Brand It, Build It Podcast

Expanding your reach and growing your website traffic matters for a variety of reasons — for connecting with your audience more consistently, for converting your visitors to paying clients or customers, for boosting your Search Engine Optimization overall, and more. At With Grace and Gold, think of website traffic as something that really grows your business from the inside out — so doing your part to expand your reach and grow your website traffic can make a meaningful difference for your business overall. Today, we’re bringing you a fresh perspective on website traffic and sharing 5 additional ways to expand your reach. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold — Our free Showit website template, free Showit Instagram links template, and more: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com SHOW NOTES: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold

So, once your website is in place, what is your next step? For many small business owners and website-owners, bringing visitors to your website is a reasonable next step… but how do you go about doing so? Today, we’re sharing a fresh perspective on website traffic and how to expand your reach so your website helps to grow your business with purpose. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold — Our free Showit website template, free Showit Instagram links template, and more: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com SHOW NOTES: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold

Is simply having a professional web design enough? Once you’ve launched your new web design, can you go back to focusing on your clients and customers — and let your website work for you? In this week’s episode — Beyond Your Web Design: Now What? — we’re sharing what to do after your new website has launched. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold — Our free Showit website template, free Showit Instagram links template, and more: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com SHOW NOTES: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold

As we approach our 8th year in business, we’ve been honored to see and review hundreds of web designs. That’s why, today, we’re sharing 10 of the most common website mistakes we see, and exactly how to fix them! That way, if you’d like, you can use today’s episode as a checklist — to ensure your website is polished and ready to serve your visitors well!  FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold — Our free Showit website template, free Showit Instagram links template, and more: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com SHOW NOTES: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold

Would you believe me if I said just one piece of content can be shared in 10 different ways? One blog post or one social media caption can become so much more — and can help you to market your business efficiently and throughly? When serving our clients is our top priority as business owners, it can be hard to justify spending more than a few minutes on social media. That’s why, today, I’m going to share how one piece of content can be marketed in 10 different ways — so you can make the most of each piece of content you create, while marketing your business both efficiently and thoroughly. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold — Our free Showit website template, free Showit Instagram links template, and more: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com SHOW NOTES: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold

Why does work-life balance matter? Not only can a lack of balance lead to burnout, stress, and unhappiness in your position as a small business owner — but a lack of balance can also mean a lack of creativity, passion, and purpose in your position, too. With more balance, you can bring your most joyful, creative self to your business, and in turn, serve your clients well. We’re going to discuss how to design your small business with work-life balance in mind — how to create a strong, sustaining business from the ground up. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold — Our free Showit website template, free Showit Instagram links template, and more: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com SHOW NOTES: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold

According to a recent Google study, visually complex web designs are actually considered to be less beautiful overall than clean and minimal web designs. The study goes on to explore how complexity can color visitors’ first impressions — impacting how easily visitors can understand a website’s content, or how willing visitors are to continue exploring a website further. Today, we’re going to share why — and how — less is more in web design, and how you can prepare for your next web design with purpose and strategy. Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold — Our Showit website template, free Showit Instagram links template, and more: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com SHOW NOTES: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold

Discover 5 ways to elevate your visitors’ experience — 5 tools you can use and add to your website to ensure your visitors are receiving a great experience, forming a meaningful and lasting connection with your business, and ultimately, confidently choosing to purchase your products and book your services. Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold — Our Showit website template, free Showit Instagram links template, and more: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/free  For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com SHOW NOTES: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/withgraceandgold

What does it mean to have a web design rooted in purpose, growth, and success, reflective of your unique vision and goals? Today, we're exploring one simple — but sometimes challenging — decision of yours that can make all the difference in exactly how successful your website can work be. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold is now on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@withgraceandgold

This week’s episode is Part 5 of 5 of our New Business Roadmap Series. This 5-part series has been an exploration of how we would approach starting a brand new small business from scratch today. Whether you’re starting a new business or you’re simply adding a new offering to your existing business, these episodes are really a step-by-step journey toward successfully and confidently debuting something new.  Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com  Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time.

We’re discussing systems, processes, and workflows — how to begin running your new business or offering your new offering — from a place of preparation and purpose. Systems not only equip you to serve your clients and customers through a smooth process, but they also equip you to run your business smoothly and successfully, too. Through systems, you can ensure you always know what to do — how to lead and guide your clients through a client-focused process they will enjoy and value. Resource Discussed: With Grace and Gold's Small Business Resource Library FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold is now on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@withgraceandgold

This week, we’re sharing about your must-have minimum viable product — or MVP. An MVP can mean starting your business in a minimal, curated way — simply to ensure there are customers ready to purchase from you or book with you, and to learn from those prospective customers or clients before investing time, energy, and money into a fully-developed business with a full range of products or services you aren’t yet sure your prospective clients or customers will confidently choose, purchase, or book. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold is now on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@withgraceandgold

This week, in part 2 of 5 of our New Business Roadmap series, we’re exploring the foundation-building to-dos needed to form a solid foundation for your small business. In other words, now that you’ve answered the foundational questions from part 1 of 5 — who you are, what you do, who you serve, what your minimum viable product will be, and what resources you need to get started — what should your next steps be? FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold is now on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@withgraceandgold

Through this 5-episode series, I’ll be using my business education and our 7 years of small business experience to go back to the drawing board and share how we would approach starting a new business from scratch — the questions we would ask, the decisions we would form, and the steps we would take to create a successful, sustainable small business. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold is now on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@withgraceandgold

Being committed to releasing weekly episodes has meant creating consistency — a commitment to brainstorming topics, writing outlines, recording each episode, blogging about each episode, and marketing each episode — week by week. And this weekly routine actually inspired today’s podcast topic — consistency. We firmly believe in the power of consistency as small business owners… how seemingly small, daily actions can lead to long-term business success. How the seeds you planted in months or years past can make all the difference in your business today. That’s why, today, we’re exploring 5 areas to aim for consistency in — because the routines and consistency you create today can truly make all the difference for your business. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold is now on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@withgraceandgold

A vast majority of our clients share one goal: to create an elevated, yet welcoming, brand and web design to elevate their business, confidently raise their prices, and consistently reach high-end clients. Today, we’re sharing a few ways to reach high-end clients through your web design… the questions we recommend asking and the approaches we use when creating an elevated, yet welcoming, conversion-focused web design. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/ Kelly Zugay of With Grace and Gold is now on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@withgraceandgold

In the busyness of being a small business owner, there are so many details to consider. From the foundational decisions behind your business, to the ways you want your business to grow or expand in the future — there is so much to consider. Today, we want to share a single approach that changed our business — how we approach our business as a whole, how we determine our products and services, and how we run our business too. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/

If you’re an avid listener of our podcast, it’s likely you know how passionate we are about the basics — mastering the foundational details of your business, your brand, and your website to create a successful and sustainable small business. We’re firm believers that small, daily actions can lead to big goals achieved. And these core beliefs shape the way we approach both goal-setting and the process of working toward our goals. Here are 5 action steps we recommend for success. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/

If you’re launching a new offering — adding a new service or product to your business — there are essential website updates to make… ways that you can equip your audience to get to know your new offering, and ways that you can uplift a new area of your business seamlessly and successfully. Today, we’re sharing 5 key website updates to make when you launch a new offering. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/

No matter your type of business, one thing is true: We all need our websites to work on our behalf, and the new year is the perfect season and reason for double-checking that your website is doing what it should… helping to showcase your expertise, helping you to more authentically, confidently connect with your prospective clients, and helping you to grow your business with purpose. This week, we’re sharing a handful of website details we recommend double-checking for a successful year ahead. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/

From one year to another, we’ve noticed how our clients’ visions and goals have evolved — and therefore, how our approach to web design has changed and evolved, too. This week, we’re sharing 3 web design predictions for 2022 — a few overarching approaches we foresee for web design in the year ahead. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/

GIVEAWAY DETAILS: Today, we're sharing an opportunity to win a free Showit website template of your choice from With Grace and Gold! Spotify recently made podcast reviews available. To rate and review, from our Show page, click on the three-dot menu below our podcast cover art. Then, please email a screen grab of your review to hello@withgraceandgold.com and you’ll be entered to win a free Showit website template of your choice from With Grace and Gold! If you share Brand It, Build It Podcast to your Instagram Story and send a screen grab our way, you’ll receive an additional entry! One winner will be selected on Monday, January 3 and will be contacted via email! — As 2021 comes to an end, you may be thinking about the ways your business can change, evolve, or grow in the new year. Whether you are on holiday break, taking a week away from your business, or you’ll be doing your business housekeeping in the beginning of 2022, I’m hopeful that today’s recommendations can play a role in your planning for the year ahead. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time. View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/

For small business owners — particularly business owners who depend upon their website for sharing their expertise and booking new clients — web design can make all the difference in how your prospective clients perceive you. Today, I’m sharing 5 ways to showcase your expertise through your web design so you can ensure your website is working on your behalf to help you to book clients! FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com  Hosted by Kelly Zugay, co-founder of With Grace and Gold, every episode of Brand It, Build It Podcast equips you to boost brand awareness and build a successful small business, one clear, succinct, and actionable episode at a time.  View Show Notes: https://withgraceandgold.com/category/podcast/

At With Grace and Gold, your brand is determined using a blend of your values and approach as a business, our expertise, and your goals. As your designers, we create visuals and communicate visually on behalf your business — ensuring your brand effectively, clearly, and confidently communicates your values and approach — and lays a foundation for your growth and success. Today, we’re sharing 5 questions for uncovering your brand — 5 questions you can answer to begin curating the building-blocks for a strong, purpose-driven, and long-lasting brand. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Whether you pursue a custom brand and web design experience, or you choose a customizable Showit website template — a Blog design is always a valued piece of each design we create at With Grace and Gold. Maybe blogging isn’t yet part of your small business marketing strategy, or maybe you aren’t quite sure how blogging can play a role in your small business. Today, we’re exploring how your using blog and Pinterest together can grow your business in a meaningful, sustaining way. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Diversifying your offerings can serve as a meaningful way to strengthen your business, to serve your audience’s varying needs, and to grow your business in a well-rounded and comprehensive way. The question is: How can you ensure your web design — the online home for your business — is showcasing your multifaceted business in a purpose-driven, conversion-driven way? Today, we’re going to explore web design for multifaceted businesses… considerations, questions, and approaches for creating a strong web design for your multifaceted business. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Black Friday is underway at With Grace and Gold: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/shop The holiday season is officially here! It’s the week of Black Friday, which can be a busy, exciting, and even overwhelming season for small business owners. Today’s episode is all about 3 foundation-building actions for success in 2022. Even if you’re focused on Black Friday, it’s likely the following weeks will be about buttoning up a few details within your business and ensuring you’re putting your best business forward in 2022. So, let’s dive in and explore 3 foundation-building actions for success in 2022. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Black Friday is underway at With Grace and Gold: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/shop With 2022 just around the corner, I wanted to use this week’s episode to reflect on the changes we’ve made at With Grace and Gold in 2021. The beauty of small business ownership is always being able to grow, change, and evolve the more you learn and the more you explore — so today, I’ve rounded up the changes we’ve made at With Grace and Gold… a few which even surprised me! FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Black Friday is underway at With Grace and Gold: https://www.withgraceandgold.com/shop Whether you’ve been in business for 1 year or for 10 years, it’s likely the web design you have today isn’t the web design you started your business with. Maybe you’ve customized a template, and today, your web design looks nothing like your originally-chosen design. Or maybe you’ve worked with a professional designer, and over time, you’ve added, removed, or rearranged certain details. If you want to ensure your web design is still working for you — working on behalf of your business — then today’s episode is for you! FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

When you’re a small business owner, your website can truly serve as the foundation from which your business can grow — it’s a place where you can educate your visitors about who you are, what you do, who you serve, and what sets you apart from others in your field. It’s a place where you can build meaningful connections with your visitors and more effectively sell your products and services. Today, we’re sharing how to create a connection-focused and conversion-focused web design — a website to help your visitors truly feel connected to you and the heart behind your business and become excited, loyal customers or clients. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

In a creative community with so many options to choose from, choosing a website template can be daunting. If you like a website template, what will it look like when it’s customized for your business? Will your chosen website template work well for your needs and goals? This week, we’re sharing how to choose and effectively customize a website template so it aligns with your business, vision, and goals — and can truly work on behalf of your small business. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “I don’t know what I want my brand or website to look like — so I’m not ready to hire a designer” today’s episode is going to explore common misconceptions and share what is actually needed begin your brand and web design process at With Grace and Gold… and perhaps at other design businesses, too! FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Copywriting refers to the wording or writing used within your web design. Copywriting can be composed to inform visitors about your business, to create brand awareness, and to market your business. In the end, the goal of copywriting is to guide your visitors to take action — perhaps to continue exploring your website, to contact you, or to take another kind of action you’ve determined. Simply put, your copywriting can serve and guide your visitors toward confidently choosing to purchase your products or book your services — and therefore, copywriting can elevate and grow your business. As web designers, copywriting plays a meaningful role in the web design process. While every web design business is unique, at With Grace and Gold, we gather our clients’ copywriting before the web design process begins. Today, we want to share a few copywriting suggestions — and share why copywriting comes before web design. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

If you’re connected with us on social media, you may know that on Friday, October 1st, we celebrated our 7-year business anniversary at With Grace and Gold! And we celebrated by sharing a new web design of our own — a complete redesign of With Grace and Gold. So, today, I want to share a behind-the-scenes look at our new web design… how we determined a new web design was necessary for With Grace and Gold, and a few valuable features we wanted to be sure to include. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

This week’s episode is Brand It, Build It’s 80th episode - and we can hardly believe how quickly the past 20 months have gone! Today, I wanted to share a round-up of Brand It, Build It’s most-listened-to episodes: 5 episodes worth listening back on, for actionable ways to grow your small business! In addition, be sure to stay tuned until the end of this week's episode for an exciting announcement about With Grace and Gold! FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Pursuing a new brand design for your small business can feel like a big undertaking. What should your brand design look and feel like? What colors or patterns are right for your business? Luckily, when you hire a professional brand designer, your designer will likely gather your vision, goals, and preferences in order to carefully create and present a purpose-driven brand design for your business. So, what should you prioritize during your brand design process? What will allow your brand designer to create the best possible design solutions for you and your business? Today, we’re sharing 3 things to prioritize before and during your brand design process, to ensure you come away with a long-lasting, purpose-driven brand design rooted in your success. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

It’s likely your small business is one of many in your field — which, at first, can feel overwhelming. But if your web design is rooted in purpose and connection, your online presence can help you to seamlessly connect with your visitors and grow your business. With so many small businesses your audience could choose from, it’s essential for your web design to truly work on behalf of your business. That’s why, today, we want to share 3 tricks for creating an elevated web design. While every business and every web design is unique, there are a few go-to approaches we take when creating an elevated, purpose-driven, and conversion-focused web design. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Behind-the-scenes at With Grace and Gold, we’re currently working on a new web design of our own, with hopes of debuting our updated online home in Fall 2021. As we redesign our website page by page, we ask ourselves a series of questions — questions to help us approach the design process in a purpose-driven way. Whether you’re redesigning your website on your own, or you’re considering hiring a designer, today, we want to share 5 questions to help you approach the design process with purpose. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Though social media marketing can make a major difference for small businesses, one tool we’ve really valued using in tandem with social media marketing is newsletter marketing or email marketing. The reason being: As social media marketing changes and evolves, our newsletter is something we can manage and grow — independent of the ever-evolving social media landscape. Today, we want to share an overview of email marketing, why email marketing can make a difference for your small business — and how to go ahead and add newsletter opt-ins to your website, so your audience can receive your newsletter and journey from being a subscriber to becoming a paying customer or a paying client. Receive a 50% discount for FloDesk! Receive 50% off your monthly subscription to FloDesk using our link: https://bit.ly/WGGFloDesk Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity

How does your website become a resource you can use to grow your small business? Beyond having a strong, purpose-driven visual foundation through your brand and web design — monitoring your website analytics or the ways in which your website is being used by your audience can make a big difference. Today, we want to share what website analytics are and why they matter. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Two weeks ago, we began a new 3-part series called “The Small Business Owner’s Guide to SEO.” Part 1 shared a foundation of information about Search Engine Optimization — answering questions like “What is SEO?” and “How does SEO work?” Part 2 shared ways to build and enhance your SEO within your website — ways the details of your web design, and your website as a whole, matter. So, today, in Part 3 of our series, we’re going to explore actionable ways to enhance your SEO — ways you can grow from the foundation you’ve established since Part 2. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Last week, we began a new 3-part series called “The Small Business Owner’s Guide to SEO.” Last week’s episode, Part 1, shared a foundation of information about Search Engine Optimization — answering questions like “What is SEO?” and “How does SEO work?” This week, we’re going to explore actionable ways to build and enhance your SEO within your website — ways the details of your web design and your website as a whole matter. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Part of building a strong foundation for your small business is having a purpose-driven brand and web design to communicate your expertise, connect with your audience, and to grow your business upon. One way to ensure your website is working on behalf of your business is to be mindful of Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. Over the next 3 episodes, we’re going to explore Search Engine Optimization, so you can approach your SEO from a place of understanding and purpose. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

In Episode 009, we shared 5 tips for better client communication — ways to educate, serve, and guide your clients through your unique process and experience. But what if you hire a professional brand or web designer — and you become a client? How can you ensure you journey through a seamless process and come away with a brand or web design you love? Today, we’re sharing tips for communication with your designer. Whether you simply want to experience a smooth design process or you have concerns you’d like to address, we hope today’s tips help to equip you for a successful design process! FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Over the years, the role a website can play for a small business has changed and evolved. In the past, you may have perceived your website as a place to showcase your products and services — what you have to offer as a small business. Today, though, you may see your website as the visual foundation from which your small business can grow and succeed — a connection-driven resource for your visitors. Your website can help you form a meaningful connection with your visitors, guide your visitors toward the products or services best aligned with their needs, and equip your visitors to purchase your products or book your services. Summed up, your website can grow your small business in measurable, meaningful ways. Today, we want to explore 5 ways to make your website work for your business… to ensure that your website is more than a place to showcase your portfolio of work — but also a purpose-driven resource designed to serve your audience and grow your business. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Pursuing professional design for your small business can seem like a big undertaking. Maybe you’ve never worked with a professional designer, and you aren’t quite sure what to expect. Maybe you don’t have a specific vision in mind, and you’re feeling unsure you’re ready to pursue professional design. Today, I want to share 3 misconceptions about professional design — or working with a professional designer. Whether working with a professional designer is a plan you have for the year ahead, or maybe a far-away goal, I hope today’s episode encourages and equips you to decide confidently. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Increasing the number of quality visits to your website and keeping your visitors engaged can serve your business in a variety of ways — boosting brand awareness, connecting you with your Ideal Client, and enhancing your Search Engine Optimization. Over the past couple of episodes, we’ve focused on keeping visitors engaged with your website — but what happens if the first impression they have of your website is actually driving them away? FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Keeping visitors on and engaged with your website matters for a variety of reasons. Learning more about your business, products, or services can help visitors to form a meaningful connection with your business — or even help your website and business to be perceived as a dependable, go-to resource in your field. So, today, let’s explore 5 ways to keep visitors on your website — five actionable ways your web design can work on your behalf, serving, educating, and guiding your visitors toward the content most beneficial to their needs. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

The traffic you bring to your website matters for a variety of reasons. Not only do we, as business owners, want our prospective clients to discover and explore our website and our business as a whole — but website traffic can also lead to increased brand awareness and help boost Search Engine Optimization, too! Today, we’re going to explore 5 ways to increase traffic to your website — so your online presence can better connect with and serve your prospective clients, and in turn, grow your business. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

When we look back on the variety of business decisions we’ve made over the years, we often find ourselves saying, “We wish we would’ve pursued this sooner!” From hiring a videography business to create a brand video about our business to hiring a social media marketing company to create social media ads for our business — we realized our own fears and our own lack of information had been holding us back from pursuing new features and layers of our small business. So, today, we want to pull back the curtain on our brand and web design process, share more information about what the brand and web design process looks like at With Grace and Gold, and help to ease any fears or concerns you have which could be holding you back from pursuing an elevated online presence on behalf of your small business. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

To decrease overwhelm as a new season approaches, I want to share a few ways to prepare your website for a busy season. As you serve your clients and send more prospective clients to your website, it’s essential to ensure your website puts your best foot forward — equipping you for success in the seasons beyond busy season. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

A few weeks ago, we began a podcast series called “Beyond Your Brand” through which we’ve explored how to create a purposeful, connection-driven brand — and how to use your brand successfully in the future to create brand awareness and to grow a successful small business. Today, we’re recapping the main takeaways from our Beyond Your Brand Series — and sharing 3 additional action steps you can take to grow your brand and business. FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Today, we want to explore versatility — how your brand can be designed in a way that doesn’t limit your business, but instead, can be designed as a foundation from which your business can grow and change. So, whether your business currently has a few unique facets — unique offerings — or you simply want to ensure your business has room to grow and change in the years to come, today’s episode is for you! FREE Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Last week, we kicked off a brand new podcast series called “Beyond Your Brand” where we began to discuss the ways you can build upon your brand design not only to strengthen your brand — but also to create a more successful small business. In last week’s episode, we focused on creating consistency — the idea of successfully carrying your brand design through every touchpoint or facet of your small business. This week, we’re going to discuss how you can use your brand to create an experience — so you can communicate your message, connect with your audience, and create brand recognition in the process. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

When you think of your own business and brand, chances are, you know having a polished brand and web design is one thing — but successfully using your brand and web design is another. Today, we’re kicking off the start of a new podcast series — Beyond Your Brand — and exploring the ways you can use your brand and web design successfully in order to grow your small business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

BONUS EPISODE: Today at With Grace and Gold, we celebrated the arrival of our all-new service: Our Semi-Custom Brand Design Experience, an approximately-1-week design process, through which you’ll come away with a customized brand design — a polished, elevated, and cohesive brand design you can seamlessly carry throughout each area of your small business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Nearly every part of running our small business is done online — and maybe the same is true for your small business, too. We communicate with our clients via Zoom and email, we share about our business through our website, social media marketing, and email newsletters — and we rely on our online presence to communicate on behalf of our business, to engage and serve our audience, and to grow. So, today, I want to share budget-friendly options for brand design, web design, photography, and copywriting — the makings of a professional, connection-driven online presence, achieved in a budget-friendly way. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

If you were to ask us what we believe has made the biggest difference for the growth of our small business, we’d say trial and error — being open and willing to make and test small adjustments to our business on a regular basis. Whether we’re adjusting our client experience and process, or we’re exploring new ways to communicate our message — a willingness to acknowledge our current solution may not be our best solution has made all the difference. Today, I want to share 5 tools to strengthen your website — 5 ways you can change your website for the better, even if you believe your current website is good enough as-is. You may just discover a solution that helps to grow your small business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

When I say the word “conversion” what comes to mind? Over the years, conversion has become a buzzword in small business and small business marketing — but what does conversion mean, and why is conversion something you should be thinking of as a small business owner? In marketing and web design, the definition of conversion is: “When a website visitor completes a desired goal.” Therefore, a conversion-focused website, or a website that converts, is a website strategically-designed to help your visitors complete your desired goal or goals — to choose to book your services, purchase your products, or further engage with your business in the ways you hope. Today, I’m sharing 5 actionable ways to create a conversion-focused website — so your website converts your visitors to paying clients. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

We wholeheartedly believe in the power of professional web design — how your web design can form a meaningful connection with each visitor, how your web design can seamlessly lead and guide visitors toward the products or services aligned with their needs, and how your web design can truly work on behalf of your small business, even beyond your business hours. Today, I want to explore 3 misconceptions about your web design. By exploring these 3 misconceptions, you may find yourself approaching your web design in a purpose-driven way. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

With the foundation of your brand and web design in place, what are some other ways you can enhance and elevate your web design? Today, we’re exploring 3 website add-ons to elevate your small business: to better serve your website’s visitors and to grow your business. Resources Mentioned in Episode 054:  Drift: Our recommended live chat feature. FloDesk: Our recommended newsletter system. Save 50% on your FloDesk subscription when using our link! Interact: Our recommended quiz creator. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

In this week’s episode, we’re exploring the pros and cons for including — and not including — your pricing on your website. Just as we share within each episode: Every small business and every field is unique — and our hope through this week’s episode is to simply explore the pros and cons of including and not including your pricing on your website, so you can make the best decision possible for your small business — or simply experiment with one option or the other to discover what works best! For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity

One common question we receive at With Grace and Gold is: When is the best time for me to pursue a new brand for my business? We’re firm believers that your brand should always be working on behalf of your business — helping you to showcase your expertise and helping you to more seamlessly connect with and book your prospective clients. Today, we want to share 5 ways to know you’re ready to pursue a new brand for your business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

This week, we did something a little different — and on Instagram @withgraceandgold we asked for your biggest questions about brand and web design. One recurring question we received was about how to make the choice between purchasing and customizing a website template — or pursuing a custom web design. Now, as we always say: There is no one-size-fits-all approach to small business ownership, so in today’s episode, we want to simply share and explore 5 questions to ask yourself so you can make a well-informed decision about whether a website template or a custom web design will serve you and your small business best. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

We are firm believers that your web design can lead visitors on a journey toward learning about your business, forming a meaningful and trusting connection with you, and ultimately, choosing to hire you or make a purchase from you. We also believe that journey begins with your website’s navigation menu — the resource your website’s visitors will use to explore your website as a whole. Every web design business and every web designer approaches navigation menu design differently, but today, we want to share our approach with 3 website navigation menu strategies we live by. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

For small business owners, having a strong and long-lasting brand can make all the difference. Your brand can help prospective clients form an emotional connection with you and with your work. Your brand can work on behalf of your business — and your brand can serve as a roadmap for the direction you take in your business as a whole. If you’ve found yourself feeling as though your current brand and web design don’t accurately communicate your value or your expertise, or that you’re missing that little-something-extra that makes your favorite businesses and brands stand out — it could be time to explore how to create a purpose-driven, professional, and long-lasting brand for your small business. Today, we’re sharing 3 steps to a long-lasting brand! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

We’re kicking off the new year with Episode 048: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Rebranding. Whether you’re a brand new business owner and you are pursuing very first brand, or you’re an experienced business owner and you’re considering a new brand — answering these questions can help to save you time and money. Answering these questions can help you find the best designer to align with your vision and goals, so you aren’t pursuing a new brand year after year. And your responses to these questions can help to lay the foundation for an intentional, long-lasting brand for your business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Both personally and professionally, 2020 has been a unique year for a wide variety of reasons. One unexpected discovery we’ve had is: Because our businesses are online, and because of quarantine, we have worked all year long, without a break. Maybe you can relate. According to an article in Harvard Business Review, on average, business owners in the U.S. work a 72-hour work week — which could mean vacation days are minimal. An Inc. Magazine article shares, “a lack of vacation can lead to anxiety and hinder our ability to think clearly in order to grow our businesses.” This article goes on to share that, as business owners, we should take, at minimum, four weeks of vacation per year — with at least one week each quarter to reboot our minds, rest our bodies, enjoy the present, and plan for the future. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Over the past four weeks and past four episodes, we’ve explored ways to enhance and elevate the Home, About, Services, and Portfolio pages within your web design. Every page of your web design serves a unique and essential purpose — and we are so hopeful the actionable tips we’ve explored have equipped you to enhance your online presence with purpose and strategy. This week, in our final episode of our web design series, we’re sharing 3 tips for a connection-driven Contact page — a page of your web design that can empower your visitors to contact you and set the stage for your client experience ahead. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

We’re continuing our web design series by sharing 3 tips for an elevated and impactful Portfolio page — creative ways to curate and present your portfolio of work so you can elevate your web design and more seamlessly showcase your expertise. Whether we’re serving our clients at With Grace and Gold through custom web design, or we’re creating a customizable Showit website template for our shop — we’re passionate about ensuring each Portfolio page is carefully-curated, user-friendly, and designed to help businesses grow. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Whether your business is solely service-based — or services are part of what you offer through your small business — your Services page plays an important role in how your website’s visitors understand your services. Every detail of your Services page can lead your visitors toward choosing to book your services. So today, we’re exploring 5 ways to accomplish exactly that! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Your About page can be so much more than a place to share who you are and what you bring to your business, and we’re excited to share how! Every small business is unique, so every web design’s features will be unique, too. However, these 5 details could help you to approach your About page in a fresh, new way — and could help you to create a more elevated experience for your website’s visitors. Your About page can help visitors to get to know you and your business more deeply — and it can help you to establish your expertise, too! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Your Home page sets the tone for your visitors’ experience learning about your business, your products, and your services. Though your visitors may arrive from blog posts or from social media, your Home page serves as the foundation from which your visitors can be seamlessly led through your web design, and therefore, through the most essential details of your business. Today, we’re sharing 5 must-have details for your Home page, so you can ensure your web design is strategically and intentionally-designed to serve your visitors and grow your business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Since 2014, With Grace and Gold has served more than 400 creative small business owners through professional brand design. If you’re a small business owner, too, you’ve probably heard how essential having a clearly-defined and professional brand is — but why? When is the best time to pursue a new brand for your business? What is the professional brand design process like? And what types of results can you expect once you apply your brand to every area of your business? Today, we’re going behind-the-scenes of the brand design process at With Grace and Gold and answering all of those questions and more! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

If you’ve been with us since January, you may have noticed new podcast art and a new name. With Grace and Gold: The Podcast is now the Brand It, Build It Podcast. Today’s episode is not only about our name change, but it’s also about our philosophy when it comes to making changes within your small business. If you’re in a season of wondering about a name change, a brand or website change, or any change in direction within your small business — today’s episode is for you! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

As your business runs, it’s likely you’ll find that some of those foundational decisions aren’t quite serving your business as well as you had hoped. It’s a natural part of small business ownership that, as we become more familiar with our roles, our clients, and our businesses — we learn and grow, and need time to apply what we’ve learned so our business can reach new heights. That’s why, today, we’re sharing 5 areas of your business that are worth revisiting — 5 areas we revisit at With Grace and Gold every year around our business anniversary. Revisiting foundational areas of your business can equip you for long-term success, so we’re excited to share our recommended approach! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Saying “no” isn’t always easy — or comfortable. But it’s an essential part of being a successful small business owner. Saying no can actually be really powerful and helpful. Today’s episode comes from one of our most-read blog posts, “How to Say “No” Kindly and Professionally.” We’re excited to share our simple 3-step process for saying “no” so you can experience clarity within your business and serve your clients well. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Sponsored By: Sourced Co. Today’s episode is brought to you by Sourced Co. For small business owners, finding great-quality, elevated, and diverse stock photography and videography can be a challenge. We’ve personally subscribed to Sourced Co. to source our stock photography and videography — for photos and videos to use in our website templates, in our social media marketing, and more. A new collection of elevated, unique, and professional stock photography is released monthly. Visit sourcedco.com to learn more — and use code WITHGRACEANDGOLD for 15% off the first 3 months of a subscription and 15% off any purchases in the shop. That’s sourcedco.com!

On October 1, 2020 With Grace and Gold celebrated its sixth year in business. Whether your business is 1 year old or 10 years old, every business anniversary is so special — it’s a reminder to remember how hard you’ve worked and how far you’ve come — and it’s a moment to dream big about where you’d like your business to go next. This year has been challenging and bittersweet for all small business owners, but we wanted to bring a little ray of sunshine in by sharing 6 lessons we’ve learned in these past 6 years of business. We hope they encourage you — and help you to jump-start a new season in your business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Sponsored By: Sourced Co. Today’s episode is brought to you by Sourced Co. For small business owners, finding great-quality, elevated, and diverse stock photography and videography can be a challenge. We’ve personally subscribed to Sourced Co. to source our stock photography and videography — for photos and videos to use in our website templates, in our social media marketing, and more. A new collection of elevated, unique, and professional stock photography is released monthly. Visit sourcedco.com to learn more — and use code WITHGRACEANDGOLD for 15% off the first 3 months of a subscription and 15% off any purchases in the shop. That’s sourcedco.com!

If you’re a small business owner, chances are, you’ve outsourced for one or more areas of your small business. If you’re a photographer, maybe you’ve hired a brand and web design business to build your online presence. If you’re a brand and web designer, maybe you’ve hired a photographer to capture your head shots. Or, if you’re a wedding professional, you’ve likely hired or collaborated with fellow vendors to create one-of-a-kind celebrations. Last week, we talked about creating an elevated on-boarding experience — focusing on the experience you provide to your clients through your business. So today, we want to talk about what it’s like when YOU are a client — and how to improve YOUR experience as a client. These quick tips can make all the difference when it comes to the experience you have when you work with or hire a fellow small business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

As small business owners, everything we do is designed with our clients — our prospective clients and our current clients — in mind. From the way we talk about our business on our websites and on social media, to the way we design our process and our client experience — every detail of our business is designed to connect with, guide, and serve our clients. That’s why the on-boarding process — the process of welcoming your new clients to your complete client experience — is such an important part of your business and client experience as a whole. The on-boarding process is your client’s first impression of your process. It sets the tone for their experience ahead. And offers you a unique opportunity to ensure your client is prepared for — and excited about — what they’ll experience when working with you. Today, we’re going to explore how to create an elevated on-boarding process, so you can make a positive first impression, so you can successfully prepare your clients for their experience while working with you — and so you can better ensure a seamless, engaging, and fun process from beginning to end. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

When we think about the small businesses we love and look up to, we often wonder, “How did they do it?” Maybe you look up to fellow small business owners who seem to have a brand, web design, and social media feed truly reflective of their personality, fellow business owners who offer both services and products, or fellow business owners who fearlessly pursue and create new facets of their businesses. Wherever you are in your small business journey — new business owner or experienced business owner — we wholeheartedly believe: we can always learn from one another. By picking up pieces of inspiration and strategy along the way, each of us can build the small business we’ve always wanted. We believe what’s most essential is for your small business to be created with your unique definition of success in mind. Today, we’re going to share exactly how we scaled our small business — specifically, how we’ve been able to expand our reach, serve more clients, diversify our offerings, and multiply our revenue. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

At With Grace and Gold, we’ve become big believers in the idea that the time you spend outside of your business is just as important as the time you spend within your business. When we were new business owners, we found ourselves believing that the more time we spent working — or the more time we spent within our business — the more productive we would be, the more work we could get done, and the more we could grow our business. But after about a year and a half, we knew something needed to change. Today, I want to share 3 signs of burnout — 3 signs you’re working too much or spending too much time within your business. And in addition to that, I want to share 3 surprising reasons for rest — or for spending time outside of your business. As we approach a holiday weekend here in the US, I am so hopeful today’s episode will encourage you to step away from your business when you can, with the confidence that doing so will make you an even better small business owner. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

What if I told you that your website can be so much more than a place that shares your recent work? That your website can do more than serve as a detail of your small business? At With Grace and Gold, we have had the complete joy and honor of serving more than 400 small businesses and small business owners through brand and web design. We have noticed, first-hand, how the standards of web design have changed and evolved; how your website can be a foundation from which your business can gain real momentum, build meaningful connection, and help your business to exponentially grow. Today, we want to share 10 things we believe your website should do — so you can do exactly that: gain momentum, build connection, and experience exponential business growth. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

By focusing on our clients, we can bring value to our clients, and live out the purpose we started our business for. But what about all the other areas of small business ownership? As much as all business owners wish they could focus solely on their clients, business housekeeping — like bookkeeping, accounting, social media marketing, blogging, newsletter writing, and so much more — have to happen in order for us to maintain and grow our businesses. In other words, without working ON our businesses, we may not be able to work IN our businesses in the long-term. There are tasks we need to complete to keep our businesses running and moving forward so that we can continue serving our clients to the best of our ability. So, how do you do it? How do you work ON and IN your business? How can you provide an elevated, seamless client experience and manage your business simultaneously? Today, we’re going to share 3 ways to work ON and IN your business so you can build a foundation for short-term and long-term business success. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Today, I want to share one unconventional approach we have to brand and web design. At With Grace and Gold, we do not offer what are called brand or web design “refreshes” — the process of making adjustments to an existing brand and web design to meet a client’s needs. Instead, we offer only our full Custom Design Experiences, through which we create a complete brand — or brand and web design — from scratch. In today’s episode, I’m going to share the heart behind our decision! We hope today’s episode inspires you to create a business you love and believe in — and to embrace the creative, one-of-a-kind approach you bring to your business and your clients. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Reflecting upon our past episodeshas brought us to today, because we realized so many of those episodes were focused on you -- and what you alone can do to help your business grow. So, today, in Episode 029, we want to focus on strategic partnerships -- the reasons why strategic partnerships matter, and the ways that you can partner with fellow business owners to grow... whether that growth means simply learning something new, or whether that growth means adding a new offering or layer to your business that didn't exist before. Let's get started! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Have you ever had an extremely busy work week — or had a completely overwhelming workload — and thought to yourself: “Well, that’s just the way it is for small business owners.” While owning your own business is different from working for someone else’s business, I wholeheartedly believe there are decisions you can make and systems you can create in order to make small business ownership easier, more profitable, more sustainable, and more fun. Today, I want to share 5 actionable ways to make small business ownership easier — 5 decisions you can make on behalf of your business to experience more balance and peace of mind each day — to avoid burnout, and to begin running your small business the way you’ve always envisioned. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Sponsored By: Sourced Co. Today’s episode is brought to you by Sourced Co. For small business owners, finding great-quality, elevated, and diverse stock photography and videography can be a challenge. We’ve personally subscribed to Sourced Co. to source our stock photography and videography — for photos and videos to use in our website templates, in our social media marketing, and more. A new collection of elevated, unique, and professional stock photography is released monthly. Visit sourcedco.com to learn more — and use code WITHGRACEANDGOLD for 15% off the first 3 months of a subscription and 15% off any purchases in the shop. That’s sourcedco.com!

Empathy is defined as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” Maybe being empathetic comes naturally to you — or maybe you need an occasional reminder to put yourself in the shoes of someone else. But all in all, being empathetic can help make the world a better place; it can help us to understand one another better and to lift one another up in intentional and thoughtful ways. In today’s episode, we want to focus on being empathetic toward our customers and clients. Business coaches and researchers alike have agreed that being empathetic can make you a better business owner. But why — and how? Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Sponsored By: Sourced Co. Today’s episode is brought to you by Sourced Co. For small business owners, finding great-quality, elevated, and diverse stock photography and videography can be a challenge. We’ve personally subscribed to Sourced Co. to source our stock photography and videography — for photos and videos to use in our website templates, in our social media marketing, and more. A new collection of elevated, unique, and professional stock photography is released monthly. Visit SourcedCo.com to learn more — and use code WITHGRACEANDGOLD for 15% off the first 3 months of a subscription and 15% off any purchases in the shop. That’s SourcedCo.com!

According to an article from Australia Business News, research conducted by Yale University has shown that, over the past century, the average lifespan of a business has decreased by more than 50 years. On average, each new business has a lifespan of only 15 years. According to a professor at Princeton University, enduring companies share similar values and approaches within their businesses: redundancy, diversity, and adaptation. So, today, we’re going to explore 3 ways to embrace slow, meaningful business growth — 3 ways to create a successful business, rooted in sustainability. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Sponsored By: The Preset Market When you scroll through your phone, what do you see? Chances are, you see hundreds — maybe even thousands — of photos just waiting to be revisited. Chances are, you want more for your photos than to have them quickly scrolled past every now and then. Maybe you’d love to celebrate the photos you capture — share them more freely on social media, or even frame them. The Preset Market offers easy-to-use mobile Lightroom presets… essentially, professional filters you can seamlessly apply to your phone photography to create beautifully-enhanced photos. Visit thepresetmarket.com to discover your preset style — and create beautiful, Instagram-worthy, frame-worthy photos!

Your website is like your digital storefront — a place you can welcome your Ideal Clients to, a place where you can form a real connection with your visitors, and a place where you can openly and honestly sell your products and services. Over the past 6 years, we’ve observed that websites have become so much more than an online space to showcase products and services; they’ve become a place for building and fostering community, they’ve become a more solid and more detailed foundation from which small businesses can truly expand and grow. Websites have become a critically important tool for small businesses: they can help to communicate your message, connect you with your audience, and sell your products and services, — or they can nudge visitors to move on and continue exploring their options. And for so many small business owners, the question remains: How can I elevate my website? How can I make my website a more accurate reflection of my knowledge, experience, and expertise — so visitors know I’m capable of providing a really elevated experience? That’s why today, we’re sharing 7 actionable ways you can elevate your website. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com Sponsored By: The Preset Market When you scroll through your phone, what do you see? Chances are, you see hundreds — maybe even thousands — of photos just waiting to be revisited. Chances are, you want more for your photos than to have them quickly scrolled past every now and then. Maybe you’d love to celebrate the photos you capture — share them more freely on social media, or even frame them. The Preset Market offers easy-to-use mobile Lightroom presets… essentially, professional filters you can seamlessly apply to your phone photography to create beautifully-enhanced photos. Visit thepresetmarket.com to discover your preset style — and create beautiful, Instagram-worthy, frame-worthy photos!

As small business owners, we tend to feel very connected to our businesses; our businesses are a blend of our creativity, our passion, and our work — so it can be challenging to separate who we are from what we do. The results of not having boundaries can vary. Maybe you’ve found your mood is sometimes correlated with the highs and lows of your small business — or maybe your sense of self or self-worth seem tied to the performance of your business. In today’s episode of With Grace and Gold: The Podcast, we're going to talk about boundaries and how we can create healthy boundaries as small business owners. With healthy boundaries, we can build a foundation for successful and sustainable small business ownership. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Creative small business owners have many strengths — thinking creatively, being innovative, and boldly and passionately pursuing new ideas… At With Grace and Gold, we’ve always believed new ideas are worth exploring. The quote “A year from now, you’ll wish you had started today” rings true — so if there’s an idea that you’ve been holding onto or waiting to pursue, we hope today’s episode inspires you and encourages you to pursue it! Today, I’m going to share how and why we’ve created a second small business: what led to our decision, why we've decided our second business should be separate from With Grace and Gold, and how we’ve strategically designed our second business so we can effectively manage both of our businesses. There’s a lot to share in today’s episode, so we hope you enjoy! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve not only done a great deal of personal self-reflection, but we’ve also been in awe as the world’s collective voices have joined in unison to fight racism. We’ve learned and determined ways we can actively be anti-racist, ways we can actively make the world a better place for people and for communities near and far. While we know being actively anti-racist will require seasons upon seasons of learning, unlearning, and daily, personal and professional decisions — today, we wanted to share how to incorporate giving into your business, to begin the journey of serving people beyond the products and services you provide through your business. Incorporating philanthropy into your business is just one small way you can use your business for good — so we are hopeful today’s episode serves as encouragement that, our collective voices and actions are changing and can continue to change the world. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Over the past six years, With Grace and Gold has diversified its offerings. Having these unique revenue streams has shown me, first-hand, how diversification can serve businesses of all sizes. As seasons change, as trends change, or as unique circumstances come and go — diversifying can help ensure your business still serves customers or clients, continues generating revenue, and keeps moving forward. Today, we want to share why now is the best time to diversify your business — along with 3 ways to do so! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

According to a study published in the Harvard Business Review: Two thirds of people will settle into a new job in around three month’s time. But what about for entrepreneurs — people who are literally creating their jobs each and every day? With plenty of information available to us — but no one, official road map to follow — the choose-your-own-adventure aspect of being an entrepreneur is both exiting and a big responsibility. Because, like we talked about in Episode 019, the decisions we make today can impact the trajectory of our businesses in the weeks, months, and years ahead. So, today, we want to share 5 bad business habits we, ourselves, broke — 5 seemingly small habits which changed the trajectory of our business, and are definitely worth breaking! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Being a small business owner, particularly a work-from-home small business owner, means our daily decisions are often completely up to us. It’s up to us to decide what each and every process looks like — and what our workday looks like. What we do and how we do it is completely up to us. At first glance, making all of those decisions can seem a little overwhelming — but on the other hand, being in control of all of those decisions gives us a unique and special opportunity to create a structured, balanced workday — to create a schedule aligned with what we value, what we need both personally and professionally, and what we have to accomplish within our businesses. So if you’ve ever found yourself: Struggling to design a workday in a way that makes sense to you, working all day long, migrating from your desktop computer to the couch with your laptop in hand, or ending your workday with a sense of guilt that you didn’t accomplish everything you set out to do - today’s episode is for you. Today, we’re sharing how to create a structured, balanced workday. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

As small business owners, there is so much we can do today that will benefit our businesses in the days, weeks, months, and years from now. In a time in which it’s hard not to be filled with fear — holding onto peace and purpose, both personally and professionally, will help us to become stronger people and stronger business owners. Today, we want to share 3 seeds to plant in your business today — 3 ways you can grow your business with purpose and strategy — and prepare your business for long-term success, if you just start today. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Without an advisor, a business partner, or a sounding board — we tend to follow own voices — taking our own suggestions, and wholeheartedly pursuing our own ideas — perhaps without considering there may be a better way forward. Today, we want to share a few ways you’re in your own way… 3 areas of your business where you might actually be blocking your own path to success — along with 3 ways to get out of your own way! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

To get people to subscribe to your newsletter, you can create what’s called a lead magnet — an offering to attract people to your newsletter and encourage them to subscribe. This means, it’s not always enough to say something like “Subscribe for updates!” or “Sign up for my newsletter!” We, as business owners, have to create an incentive for subscribing. Today, we’re sharing 3 lead magnet ideas for your creative business — 3 creative ways you can encourage people to subscribe to your newsletter, so you can connect with, serve, and share your products and services directly with your audience. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

We believe that when you say “yes” to the wrong projects in business, you’re really saying “no” to the projects you created your business to do. And the more you say yes, the farther your business goes from the vision, goals, and purpose you had in mind when you first created your business. Today, we want to share 3 signs you need to find more clarity and focus in your business — and 3 ways to find that clarity and focus decision by decision. Because when you do, you’ll not only begin a season of purpose in your business — but you’ll also be able to serve your clients well, with the products and services you are gifted in providing. With more clarity, your audience will have more clarity in what you do, too — and you’ll give your business an opportunity to become the go-to business in your field. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

The way you price your products and services matters. There are so many details to consider like — your overhead, the cost to produce your products and services, the value of your time, and how you hope to position your business. The decision to raise your prices often stems from an idea like this: In order to work fewer hours - or, let’s be honest, in order to work reasonable business hours - and serve fewer people through a more personal experience, the prices of your products and services should or need to be raised. So, should you raise your prices?  It’s a question that seems to lead to even more questions: What will happen if I raise my prices? What if prospective clients say my prices are too high? In today’s episode, we’re going to share when — and how — to raise your prices. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Someone once told us, “Every successful business owner knows when to outsource.” If we think about the businesses and business owners we look up to, we see how knowing when to outsource can make all the difference. Outsourcing for your brand design, web design, photography, videography, or social media management can truly uplift your business. As business owners, we are stronger together — so when we outsource, we can experience a type of success we simply couldn’t have experienced alone. Today, we’re going to explore when it’s time for you to hire a web designer for your business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

If you’ve followed along with With Grace and Gold for awhile, you know our favorite place in the entire world is… Target. We refer to Target as the mothership, because it’s basically our happy place — a place we always want to visit. But, why do we — and so many of us — love Target so much? Like, how has Target become more of a lifestyle than a store? In our opinion, from a business perspective, Target does so much well. Today, we’re sharing 3 business lessons we’ve learned from Target — and because With Grace and Gold clearly has a completely different business model than Target does, these lessons might surprise you and serve your business, too! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Just as in life, small businesses have seasons — busy seasons, quiet seasons — and even seasons of working on our businesses, and in them. These seasons can create hills and valleys — schedule-wise, revenue-wise, and peace-of-mind-wise. These hills and valleys aren’t always easy to journey through. As business owners, we create our own schedules and our own structure — in seasons like the one we’re in now, not knowing what to do next can feel overwhelming. You might have questions like: How can I create consistency in my business all year long, and therefore, experience more peace of mind in my business? Today, we’re exploring a passive income action plan. Based upon our experiences at With Grace and Gold, we’re sharing how we recommend approaching passive income and diversification within your business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Having a professional brand is something we believe every small business owner should experience — because having an intentional brand creates peace of mind. You can rest assured knowing your brand and website are working for you and moving your business forward — even when you’re not working. Today, I’m excited to share about rebranding and when it’s best to pursue a new brand for your business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

These days, having an online business can mean you’re not only serving clients within your community — but you could also be serving clients from all over the world. For many of us, communication is at the heart of our businesses. So, how can we ensure we are communicating as professionally, and as effectively as possible — creating a personal client experience and running our businesses smoothly? Today, we're exploring 5 tips for better client communication! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

For the past 6 years, we’ve offered just three packages. We have 3 clearly-defined processes for each package, and as a result, With Grace and Gold runs really smoothly. We’re able to clearly communicate who we are and what we do, we’re able to connect with Ideal Clients who are looking for what we have to offer, and we’re able to experience clarity and purpose when we open our computers every day and get to work. Today, I’m going to share the problem with offering too many services — and how you can strategically decide which services are right for your business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

For service-based businesses, the way we present our services matters. As small business owners, we are so familiar with our own businesses — which means we may accidentally overlook the details of our businesses and our services that our prospective clients will connect with most. Today, we’re excited to share how to write your service descriptions so you can connect with your audience and more effectively sell your services. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Having a new brand can be a blend of both exciting and overwhelming. Once you’ve got a new brand for your business — a new logo design, new patterns, new font styles, a new color palette — what do you do? Where do you even begin? Having a new brand means beginning an entirely new season in your business. Whether you worked with a professional designer over the course of several weeks, or you worked tirelessly at perfecting your own brand, it’s likely you feel pressured to get the debut of your new brand right.  In today's episode, we’re sharing 5 ways to debut your new brand. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

At With Grace and Gold, we believe the most important thing to do in your small business is to be proactive all year long so that you can create as much consistency in your small business as possible — to build systems into your business so you’re continuously uplifting key areas of your business. That way, whether you’re in a busy season or a slow season you can rely on a foundation to earn more consistent revenue all year long. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

At With Grace and Gold, we feel so honored to serve creative women in business through brand design. While brand design is part of our everyday work, we understand how new and unfamiliar brand design is for our prospective clients and current clients. Today, we wanted to share three things your brand designer wants you to know about your business, your brand, and the process of creating a brand for you. While we can’t speak for every brand designer, we can speak from our years of brand design experience. Here are three things we want you to know! Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

At the start of our small business journey in 2014, we aimed to write 3-5 blog posts per week. Nowadays, we approach blogging in a much more relaxed way. Still, we can’t say enough about how big a role blogging played — and continues to play — in our business. Today, we’re excited to share why your blog is more important than you think — along with a few ways to create blog content whether you’re not feeling very creative, or you’re just feeling a little nervous to click publish. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Investing in the right kind of marketing for your business is important. In fact, investing in the right kind of anything for your business is important. But, for many small business owners, investing in products or services to enhance their business isn’t always possible. That’s why we believe in the power of marketing your business for free. In today’s episode, we're sharing why we believe the best kind of marketing can be done for free. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com

Every small business has a story — a story of why it began, or in our case, where it began. Your story not only allows you to feel "at home" in your business, but it can also help you to build a meaningful connection with your audience, and therefore, grow your business. In today's episode, we're sharing the story of how With Grace and Gold came to be, along with 3 tips for understanding and using your story in your small business. Free Resources from With Grace and Gold: Free Showit Website Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeShowitWebsiteTemplate Free Showit Instagram Links (LinkTree) Template: https://bit.ly/WGGFreeInstagramLinksTemplate Free 5-Part Guide to Raising Your Prices Confidently: https://bit.ly/WGGRaiseYourPricesConfidently With Grace and Gold’s Newsletter Community: https://bit.ly/WGGNewsletterCommunity For custom brand design services, custom web design services, and easy-to-customize Showit website templates for photographers, event planners, wedding professionals, interior designers, and creative small business owners, please visit With Grace and Gold: www.withgraceandgold.com