Author: Laura Kamark

They hold a laptop and wear a hat.

How Alex Went Full-Time as a Web Designer in Just 4 Months

One day I was scrolling through our Web Designer Academy Facebook Community answering student questions, and I see this post that stopped me right in my tracks:

And I remember thinking, “Wait, what? She just joined! How in the world has she already replaced her day job income? Maybe she quit before she replaced her income?”

Um, nope, my friends. Our student Alex literally replaced her full-time day job income 4 months into working with us and is making more as a full-time web designer than she ever did in any corporate job she ever had.

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Why Niching Doesn’t Work for Web Designers (and What To Do Instead)

“Choose a web design niche,” they say. “The riches are in the niches,” they say. So you did, and you’re still struggling to get web design clients.
So what do you do when all the other web designers have chosen the niche you chose (female entrepreneurs, for example)? What do you do when everyone’s “fishing in the same pond”? Well my friend, today I’m breaking down why niching doesn’t work for web designers (and what to do instead).

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