Who we serve · Coaches & Speakers

You are the brand. The site shouldn't get in the way.

Websites for experts whose product is themselves: programs, bookings, courses, and a speaking page that books the next stage.

A planner opens a dozen speaker sites in tabs and gives each one a few seconds: what’s the promise, where’s the reel, how do I book. A coaching prospect does the same with who you help and what changes. Most expert sites talk about the expert instead. We write the message first, then build a site that sells the program, books the keynote, and runs the course without you becoming your own webmaster between gigs.

Programs & coursesSpeaker page that booksEmail list & launchesYour voice, not ours

Coaches & Speakers/ Managed

Booking readiness · 30D5 / 5

Speaker reelabove the fold

Booking pathlive

One-sheetcurrent

Launch email authpassing

Video captionscomplete

SecurePod CareLAST CHECK 4 MIN AGO

2007Founded

~700Websites

2009Longest client, still here

75%Projects from repeat clients

1What’s at stake

What keeps you up at night

Nine ways an expert’s website loses the booking before the inquiry.

These are the concerns we hear most, and the ones the research backs up. Each one is a page, a post, or a fix waiting to happen.

Planners look at my site and never call

A planner opens a dozen speaker sites and skims each for the one-line promise, talk titles with outcomes, proof, and a way to book. A cluttered homepage, a slow load, no reel above the fold, or a “contact me” form where a “book me” page should be reads as risk to someone who has to justify the pick to a committee. The inquiry never arrives, so you never learn it was lost.

My demo reel gets me hired, and it’s buried

The reel is the closest thing to a live audition, and planners watch it only after the site passes the skim. No video, a video over five minutes, over-produced, or hosted in a way that stalls on a phone, and the audition never happens.

I can’t find my own one-sheet, and neither can they

Planners lay one-sheets side by side and forward them to decision-makers. Most speakers have a stale PDF in the footer with an old headshot, an old fee range, and retired topics, or none at all. A one-sheet that contradicts the site costs credibility instead of adding it.

Kajabi owns my list, my courses, and now my price

The all-in-one platform bundles site, courses, email, checkout, and community, and leaving means losing all of them at once: no bulk course export, automations that don’t come with you, subscriptions whose card tokens stay behind. When the price goes up with no grandfathering, you pay or you face a migration you never planned.

My site is on Wix, and it can’t leave

Wix states plainly that a Wix site runs only on Wix. Squarespace exports blog posts and basic pages, not events, products, or design. The expert who outgrew the DIY site discovers the “move” is a from-scratch rebuild, usually at the worst moment: a bureau request, a book launch, a rebrand.

My launch emails went to spam

Program revenue is launch-driven: a ten-day sequence to a list. Since 2024 the major inboxes require proper domain authentication and one-click unsubscribe for bulk senders. A domain set up by a previous designer, or sending from the email tool’s shared domain, lands in Promotions. A launch that under-delivers by a third is a direct loss with no obvious cause.

My course videos aren’t captioned, and I didn’t know that mattered

Uncaptioned course video has been treated as an accessibility violation since the university cases a decade ago, and test-prep companies have paid to settle it since. A two-thousand-dollar program sold through an LMS carries the same exposure at smaller scale.

The person who built it is gone, and I don’t own the logins

A VA, a student, or a designer registered the domain and hosting in their own name. The site goes “Account Suspended” or needs a change, and the registrar treats the designer as the owner. The primary booking channel is dark during recovery.

ChatGPT recommends other speakers, not me

Planners and HR buyers increasingly start the shortlist with an AI assistant. The bureaus say those tools miss speakers with a thin online footprint. Topics, outcomes, and past clients that live only in a PDF, an image, or a platform page with no structure are invisible to that first pass.

2What we do about it

How we solve it

SecurePod Care

Your webmaster between launches: the new program page goes up when the program does, the speaking page stays current, and the course platform handoff keeps working while you're on stage.

SecurePod CareSee the plan

PodShield

Email lists, course logins, and payment links collect personal data. Consent kept current with the law and accessibility audited on a schedule, so the audience you built stays protected.

PodShieldSee the plan

Where it starts

We write with you, against a plan, in your voice, so the About page ships. Then we build a site with a door for each buyer: book the talk, join the program, start the course.

See the build packagesFrom 3200

YOUR
WEBSITE

Course platform (LearnDash)SchedulingMailchimpStripePodcast hostSpeaker bureauYouTubeMedia kit

Marketing firms change. Platforms change. The website shouldn’t have to change with them. We own the website layer and plug into everything around it.

3Some supporting evidence

Proof

What we solved for them we can solve for you too.

“Chris has taken the time to learn my objectives and the outcomes I want. His intimate understanding of my business goals makes him an essential part of my team. His suggestions spark conversations where the best idea wins, I love that.”

Kymberlee Weil

Founder

The Speaking Strategist

“Christopher wants the best for your brand. No matter the project or idea, he’s right there with you, bringing industry-leading ideas to the table – all to help make you and your brand shine!”

Eric Hodgdon

TEDx Speaker, Chief of Staff

Rooftop Leadership

“Christopher has deep technical knowledge in all of the areas we really needed help; effective web design and development, strategy, and especially, how to manage me, the CEO. PXLPOD has been instrumental for our many projects since 2010!”

Mark Sylvester

Strategist – Storyteller

TEDx Santa Barbara

Did you know

Misconception

“Planners find me through the bureau, so my own site doesn’t matter.”

The reality

The site comes first now. Planners have usually read it and watched the reel before any bureau conversation, and the bureau sends them there anyway.

Misconception

“A longer, more produced demo reel is more impressive.”

The reality

Planners want two uninterrupted minutes in front of a live audience. Reels over five minutes and commercial-style edits are on the list of things that kill a booking.

Misconception

“Hiding my fees keeps me from scaring people off.”

The reality

Hidden pricing signals you’re not confident in it, and the expense is implied anyway. Pricing with proof beside it converts; for keynotes, a “fees from” range is the usual compromise.

Misconception

“Six tools and a few Zaps is a system.”

The reality

It’s a system until a sale on one tool fails to trigger the enrollment on the next, and nobody is watching the Zap history. You find out from the angry buyer.

Misconception

“A blog I haven’t touched in a year is better than no blog.”

The reality

It isn’t. Prospects read a stale blog as a sign you may not be in business anymore. Remove it or keep it current; there’s no third option.

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FAQ

Questions Coaches & Speakers clients ask first.

Will you actually write my copy?

Yes. We draft, you correct. Most experts can’t write about themselves, and shouldn’t have to. The message is settled before anything gets designed.

Do you work with my course platform?

LearnDash lives on the site itself. Kajabi, Teachable, and Thinkific stay where they are and connect; we own the website layer and the paths into them. If you’re leaving one, we plan the migration before the price change forces it.

Can the site handle speaking inquiries and program sales at once?

That’s the usual shape: a speaking page a planner can act on, a program page a buyer can act on, and a home page that routes each to the right door.

What does it cost?

SecurePod Care runs from $379 a month with hosting included. Rebuilds start at $3,200. The free audit tells you which you need first.

Will you name me on your site?

Only with your permission, and only once you’ve approved the case study.

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