This episode is a conversation I had with Web Designer Pro™ member Whitney Bateson recently on her podcast “The Growth Show” where she helps wellness professionals build and launch a successful online presence.

While she picked my brain about current website conversion trends in 2025 mainly to help her clients, we actually talked about some significant, general trends for websites today, for all industries.

She graciously let me repurpose the whole conversation for you!

If you want to know what’s working TODAY for converting traffic to customers (for you and your client sites), I hope it helps 🙂

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This episode is a recent coaching call I had with two members from my community Web Designer Pro™, all about going full-time with your web design business.

Alexia JUST went full-time at the time of publishing this episode and Ben went full-time in Dec of 2024, so it was great hearing both of their perspectives about lessons learned going full-time with them having just done it.

What’s particularly of note is the mental shift when opening up an additional 20, 30 or 40 hours a week of freedom along with the challenges that most web designers aren’t aware of after the fun and excitement of going full-time wears off.

Excited to hear how this one helps, especially if you’re gearing up to go full-time with your web design biz!

Join Ben, Alexia and 270+ active community members in Web Designer Pro™ today.

Community members get first dibs to upgrade to the Coaching Tier to get access to these weekly coaching calls and 24/7 DM access to me for personalized, private coaching!

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Great to have Chris “the self-made web designer” back on the podcast!

Aside from casual catch-up and web shop talk, we get into where the web industry is today compared to when we first entered the industry years ago.

Chris has a unique perspective as a freelance web designer who got most of his work through Upwork, and, with his work with ShowIt, sees a different part of the market than what I often do with WordPress.

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I just launched a new DNS Course for Web Designers, specifically to help you get a 101, foundational understanding of all things domains, DNS records, email, security, performance, etc.

It replaced what was formerly my cPanel course. It’s a short, snappy, “what you need to know” DNS course without getting too technical or overwhelming. In this podcast episode, I’m giving you a little teaser!

Included in the episode:

1. A few personal DNS horror stories (to illustrate how important it is to know this stuff as a web designer)
2. The most popular lesson so far on ‘Domain Types’
3. And I’m even including the DNS Checklist from the course FOR FREE! Think of it as your DNS SOP for you and your team.

Again, be sure to download the DNS Checklist I’ve made available to you for free. It also includes a special offer if you’d like to dive into the full course!

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Repeat guest and founding member of Web Designer Pro™, Marie Brown, is back on the podcast, sharing what’s working for her with getting clients through Instagram.

And she offers a much-needed reminder that, even if clients don’t mark down “found you on social media,” it doesn’t mean it’s not working.

The more touch points you have and the more you stay top of mind, the more likely you’ll land more clients.

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In the Summer of 2020, I made a huge decision…to sell my agency In Transit Studios and go full-time into web design online education.

In this episode, I’m reflecting (5 years later) and sharing some lessons learned on the things I would do again and things I’d do differently.

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If there’s one word that can sum up where the industry of web design is right now in the age of Ai, I’d say it’s “uncertainty.”

But uncertainty doesn’t have to be bad. I love talking to people who are excited and optimistic about the road ahead and one of those folks is Web Designer Pro member Antwaun Williams (goes by A-T)

A-T is an early adopter of all tech, and when I got a chance to sit down with him in person at our recent WDP CON 2025 event, I learned just how in-the-know he is with things like:

• Where Ai is today in the design industry
• The different types of Ai available (agents vs chats vs ideation, etc)
• How to prompt any Ai tool to get the most out of it
• What Ai tools are best for certain tasks
• And what web designers can be excited about in the age of Ai

We have a great, 101 style breakdown of Ai as a whole in this one and honestly, I felt much more at ease after learning more about Ai from A-T. Hope it helps you as well!

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Have you heard the rumours that high-ticket is ☠️?

Rumours they are, indeed.

Clients are absolutely still investing in high-ticket design packages (both web and branding) that range from 5k, 10k, 20k, 30k +. And to learn about how to structure high-ticket packages and how to sell them, I’m pumped to bring Kenzi Green and Maris Burgett of thebriefcollective.com on the podcast!

They work exclusively with brand and web designers to help offer and sell their high-ticket offers so they’re a great resource to learn from about what’s working (and selling) TODAY in high-ticket world.

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