Web Design Business with Josh Hall
The Web Design Business Podcast with host Josh Hall is here to help you build a web design business that allows you to have freedom and a lifestyle you love. As a web designer and web agency owner of over a decade, Josh knows the challenges, struggles and often painful lessons of building a web design business without any guidance, proven strategies or a mentor to help you along the way, which is why this show exists. Think of this podcast as your weekly dose of coaching, mentorship and guidance to help you build your dream web design business. All while having a good time doing it. Through interviews with seasoned web design business professionals and online entrepreneurs, solo coaching episodes with Josh and even case studies with his students, you’ll learn practical tips and strategies for web business building along with real-world advice and trends that are happening right now in the wild and wonderful world of web design. Subscribe if you’re ready to start or level up your web design business and for all show notes, links, full transcriptions for each episode, head to https://joshhall.co/podcast
Episodes
In my community, Web Designer Pro, we’re wrapping up a challenge on “Creating an AI Policy” for our web businesses. This is based largely off of frustrations and challenges that members have been having with clients bringing them AI designs that they want them to code and host, or taking their hard-earned and human-first designs, then using AI to manipulate them into generic slop.
That’s what led us t...
This episode is sponsored by SiteGround's new AI Agent for Wordpress →
In an age of AI overwhelm, noise, distraction and behavioral change, I know we all wonder, can courses survive?
What will online education look like in 5, 10, shoot, 2 years?!?
Well, in times like these, I need a voice of reason. A calming voice of optimisim and hope. And for me, that’s Chris Badgett. CEO of Lifter LMS. Hands down the...
Jump into Bailey's Collins' "Process Like a Pro Challenge" → joshhall.co/challenge use my link for 50% OFF (only $47!)
Runs Aug 10-14, registration closes Aug 9.
Learn from the BEST IN THE BUSINESS when it comes to building websites in a day. After all, she's done 500+ now.
You can take her process, make it your own and speed up your website builds, take on more clients, be more profitable and enjoy life more a...
If you’re catching this episode the week it drops, be sure to check out Bailey's “Process Like A Pro” challenge happening live, Aug 10-14!
Use my link → joshhall.co/challenge to get 50% OFF the challenge (only $47)!
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I tried. I really did. I tried to find a chink in Bailey Collins’ process armor…but I failed.
She really does have the most thorough, well-thought-out, and proven process ...
Join me this Thursday, July 30th from 12pm - 1:30pm EST for my What's Working Now (in web design) 2026 Workshop!
No theory. No guessing. No endless AI ideas that lead to overwhelm and uncertainty...
Just proven examples of pricing, offers, models, marketing, and sales strategies that are working TODAY for Web Designer Pros killing it in 2026.
Want to know something that’s working great for web designers today? Offering AI Search + Local SEO. Especially if you’re working with local service providers in blue-collar industries.
Back that up with solid, conversion-based website design (plus hosting & maintenance) and you’ve got a winning recipe of growing monthly recurring revenue and results-based for years to come.
That’s exactly ...
The Web Designer Pro® Coaching Tier has some important upcoming changes happening on Monday, August 3, 2026!
→ Join here to lock in the current rate $199/mo or $1,999/yr (if you want a 1:1 coaching call with me) before Mon Aug 3.
This solo/audio only episodes gives you an in-depth look at the changes, expanding on why now is the time and to hear directly from a handful of Coaching Tier members on how my personal coaching has helped t...
This episode is one of our Greatest Hits interviews, originally released about two and a half years ago with my close colleague and good friend, Jason Gracia.
Jason has built one of the most incredible productized web design businesses I’ve seen through his company, SWYFT Sites. Since this conversation first aired, he has sold the same core website more than 700 times and generated nearly $2.5 million through the system he cre...
This is part 2 of our “Buy or Sell” series!
In part 1 (ep 432), we focused on what it looks like to acquire/buy a web business or their book of clients. In this one, we’ll step into the selling shoes and dig into what it looks like to create a sellable web design business.
Hans Skillrud is back on and has experience selling his agency in order to go full-time with Termageddon. Jake and John Wooten ar...
Ever thought about acquiring (i.e. buying a web design business) or their book of business as a way to get clients and grow your biz fast?
Well, you'll be thinking about it after this conversation with Hans Skillrud, now co-founder of Termageddon, but previously an agency owner who acquired a large book of business, which helped catapult his agency's growth and revenue.
We also have Jake Kramer with Artillery Media, who, on the podca...
My fateful meeting with Nathan, at the time, the content manager of Elegant Themes. I shared what I was up to with Divi and building my little web studio to 100k/yr.
He asked me if I'd like to contribute to the Elegant Themes blog.
That cemented my passion for teaching what I was building and was the beginning of joshhall.co, this podcast and Web Designer Pro® 🙏
Links mentioned:
All my ET blog posts are still alive and kick'n at: eleg...
Well, I’ll be. I just recently crossed 1 million in lifetime revenue to date with my community Web Designer Pro.
While it was never an exact goal and there was no rush to get to the 7-figure mark, it is a cool milestone and boy howdy have I learned a lot.
And that’s what I’m sharing with you here in this solo episode of the podcast.
More specifically, 7 secrets (and 1 important bonus), that he...
Alexia Lynn is a brand strategist, world-class designer, and rock star Web Designer Pro® member who 10x’d her revenue last year after going full-time in August 2025.
A huge aspect of her success (other than being an amazing designer and an awesome person) is how she’s learned to offer and sell both brand and web together.
In this chat, she shares her exact sales process and mindset around how leading with strategy makes s...
👉 head to the full ProCon 2026 recap post
Links mentioned:
- Join the WDP Community Tier (50% off your first month)
- Join the WDP Coaching Tier (50% off your first month)
- Watch Bailey Collin's free Website in a Day training
- Why I've trusted SiteGround for 10 years video
Thanks to our PRO CON 2026 sponsors:
- 17hats
- SiteGround
- Termageddon
- LocalSEOAcademy
- Design Day Blueprint
- WP Umbrella (use code JOSHHALLWPU for a full free month)
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I look to Eric Dingler – CEO of my agency In Transit Studios – often for advice, wisdom and as a guiding light for hiring, team building and delegating. And in this special podcast chat, you’re gonna find out why.
Eric walks us through exactly the steps he took in finding, hiring and managing the current In Transit Studios team which is comprised of a couple of full-time team members and a few contractors.
Josh here checking in as this week, I'm at the beach with my wife and kiddos. We'll resume interviews next week, but in this one, I'm covering:
• a quick ProCon 2026 highlight tease and why IRL community hits different
• why in-person networking is surging again and how it builds trust fast
• the difference between networking groups and referral groups
• building referral partners adjacent to web d...
You need social media to get web design clients in 2026, right? Isn’t that what they say?
Well, Michelle Bourbonniere missed that memo.
She’s booked out consistently with her SEO & copy services despite not being active on ANY social media.
We dive into how she’s done it.
Head to the show notes to get all links and resources we mentioned, along with a full transcription of this episode at joshhall.co/428
Jacob Cass recently had a post on LinkedIn go semi-viral, all about whether or not designers are cooked with the recent release or Claude Design and Chat GPT Images.
I think it went viral because many designers are worried and scared. But I also think it went viral because many designers are not worried or scared.
Jacob took some time with me to dig into both of these mindsets and how designers (in brand, graphic and ...
This episode is our first ever greatest hits episode. I'm doing this for a couple reasons:
- Number one, I am getting caught up on some podcast interviews because I've been a little busy with Pro Con recently and some other stuff going on, and number two…
- I wanted to dig up some episodes from the past that I think are very relevant and more applicable than ever today in 2026. And that is definitely the case with this intervi...
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