About
Hi, I’m Richard Dean, a web designer and developer, former web agency owner, and author of the Start, Grow and Sell Your Web Design Agency® book series.
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When I sold my web design agency a few years ago, I wanted to help and to give back to other aspiring agency owners, so creating this book series is my way of passing on the knowledge, insights, experiences and expertise that I gained in the decade that I ran my agency. It’s the book series that I wished I’d read when I started my own journey.
My goal is to help anyone who is looking to start, grow or sell an agency to save time, earn more money, avoid the common mistakes and pitfalls, and build a thriving and valuable business.
Everything within the books is authentic and was written by me personally. I didn’t use any kind of artificial intelligence or software automation to help me, nor was I helped by professional writers. This is important to me, as I want you to be confident that my books are genuine, real pieces of literature, written by someone who has gone through this journey. They may not be perfect, but you can trust that they’re authentic.
The book series is not just for web designers though—or even just people within the web design industry. It’s for anyone who is looking to start, grow, and sell a successful service-based business. Many of the lessons and experiences that I write about are timeless, foundational, and interchangeable: they can apply to many different types of businesses, not just web design agencies.
It’s also worth highlighting that the book series is written for people of all levels of experience, from beginners to those who may already have advanced knowledge of running a business. Some of the concepts we’ll look at are fundamental and are designed to help those who are less experienced, but some of the ideas are quite advanced. Even the more complex concepts are written to that they can be used by anyone, regardless of their level of experience, so even if this is your first time running a business, you should find everything within the books useful.
The book series is also not about web design itself. If you’re looking for information about how to create websites, then the book series won’t be for you, and you won’t find a single line of code within the pages. It’s about the business of running a web design agency, or any service-based business.
If there was one lesson above all that I would want you to take away from my books it’s that, while the three phases that we cover—starting, growing, and selling a business—are in many ways separate, they’re also very much interconnected and deeply intertwined. Each one can have an impact on the other. The decisions that you make in one phase can profoundly affect what happens later. How you choose to structure your business when you’re first starting it can affect how you grow it later, and this in turn can affect your ability sell it—and how much it could be worth.
We’ll be looking at each phase in detail within each of the books, but I’d also like you to think about the entire lifecycle, as it’s why the book series was written this way.
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Each book in the Start, Grow and Sell Your Web Design Agency® book series is available in the format of your choice, so you can read and enjoy the way you prefer.
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