45: Custom Coaching Website Vs. DIY Template

Find the full transcript of my Interview with Nichole Betterley, where you'll also find a link to Nichole's free guide for you, 5 Things for Powerful Coaching Websites. Nichole Betterley is the Owner and Chief Web Wiz at "N" Powered Websites. She helps coaches, consultants, and other solopreneur service providers create websites that get noticed, get used, and get clients. She has more than 13 years of experience with what works for the ever-moving target of powerful websites and online marketing. Nichole lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, daughter, and the obligatory, work-from-home cat (even though she’s really a dog person at heart). Rhonda Hess: Hey coaches, I am so excited to share a special person in my business life with you. And this is the sixth episode of Client Winning Coaching Websites series. Today we're going to be talking about the difference between a DIY website, one that you do yourself using something like Wix or Squarespace or having a professional designer create a custom website for you. There are a bunch of critical differences and I want you to know what they are so that as you're making this decision you can go in with your eyes open. The special guest that I have for today is my friend and colleague, Nichole Betterley. She and I have known each other ... I think for 13 years or something like that now. (Nichole: Yeah!) Nichole runs a company called NPoweredsites.com. Nichole, you call yourself the Chief Web Wiz. Tell us a little bit about you. Nichole Betterley: Thank you so much for inviting me on your podcast to begin with. I'm just, I'm so excited to be here and to talk with you about this. I've been a web developer for 13 years now. Actually, you were one of my very first clients and I just hold our relationship so specially in my heart. I came to be a web developer. I have a long history of loving technology and coming out of college I got a job as a developer at a big corporation. And like so many of my clients are, you know, after 11 years of that, I, I totally burnt out on that. And so now I'm corporate refugee. ... Learn more about why custom design looks and works better.