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Today I received an email from my PastSelf from 4 years ago (swipe left to see). You may not know this, but for the past 10 years, I’ve been emailing my FutureSelf. Not like obsessively, but I would get maybe 3-5 emails per year that date anything between a year ago to... well, many years ago. Like today. And today’s email hit me hard. Sometimes, we get so busy and buried in our own self doubts and limiting beliefs that we forget how far we’ve come. Today was a beautiful reminder of that! So I wanna encourage you too to stop for a moment and acknowledge how much you’ve accomplished. How much you’ve done. HOW AMAZING YOU ARE! Let’s make this post a Wall of Accomplishments - share your favourite win below! 👇🏼🏆
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May The Fourth Be With Us 🖤! Star Wars played a huge role in making “us” happen, so there was no doubt that we would say “yes” on such a significant day 😜 I’m a lucky gal to have such a handsome, supportive, kind person by my side who backs me up and goes along my crazy ideas, but also holds me down when things are about to get out of control! May the Force be with us, AK! And if you’re wondering how much has Star Wars influenced our lives - just swipe for the wedding gift 😅
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🥰 Imagine having clients come to you, asking you for that specific thing you love doing and seeing the full value of it. Sounds too good to be true? Absolutely not! I’m a big believer that everyone - yep, EVERY SINGLE ONE - has a recipe for their Secret Sauce. But chances are… you just don’t know what it is. . 🍝 Or perhaps you don’t believe that your sauce is special enough? Well I’m here to break down those beliefs ninja-style and prove you wrong! Your Signature Offer is your key to differentiate yourself, show up as an expert in your industry and serve your clients better – and I think we all need a bit more of that! . 📆 Join me for a free live training inside my Facebook group [link in bio] on Friday at 11am PST to learn how to build your Signature Secret Sauce in 5 simple steps!
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Sometimes even a little minimal submark can be packed with intention 🖤 a little sneak peak from a current project. What type of brand do you think is behind this mark?
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How many times did you have to write the same email over and over and over again? Put all these minutes together and you suddenly have HOURS (days? weeks? 😱) wasted on typing out emails. And I bet, just like me, your inbox is NOT the place where you want to spend your time ~ we gotz things to do! Lemme introduce you to the superhero when it comes to saving time and helping you be more productive in your biz.. EMAIL TEMPLATES! If you don’t yet have email templates for every possible client situation in your biz - get on it now! I have 70+ emails saved in my Gmail and #Dubsado so I don’t need to feel like this ➡️ 🤪😖🤯😭 ever again! And if you’re a designer and want to uplevel your design business, streamline your process and create a red-carpet client experience (💃🏼🕺🏻) then check the link in my bio to learn more about #DesignBizPowerhouse! Doors are closing May 3rd! Psssst, as one of bonuses, you’ll get all 70+ of my client email templates so you don’t have to do it by yourself. I gotchu, boo 🖤
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📆 MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working with 6 incredible women who are absolutely smashing it in their field to bring you something really special on April 21st… 👏🏼 Introducing THE DIGITAL MASTERMIND with: 🖤 @breedesigns_ 🖤 @elamazurcreative 🖤 @thesocialista_ 🖤 @jessica_m_studio 🖤 @sbj.studios 🖤 @jochunyan 🖤 and moi! What will you learn? 💥 The anatomy of a high-converting homepage (from 🙋🏼♀️!) 💥 How to create impressive and engaging Instagram stories 💥 How to grow your business with a high-concerting freebie 💥 How to nail your FB ads like a pro 💥 How to create swipe-worthy IG carousels But that’s not all. This course isn’t just PACKED with value. This course is all about #communityovercompetition and coming together to create a positive impact. Therefore, we will also be contributing 10% of all the proceeds in the first month to a charity helping those affected by COVID-19 🙏🏽🖤. Who’s excited for this? Comment your favourite emoji below to let us know! This is us right now 👉🏼 🥳🤩🤪🥰🙃
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Let’s streamline your design workflow together 🖤! From April 6th, join me on a free 5-day challenge to streamline your design workflow from A-to-Z, regain your sanity, improve your client experience and grow confidence in your creative process. Here’s what we’re gonna look at: DAY 1️⃣: Lead Acquisition DAY 2️⃣: Client Onboarding DAY 3️⃣: Project Management DAY 4️⃣: Client Offboarding DAY 5️⃣: Client Testimonials Plus daily live trainings and Q&A sessions, actionable steps to implement each day and additional freebie to create a professional design workflow and stellar client experience! Am I gonna see you there? [ SIGN UP LINK IN BIO ] 🖤
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*THROWS CONFETTI AT HERSELF* Launch day for someone a little weird, someone with a strange accent, someone who has more notebooks than she needs... launch day for ME 👋🏼🎉! In all honesty, this new @showit site launch wasn’t supposed to happen like that. I had a whole strategy planned to build up the excitement, show you more BTS, get the hype up... but sometimes things change and you just gotta go with it. And so I spent the weekend glued to my laptop, finalising all the pieces to get the new site up and now it’s here! I’ll jump on a live today to show you some of my favourite pieces on the new website - cause I truly poured my whole heart into it to serve you guys better 🖤 much love!
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Spring 2020 Global Hairstyle. What else are you rocking these days?
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When I was 8, I was selling personalised handmade friendship bracelets at my school. At the age of 9, I made beaded animals on keychains and sold it to my classmates (clear upgrade from the friendship bracelets) At 10, I partnered up with some friends and we sold personalised gingerbread cookies and tree decorations for last-minute shoppers. At the age of 11, twice a week, I would bulk buy croissants and pain au chocolat before school and sell them for profit during morning break when the bakery was closed. When I was 12, I learned the basics of HTML and sold code snippets to make your MySpace and Skyrock pages prettier. At 16, my mom's friend taught me how to make acrylic nails and I set up a hidden nail salon in my boarding school on weekends. This ran until I got busted by the schoolmaster 6 months later. What crazy side hustles did you create when you were younger?
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With only 24 hours in a day, it’s not always easy to understand what to focus on in your business and how to make time for YOU in it as well. Tomorrow, March 18, at 12pm CDT, I’m gonna jump on an IG Live with my dear friend @kristarae to share some tips on how to be more intentional and focused in your biz, while also making time for the most important person here – YOURSELF 🖤! . With everything going on, I personally have lost a bit of focus and given in to the stress... But I also know that panic and chaos isn’t the answer here. Instead, we need to focus on what we do best and who we do it for, and keep on showing up and spreading as much value as possible. So I hope I’ll see you on tomorrow, friend! Comment below if you’re thinking of joining us live and what questions you may have about your biz so we can answer them too!
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I know this has been a stressful time for all of us as we navigate through unchartered territory. And while there is a lot of uncertainty in the air, there is one thing I'm sure of:⠀ ⠀ Now more than ever is the time to come together as a community, help one another, support each other and collectively slow the spread of the virus.⠀ ⠀ And guess what? All this can be done from home. In your PJs.⠀ ⠀ Correction: all this SHOULD be done from home (PJs optional, but advised).⠀ ⠀ You know what to do. So let's be responsible and do it together 🖤
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Just one week to go until the Simply Profitable Designer Summit 🎉 As more details come out, this event just keeps getting better and better - you won’t want to miss it! While I'm gonna talk about how to use Asana to streamline your entire workflow, here are some other presentations I'm super excited about: 🖤 Pricing with Purpose in Your Design Business with @ambercrudup_co 🖤 How to Set Expectations with your Clients with @studioantheia 🖤 Proposals that Convert with @wayfarerdesignstudio .. and so many other expert sessions to help you grow your design business with ease and confidence. All that for FREE! Grab your ticket in my bio! Don't forget to register and join us for 5 value-packed days from March 23-27 – I hope to see you there!
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It’s been a week since we launched the new website for @mollyandtom and WOW what a successful launch it was! One of the feedback they received is how intentional the new design is thanks to the behind-the-scenes videos and other little touches we added to their site like this set of gorgeous icons! My favourites are the ones of their USB Box and the Print Pouch. What are yours? 🖤
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So many new faces here 🥰I wanted to say hello and reintroduce myself for those who may not know me too well yet!⠀ ⠀ I'm GIgi 👋🏼 Well... My full name is Yevgeniya Davarashvili but I think we'll all agree that Gigi is MUCH easier to pronounce and remember!⠀ ⠀ I'm Ukrainian-born, I grew up in Switzerland and am now based in London.⠀ ⠀ I'm a corporate marketing dropout turned brand designer and web strategist and, honestly, sometimes I still have trouble realising I've been running my own gig for over 4 years. Like... GIRL, YOU'RE DOING IT! Anyone feels the same way?⠀ ⠀ My approach to design is quite different. Heck, I actually tell people I'm a marketer first and designer second, because my process focuses on helping my clients grow their businesses, increase their conversions and selling out their products or services.⠀ ⠀ I'm a sucker for all dogs, every dog and any dog... and have watched Grey's Anatomy at least 8 times. Although anything past season 11 is a bit of blur.⠀ ⠀ Tell me some fun facts about you and what you do!⠀
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#TruthTime 😌 I don't often share this because I don't like to admit it to myself, but it took me nearly two years to figure out how to turn my "freelance hustle" (read: accepting odd design jobs that paid less than min wage) into a variable, purposeful and profitable business.⠀ ⠀ The truth is, when running a design business, you may find yourself trying anything and everything that might help you grow - speaking from experience here!⠀ ⠀ But trying to do everything is a sure road to burnout...⠀ ⠀ That’s why I’m so pumped to tell you about the Simply Profitable Designer Summit, hosted by @heykristarae! The goal for this summit is different than most. Instead of going to every presentation and ending up overwhelmed, we want you to attend presentations that relate to things you’re already doing so you can find ways to simplify, making your business easier to run and more profitable at the same time.⠀ ⠀ The summit is running from March 23-27, it’s totally FREE, and you’re not going to want to miss it. 🔗❗️ Click the link in my bio to learn more and grab your free ticket!⠀
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It’s Launch Day for @mollyandtom 🎉 We worked so hard over the past few months on realigning their business with a new direction, understanding their target audience and customer behaviour, and designing a heart-centred website that aligns perfectly with all their brand stands for. And the result? Their first order came through 9 minutes after the launch announcement. NINE MINUTES! Our custom Launch Strategy helped them build hype and excitement around the launch with hundreds of people signing up to their waitlist and visiting their website on its launch day. Go have a look at their incredible work too www.mollyandtom.co.uk ✨
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Let’s talk about the most clicked button on your website - your navigation icon! It’s a small little icon that means so much on a website as it’s main purpose is to be easily identifiable and navigate the visitors to their next destination. More and more I come across websites that don’t have a top-level navigation on their desktop sites (mine included), but use a menu icon instead. A couple of years ago this would be considered non-sense as it would confuse your desktop visitors. However, as we use our phones more and more for browsing, we became so used to seeing this hamburger menu that seeing it on desktop is not a surprise anymore. Using a menu icon on desktop is particularly useful if: 🖤 You have a large navigation 🖤 You want to keep your design clean & minimal 🖤 You want to use your navigation as a marketing app (i.e. include more info in the navigation, like a lead magnet) 🖤 You want to encourage people to scroll through your homepage first What about you? Do you have the full navigation or do you use an icon on your website?
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What happens when 2 introverts get together on a podcast? They share introvert stories and their best tips to run a successful online business 🤓😎! Many people are surprised when I tell them I get really nervous at the thought of “networking”. Or that I get major back sweat when I’m talking to people I don’t know. Walking into a room with people in circles is my nightmare. And you can often find me pretending to have an important phone call in a corner because I have no idea what to do. Yep, that’s me! But once a convo is initiated, I become the bubbliest, most curious kid in the room and swap stories right and left! On episode 23 on the podcast, @lindsay_maloney and I are chatting about the BTS of running an online business as an introvert. It’s not always easy, but it definitely doesn’t have to be HARD unless you make it so. Tune in now via link in bio! It’s a good one, friends!
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Ah, I’m so excited to celebrate the launch of @ruzecakehouse new website! We soft launched their new e-commerce website a couple of weeks ago to ensure everything is running smoothly, and I was in awe seeing their sales grow every. single. day! We built a highly custom e-commerce website which will allow them to grow their business quicker and further, and as Jess said – she finally gained back time to focus on the bigger picture! Now that’s music to my ears! Congrats, Jess and the team! If you want to: ✔️ Increase your number of enquiries ✔️ Exponentially grow your sales ✔️ Improve your visitor experience ✔️ Educate and build trust with your customers ... then it’s time we have a chat! Send me a DM or head over to the link in bio to get in touch! 🖤
![🥰 Imagine having clients come to you, asking you for that specific thing you love doing and seeing the full value of it.
Sounds too good to be true? Absolutely not!
I’m a big believer that everyone - yep, EVERY SINGLE ONE - has a recipe for their Secret Sauce. But chances are… you just don’t know what it is.
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🍝 Or perhaps you don’t believe that your sauce is special enough?
Well I’m here to break down those beliefs ninja-style and prove you wrong!
Your Signature Offer is your key to differentiate yourself, show up as an expert in your industry and serve your clients better – and I think we all need a bit more of that!
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📆 Join me for a free live training inside my Facebook group [link in bio] on Friday at 11am PST to learn how to build your Signature Secret Sauce in 5 simple steps!](https://scontent-frt3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t51.2885-15/95135853_1122818118079318_4950970853991782562_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=PAoVr0iQXx4AX9tzVc5&_nc_ht=scontent-frt3-1.xx&oh=cc09ed450912e8c00d914d90447c5fb0&oe=5ED82345)
![Let’s streamline your design workflow together 🖤!
From April 6th, join me on a free 5-day challenge to streamline your design workflow from A-to-Z, regain your sanity, improve your client experience and grow confidence in your creative process.
Here’s what we’re gonna look at:
DAY 1️⃣: Lead Acquisition
DAY 2️⃣: Client Onboarding
DAY 3️⃣: Project Management
DAY 4️⃣: Client Offboarding
DAY 5️⃣: Client Testimonials
Plus daily live trainings and Q&A sessions, actionable steps to implement each day and additional freebie to create a professional design workflow and stellar client experience!
Am I gonna see you there?
[ SIGN UP LINK IN BIO ] 🖤](https://scontent-frx5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t51.2885-15/92216724_2523590754556439_1128825386697531213_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=tjVTHQO-HkIAX_UkJKf&_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.xx&oh=8e81088253c764b6a5824190d7e36fc9&oe=5ED73D81)
