Why you should hire a Squarespace Circle Member designer
I’ve chosen to create new websites on Squarespace because it’s my favorite website builder. I love it for its beautiful designs and the abundance of options for creating visual effects that result in compelling and memorable websites for my clients.
In this blog post, I’ll tell you why I love Squarespace and then tell you about all the extras I can pass on to you as a designer who is also a Squarespace Circle member.
Squarespace is a comprehensive platform for small businesses
Founded over 20 years ago and now with over four million subscribers, Squarespace has continued to improve and expand its offerings in recent years.
Not only can you build a beautiful, easy-to-maintain website with Squarespace, but you can add on a mailing list and appointment scheduling. You can also generate online income by selling products, setting up a paid membership site with premium content, and offering courses.
Squarespace is easy to maintain, even if you’re not tech-savvy
Squarespace is also a great fit for my clients. The intimidating step of creating a website is made easy when they hire me to write content, design the website pages, and launch their websites. Clients can then save money by handling ongoing updates and management of their websites because Squarespace is one of the easiest website builders to use.
Squarespace has lots of technical support, webinars, and help articles when needed. I also love that the company takes care of software and security updates on your website automatically, unlike WordPress sites that typically have lots of individual plug-ins that you have to keep updated through different companies in order to keep your site working.
Look for the Squarespace Circle Member badge when you’re hiring a designer
Look for a designer who displays the Squarespace Circle Member badge
A Squarespace Circle Member is a verified website professional
To apply for a Squarespace Circle membership, a website designer must have worked on at least three active Squarespace websites running on paid hosting plans. Squarespace then verifies that the designer has contributor or owner permissions for the three websites. With that verification, the designer becomes a Squarespace Circle Member and all benefits are activated.
Squarespace Circle Members are supported in their professional development
The Squarespace Circle Membership gives website professionals extensive opportunities to develop, learn, and enhance their Squarespace skills. It also supports members with inspiration, ideas, information about using new Squarespace features, and support and tips for troubleshooting issues.
The membership includes these professional benefits:
A member-only discussion forum with a direct connection to Squarespace developers and independent website professionals
Member-only professional days
Access to features that are not yet rolled out to the general public
Access to confidential information about upcoming features and fixes
Preferred Support channels
When you hire a Squarespace professional who is also a Circle Member, all the resources of this empowering Squarespace professional community are available to your project too.
Squarespace Circle Members also pass on perks to their clients
While a supportive professional community is a great indirect benefit for your project, you also get some direct perks from a Squarespace Circle Member that you can’t get if you build a Squarespace website on your own.
You get an extended trial period of six months
When you start on Squarespace, you are given a free two-week trial period to decide if you like Squarespace. After the trial period, you’re expected to pay for a website plan, even if you’re not ready to launch your website.
When you hire a Squarespace Circle Member to create your website, you automatically get an extended trial period of up to six months. That gives you and your designer plenty of time to work on your website.
You get a 20% discount on your first annual plan
If a Squarespace Circle Member creates your website, you receive 20% off your first purchase of an annual plan. That discount applies to your first purchase of a Squarespace annual website hosting plan or one of the add-on annual subscription plans for mailing list management, automated scheduling, or a digital product plan.
This Squarespace Circle member would love to hear from you!
If all these reasons for hiring a Squarespace Circle Member sound good, I’d love to talk with you in a free, 30-minute consultation. In addition to all the design experience I bring to your project, I also include copywriting and content creation as part of my packages. You’ll not only get all the benefits of hiring an experienced Squarespace designer, but you’ll get all the benefits of my long career as a writing professional too!
