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Backyard Creative is run by me, Claire, from sunny South Africa and its where I build beautiful Squarespace websites for creatives, coaches and causes. I also write about Squarespace, creativity, and the human side of design on my blog.

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While we stood in the middle of a room stacked with second hand books and both felt a little overwhelmed by the sheer volume of items to look at, Carmen said: "Trust your eye."

In any secondhand store, you can go shelf by shelf, row by row

Yesterday, on a hand-off call, my client asked me a simple question:
"Can I leave you a review on Google My Business?"

Yes. Of course. Also... I'd forgotten I had one.

I set it up ages ago and then never looked at it again. A free, search

I've been sitting with a quote from author, therapist and coach, Eric Maisel. He talks about how many creatives, myself included, agonise over marketing. We resist it, we avoid it, sometimes we outright hate it.

But he says "marketing is becomi

I attended a workshop last night with one of the OG Squarespace gurus (Paige Brunton), and she said something that really stood out to me when it comes to marketing and my marketing explorations.

She said given the option of using a marketing tool t

In an effort to resume some basic marketing I've let slide over the past few years (you can read more about that in my preceding posts), I've been looking through my website again and today something really jumped out at me:

I've made it unnecessari

Not a single marketing-related thought today! Instead I've spent a good portion of the day wandering through the open studios of the @barefootartsmeander in Kenton/Bushmans drinking in the creative goodness on offer from oils, and pastels, ceramics a

I called my cousin and shared with him my marketing conundrum!

Dale understood the assignment, and responded: “I’ve got my pen, I’m taking notes”.

He listened and then launched in typical Dale fashion with high energy and bo

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