Field of Dreams Got It Wrong

A small business is complicated. It often involves just one or two people mixing together an alchemy of customers, processes, product, branding, funding, manufacturing and more to create this perfect little potion that resonates. That...

My Daughter is Teaching Me About Discipline

My daughter was accepted into a leadership program at her elementary school. She is a TOT — "teacher of tomorrow" — which basically means she has to go to school each day by 7:45 am...

Pushing Past Perfectionism

I've been a perfectionist for as long as I can remember. When I feel the need to be perfect, I freeze with fear. It becomes near impossible to push "Share Screen" before showing a client...

Lessons Learned the Hard Way

One of my favorite authors and podcasters, Glennon Doyle, often speaks of living in integrity. She defines it as ensuring your inner self and outer self are integrated. It means only having one self — there...

A To-Do List Hack + Dinner Party Lessons

As a parent, one of the best tools I learned was that if a child is complaining, you can say: “Do you want me to get involved, offer advice, or just listen to you?” 80%...

Repeat Clients Are the Best, Podcasts are The Worst + a Really Great Wine

Recently, I spent some time looking through the hard data of projects I've worked on over the past few years (working hard to be data-curious instead of data-terrified!) One of the coolest learnings I got...

Books Over Browsers

Last week, I forced myself to gather brand design inspiration without the internet. I went for a walk to the bookstore. I took pictures of plants and signs and interesting shapes on the way there....

Making Authentic Decisions

  At the beginning of this year, I googled something like "Is this the right decision for my business?" It honestly didn't strike me as a funny thing to ask Google until I was about 10...

The article I send every client coming from Squarespace

Ashli, owner of Basis here! This is a question we get asked a lot! Many of our clients come to us after working with platforms like Woocommerce, Squarespace or Wix, and are curious as to...