Stay ConnectedA podcast for creative entrepreneurs who want practical tips and strategies to build engaging brands and craft high converting websites.
We’re your hosts Davey and Krista, cofounders of a brand + website design agency specializing in visual brand design and Showit + WordPress websites.
Today’s guest is painter and artist mentor Emily Jeffords. I’ve owned a few of Emily’s prints for years and it was a huge honor to chat with her today. In this episode we walk through finding inspiration, creating artwork that sells and the artist journey. Regardless of whether you're a painter or fine artist, if you have a creative heart, you'll find a ton of takeaways in this episode.
As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://daveyandkrista.com/creating-valuable-art-that-sells-btb-225. And if you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review over at Apple Podcasts.
Elizabeth Sheils, co-founder of the popular CRM, Rock Paper Coin, joins Davey on the podcast today for a wide-ranging interview. Any service-based business could benefit from this conversation but especially those in the Wedding Industry as the conversation. Initially we set out to discuss proposals and her unique take on where unique proposals fit into the booking process but the discussion evolved to focus more on shifts in the wedding industry.
As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://daveyandkrista.com/shifts-wedding-industry-btb-224/. And if you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review over at Apple Podcasts.
This week I’m joined by Chad Campbell of Teach Well Online. Chad and his wife Becca Campbell are good friends and frequent guests on our podcast. You might know them from their success of Little Z Sleep, The Course Company or The Sleep Sorority.
In this episode we dive into finding an audience for your online course, choosing a topic and how to begin structuring your content in a way that makes sense for the learner.
As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://daveyandkrista.com/how-to-find-audience-online-course-btb-223/. And if you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review over at Apple Podcasts.
Today I’m joined by photographer and business coach Christa Rene. We’re diving into ways you can avoid burnout as a service provider by adding products to your business, why clients typically don’t buy from online galleries and what you can do instead to increase your profit per session while shooting less.
As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://daveyandkrista.com/how-to-use-products-avoid-burnout-btb-222. And if you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review over at Apple Podcasts.
Today's guest is Daniel Shear, co-founder of Season's Yield, a bakery here in the Shenandoah Valley. We're chatting about how he and his wife built their business selling loaves of bread out of their house and it's evolution into Bread Days, a bi-weekly experience that hundreds, sometimes up to 1,000, people attend at their farm. As we chatted, I couldn't help but reflect that so much of what they're doing now, and the experience they provide, may not have ever happened, had they not done things the way they did them. They were able to steward what they had, start small, and by doing that they eventually created an experience that people seek after here in Virginia.
As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://daveyandkrista.com/building-community-around-business-btb-221/. And if you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review over at Apple Podcasts.
What goes into a high converting homepage? We try to answer that question in this episode of brands that book. If you're looking for more homepage content be sure to check out our blog and youtube channels. We've actually released a lot of homepage content lately and specifically a youtube video and blog post both published in the last few weeks. Plus, at this point, you can pretty much find content about any website page that you're trying to design, over on our youtube channel or on our blog.
As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://daveyandkrista.com/common-homepage-mistakes-to-avoid/. And if you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review over at Apple Podcasts.
Lately we’ve been receiving a lot of questions about designing and selling Showit templates, so I roped Krista into doing a quick, 20 minute, q+a style podcast episode with me while I asked her some of the questions.
If you’re thinking about becoming a designer or if you’re already a designer and you want to start designing and selling Showit website templates, this is a great place to start. We cover what you need to get started, helpful Showit resources, our favorite ecommerce platforms for actually selling templates, where Krista designs templates and some of her favorite design related tools, and what kinds of support we offer for template sales.
As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://daveyandkrista.com/how-to-build-and-sell-showit-websites/. And if you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review over at Apple Podcasts.
Today's episode features Kat Schmoyer, founder of KS Agency, an agency that provides innovative services for businesses that want to create, launch and sell digital products. We're talking more about what it would look like if you're going to launch a digital product, what Kat would recommend doing in order to get you that product launched, and how an integrator might help you.
As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://daveyandkrista.com/how-to-utilize-integrator-for-successful-launch-btb-218. And if you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review over at Apple Podcasts.
Today on the podcast we're joined by our good friend and fellow Davey + Krista designer, Sara Metzger. Sara has been on the team for nearly 5 years and she is the genius behind many of the custom brands we create. We're walking you through the exact process we use to define aesthetics and ultimately create color palettes for our clients.
As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://daveyandkrista.com/how-to-choose-perfect-colors-brand-btb-217. And if you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review over at Apple Podcasts.
We're chatting with Pinterest expert, Kate of KH Social, about all things Pinterest 2024. We talk about current best practices, how to use Pinterest to drive traffic to your site for years to come, how many pins you actually need to share in a day to be successful using trends and how to get started if Pinterest is new or if the extent of Pinterest use includes recipes, outfits, and wedding inspiration from that time you were engaged in 2014.
As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://daveyandkrista.com/top-pinterest-marketing-trends-2024-btb-216/. And if you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review over at Apple Podcasts.
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