About SwayRise Creative

We make small businesses bigger.

SwayRise Creative is a full-service Squarespace website design agency. We deliver marketing strategy and results-driven design with every project, and we pride ourselves on the results we get for our clients.

Read more about our founder, Diane Whiddon, and how we got our start below.

strategy, design, and soul-searching.

Hi there! I’m Diane Whiddon.

Seventeen years ago, I started designing websites for fun. It grew into an agency with hundreds of clients, and eventually launched my career as a digital marketing and brand strategist.

Since then, I’ve taught over fifty workshops on non-sleazy marketing, sales, and branding, and helped countless clients double, triple, and 10x their income by clarifying their message and upping their marketing game.

Now I’m designing premium websites, with over a decade and a half of online marketing experience, and my new best friend, Squarespace.

Diane Whiddon teaching Websites as Story at WordCamp

What I’ve Learned About Success:

After helping so many small businesses get bigger, I learned something surprising about my clients who had the most success >> The key to their success wasn’t having the biggest website, the most expensive newsletter software, or the most popular, TikTok slaying content ….

It was simply having a website that aligned with their brand, and had the right systems in place for their business.

That’s it. Just those two things.

First, your website needs to align with the very best version of you and your biz to work well. A generic or outdated site that you can’t update won’t cut it.

Your website should be so gorgeous and perfectly ‘you’ that it gives you confidence on sales calls and makes you proud when you share it.

Second, your website has to include the systems that fit your business. Whatever problems you face in your business, your website should help you solve them.

Your website should feel like your best, most reliable employee, working 24/7, selling your stuff, lifting the admin burden from your team …

all while looking gorgeous and making you proud to send people to it.

Diane Whiddon Teaching a workshop on passive income

So that’s what we do for our clients.

We build premium, customized websites that solve our clients’ problems so their business can grow.

You’ll have plenty of expertise at your beck and call as my team and I work with you to build a customized solution for your business.

Stop spinning your wheels trying to implement the latest marketing trend or trying to fix your site on an old, lethargic platform.

That’s costing you time, energy, sales, and leads.

Instead, let’s create a stunning online presence for you on a modern, agile platform that will ease the burden on your business, expand your reach, and sell more of your stuff!

More fun, ease, and results, please!

Stuff I’ve done recently:

I tend to think that certifications are overrated, but just in case you’re curious about what I know and where I learned it, here’s a small sampling of what I’ve done in the last few years. I’ve included links (aff) and pricing info if you want to check out any for yourself. (TLDR: I enjoy this stuff so much that I learn about it for fun, so I bring a ton of expertise to the table. All you have to bring is your passion for what you do & we can create strategy magic for it.)

FREE Resources!

Copyhackers Conversion Copywriting 101 and The Call to Action Crash Course
Ash Ambirge’s Meat & Hair Premium Creative Writing Class (this link is to her free newsletter)

Investments < $300

I’ve taken a few AI courses now, and Midjourney Mastery: Hacking Visual Content Creation from Rory Flynn is a STEAL. It starts at a beginner level but quickly moves into advanced prompting and skills. You’ll get tons out of this course!!
Mariah Coz’s Champagne Client Content, and Your 1st 1K Subscribers (All of Mariah’s work is brilliant.)
Leonie Dawson’s Behind The Scenes of A Multi-Millionaire's Finances and The Money, Manifesting + Multiple Streams Of Income E-Course and Finish Your Book in 40 Days
Dorie Clark’s Rapid Content Creation Masterclass
Kat Coroy’s Instagram Makeover
Simone Grace Seol’s Summer Camp
Loran Elise’s $5K Client Attraction System
IttyBiz Zero to Hero, Plug & Play Scripts, Six-Figure Products, How Not to Screw Up Your Business, & OBS

Investments $300 - $1k

Lea Turner’s LinkedIn Masterclass, and HoLT member
Mike Shreeve’s The One Book Millions Method
James Altucher’s Choose Yourself Guide to Self-Publishing

Investments > $1k

Jenna Soard’s Secret AI Society (This is where I learned all the AI Photoshoot stuff I’ve been doing.)
Todd Herman’s 90-Day Year (Todd’s work is amazing, and this course is a game-changer if you want to make the most of your time and be more productive.)
Paige Brunton’s Square Secrets Business
Psychotactics Brain Alchemy Masterclass
Danielle Leslie’s Course From Scratch
Mariah Coz’s High-Ticket Hybrid and Evergreen Engines