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.

Back in the day 'which Squarespace template was best' was really based on what your site was for, and what functionality you wanted in your site.

Today however, within the Squarespace website designer community there's a pretty solid consensus on the best Squarespace template.

What changed? This new template came out fitted with almost every single feature you could ever want, and it's the most flexible of them all too, earning it the title of the best Squarespace template out there.

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. 😂🙈

Oh the sidebar, forever a topic of discussion when creating your website! 

Do you need one?
Do you not?
Are they even helpful to your site?

Let me guess, you're trying to . . . 

change the color of just a certain section or page of your Squarespace site?

And when you do it's changing the entire background color of the full site? Oh and you'd prefer to not code, you say? Not to worry, I have a solution for you in today's post!

The template that is best for making this happen is any template in the Brine family.

If you're looking to find all the best articles written on Squarespace, I'm happy to report you need look no further.

I've rounded up 50 of the best posts discussing Squarespace, taking you all the way from choosing Squarespace, to how-to's on creating your website, to setting up a blog or e-commerce shop.

These articles come from some of the most knowledgable Squarespace bloggers - they know their stuff!

On every internal and client Squarespace website project I work on, I ensure these ends are all tied up before we go to launch the website to the world. It takes just a few clicks around the Squarespace settings area to help your website function optimally.

So, when you go to launch your new stunning website to the world, be sure to take an extra couple mins to run through this checklist first!

After having run through this checklist a zillion times, I'm able to knock it out in under 10 mins, so it really is easy, and will make quite a difference to your website visitors experience.

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.

Let’s be real, SEO can be a scary thing for the small business owners and creative entrepreneurs of the world.

You know it’s important, but you literally don’t have a clue of where to start and are having nightmares of code and technical programs.

If you're looking to get help with your Squarespace site you might have noticed a few badges on designers sites stating they're either a Squarespace Circle member, a Squarespace Authorized Trainer or both.

If you're sitting there scratching your head wondering what the heck either of these are and what exactly they mean, I'm here to clarify that for you today!

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!

So you've just finished up with your 5th WordPress technical meltdown and headache this month and are so over crying into your keyboard when trying to create the vision you have in your mind on a site?