Brands That Book With Davey Jones

One thing we've realized after 10+ years as business owners is that it's actually harder to take a vacation as a business owner than it was as an employee. My current boss is WAY more challenging than my previous ones ever were. ;) After a few vacations that involved way too much time in front of a computer dealing with tasks that "had to be done" at that moment, we've learned that when it comes to a vacation from your business, a little prep work goes a long way.

Are you experiencing burnout? After an uncertain past 2 years, we know many of you are faced with challenges that result in burnout. Today Davey & Krista explain how to avoid burnout and share tips to work through if you're already in the season of burnout. 6:22- Take time to rest 11:43 - Set work boundaries 17:08 - Invest time in hobbies 18:48 - 10% Project 21:52 - Make a BIG routine change

Is there a way to build website traffic quickly? We think so! In this episode, you will learn how to gain traffic to your website quickly by leveraging other people's audiences through collaborations. We share the best practices for you and your business to authentically grow an audience. 4:40 - Long term play - show up consistently 6:10 - Repurposing your content 7:22 - Leverage other people’s audiences 9:05 - Collaborations with other businesses 17:45 - Best methods for your business 19:11 - How to ask for a collaboration

An effective landing page can make-or-break a lead generation campaign or product launch. This episode covers what we look for whenever we're reviewing a client's landing pages—or whenever we're designing our own! 3:15 What is a landing page? 6:15 Mobile responsiveness vs. desktop responsiveness 7:05 How to organize a landing page? 12:25 What content is needed on a landing page? 14:05 How can I include social proof? 16:50 Your Focus - The Next Step Resources Actual Review of a Landing Page: https://youtu.be/yNmeSC2dCck Free Landing Page Template (Showit & WordPress/Elementor): https://daveyandkrista.com/landing-page-for-showit/ Blog Post: https://daveyandkrista.com/audience-5-simple-tips-for-creating-a-landing-page-that-converts/

Interested in getting started as a website designer? In this episode, Davey & Krista cover everything from learning the skills to building a portfolio and finding clients. This episode is jammed packed with practical considerations for getting started in web design. If you’re interested in getting started as a website designer and you’re looking for some additional direction, send us an email. Krista is currently putting together a course on how to get started, and we’re looking for beta-testers so that we can perfect the content.

Trena Little, YouTube strategist and creator of the Video Strategy Academy, joins me on the podcast today to chat about how to start and grow your YouTube channel. Trena and her team helped us jumpstart our YouTube channel over last year and we're happy with the results. They know what they're doing so we're excited to share the episode with you. If you're interested in growing your channel, be sure to check out her Video Strategy Academy which opens back up in May of 2022. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/start-grow-youtube-channel-2022/

Copywriter Olivia Carson joins me on the podcast today to discuss crafting copy with soul. While our conversation focuses primarily on website copy, Olivia also dropped some tips for other copywriting activities like writing Instagram captions. One quick announcement last week, we launched our spring line of website designs including two new full website designs and what might end up becoming our most popular add-on page, the family portrait guide. Just head on over to daveyandkrista.com For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-episode-149-crafting-copy/

The entrepreneur, YouTuber, and Business Coach Graham Cochran joins me on the podcast to discuss how to automate and optimize your life and work. He shares with me the framework he uses to grow his business while only working five hours per week. If you don't know Graham I highly recommend checking out episode three of the podcast to learn more about his story because it's a remarkable one. I'm really excited about his latest project to the release of his book, “How to Get Paid for What You Know,” which will be available on March 22nd. I've included a link to it in the show notes and if you pre-order the book you could also get access to some pre-order bonuses. I’ve included that information in the show notes as well and listen I don't get any kickback for promoting his book I just learned a lot from Graham I believe that this book is going to be awesome and potentially a game-changer for a lot of people.

Gavin Wade, founder of CloudSpot joins me on the podcast today to discuss how photographers can make more money using their online gallery. Gavin dropped some real gems that are super practical when it comes to selling like, how to seed the sale so that it becomes a lot easier to make that sale later in the experience. You will want to stick around for this episode. You might remember Gavin from an earlier episode where he shared the story of building CloudSpot. Check out that episode if business origin stories interest you. Also just so you know CloudSpot has increased the limits of their free plan to 10 gigabytes this way you can actually take CloudSpot for a real spin to see if it's right for you before signing up for the paid plan. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/cloudspot-make-more-money-online-gallery/

Today we are chatting about optimizing your Google business profile formerly known as a Google My Business listing. If you're a local business looking to show up in local searches this is something that you want to pay attention to. We also have an extended conversation about the impact reviews can have on ranking and local SEO. A big thanks to Leah our SEO specialist over at Till Agency for joining me for this discussion. If you're interested in SEO be sure to head on over to Till Agency’s website till.agency and reach out! We can help with everything from audits to technical fixes to coaching and content creation. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/optimize-google-business-profile-local-seo/

Becca and Chad Campbell from the Course Company join me today for a discussion about how to create and sell an online course. You may recognize Becca’s voice from another early Brands that Book interview that I would highly recommend checking out if you're creating an online course or if this subject interest you. Especially if you're currently providing a service and are interested in learning how to go from serving one to one to serving one to many. If you're interested in learning more about the Course Company, be sure to check out the links in the show notes; Chad and Becca know what it takes to create an effective online course because they've done it themselves and they've helped others do it to. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/create-and-sell-online-course/

Pinterest expert Vanessa Kynes is back for our annual episode on Pinterest and what businesses need to do to be successful on Pinterest in 2022. If you're new to Pinterest I highly recommend checking out my other episodes that I've recorded with Vanessa on Pinterest. Be sure to check out the show notes at DaveyandKrista.com for the resources that we mentioned during the episode and to check out all the tutorials that we referenced throughout this episode such as how to make a Pinterest graphic. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/how-to-optimize-your-pinterest-account-for-2022/

Krista and I sit down in today's episode to chat about how to make content more shareable. Content takes time to create, and you want to make sure that you get the most out of it. Today we're sharing a few things we do to our content to make sure it gets as much visibility across the web as possible. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/how-to-make-your-content-more-shareable-on-social-media/

Leah MacDaniel, SEO Specialist and Account Manager over at the Till Agency, joins me for another Brands that Books Show and Stuff Marketers Say podcast crossover episode. After chatting with her last week, we decided to follow up that episode about SEO for 2022 with another episode chatting through some of our favorite website optimization tools. In this episode we chat specifically about our favorite tools for website audits, content research, and website speed along with a few others. We don't chat only about the expensive more professional tools but also share a few affordable tools as well. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-episode-142-our-favorite-tools-for-website-optimization/

Leah MacDaniel SEO specialist and account manager over at Till Agency joins me for this special Brands that Book and Stuff Markers Say podcast crossover episode. We're discussing SEO for 2022, what's the next big Google update, and what should people be focusing on to see SEO success in 2022. This is a live episode where people could ask questions live. If you're interested in learning more about our live episodes, be sure to sign up for our email list. In this episode unfortunately we had some technical difficulties. You shouldn’t hear them as you listen to the episode, but it did prevent us from answering some people questions live. So, my apologies if you did try to tune into this episode live but again if you're interested in joining us for live episodes in the future be sure to join our email list and will let you know when the next line episode is. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/improve-seo-website/

In today's episode Krista and I are chatting about some our favorite end of year activities just to reflect on the past year. But then, we turn our attention to a few things that you can do on your website and get it looking fresh for the new year without having to do a full website redesign. Many of these activities don't take long but can really level up your website or at least give it a fresh new look. We also end by chatting about one of my favorite website activities that does take a little bit more time and that's running a content audit, but it is so worth it, I think, not only when it comes to SEO but just all around in content creation and coming out with new content ideas. We don't get too much into how to conduct a content audit, so if that's something that you would want to learn more about let me know and maybe we will create an episode around it. Just a quick note about content audits while don't talk in this episode about creating redirects or best practices for removing content that's all inf

If you've listened to the podcast for any significant amount of time you know that my systems for organization and productivity have evolved. So, in an episode like this where I'm sharing my 3-step 5-minute system for being as productive as possible, know I'm not trying to sell anyone on committing to a specific system. But hopefully, if you're listening and thinking that you could really use some more structure in your day that allows for efficiency, then maybe this episode helps you come up with your own system, or maybe there's a part of my system that you can appropriate into your own. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-episode-139-5-minute-method-for-getting-organized/

Vanessa Kynes is back on the podcast today chatting with me about how to prepare for a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale. We originally were going to stay focused on how to prepare your website for a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale and we still chat about that, but we also talked broadly about running a successful Black Friday/Cyber Monday campaign. If you haven't thought about Black Friday/Cyber Monday yet that's ok, there's still time to prepare but you’ve got to get moving. Also, this year we will be publishing an awesome Black Friday/Cyber Monday roundup that highlights some of our favorite website and digital marketing tools. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-episode-138-how-to-get-your-website-ready-for-black-friday/

Bonnie Bakhtiari from “B is for Bonnie Design” is on the podcast today chatting about the three most common pricing mistakes that she sees designers make. Even if you're not a designer, these are pricing mistakes that any service-based business needs to be aware of. We're diving into those price mistakes and then we chat about what businesses should do instead. Bonnie is a brand designer and strategist who also educates other brand designers, graphic designers, and web designers on how to create profitable businesses. Be sure to check out the show notes at daveyandkrista.com for the resources that we mentioned during the episode. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-episode-137-3-pricing-mistakes-what-you-should-do-instead/

Today’s podcast is about – podcasting. Melissa Guller of Wit and Wire joins me to discuss how to get started with podcasting. We cover a lot in this episode, including why now is the best time to start podcasting, the advantages specific to podcasting, the gear and tools you need to get started, and how to grow your podcast. You’ll probably notice, as I did, that Melissa has taught this stuff before. I really appreciated her insights into podcasting and the way that she clearly explained each of the topics that we cover. I hope that we'll be able to release a Part 2 either later this year or early next year, where we specifically cover podcasting growth strategies. If you're thinking about starting your podcast this year check out our YouTube video that covers everything you should have on a podcasting website. We have a website template that checks all of those boxes and we just released that YouTube video this week. Melissa also has a course that you can check out which will be linked in the show notes. Fo