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The Perfect Client Pitch
It is important to have a strong client pitch that can convert your prospects. Find out how to perfect your client pitch for your web design services.
How to Become a Mentor in Web Design
Mentoring is a collaborative and reciprocal relationship that can drive professional growth, build new skills, and produce business opportunities for you and your mentee. Learn how to become a mentor in web design.
How to Raise Your Rates as a Web Designer
As an independent contractor or agency, you may find it challenging or even awkward to talk about money, especially when it’s time to increase your rates. Learn how to effectively communicate pricing changes to your web design clients.
How to Create a Content Marketing Plan
Whether you’re new to freelance web design or run a growing agency, content marketing is an essential component of a well-rounded marketing strategy. Learn how to create a winning and impactful content marketing plan for your web design business.
10 Tips to Finding and Attracting Web Design Clients
The path to earning new business looks different for every creative solopreneur and agency. In fact, there’s no “right way” to market your web design services. Learn about how to tactfully mix and match strategies that best showcase your personality, expertise, and work ethic.
How Circle Members Find New Clients
To uncover effective and proven solutions to finding new clients, we interviewed several successful members of Circle, Squarespace’s partner program and professional community of web designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and other freelance creatives.
How to Add Copywriting to Your Web Design Services
When it comes to developing an effective website, copy and design go hand-in-hand. For a creative professional, being able to write copy is a strong and valuable skill. Learn how to add copywriting to your web design services.
How to Set Boundaries with Clients
For creative professionals, it’s important to set boundaries with clients to maintain a strong working relationship. It may be difficult to do so, especially when it comes to fearing pushback from clients. Learn how to effectively set boundaries.
How to Grow Your Brand with Link in Bio
Bio Sites is a simple, mobile-first solution for creative professionals to plug and promote important links in their social media bios. Take a deep-dive of the product and learn its purpose and best practices for using the tool.
Common Design Interview Questions, and How to Answer Them
Design interviews are an essential part of gaining new clients. They are opportunities for you to meet prospective clients, showcase your expertise, and share your experience. Learn how to prepare for and nail your next design interview.
How to Build a Restaurant Website
Websites are a vital resource for restaurants, giving customers a sense of what experience they can expect to have at a restaurant, including its ambiance and offerings. Learn more about how to create websites for your restaurant clients.
How to Build a Website for a Beauty Brand
Through a well-designed website, customers can get a sense of what experience they can expect to have with your client’s beauty brand. And, with the proper user-friendly integrations, they can conveniently make appointments, peruse services, make purchases, and more, all in one spot.
Effective Content Layout Designs
Content layout is an important component of web design and helps to tell the story of a business or brand. Learn how to execute an effective content layout design that supports your client’s goals.
Adding Audio to Your Squarespace Website
Squarespace's audio blocks make it possible to add audio to any page of your client’s website. Learn how to use audio blocks to showcase your client’s brand and create a positive user experience online.
An Alternative Approach to SEO
In this interactive 60-minute masterclass, hear from SEO coach and data scientist, Ed Baker, about how to increase your sites visibility to search engines. Learn how to claim, expand, and control your brand footprint online by using data science.
A Web Designer’s Guide to Consultations
Consultations are an essential step in qualifying potential clients and ensuring that a web design project is a good fit for you and that you’re a good fit for the project. Learn the key to a successful consultation.
2023 Trends in Web Design
A new year is an opportunity to bring a new creative vision to your web design. Learn more about 2023’s aesthetic design trends.
Make Your Sites Multilingual with Weglot
Translating your Squarespace website using Weglot can help you get discovered by new audiences. Learn how to get started with your website translation.
How to Add Videos to Your Squarespace Website
Including video content on your website can help with visibility and user engagement. Squarespace video blocks make it possible to add videos anywhere on your version 7.1 website.
How to Thank Clients for Their Business
It's important to show appreciation and thank your clients for their business. Learn 10 ways you can thank them this holiday season.