exactly sure where you should be heading next in order to land more clients. We see many business owners focus on their social media strategy, and while that’s great if it works for you, we’ve realized that the opportunity for growth constantly goes unnoticed when it comes to your website. Many service providers have a website just to have a sort of front for their business, but more often than not it sits collecting dust.

We want to help you grab the reins on your website by knowing exactly what areas to focus on. Keep reading as we break down critical aspects to focus on that are going to turn your website into a lead engine. (Spoiler alert: Stick around till the end for a free website audit!)

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How to Design a Website with SEO in Mind

The goal of every website is to find harmony between form and function. Businesses want (and need) a website that is both beautiful and ranks well on Google.

Good site design will immediately form a positive impression for the visitor. It will help guide the users’ eyes and easily tell them where you want for them to look. A site that is well designed will build trust and will encourage conversions.

A site that ranks well on Google will consistently drive targeted traffic to the site. An SEO optimized site will increase brand visibility and will build trust with users.

When creating a new website for your business, you don’t have to choose one over the other, good design or SEO. By focusing on design and content you will create a site that seamlessly integrates form and function.

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