If your business will primarily make money from product sales, Squarespace probably isn’t the best e-commerce platform for you. I’d recommend using Shopify, because it just works better for that level of product sales.

If your business primarily makes money from services, but you have a shop on the side for passive income, then Squarespace should work just fine & will help you keep things organized, since you won’t need 2 platforms: 1 to sell products & 1 to sell your services. Yay!

That being the case, let’s get into the nitty gritty of why I’m now recommending 7.1 over 7.0 shops.

Want to put a PDF on a page that people can download? Maybe you don’t know how to add your resume, or an opt-in?

Since Squarespace (oddly) doesn’t have a normal Media Library, it’s not obvious where to add these things, or once you’ve added them, ––where did they go?

I'll show ya how to upload files to your Squarespace site, where to find them & how to manage them.

Ever wish you could just have a link to a different section on the same page? If ya click on it, it automatically scrolls to that spot for you. Fast, easy, smooth, –modern. Yeah!

This one can be a bit sneaky! It’s not hard to set up, but it’s also not obvious how.

I’ll walk you through how to set this up within a Brine template in 7.0, code free, AND in 7.1 with code, but it’s super simple & I’ll give ya the cut-and-paste code snippet so you can run with it easily.

Unlike Showit and Wix, Squarespace doesn’t let you separately alter your design for mobile size screens. That’s both a great thing and an irritation, tbh.

Great because: you’re not designing anything twice; it’s all automatic.
Not great because: it’s all automatic & you have no specific control how the design reacts on mobile without custom code.

So how do Squarespace designers deal with this problem?

I’ve tried several email marketing apps: ConvertKit first, MailChimp, MailerLite, Squarespace Email Campaigns, and now FloDesk.

There’s something I very much dislike about unconfirmed bias. Do you feel the same way?

I’m talking about you telling your mom you ‘hated’ broccoli as a kid… before you ever tried it. 🥦 (Side note, whyyyy do we do this??)

As a kid, you have your parent/guardian to correct you or tell you something like: “How do you know you don’t like it if you’ve never tried it?”

As an adult though, hopefully you have your friends & family, and in your business hopefully you have your team, your mastermind, your coach, or even yourself, if you’re a solopreneur, –to remind you that just because you think or feel something, that doesn’t make it true. You have to investigate for yourself and use reputable sources during the investigation.

Why am I talking about bias & research? Because today’s topic is a fiery 🔥 one and it tends to be refuted by extremely biased folks who don’t have personal experience to judge from.

Today’s I’m debunking popular Squarespace myths, from my own research for the truth and my own experience using the platform for both myself and my clients.

Yes, that does technically make me biased toward Squarespace, but you can bet your ass I’ve hunted for the truth many times (no matter what it actually is) before coming to a decision on the topic. And not only that, but if some of these myths were true, I wouldn’t be recommending Squarespace to anybody, much less using it myself. 😉

So let’s get on with it!