I answered a question for one of my course students today and I thought I'd be doing y'all a disservice if I didn't share the answer with you too.

She knew I had paid for and taken Copywriting for Creatives, the course from Ashlyn Carter that helps creative entrepreneurs write conversion copy for their website! 

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’.

We’re continuing on with my ConvertKit info today as I walk you through the process of sending your fab new subscribers an opt-in gift!

(Missed the last ConvertKit posts? I show you why I chose ConvertKit for my email marketing in this post, and a complete ConvertKit for beginners guide in this post.)

Pre-S: The ConvertKit links in this post are all affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I’ll earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Myself and my margarita fund thank you kindly!

You’re new to ConvertKit - YAY! Fab choice, friend.

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.

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.