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January 13, 2017

- by James Rose

So you are serious about content marketing. You are pushing out a quality blog post at least once a month (I hope more) and sharing it out to all your social media profiles. Maybe you are getting a few likes on those posts. But the real question is… are you getting new business from all […]

How to get web design clients

January 11, 2017

- by James Rose

How to get web design clients - Without knocking on doors or cold calling When people first signed up for Content Snare, they are asked one simple question: What is the single biggest challenge you face in your web design business? The most common response is getting content out of clients. Given they had just […]

How to choose the best CRM for web designers

December 21, 2016

- by Nicholas Edwards

A great CRM can be a game-changer for web design businesses, but choosing the right one can be tricky. In this article, we’ll give you all the information you need to choose the best CRM for web designers.

6 business tools and hacks to improve productivity

December 8, 2016

- by James Rose

Do you know that feeling when you find some web app or tool that you just know is going to make your life that much easier? Sometimes I’ll get so freakin excited that I’ll do a little dance around the office. This has happened a few times over the years. From the big stuff that helps you […]

How we preview websites to clients (with development web hosting)

November 17, 2016

- by James Rose

When it comes time to show your clients what their website looks like before going live, it can cause a lot of extra work. The best way we’ve found is to upload the website to a development server. Here the client can see exactly what the website will look like. It seems this is a much […]

Client website content checklist (with a template)

November 15, 2016

- by James Rose

Digital agencies know how hard it is to collect information from clients. If you’re struggling with this, read on to see the ultimate client website content checklist.

Getting content from your clients (and putting it in your contract)

November 1, 2016

- by James Rose

Almost every website job that gets delayed is because of content. It is a big decision for a client to commit to paying you to build them a website. For them, it can feel like they’ve already done a lot of hard work just to get to that point. They often forget that this is […]

4 ways to deal with clients taking weeks to give you content

October 24, 2016

- by James Rose

Even before building Content Snare, I'd spoken with hundreds of different web design and development businesses about the favourite parts of their business through to the biggest challenges. Then as we went on to start building Content Snare, I interviewed around 20 businesses to really deep dive into the biggest issues they faced in their […]

How we hired an amazing web design project manager & virtual assistant

October 15, 2016

- by James Rose

I was chatting with a potential new client about coming on board with our On Demand Web Guy service. They were totally sold on the concept but there was one obstacle. The boss had told my contact to outsource. “Try Upwork” was the advice... Possibly the worst outsourcing advice ever. But this is so common. […]

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