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
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...
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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 ...
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In this special edition episode of the Web Design Business Podcast, I’m sharing a recent live interview I did with my mate from down under – James Barnard – one of the most prolific designers in the graphic, branding, and logo design space.
James invited me into his Designerrrs community for a live Q&A session which turned into a masterclass chat about how to build, grow, and scale a freelance design business.
H...
Here's a recap of our recent PRO CON 2026 event with a behind the scenes look of putting on an event of this scale, takeaways, lessons and tips for you to help you grow your web design business!
Full recap post to come soon...
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We're in a trust recession.
Anything in real life and in person (networking events, meetups, workshops, etc) have become a web designer's edge.
In this special solo episode, I share how important this is in 2026 with getting clients and building relationships that last for years, especially in the age of AI, social influencers, and scattered online overwhelm.
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Over the last several months, I’ve seen more and more chatter in my community Web Designer Pro about WP Umbrella – a new platform making quite the dent in the WordPress site manager space.
Personally, I wondered how there was even room for a new tool for managing WordPress sites (updates, optimizations, backups, reporting, etc) when it’s already a crowded market with tools like Manage WP, Main WP, Infinite ...
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Morning routines, air-tight calendar blocks, calls at 5pm, hustle and grind culture…all very doable. Unless you have kids..
That is, if you want to be a fully present parent > a hustling entrepreneur.
We’re getting into that in this conversation with my good friend Kady Sandel who’s been on the podcast before and even did a training inside my Web Designer Pro community talking about niching, pric...
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This is a first – and a very special guest for the podcast because it’s an interview with one of my best web design clients!
Gary Sigrist, founder and CEO of Safeguard Risk Solutions hired me back in 2012 to do branding, graphic and web design for his new company. What he didn’t know at that time was that I was very green and new to the industry.
Fast forward to 2026, his company is STILL a client of...
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Imagine getting handed a project of sifting, sorting and organizing over 10,000 emails 😮
As a web design business owner, that probably sounds like a nightmare. But there are people in the world who actually enjoy this type of work. And for creatives, they are a DREAM to partner up with and hire.
This is the story of how Jess Lindgren began working with online-entrepreneur legend Pat Flynn.
He was drowning in o...
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