Episode #228: Pivot to Website Marketing with Michelle Pontvert

Michelle Pontvert is a branding and website designer with 12 years of design experience, specializing in working with overstretched parents with service-based businesses who are ready to scale up their businesses and scale back their overtime.

She has an MFA from the prestigious USC film school in set design, which gave her a solid design background and a knack for creative problem solving which shapes her business today. She’s also gone through the Designlab User Experience bootcamp to round out her web design training, along with several branding, web design, SEO and marketing courses.

Michelle lives with her husband and adorable 2-year-old in Paris, far from her native Australia or adoptive homeland America, and balances serving her clients and being a hands-on Mum.

Quotes

• ‘Learn when to DIY your website vs hire a pro.’
• ‘Don’t lock yourself in.’
• ‘Be flexible; adapt and shift.’
• ‘Put the user first.’
• ‘Tech is secondary.’