Squarespace Hack: How to Create a Custom Landing Page in 3 Steps
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Squarespace Hack: How to Create a Custom Landing Page in 3 Steps

First thing’s first: what exactly is a landing page?

A landing page is a simple webpage that offers your visitors something of value (a lead magnet, like an ebook, checklist, etc.) in exchange for their information (at minimum, their email address).

Landing pages are an important tool for growing your email list—and online business.

There are a number of ways to create landing pages, such as with your email marketing service provider (Flodesk, ConvertKit, MailChimp, etc.) or with a landing page builder, like LeadPages. However, LeadPages starts at $25+/month and email marketing tools have limited layouts and styling options…

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How to Sell as an Empath: It’s All About Trust
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How to Sell as an Empath: It’s All About Trust

Sales is a necessary, albeit uncomfortable, part of business—especially for empaths.

But sales is really just about building relationships with people that may benefit from what you offer.

To build a relationship with someone, you need to earn their trust. This is as true in business as it is in personal relationships.

As salesman extraordinaire, Zig Ziglar said, “If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.”

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Wordpress vs. Squarespace — Why I Work Exclusively with Squarespace
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Wordpress vs. Squarespace — Why I Work Exclusively with Squarespace

Wordpress versus Squarespace—the debate is almost as fierce as the one over how to say “GIF.” (For the record, I’m a firm believer in the hard G, not the peanut butter pronunciation.)

But really, it’s like comparing apples to oranges—it’s not one-to-one.

Wordpress is an open source platform, which means you have complete access to their code and can modify it to your heart’s content. Squarespace is closed-source, meaning they limit access to their code.

That may make it sound like Wordpress is a better option, but each platform has its benefits…

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