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Step No. 2: Branding & Design

The branding and design component involves creating a look and feel that matches your business’ voice and tone. The design should reflect and promote your business just as if you were personally providing services or information to your audience instead of your website.

The branding and design phase will include research about your audience and how your business relates to them, how user-interactions work, and general usability. Remember the planning we did as part of the first component? You’ve just saved yourself some time in the branding & design phase… hand over your Audience Research and Website Plan to your designer, and enjoy seeing them nail your concept, bringing it all to life.

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Work smarter not harder!

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Everyone knows what a website is, but not necessarily what pieces are required to create a working website. So here we go...

First, Planning
Planning a Website Design & Development Project
Ok, while not really an actual component of a website, planning out your website project is likely the most critical step, and often overlooked. The bulk of planning should happen before the design process even begins, but often you’ll need to stay flexible and re-adjust your plan as the site grows, or you gain new intelligence on how your audience uses it.

I remember a meeting with a client, where we discussed using an “Under Construction… Coming Soon” placeholder for a new feature. Our clients response was profound:

“A website should always be under construction and growing, there is no need to tell our visitors”.

He was right, your website will always be changing and growing, so stay flexible and be willing to re-visit your initial plans often.

Your website plan should cover topics such as target audience, content organization, site navigation, monetizing, and future growth and scaling. This is just a start, and we could dedicate an entire post to this topic. While not exhaustive, check out Creative Bloq’s article, 5 steps to planning a website, to get started.

Designing, or updating a website without a well thought-out plan is a recipe for a clunky, ugly, messy, and EXPENSIVE website.

If you want to know all the components right away. go here: https://360tactics.net/starting-a-website/components-of-a-website-design-development-project/

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What does success look like to you?? Is it money, fame, living in luxury??
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That all sounds great, but to me... Success is fulfillment. Success is being enough. Success is being satisfied in this moment while striving to become better.
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Dont stop pushing. You can be better! Just remember- More money won't necessarily make you happier. Find joy in your life now.

"I hope I make NO money" ❎❎
Let me clarify. Sure, we all need money to survive, but your business idea is so much more than just YOU. I hope that in your quest for surviving (or even thriving!) you can focus on giving back and supporting others around you. That is our mission!

Out living life for a few hours 🏌️⛳ -Jordan

Do you change up where you work??
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As entrepreneurs, we SHOULD change up our environment every now & then in order to breed more creativity!
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What is it about shorter work weeks that make them feel longer?!
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