Jack Cotton-Brown

Bespoke web development & design. Fullstack, big-brain solutions for your web presence.

[Jack Cotton-Brown @jackcottonbrown]

It's about time for another Designship update.

August:
- Had 2 clients.
- 1 continuation, and 1 new.
- Booked 2k in revenue.

September:
- Had 2 clients.
- 2 continuations.
- Booked 2k in revenue.
- Also a small $100 Upwork job came through organically.

October: (beginning)
- 1 client.
- 1 pause (the pausing client had what they needed, and are still pre-revenue in their business, so $1k is a lot for them.
- 1 larger $1500 job came in through Upwork.

I'm getting lots of positive feedback, and client A is seeing real results now after 3 months.

I'm not using Stripe atm because A) It's taking 7% of my $1k, and B) So far my clients prefer to pay in other ways.

I've spent minimal time on marketing myself and maximal time on delivering for my clients.

I averaged 1 delivery per day for each of my clients. It's easy enough with just 2. Morning/Afternoon.

I've experimented with using Slack for Comms. This created a drift effect away from Trello. The main thing with this was to ensure there is a focus on one request at a time. Clients love to load things up in the chat, and I often had to ask what the current focus should be. Trello would solve this. Often times I had to make my own checklists for batches of revisions.

The biggest time consumer was making checklists from a Loom review from the client. A 20 minute Loom with a bunch of embedded requests in it took me 40 minutes to extract the list correctly. It would be great if Loom AI could automate this! @loom

I upgraded my Loom subscription because I found I was constantly sending Loom's to update my clients. For $10/month - worth it.

I've found that the 1k/month price is low enough to get clients to buy, even if they "have no money". The output of designing and building marketing websites is so essential and valuable that they will dig into their pockets to pay me.

But...

Clients that have to dig into their pockets are also considerably demanding on their requests. Case in point, client A has plenty of revenue and pays me within hours of my invoice. Client B needed to have a review call at the end of the month and wanted to have weekly KPI review calls.

Thoughts regarding pricing - it's not just about the price point you set. It's more about how affordable your price is to the prospective client. If you set a lower price, you become available to prospects that have no money. If you set a higher price, you're not an option for those prospects.

Thanks for following the Designship journey with me. In the past 3 months my skills have evolved considerably, and I'm excited for the next 3!

[Jack Cotton-Brown @jackcottonbrown]

I'm claiming my AI agent "Barnabus" on @moltbook 🦞

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@todoist Please add options in settings for default new task behaviour.

I want to specify where new tasks should go.

Mainly, I want new task to go to the top of a list.

It just makes more sense for me to have the most recently added tasks appear at the top, always in view.

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@adriankuleszo Hey Adrian are you still searching? This is actually my exact background.

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Sometimes I sit with my Airpod Pro's in with noise cancellation on, at home, just to enjoy the pure silence.

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@MajinBuOfficial The Pro's look bigger than their baseline counterparts.

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@MrNick_Buzz How are you recovering from burnout so fast?

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If I had to sum up designing in Canva with a single sentence it would be:

"Yeah... that looks about right"

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@namyakhann Teasing continuation is a subtle art.

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@LeakerApple I can't WAIT to shave half a millimeter off the bezels on my phone. That alone is really the only thing between me and pure happiness right now.

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@BrettFromDJ Share screen time graph?

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@MrNick_Buzz Luck happens to those who diligently prepare for it.

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@SebastienNvzt A, definitely.

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@VadimCarazan 2 second impression - Capital G. 20 second impression, G and some significance to the hexagonal shape.

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@adispezio @figma Moved them, all seems good. Overall from what I understand, the only change is that now my primary drafts folder just lives inside a personal "team" space.

I will admit I did freak out a bit there.

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@figma So if I understand correctly, my 98+ drafts now need to live in a team folder, of which can only support 3 files, with 3 pages each on the free plan?

So to migrate them all for free, I would need to create over 30 different free teams and put 3 files into each?

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@DannPetty Designing writing code = ba...good.

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@adispezio @figma Ok thanks for clarifying that. I will start moving them

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@adriankuleszo Freedom and flexibility of work schedule for me makes every day a work day.

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@DannPetty @figma I’m yet to experience the change but my drafts space is also extremely important to me. Will check this today.