Let me guess, there’s a twinkle in your eye and right now you’re dreaming of working for yourself?

Or maybe you’ve already taken the leap to full-time girlboss and you’re here to confirm ‘yep that’s true’.

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If you know me, you know I could give a proper sermon-length speech on the importance of your email list.

In some way, shape or form my email list is responsible for the vast majority of the income my business brings in and I’ve been shown the importance of an email list again and again and again over the course of running my business.

Today I’m going to give you a little challenge friend. A challenge that if you take it up, I think you’re going to be very grateful you did!

I’m talking about your business model!

Today is my day to be like Oprah y’all - YAY!

Why? Because it’s freebie giveaway time!

“You get a freebie, you get a freebie, you get a freebie!”

Want to know my old strategy for paying myself?

Pay business expenses, save 30% for taxes and then pay myself whatever was left.

What resulted was very inconsistent income in my personal life.

When I started this Squarespace website design business I was a full-time student, so I wasn’t swimming in the dolla dolla bills by any means.

Looking back there were some very wise investment decisions I made and a few silly ones.

So, you're toying with the idea of designing sites for clients but you don't have any clients yet, maybe don't have a portfolio either and honestly are struggling a little internally with even having the confidence to claim you're a 'web designer'?

I just finished up one longggg drive back from Iowa where I was attending the Camp Climb conference!

Something super unique about this conference is that the attendees are split up into their stage of business.

So you're considering creating content to help grow your business? You my friend are one smart cookie! Sharing valuable content on your topic of expertise is one of the absolute best marketing tools available.

This blog is the reason I'm known for my Squarespace website design expertise.

The other day I sent out my regular weekly email to subscribers (if you're not a subscriber - become a subscriber here!) with a recent blog post and I asked y'all to tell me of any other posts you'd like to see.

I asked you to load me up with your questions and you did, so thank you kindly! You made my life way easier by deciding on my blog post ideas for me as I admit I was I was plum out of  ideas myself. 😂🙈

Email after email has landed in my inbox asking me what I think about Mariah Coz's Accelerator program, so I think it's high time I gave y'all a review of my thoughts in blog post format!

I'm going to get into exactly where I was at when I joined, what the program entails, my results and then answer the million dollar question - is it worth the money?!

Now that I've been running my online business for some time, word has gotten out to those who know me and the questions about starting a business have started rolling in.

So you're up to your eyeballs in work, your calendar is packed and you know if you continue on like this for much longer, you're gonna hit burnout and loose your passion for your business?

I had it in my mind for a few months that I wanted to change my sites domain name but was nervous about what it would mean for my SEO and all the traffic that was going to my website from Google.

Last year it's safe to say I had went pretty hard in the work department and slacked on the whole 'living' thing.

My boyfriend was also going through one of the hardest years of his job training, so our time spent together was mostly just sitting at our desks in our office.

I wrote quite a while back about what I'm individually up to behind the scenes of my business but things have changed a bit since then, and I definitely feel that I'm more productive and efficient these days, so it's time for a new post!

If you're reading this post, then you know the importance of building your email list, and because of that I am SO proud of you!

You friend aren't getting all glossy-eyed over a follower count but are instead ready to put time and energy into a less-glamorous, but significantly more rewarding and vital piece of your business - your email list!

I know I love to see the behind the scenes of how other online business owners organize all the things in their business, so today I'm going to share a little bit of how I do things.

Specifically, I'm going to show you into my Asana.

'How do you get clients?' It's the #1 question new Squarespace web designers ask me.

Now that I've launched a course too, I expect I'll start getting 'how do you get students to buy your course?' questions coming my way soon as well.