Clean launching soon page for the upcoming Full Stack UI course by Jussi Virtanen. Neat touches with how the sign up box lowers upon video play, the animated chapter highlights, the course content progress indicator and the fun ‘Questions No one Asked’ section. (I’ve cropped the FAQs for screenshot purposes)
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Consulting is the practice of sharing your expertise to a third party, in exchange for a fee.
Along with recent quality improvements in the video calling space, online consulting is an amazing opportunity, all possible from within your home.
In this article I’m going to breakdown the benefits of using Squarespace (my favorite website builder and Commerce platform) to start selling your time online. Let’s begin!
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Before we get going on the features, let’s breakdown exactly what Squarespace plans you will need to fully operate a consulting business:
So only $32/month to run your entire consulting business with Squarespace. Depending on your industry, this is potentially just one online appointment per month, to fund a full month of consulting operations.
Ok, let’s step back into the consulting features.
When starting off your consulting business, it is a smart play to appear busy, increasing the booking demand for your visitor. Squarespace Scheduling allows you to reduce the amount of available time slots to make your calendar look busy.
Blocking out your calendar is also useful for personal meetings and for when you need to grey-out full days for family holidays:
The scheduling settings can control:
Learn how to limit your calendar availability.
With Squarespace Scheduling you can sync your scheduling appointments with your personal or business calendar to keep track of your schedule in one place.
Scheduling can sync with these calendar programs:
Learn how to sync appointments with third-party calendars.
On-boarding new clients via a free first consultation can be a smart approach to growing your consultancy business. If you are feeling a long term relationship with your client, Squarespace Scheduling allow you to offer bulk packages at a discount (eg. buy 4, get 1 free) or even a monthly subscription. Both excellent pricing strategies to increase revenue for your consulting business.
Learn more about scheduling packages and subscriptions.
Please note: Gift vouchers, discounted packages and subscription are only available on the Scheduling Growing and Powerhouse plans starting at $24/month.
Having prospective clients fill out a detailed questionnaire is a great method to ensure you are well prepared for the initial consultation.
Not only will it prevent unnecessary time taken in the meeting but it will impress your client when your expert advice is tailored to them.
Learn more about client intake forms and agreements.
With Squarespace Scheduling, you can send automated emails to clients about their appointments, packages and subscriptions. Up to 3 email reminders can be sent to your clients, all customizable, example:
There is even a very useful option for follow-up messages. You can send emails after appointments to thank them, ask for feedback, or offer discounts for future appointments.
And on the Scheduling Growing and Powerhouse Plans you can even send clients one automated text message reminder per appointment.
Learn more about automated messaging.
Squarespace is a leading online website builder. What sets them apart from the rest is their superior level of design and customer support. They have a huge support team and are available 24/7. Other main benefits are:
I hope you enjoyed this breakdown of the powerful features of Squarespace Scheduling. Props to Squarespace for creating a platform where we can create beautiful Ecommerce websites, easily. In case you missed it, I recently wrote a tutorial how to build a long-scrolling Landing Page from scratch using Squarespace.
