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Tips + Tutorials to Keep Your Brand + Website Healthy + Happy

 

Welcome to your Read Me page. First, I want to say thank you for choosing me for your project and thanks for being so awesome. Below you’ll find video tutorials, resource links, and a link to your style guide page. Everything you need to manage your new site and branding.

If you need any help, just shoot me an email!

 

Firefly Junction Video Tutorials

Getting Started on Squarespace

More Articles:

Squarespace Video Series
https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/categories/200204575

Use a password manager to make logging into websites easy. See LastPass – a Chrome browser extension here. Or go with the top-rated paid app for security (and my fave) 1Password Pro. The mobile app uses finger recognition which makes it so fast. See it here.

Responsive Website Design

Pages Menu Overview

Design Menu Overview

Overview of Other Menus

Editing + Styling Text

Editing Photos

Your Website

Firefly Junction Website Overview

Creating a New Blog Post

How to Create a New Blog Post

More Resources

Still confused?  Let me know and I'll add a video for you! I'm also available at an hourly rate to make edits and updates to your website for you, if you'd prefer that :-)

You can email me for help with updates, adding more pages, or for marketing material here.

Do you know Squarespace has mobile apps? Yup, you can edit, blog or check your analytics on the go!

If I’m not available, here’s another resource for when you need a Squarespace expert to work on your site for more complicated fixes or coding custom features: https://www.usesixty.com/

Want to learn more? For Squarespace courses, look here and here.

Perks

With your first year subscription to Squarespace you get a free domain. They are generally $20 per year. Do a search here: https://www.squarespace.com/domain-name-search/

You also get Acuity Scheduling for free when you integrate it into your website. Acuity is a great for booking meetings or calls with clients. They can easily click to see your availability and book it themselves. You can even have your clients pay within the app. This can be on your contact page, or a hidden page you can share the link to.

Check it out the Emerging plan ($15/mth value) here: https://acuityscheduling.com/

For collecting email addresses for sending newsletters, Mailchimp integrates seamlessly into Squarespace and is free for under 2000 subscribers. See more here: https://mailchimp.com/

Your Style Guide

Keep your branding strong by being consistent with your visuals and voice. If you’re working with other companies, designers or printers, send them to this page: see your style guide page here

For in-person events get fabulous print products for promoting your biz such as biz cards, stickers and postcards from MOO (save 20% with this link): https://refer.moo.com/s/q6y7d

My Fave Resources

IMAGES:
When you need to resize and compress a large image to use on your site to make it smaller so it loads quicker: https://squoosh.app/

GRAPHICS:
Create your own blog + social graphics: https://www.canva.com/. This is an amazing resource you can use on your desktop or the mobile app. They make it really easy and have tons of tutorials for people who want to do their own graphics. The paid business plan will allow you to upload your logo, colours and create templates to make it super fast. You can even have your designer set this up for you 😀

This one is also popular: https://snappa.com/

WRITING:
Add Grammarly to your Chrome browser to check all your grammar and spelling automatically — https://www.grammarly.com/ — one of my favourite tools!

Add or write your copy inside the Hemingway app to help you write better — http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

BLOGGING:
Top tips for writing evergreen blog content: blog.bufferapp.com/the-complete-list-of-evergreen-content-ideas-for-your-blog

How to create an epic blog post by CopyHackers: https://copyhackers.com/how-to-write-an-epic-blog-post/

SEO
An SEO expert who has great articles + tutorials for keyword searching and how to read your analytics. She also has a free FB group where she does regular training videos – megaboltdigital.com/google-trends/

FOR YOUR WEBSITE
How to get testimonials that sell: https://www.bidsketch.com

StoryBrand is an amazing copywriting system for telling your story in a way that makes your clients the hero, which is proven to increase sales. I’ve read the book and am a HUGE fan. Read the blog or listen to the podcast today.

Copywriting tips from the conversion copywriting gurus – for your site, emails, and marketing communications: https://training.copyhackers.com

SOCIAL MEDIA
For shortening long URLs so they fit nicely in your posts:  http://goo.gl/ +  https://bitly.com/

Your Feedback!

Testimonials are invaluable to have on our websites. If you haven’t already, please don't forget to send me your feedback on our project here.

I’d also love it if you could also add a quick star rating on my Facebook business page by tapping the stars, here.

Thanks!

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good-bye

But it doesn’t have to be good-bye. Keep in touch if you need more design help in the future. And please pass along my name if you know any other savvy pros or small businesses out there wanting to get awesome online 🤘🏻