► EPISODE 061: Life According to Web Designer Georgia G Kaye
Georgia is a St. Louis-based WordPress and Showit web designer and developer, with 50+ sites to her name in just 2021 alone. She specializes working 1:1 with entrepreneurs on a day rate basis during her "Designer Days" to create small-scale websites, blogs, sales pages, marketing collateral, and template customizations. She is also the co-founder of Studio N°88, a Showit website template shop for female entrepreneurs.
Georgia has worked with clients across all industries including real estate, marketing agencies, construction firms, wedding professionals, and educators, several of which have been featured in Forbes, Medium, Realtor.com, The Knot & more. When she's not attached to her computer screen, you can find her renovating a room at home, chasing around her four Pomeranians, over-watching Bravo, or defeating her boyfriend yet again at Ticket to Ride.
In today's episode, we cover:
Georgia’s background story
Designer Days in a website capacity and how she came up with the idea
What’s her Designer Day process like
Pricing a brand new service you have yet no experience to showcase
Top 3 mistakes/recommendations to avoid
The importance of setting clear client expectations
Difference between a web design project from someone coming with full branding vs. someone having one font and two colors picked
Partnering up with other professionals
How to approach entrepreneurship friendship
Learning how to prioritize in your business
Setting boundaries and having a clear communication
Tips to getting started as a web designer
As a web designer, should you cold pitch a potential client?
The importance of having a portfolio as a creative
RESOURCES:
Designer Day Masterclass (day rate training for designers)
Guest info:
For more on Georgia, you can find her as @georgia.g.kaye on Instagram, and on TikTok, and for more about working with her, head over georgiagkaye.com.
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