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How To Create Brand Consistency On Social Media

Great branding isn’t about having a rigid master plan, it’s often about a few core guiding principles that keep your brand aligned with your goals. Today we’ll discuss a few important questions you need to know about to get your brand to that aligned, consistent place so your messaging can flourish.

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What is branding? (and why it matters more than ever)

If you think a business or personal brand is just a logo or some colors, you couldn't be more wrong. Branding is a wide-spread persona that you put together through hard work and intentional action, and today we'll be discussing the value of that brand for your future success. By first understanding the principles behind branding, you're able to make better decisions moving forward on how to shape it.

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How to Build a Creative Career & Personal Brand (The Honest Version)

We all want our careers to go up and up forever, but if you’re building a creative career or personal brand, that’s not the case. By looking at my career trajectory, I hope you can prepare for the ups and downs of this field and know that every step you take is building your creative career (even if it’s not how you expect).

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How To Customize Your Squarespace Sidebar

For a simple change that will greatly improve efficiency when building your Squarespace site, I'll show you how to customize your sidebar, keeping elements of your site that your business offers while removing any clutter or unnecessary pieces that you have to wade through. It's a simple step, but your website will thank you.

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How To Add Branding to Your Squarespace Website: 2025 Tutorial

Today, in the third video covering custom site copy and how to put it into a website framework, I'll show you how to add and customize branding assets to a new website to help your Squarespace site feel unique and tailored to your business. Doing this on the front end is a great way to get your website started on the right foot and build a strong foundation.

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Learn The Perfect Homepage Structure For Your Website

To help clients overcome the roadblock of staring at a blank page and not knowing what to write, I'm going to show you the five questions my clients need to answer in order to get great, SEO-optimized website copy for their homepage. This is the website structure I and my clients rely on, and with this and next week's video, you'll know exactly how to get this first step of the website process finished.

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So you want a new website? Watch this first.

When you're starting out with your website, the process can be scary and overwhelming. That's why today I'll be running down the process that every Designing The Row client goes through from the first agreement to the moment a website is live. This will help you budget your expectations for the process of building a website with a dedicated Squarespace expert.

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How to Sell Digital Downloads on Squarespace (2025)

Setting up digital download purchases on your Squarespace website store is very similar to setting up physical products with only a few notable changes. In this video I'll be giving you the quick rundown on what you need to know to set up a digital download page quickly and successfully.

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