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Why you Should Sell Website Templates, Even if You're Booked With Clients!
Tired of client projects taking over all your time? Discover how selling website templates in your website design business can make you more money and give you more time!
Boost your Web Designer Income Without Working More: Two Key Strategies
Learn two ready to implement strategies to increase your web designer income without increasing your workload, including how to streamline your systems and processes and start selling website templates!
How to Make More Money as a Web Designer (Passive Income Ideas!)
Discover four methods that you can start implementing today to start making more money and recurring income in your website design business. Read through our tips, and pros and cons to find which method will work best for you and your business, from charging more per project, to adopting an agency model, or even creating a course or selling website templates to help you generate passive income while you work (or are on holiday!).
My story: From 9-5 grind to a successful Squarespace templates business
This week, I'm telling you all about my story and how Big Cat Creative, my Squarespace Template shop, came to be! Get the full behind-the-scenes of what it takes to run a successful template shop and be inspired to start your own.
How to get More Website Design Clients With Industry Expert Paige Brunton
This week, we chatted all about ready-to-implement strategies and the best tips for finding clients for your web design business with Squarespace guru Paige Brunton. Learn all about how to define your ideal client, where to find your first clients, and marketing and design strategies for attracting and converting dream clients and keeping your calendars filled with projects.
How we sold over 5000 Squarespace Templates: Our best Template selling tips
Want to sell more Squarespace Website Templates? Read all about how we got to selling 5000 templates (and counting!) and our best template-selling tips. We're discussing marketing strategies, optimization, and time-saving techniques to boost your template shop once and for all.
Best Chrome extensions for Squarespace website designers
As website designers, we're always looking for new tools to speed up our workflow and improve our design process, so this week we're sharing our top five Google Chrome extensions that make designing in Squarespace just so much easier.
How to send Squarespace Templates to customers after they purchase
Want to sell Squarespace Templates? This week we walk you through our streamlined process of delivering Squarespace website templates to your customers after they purchase.
How to create a live demo Squarespace Template (and what to do when the trial expires!)
Follow our step by step guide to create a live demo preview site for your Squarespace Website Templates and learn all about free trials and how to extend them.
What is Squarespace Bio Site? Pros and cons of using this feature
Learn all about Squarespace's new Bio Site feature, allowing you to create simple, beautiful, and personalized landing pages to share your links and streamline your online presence.
The 5 Must-Haves on Your Sales Page
Want to be generating more leads from your website? Check out our 5 must-haves to include in your sales pages to get more engagement & conversions.
Why you should use Squarespace for your sales pages
We think a good sales page builder needs to be easy to use and DIY friendly. Learn why Squarespace is one of the BEST platforms for building your Sales Page!
6 blog design tips for Squarespace
Check out our top 6 blog post design tips to create gorgeous and professional blog posts in Squarespace (7.0 and 7.1!)
Why Brine is the best 7.0 Squarespace template (& when you shouldn't use it)
Learn why Brine is the best Squarespace Template, some of its awesome features and when you shouldn’t use it! Also see some cool examples of premium templates we have built on the Brine theme.
What is Squarespace 7.1, and should you be using it?
What is Squarespace 7.1, and should you be using it? Learn all about Squarespace 7.1, the differences between 7.1 and 7.0, and if you should make the switch, in this detailed post!
Attract your dream clients with these website design tweaks
Did you know that making a few small tweaks to your website design could mean that you start attracting your dream clients and repelling those no-so-dreamy clients? Check out these few small changes you can make to your website to start attracting your ideal clients today!
My favorite Squarespace resources
Check out my list of the BEST Squarespace Resources! This is includes my favorite Squarespace Blogs, Courses, Tutorials and Template Design Kits!
Why I recommend Squarespace for small business owners
Are you considering which platform you should use to build your website? In this post I break down why I believe Squarespace is the best website building platform and why you should consider using it!