GoDaddy Blog
I write articles for The GoDaddy Blog, GoDaddy’s online magazine and discussion forum focused on website development. My articles are targeted at both small business owners and other web professionals. Topics range from processes and tools web pros can use to run their business, to tips for the DIY crowd about managing their own sites.
Past articles include:
- How to start a web design business
- How to create a web design contract that converts new clients into long-term customers
- How to follow up with clients — 8 tips for success
- The importance of female mentorship in the tech industry
- How to get clients to pay on time: 10 tips for web developers
- 8 domain name ownership tips for your web design clients
- 3 customer service and communication principles for web designers and developers
- Wondering how to sell website security? Try pitching care plans
- Returns and refunds policy templates for online shopping sites
- 5 WordPress coupon plugins for your online store
- Upselling and cross-selling techniques for online stores
- Web design estimates, quotes, bids and proposals: What’s the difference?
- 15 tips for creating the perfect CTA for a WordPress site
- What to look for in a website proposal from a web pro
- How to optimize interaction with clients
- How to set expectations with your clients
- How to find inspiration from your competitors (without stealing their ideas)
- Difficult clients and how to manage them
- Making website maintenance plans a requirement for all clients
- Website checkup: 20 things you need to purge from your website right now
- Web design tips for gathering new leads
- Must-have web design tools in 8 critical categories
- Designed to impress: 5 free online portfolio websites
- How to start a web design business so you set yourself up for success
- Configuring the WordPress general settings in wp-admin
- The Widget Logic plugin for WordPress
- The Wordfence plugin for WordPress
- Four common excuses hindering women who tech
- Marketing on a budget: best practices for charity organizations
- State of the Website Review
- Find your unique selling proposition to build a website that really works
- Is a customer rewards program right for your retail business?
- A web designer’s tips for communicating with freelance designers
- DIFM: How to hire a pro for your web page design
- Collective Discovery: Growing a web design business
- 10 organizing tips for web developers
- Finding web design clients who are the right fit
- When should you do pro bono work?
- Keep your projects on track with a website checklist approach
- Tips for handling unhappy web design clients
- How to avoid making a bad impression with web design clients
- How to school your clients on streamlining success
- 13 simple ingredients to make invoicing easier to swallow
- How to Stop Sabotaging Your Web Project Budgets
- How to Measure the Success of a Web Development Project
- Looking for Mr. Right Project? Do the Web Design Pre-work to Find it
- 5 Ways to Heat up Web Client Relationships by Playing with Matches
- Finding Your Web Design Power Partners
- How to Make Your Web Designer Your Business Partner, Pt. 2
- How to Make Your Web Designer Your Business Partner, Pt. 1
Book: Web Diva Wisdom
This book is designed to share the tips and tricks that will:
- enable you to choose the right web designer for you
- allow your web designer to work more efficiently on your behalf
- help you collaborate to develop the best website for your services and products
Whether you are ready to partner with a web designer for a new website, a redesign project or major updates to an existing site, you’ll find helpful guidelines, tips and best practices – including over 30 checklists and exercises to use along the way.
As a client, you are ultimately the creator and owner of your website. If you don’t collaborate with your web designer and actively participate in the process, you won’t end up with the site of your dreams.
Hiring someone to design your website should not be a one-time, short-term project, but rather the start of a long – and hopefully productive and successful – business partnership. I hope this book will become a valuable guide in preparing to get the most out of your relationship with your current or future web designer.