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Hello and welcome to episode 89 of Webflail.

I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Christina Liubynska.
She is constantly juggling different projects.
With Supercharged, she she helps early stage startups by consulting, designing and developing websites that bring them higher profits and happier clients.‍
She also freelances with agencies like Nexus Creative with Dylan Harrocks and with ViDesigns with Vimalam Vijayasekaran.

With Navbar Gallery, she’s building the home to the best navbars on the internet. She’s one of those people that’s a multi-talented but for someone as young as Christina is and as talented as she is, she’s pushed her comfort zone a lot.

Naturally, failure has been part of her story just like any successful webflower we have on the pod!

The failures we’ll talk about in today’s episode are:

1. Not building an audience earlier
2. Wasting a year designing for free for a startup
3. Not getting any projects or work in nearly a year

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So, for the 100th episode, I decided to get the big guns in, fly to SF and do this bad boy in person with the CEO (at the time) and co-founder of Webflow, Vlad Magdalin.
Vlad came to US as a refugee with his parents from Russia.
He learnt graphic design almost by accident when he worked with his entrepreneurial dad asked him to convert catalogues from english to Russian.
This lead to a job with a company called Russian American media → deepened his interest in graphics and then 3D animation.
At college, he studied computer science but dropped out to go to the academy of art in San Francisco.
The technical aspect of sophisticated 3D and animation tools and feeling like he was getting superpowers really interested Vlad.
He dropped out of art school and got a job at a design agency.
Why can’t web designers design stuff and hit publish to be live on the web just like 3D - render something and it’s live on the screen
As you may have guessed, this spark was the catalyst for Webflow.
Webflow now has over 200,000 users and is over $100 million annual revenue.
And it was an easy ride with no failures whatsoever.
No no no dear Webflailer... it wasn’t quite this easy.
The failures that we’ll talk about today are:
1) Not valuing himself when he went back to freelancing – until a client rejected my invoice for $750 and said that to him the site is worth at least $5k
2) Stopping to work on Webflow in 2008 (for the 3rd time) when there was a trademark issue and I couldn’t use that name – combined with Weebly raising money
3) (Not sure if I can talk about this one publicly yet... noodling on it) Getting too caught up in the no-code hype and trying to do too much (e.g. Logic) before fully nailing the fundamentals (e.g. CMS)
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Hello and welcome to episode 36 of Webflail.
I’m your host, Jack and today my guest is Connor Finlayson.
You probably already Connor if you are listening to a podcast all about Webflow freelancing but for those that haven’t, Connor is a no code weapon. On his YT channel with over 11K subs, he helps people who cannot code build their own online businesses with no code tools like Webflow, Airtable and Zapier.
Connor comes from a marketing background and then came across webflow in 2018 which helped him spin up landing pages fast. He wanted to get more freelance work so instead of building a portfolio website, he built a directory for freelancers and put himself at the top. He then built this in to the Unicorn Factory, a job board for New Zealand based freelancers. Now, it’s is his main source of income.

The failures we will talk about are:

Failure 1: Not pulling the plug on my first startup Hatcher sooner

Failure 2: Splitting my time between doing Facebook ads and no-code as a freelancer

Failure 3: Taking on too many projects at once

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For Episode 2, my guest is Dexter Washigton, founder of Crafted Studio. In today’s episode we talk about:
1) Trying every new strategy I came across versus being myself authentically, posting and talking about the results and letting the work speak for itself.
2) Not vetting people well enough and finding not only someone with good work and strong skills -- but a finding a good personality fit that meshes with our culture.
3) Focusing too much on getting larger clients versus ones with a reasonable deadline, personality fit, and if it's a project we'd actually like to work on.
The biggest lesson from this episode is that the big jobs don't always equal the most satisfaction. There is the most red tape, the most people that have to see the final designs before the project gets signed off, marketing teams to deal with which might derail your designs. It's not all sunshine and roses when you get larger clients basically. Often, people want clients with recognisable logos on their website in order to get more large companies to hire them but is that the rabbit hole you really want to go down? As Dexter mentions, the larger clients can come with a ton of baggage for lack of a better term. Larger clients often get payments late, the timelines are unreasonable, and the list goes on and on.
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In this moment, Jack and Lucie discuss the digital nomad lifestyle and its profound influence on her design career. From England to El Salvador, Lucy shares how her global journey has broadened her design perspective. She highlights the significance of understanding diverse user experiences and the real challenges of living abroad, dispelling myths about the digital nomad lifestyle.
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