Transcript
Annemie Tonkin (0:00)
If you scroll to the bottom of the this Can't Be that Hard website, way down in the footer you will see Made With Love by Katie Means Business. And Katie is my guest on the podcast today, which is belated. Like I should have had taken the opportunity right after the new website launched last year to have her on the show and talk through that process. But honestly, in some ways I didn't know when the website first launched how it was going to be received. I had a pretty good suspicion that it was going to go over well because I was really pleased with it. But at that time I didn't know if it was really going to make a meaningful difference in the way that people interacted with my website, chose to purchase or not purchase courses, all that sort of stuff. I am here a year later to say very enthusiastically that the website is working great. But beyond that, I wanted to have her on the show because she did such a great job over the course of our time working together of educating me on some of the ways that my old website wasn't helping people find their way to what it was that they needed or wanted from me, right? I was having a much higher bounce rate, drop off rate, whatever you want to call it, where people were kind of showing up and they didn't know how to find the things that they needed to find. And here I thought I had done a pretty good job of making my messaging clear, sort of describing who I was, making it all flow together. And it wasn't that I had done anything particularly wrong, it was just that I was missing some of those like special little elements and threads that took people from one place to another. And obviously I'm not doing a great job of explaining that right now. And I'm just going to warn you that this episode is not as, as scripted or as bullet pointed as some.
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Of my episodes are.
Annemie Tonkin (2:01)
And that's because I think at the core of the matter, the concept of what does and doesn't work in a website is hard to explain. It's hard to put into words. You can have all the right pieces and if those pieces don't meld together properly, then your website isn't doing as much as it could do to get you hired. Katie did an amazing job of sort of pulling out of my muddled words the truths that drive her business and make her so good at what she does. And I believe that no matter if you've got a website that you feel like is really working for you, or if you are struggling to either book clients or get people to show up on your website in the first place. I know that she's going to have some great tips for you, and at the end of the show, she shares a freebie that she's got that will give you even more practical ways to improve your website. So be sure to stick around for that. And in the meantime, enjoy the show. Welcome to this Can't Be that Hard. My name is Annemie Tonkin, and I help photographers run profitable, sustainable businesses that they love. Each week on the podcast, I cover simple, actionable strategies and systems and that photographers at every level of experience can use to earn more money in a more sustainable way. Running a photography business doesn't have to be that hard. You can do it, and I can show you how. Katie, welcome to this Can't Be that Hard. I say that, and I feel like you've spent so much time in my business that it seems completely wild that you haven't been on the show yet. But welcome. Better late than never. How are you?
