Choose Your Adventurer
You’re not into coding—you just want to design and make a name for yourself and your aesthetic, not your coding skills (or lack thereof 😬)
You feel like you have to offer custom dev on projects to make the sale—but you feel like you can’t do the dev yourself (or afford to outsource it)
You don’t want to limit the design of your Shopify sites to minor theme customizations—but, ahem, that’s all you know how to do
You desperately need more clients (read: money) coming in, but you already feel like the work you have on your plate is too much
You’d rather use the time you spend Googling HTML and CSS code marketing—because that pipeline isn’t going to fill itself, amirite?
You’re not into coding—you just want to design and make a name for yourself and your aesthetic, not your coding skills (or lack thereof 😬)
You feel like you have to offer custom dev on projects to make the sale—but you feel like you can’t do the dev yourself (or afford to outsource it)
You don’t want to limit the design of your Shopify sites to minor theme customizations—but, ahem, that’s all you know how to do
You desperately need more clients (read: money) coming in, but you already feel like the work you have on your plate is too much
You’d rather use the time you spend Googling HTML and CSS code marketing—because that pipeline isn’t going to fill itself, amirite?
You’re not into coding—you just want to design and make a name for yourself and your aesthetic, not your coding skills (or lack thereof 😬)
You feel like you have to offer custom dev on projects to make the sale—but you feel like you can’t do the dev yourself (or afford to outsource it)
You don’t want to limit the design of your Shopify sites to minor theme customizations—but, ahem, that’s all you know how to do
You desperately need more clients (read: money) coming in, but you already feel like the work you have on your plate is too much
You’d rather use the time you spend Googling HTML and CSS code marketing—because that pipeline isn’t going to fill itself, amirite?
You need to master business , not design/dev
Here’s the thing: Designers are taught how to design and developers are taught how to develop. They’re not taught how to run a business. And the fugly truth is: You can’t be successful (read: profitable) as an independent designer or developer without knowing how to run a business. Sure, you need to know color theory or JavaScript, but you won’t scale your studio on skills alone. You’ll scale your studio when you know how to design scalable offers, scope projects accurately (and profitably) from the get-go, and form strategic partnerships to deliver those projects. The good news is: It’s not too late to learn how to run a better business.