Speakers & Schedule
Speakers
Anthony Casalena
Founder and CEO, Squarespace
Christy Price
Web Designer, Squarespace Expert, and Educator, Christy Price LLC
Clarrie Johnson
Founder and Chief Marketing Officer,
TapThat Digital LLC
Hayley Fedders
Founder, Studio Seaside
Kia Dyson
CEO, Golden Launch Creative, LLC
Kinjil Mathur
Chief Marketing Officer, Squarespace
Krishna Solanki
Founder and Creative Director,
Krishna Solanki Designs
Liesl Every
Founder, curated / by
Omari Harebin
Founder, SQSP Themes
Paige Brunton
Founder, Paige Brunton
Paul Gubbay
Chief Product Officer, Squarespace
Rache De Luna
Founder, Squarestylist
Salomé Amar
Founder, l’équipe créative
Regont Arnori
Partner, Inclusive Creation
Sam Crawford
Founder, by Crawford
Seth Hoffman
Creative Director,
Known Creative
Teresanne O'Reilly
Founder and Managing Director, The Forest
Victoria Weber
Founder, Victoria Weber
Will Myers
Developer and Squarespace Expert, Will-Myers.com
Circle Day Schedule
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Squarespace HQ
Wednesday September 18
All times are in US Eastern Time (ET)
9:00 AM
Check-in opens for in-person attendees
10:00 AM
Featuring Sarah Greisdorf, Team Lead, Channel Partner Program, Squarespace
Welcome
10:10 AM
Each year, Squarespace announces a new set of features and updates with Squarespace Refresh. Circle Day attendees will gain an early preview of what’s to come from Chief Product Officer Paul Gubbay. Paul will share tools to streamline your business and help you and your clients stand out.
Opening keynote
10:25 AM
Coffee Chat with Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO of Squarespace
Squarespace Founder and CEO Anthony Casalena returns to the Circle Day stage for a conversation with Paul Gubbay. The two will chat through highlights from Squarespace Refresh and share what’s on the horizon for Squarespace.
11:30 AM
Feed the Funnel: Creating Your Content Flywheel
Join content marketing experts Teresanne O'Reilly, Clarrie Johnson, Hayley Fedders, and Omari Harebin for a dynamic session on enhancing your digital marketing skills. Through four talks and a panel with all four presenters, explore how to effectively and efficiently integrate email marketing, video content, podcasts, and more into your online presence to drive more traffic to your business. Gain actionable insights to create a realistic, evergreen, and self-sustaining content ecosystem to drive continuous client engagement and growth.
Improving Email Marketing to Capture More Clients with Teresanne O’Reilly
Tapping into the Digital Goldmine with Clarrie Johnson
Diversifying Your Content Offerings with Hayley Fedders
Tackling Multiple Content Flywheels with Omari Harebin
Speaker panel with Sudy Majd
12:30 pm
Lunch Break
Successful Designer Secrets: What They Do Differently
1:30 PM
Web designer and online business educator Paige Brunton leads an insightful seminar on what some of the highest-performing web designers do. Uncover the real-life strategies and unique web design offerings of her most accomplished students to gain actionable inspiration for elevating your own practice. Walk away from this session feeling invigorated and ready to apply these original insights to achieve outstanding results for your web design career.
2:30 PM
From Clicks to Customers: Branding for Squarespace Ecommerce Sites
Tune into talks by Kia Dyson, Seth Hoffman, Sam Crawford, and Krishna Solanki to help improve your ecommerce branding and online sales. Learn how to seamlessly incorporate brand identity into web design, use Squarespace’s features to capture and retain customer attention, and apply ecommerce best practices to service-based sellers. Get ready to create conversion-driving experiences with actionable strategies to transform your Squarespace sites into powerful sales engines.
The Process Behind Ecommerce Success with Krishna Solanki
Incorporating Identity into Web Design with Kia Dyson
Clarity Leads to Conversion with Seth Hoffman
Ecommerce: Not Just Products with Sam Crawford
Speaker panel with Nikki Kuritsky
3:45 PM
7 Ways to Save Time as a Squarespace Designer
Christy Price and Will Myers bring the Somewhat Useful podcast on the road to Circle Day. In this real-time conversation with two Squarespace Experts and educators, you’ll discover essential Squarespace tools and features that will revolutionize your workflow. In this seminar, Will and Christy will highlight time-saving integrations that boost efficiency and productivity to streamline your web design projects and deliver exceptional results for clients.
4:45 PM
Closing keynote
Jacqueline Gonzales, Vice President of International and GTM, will interview Chief Marketing Officer Kinjil Mathur. The closing keynote will touch on the opportunities and challenges that are common to both Squarespace and Circle members: balancing brand-building and performance marketing, using intuition and data to increase marketing efficiency, and evolving your marketing strategy and message as your offerings and ideal customer change
5:30 PM
Happy hour
Join fellow attendees and the Squarespace team for drinks and snacks. Happy hour concludes at 6:30 PM.
Online
Wednesday September 18
All times are in US Eastern Time (ET)
10:00 AM
Welcome
Featuring Sarah Greisdorf, Team Lead, Channel Partner Program, Squarespace
10:10 AM
Each year, Squarespace announces a new set of features and updates with Squarespace Refresh. Circle Day attendees will gain an early preview of what’s to come from Chief Product Officer Paul Gubbay. Paul will share tools to streamline your business and help you and your clients stand out.
Opening keynote
10:25 AM
Coffee Chat with Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO of Squarespace
Squarespace Founder and CEO Anthony Casalena returns to the Circle Day stage for a conversation with Paul Gubbay. The two will chat through highlights from Squarespace Refresh and share what’s on the horizon for Squarespace.
11:30 AM
Feed the Funnel: Creating Your Content Flywheel
Join content marketing experts Teresanne O'Reilly, Clarrie Johnson, Hayley Fedders, and Omari Harebin for a dynamic session on enhancing your digital marketing skills. Through four talks and a panel with all four presenters, explore how to effectively and efficiently integrate email marketing, video content, podcasts, and more into your online presence to drive more traffic to your business. Gain actionable insights to create a realistic, evergreen, and self-sustaining content ecosystem to drive continuous client engagement and growth.
Improving Email Marketing to Capture More Clients with Teresanne O’Reilly
Tapping into the Digital Goldmine with Clarrie Johnson
Diversifying Your Content Offerings with Hayley Fedders
Tackling Multiple Content Flywheels with Omari Harebin
Speaker panel with Sudy Majd
Successful Designer Secrets: What They Do Differently
1:30 PM
Web designer and online business educator Paige Brunton leads an insightful seminar on what some of the highest-performing web designers do. Uncover the real-life strategies and unique web design offerings of her most accomplished students to gain actionable inspiration for elevating your own practice. Walk away from this session feeling invigorated and ready to apply these original insights to achieve outstanding results for your web design career.
2:30 PM
From Clicks to Customers: Branding for Squarespace Ecommerce Sites
Tune into talks by Kia Dyson, Seth Hoffman, Sam Crawford, and Krishna Solanki to help improve your ecommerce branding and online sales. Learn how to seamlessly incorporate brand identity into web design, use Squarespace’s features to capture and retain customer attention, and apply ecommerce best practices to service-based sellers. Get ready to create conversion-driving experiences with actionable strategies to transform your Squarespace sites into powerful sales engines.
The Process Behind Ecommerce Success with Krishna Solanki
Incorporating Identity into Web Design with Kia Dyson
Clarity Leads to Conversion with Seth Hoffman
Ecommerce: Not Just Products with Sam Crawford
Speaker panel with Nikki Kuritsky
3:45 PM
7 Ways to Save Time as a Squarespace Designer
Christy Price and Will Myers bring the Somewhat Useful podcast on the road to Circle Day. In this real-time conversation with two Squarespace Experts and educators, you’ll discover essential Squarespace tools and features that will revolutionize your workflow. In this seminar, Will and Christy will highlight time-saving integrations that boost efficiency and productivity to streamline your web design projects and deliver exceptional results for clients.
4:45 PM
Closing keynote
Jacqueline Gonzales, Vice President of International and GTM, will interview Chief Marketing Officer Kinjil Mathur. The closing keynote will touch on the opportunities and challenges that are common to both Squarespace and Circle members: balancing brand-building and performance marketing, using intuition and data to increase marketing efficiency, and evolving your marketing strategy and message as your offerings and ideal customer change
World Loop
(Asia-Pacific)
Thursday September 19
All times shown are in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
8:45 AM
Welcome from local Squarespace team and Rache De Luna of Squarestylist
9:10 AM
Each year, Squarespace announces a new set of features and updates with Squarespace Refresh. Circle Day attendees will gain an early preview of what’s to come from Chief Product Officer Paul Gubbay. Paul will share tools to streamline your business and help you and your clients stand out.
Opening keynote
9:25 AM
Coffee Chat with Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO of Squarespace
Squarespace Founder and CEO Anthony Casalena returns to the Circle Day stage for a conversation with CTO Paul Gubbay. The two will chat through highlights from Squarespace Refresh and share what’s on the horizon for Squarespace.
10:30 AM
Feed the Funnel: Creating Your Content Flywheel
Join content marketing experts Teresanne O'Reilly, Clarrie Johnson, Hayley Fedders, and Omari Harebin for a dynamic session on enhancing your digital marketing skills. Through four talks and a panel with all four presenters, explore how to effectively and efficiently integrate email marketing, video content, podcasts, and more into your online presence to drive more traffic to your business. Gain actionable insights to create a realistic, evergreen, and self-sustaining content ecosystem to drive continuous client engagement and growth.
Improving Email Marketing to Capture More Clients with Teresanne O’Reilly
Tapping into the Digital Goldmine with Clarrie Johnson
Diversifying Your Content Offerings with Hayley Fedders
Tackling Multiple Content Flywheels with Omari Harebin
Speaker panel with Sudy Majd
11:30 pm
Pricing and Pitching Squarespace Projects (Live Session)
In this session, Squarestylist founder and Circle member Rache De Luna dives into pricing and pitching your web design services to prospective clients. She discusses how to standardize and diversify your offerings, shares a custom project pricing framework, and demonstrates how to communicate the value of Squarespace. Walk away with practical strategies to elevate your pitches and increase your earnings.
Successful Designer Secrets: What They Do Differently
12:30 PM
Web designer and online business educator Paige Brunton leads an insightful seminar on what some of the highest-performing web designers do. Uncover the real-life strategies and unique web design offerings of her most accomplished students to gain actionable inspiration for elevating your own practice. Walk away from this session feeling invigorated and ready to apply these original insights to achieve outstanding results for your web design career.
13:30 PM
From Clicks to Customers: Branding for Squarespace Ecommerce Sites
Tune into talks by Kia Dyson, Seth Hoffman, Sam Crawford, and Krishna Solanki to help improve your ecommerce branding and online sales. Learn how to seamlessly incorporate brand identity into web design, use Squarespace’s features to capture and retain customer attention, and apply ecommerce best practices to service-based sellers. Get ready to create conversion-driving experiences with actionable strategies to transform your Squarespace sites into powerful sales engines.
The Process Behind Ecommerce Success with Krishna Solanki
Incorporating Identity into Web Design with Kia Dyson
Clarity Leads to Conversion with Seth Hoffman
Ecommerce: Not Just Products with Sam Crawford
Speaker panel with Nikki Kuritsky
14:45 PM
7 Ways to Save Time as a Squarespace Designer
Christy Price and Will Myers bring the Somewhat Useful podcast on the road to Circle Day. In this real-time conversation with two Squarespace Experts and educators, you’ll discover essential Squarespace tools and features that will revolutionize your workflow. In this seminar, Will and Christy will highlight time-saving integrations that boost efficiency and productivity to streamline your web design projects and deliver exceptional results for clients.
15:45 PM
Closing keynote
Jacqueline Gonzales, Vice President of International and GTM, will interview Chief Marketing Officer Kinjil Mathur. The closing keynote will touch on the opportunities and challenges that are common to both Squarespace and Circle members: balancing brand-building and performance marketing, using intuition and data to increase marketing efficiency, and evolving your marketing strategy and message as your offerings and ideal customer change.
World Loop
(UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa)
Thursday, September 19
All times shown are in British Summer Time (BST)
8:45 AM
Welcome from local Squarespace team
9:10 AM
Each year, Squarespace announces a new set of features and updates with Squarespace Refresh. Circle Day attendees will gain an early preview of what’s to come from Chief Product Officer Paul Gubbay. Paul will share tools to streamline your business and help you and your clients stand out.
Opening keynote
9:25 AM
Coffee Chat with Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO of Squarespace
Squarespace Founder and CEO Anthony Casalena returns to the Circle Day stage for a conversation with CTO Paul Gubbay. The two will chat through highlights from Squarespace Refresh and share what’s on the horizon for Squarespace.
10:30 AM
Feed the Funnel: Creating Your Content Flywheel
Join content marketing experts Teresanne O'Reilly, Clarrie Johnson, Hayley Fedders, and Omari Harebin for a dynamic session on enhancing your digital marketing skills. Through four talks and a panel with all four presenters, explore how to effectively and efficiently integrate email marketing, video content, podcasts, and more into your online presence to drive more traffic to your business. Gain actionable insights to create a realistic, evergreen, and self-sustaining content ecosystem to drive continuous client engagement and growth.
Improving Email Marketing to Capture More Clients with Teresanne O’Reilly
Tapping into the Digital Goldmine with Clarrie Johnson
Diversifying Your Content Offerings with Hayley Fedders
Tackling Multiple Content Flywheels with Omari Harebin
Speaker panel with Sudy Majd
11:30 AM
Finding Your Niche
Grow your design business by tapping into micro-communities with a plan of action by Liesl Every (Netherlands), Founder of curated / by. During this presentation, Liesl will share how you can identify your communities, put yourself forward, build relationships, and leverage your successes to grow your business by thinking smaller.
Building Inclusive Web Experiences
11:50 AM
Explore the principles and practices of creating more accessible and inclusive Squarespace websites. Regont Arnori (Norway) will guide you through key elements of universal design. Learn practical strategies for integrating accessible features into your work, ensuring sites are compliant with accessibility standards while providing a seamless and engaging experience for visitors.
12:10 PM
12:25 PM
12:45 PM
13:30 PM
14:30 PM
15:45 PM
How to Sell Web Design as a Product (Presented in French)
Unlock the secret to efficiently selling services by changing the way you think about your web design business. Join Salomé Amar for an engaging seminar where you’ll learn how to streamline your processes, manage tasks effectively, and identify opportunities for additional products and cross-selling. Discover how to create a self-sustaining business model that eliminates the need for constant prospecting.
16:45 PM
Marketing Magic: Turning Content Creation into Creative Play (Presented in German)
Many web designers struggle with marketing, often viewing it as a distraction from their creative work. This session reframes content creation as an opportunity for play and self-expression. Victoria Weber touches on the benefits of content marketing by focusing on making it fun and imaginative. Join this session to discover your content creation personality, explore playful tactics like news-jacking, and learn how to share behind-the-scenes content that resonates. Leave with fresh ideas to approach content creation as a joyful extension of your design process.
The 5 Homepage Tweaks that Skyrocket Inbounds
As a web designer, improving conversion on your own site is just as important as prioritizing conversion on your clients’ sites. Join Sam Crawford as he reveals small but powerful changes that can dramatically boost your website’s effectiveness in attracting and converting potential clients. These tweaks compound over time, helping you create a site that consistently drives results and grows your business.
Successful Designer Secrets: What They Do Differently
Web designer and online business educator Paige Brunton leads an insightful seminar on what some of the highest-performing web designers do. Uncover the real-life strategies and unique web design offerings of her most accomplished students to gain actionable inspiration for elevating your own practice. Walk away from this session feeling invigorated and ready to apply these original insights to achieve outstanding results for your web design career.
From Clicks to Customers: Branding for Squarespace Ecommerce Sites
Tune into talks by Kia Dyson, Seth Hoffman, Sam Crawford, and Krishna Solanki to help improve your ecommerce branding and online sales. Learn how to seamlessly incorporate brand identity into web design, use Squarespace’s features to capture and retain customer attention, and apply ecommerce best practices to service-based sellers. Get ready to create conversion-driving experiences with actionable strategies to transform your Squarespace sites into powerful sales engines.
The Process Behind Ecommerce Success with Krishna Solanki
Incorporating Identity into Web Design with Kia Dyson
Clarity Leads to Conversion with Seth Hoffman
Ecommerce: Not Just Products with Sam Crawford
Speaker panel with Nikki Kuritsky
7 Ways to Save Time as a Squarespace Designer
Christy Price and Will Myers bring the Somewhat Useful podcast on the road to Circle Day. In this real-time conversation with two Squarespace Experts and educators, you’ll discover essential Squarespace tools and features that will revolutionize your workflow. In this seminar, Will and Christy will highlight time-saving integrations that boost efficiency and productivity to streamline your web design projects and deliver exceptional results for clients.
Closing keynote
Jacqueline Gonzales, Vice President of International and GTM, will interview Chief Marketing Officer Kinjil Mathur. The closing keynote will touch on the opportunities and challenges that are common to both Squarespace and Circle members: balancing brand-building and performance marketing, using intuition and data to increase marketing efficiency, and evolving your marketing strategy and message as your offerings and ideal customer change