You’re tired of promising a 6-week timeline for website projects and never being able to stick to it
(Maybe you don’t even share timelines with clients?)
You’re not alone in this
Whether you’re setting ambitious timelines only to miss them repeatedly or avoid sharing timelines with clients to dodge the pressure– extended timelines and scopes are the no 1 struggle with brand and website design projects.
You might find yourself:
Stressed by constant delays because each project seems to take longer than expected.
Exhausted from scope creep because clients keep changing their requirements, and without clear policies, it’s hard to get paid for the extra work.
Tired of those nail-biting moments when you're not quite sure if you've covered all the bases during client onboarding.
Worried about client satisfaction as late deliveries lead to unhappy clients and fewer referrals, impacting your business growth.
BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY
You just need proven techniques and tools to keep projects on track and within scope, templates and guides for clear client communication, custom processes for consistent experiences, and personalized support to optimize your systems and manage projects smoothly.
If that’s you, then you’re in just the right spot!
Client Experience and systems extraordinaire, at your service.
^^ With a little help from all my notebooks
HI, I AM STEPHANIE
I'm a wife, a dog-mama, an explorer and a Scotland-based mentor and brand strategist for brand and website designers who built a business as a self-taught designer after 6+ years as a business analyst and pricing manager (and managing a 65-million revenue portfolio for a Fortune 500 company).
While working as a designer I noticed that many established brand & website designers are overwhelmed and are feeling uncomfortable with the strategic and numbers side of their business and struggle to grow their business and increase their revenue (and profit) without working more.
And you don’t break a person away from creating action plans to streamline processes and increase revenue and profit so easily. So now I –
Bring this corporate experience into the creative world to teach established yet overwhelmed designers to step into their role as a CEO.
Help them transform their business to be more profitable and sustainable through a proven 3-step framework.
And serve up custom strategies based on their business, vision and this-is-enough-for-me-goals
… all in an era of feeling pressured to become a 6-figure business owner and one-size-fits-all approaches to growing a business.
When I am not developing the best strategies for my clients you can find me hiking with my husband and border collie Robbie, curled up on the couch with a book or exploring Africa with a 4x4 with a rooftop tent.
Work to live, not live to work
When I am not developing the best strategies for my clients, you can find me hiking with my husband and border collie Robbie, curled up on the couch with a book, or going on safari in Africa with a 4x4 with a rooftop tent.
My core values
Inspire
Empower
Stay Humble
Be Authentic
Always explore
Ready to explore what working together could look like for you?
System Set-Up
Get your systems built for you
A 1-on-1 collaborative experience that will help you to map out your client and/or business processes and learn you how to translate these into a ClickUp or Dubsado setup that works for you. You'll not only have streamlined processes and your system built out as a pro would have (without the price tag), but you'll also know exactly how the system works and how to make adjustments.
Mentor Program
accountability & implementation
This 1-on-1 personalised experience will help you to transform your design studio from a hot mess to an organised success. With my 3-step framework, I’ll help you to go from feeling like your business is running you to taking back the reins so that you can be confident in yourself as a designer & business owner and take back control of your life and business again.
Book a free session
Mentor session/Systems strategy call
When you want to know what it would be like to work together, your first step is to book a free mentor session or a free systems strategy call. As these session are not a discovery calls, you don’t have to worry about being sold to. But if by the end of the session, you’re excited about working together and want to know more details, we’ll schedule a separate call to discuss this.
“I was very depleted and confused about my work, my non-existing structure, lack of client boundaries and the whole organisational part of my business really. I felt like just reacting on a day-to-day basis rather than pro-actively creating my future.”
I knew I needed to invest in myself in order to create the next step but processes, structure, planning, and procedures are really not my strong suit, Stephanie is so patient and broke everything down and that helped me a lot. It was great to have her professional eyes on my business, without feeling judged that it is just a mess.
Now, I have way more clarity on where I am at with my business. Creating the financial overview sheet opened my eyes to what I actually need to charge to make a living! That freed a lot of guilt of possibly charging too much! That knowledge will be a game-changer.
Vanessa Guerrero - Illustrator, Brand &Website Designer at Vanessa Guerrero Design Studio