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Side Hustle School

#1166 - Q&A: Is it okay to use SquareSpace for my new website?

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Entrepreneurship,, Side Hustle, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This listener is getting ready to start his project, but is wondering about which website platform to choose. He’d like to use SquareSpace—is that a good idea?


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0:00.0

26 days to go until the money tree is live, go check it out at MoneyTreeBook.com.

0:09.8

And this week we have two questions about building websites.

0:13.3

Over the past 20 years I've probably had 30 or more websites.

0:16.8

I have no idea what the total count is, but it's at least 30.

0:20.4

This is the number of websites I've actually made for some kind of project that was publicly

0:23.6

revealed, not just failed ideas, false starts, domains I registered that I never did anything

0:28.6

with, etc.

0:30.2

And even though I don't build websites myself, I don't do design, I only know very basic

0:34.8

coding.

0:35.8

I have learned a lot along the way through trial and error.

0:39.2

The good news about choosing a platform for your website is that there aren't many mistakes

0:42.5

you can make, at least not many that you can't easily recover from, if you do decide

0:46.5

to switch to something else later.

0:47.9

It kind of falls into the category of what I call reversible decisions.

0:51.9

If a decision is reversible, there aren't many consequences for realizing that you want

0:56.4

to do something else later, then it's not something you need to spend much time worrying

0:59.6

about.

1:00.6

Still, there are some things you should know on the front end that might make it easier

1:03.5

later.

1:04.5

So if you'd like to save time and work more efficiently, you might appreciate the question

1:07.9

we have today from Ryan.

1:10.9

Hi, this is Ryan from Fort Collins, and I've been listening to the show for a couple

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