Squarespace

You're listening to The Freelance Fix, where we're all about elevating your online presence with ease and becoming in demand without going insane.

I'm Anna, aka Byrosanna, a Squarespace web designer and content creator of over 11 years and multi-passionate first-time mum living in Cornwall-by-the-Sea.

So if you're a fellow solo or small business owner whose version of success looks like a spacious schedule, more time offline and outdoors with family and working in ways that light you up rather than burn you out, then let's dive in.

So I think the first thing I want to address is that there are two types of AI tools that people are generally talking about nowadays, and they're actually very different and their uses are very different.

We were acquired in 2019 by a company that was basically like enterprise mobile apps.

It was kind of like Squarespace, but for college campuses to build their own mobile apps.

And Notre Dame was actually one of their first, biggest and earliest customers.

So the ND mobile app was the company that, you know, that bought my business, made that and other things.

Just for WordPress itself was quite steep.

I was used to, I'd use Squarespace and Dix and as website builders before, I'd never had any sort of contact with plugin system or that sort of daunting backend when you see a dashboard that none of it makes a huge amount of sense.

So you just have to play.

You have to play with things.

We appreciate all of you members.

And we want to thank our sponsors this week, Squarespace and NetSuite.

And we also had a bonus monthly episode come out last week.

We went through our stream deck setups.

How much harder was it? What changed about, it's fun to run a business, but part of, I think what makes a lot of econ businesses successful or any business successful is is oftentimes the fact you haven't made it, right? So how did your motivations change? How much harder was it to grow the business post-sale compared to pre-sale?

When I got into Two Feather, like, you know, that was right when I think Squarespace and Shopify came out.

And we had, in Inyo, we had our own platform.

Like we had built our own platform.

100% my playbook, honestly.

One, for instance, is my original site was on Squarespace.

And that's where I had a blog.

It was ugly.

Whoever comes up, that's what I'm going on.

And I'm like, okay, their blogs on WordPress or whatever platform, typically WordPress.

I was like, why is every blog on WordPress? Now I gotta like, mine's on Squarespace.

I must be doing something wrong.

Yeah.

I feel like I feel like for the last couple of days I've had a few times I've tried to find information on websites and they're like all just super bare bones, one page Squarespace sites.

I'm going to freak out.

I hate this Vivaldi thing where it doesn't just let me search stuff.