Franka Baly

11/20/2025

Most people don’t realize this… but your website can be beautiful and still not convert. 🤷🏾‍♀️
Pretty doesn’t pay the bills — clarity does.

In this carousel, I’m breaking down the exact anatomy of the home page of a high-converting website — it's the same framework I use when designing sites for my clients, especially for service providers who want their site to work for them… not sit there looking cute.

Here’s the flow your website should follow:

✨ A hero section that says who you help + what you do (above the fold, don't make users scroll)
✨ Quick trust signals (freebie or logos of brands you’ve worked with)
✨ A tiny “About Us” moment to help people connect
✨ Clear problem → solution messaging
✨ Your services in clean, skimmable blocks
✨ Real results (case studies / portfolio)
✨ A place for your voice (blog, podcast, YouTube)
✨ Testimonials from clients
✨ A clear CTA
✨ And yes… an intentional footer

If you’re a service provider and you want your website to bring in warm leads while you sleep, this blueprint will help you get there.

Tell me in the comments which section you want me to dive deeper into next.

11/06/2025

Business owners, listen…
You don’t have to push every season.
I wrote something from the heart about choosing rest — and how it can actually be your strategy.
Read it here:

A end-of-the year strategy for resting at the end of the year instead of hustling hard to the point of exhaustion.

01/16/2025

Had so much fun yesterday at our Storyboard workshop! and I walked our attendees through a process for creating storyboards and a powerful tool for leveraging stories for almost anything they need to create. From their marketing to videos to books. I love the engagement and seeing all the completed boards. Check out for future .

01/03/2025

Me starting off the year great doing my digital vision board. This year I shared how I do them with a few friends. There’s actual science behind it. So much fun! I’m excited to how much manifests this year.

01/02/2025

Happy New Year to you and yours!! I’m too lazy to do a recap but I’m so grateful I got to take those 366 days around the sun in 2024 with you. So grateful. I’m ready for 2025 and all that it brings. One thing is that I know I can do hard things. I know how much I am loved and what I have to offer the world. In 2025 I’m going to love hard, hold my friends close, love on my family, especially my two sons, mentor and help as many young designers as I can, and open my heart to receive love. I’m going to be unapologetic about prioritizing myself, especially since my health took a hit last year. I’m getting back on track and I know I can turn it around in my favor. 2025, here I come!!! 🙏🏾🎉🥳❤️

12/01/2024

Such a beautiful event and so many wonderful souls came through to support all the independent authors Indie Stories Bookfair. And we had the most perfect weather and great music! Wonderful to see all the people who came out to support this wonderful bookstore on . They had a line y’all! 🙌🏾 (And they say people don’t read anymore. We do, you just gotta find your tribe.)

Check out some of my fellow authors. , , , , and .express.

Thank you to all my friends and family who came to support me 🫶, and her hubby, , and my girl . Special shoutout to my big sis Marilyn for helping me process orders and for always supporting everything I do. I’m truly blessed!

11/28/2024

grabbed my heart and never let it go. I sat in the theater crying as the credits rolled. What a gut wrenching and beautiful story. I will never look at the Wizard of Oz the sam again. I love seeing Elfabab’s story. Give all the awards now! was wonderful also. I know this movie will stay with me for a while.

11/22/2024

I’ve been invited to be a part of Indie Stories  here in Houston, TX next Saturday where I’ll be signing copies of my book - Love Never Dies. They truly believe in giving back to the community and I’m so honored to have been selected to participate in this event and to share my story. There will be lots of other independent authors like me in the house. I hope you can come through if you’re not doing anything. It’s an amazing bookstore.

Date: November 30, 2024
Where: 2304 Stuart Street, HTX, 77004
When: 11am - 3pm

         

11/04/2024

AfroTech is coming in HOT 🔥 this year--because it's in H-TOWN!!

🚀 I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at The Spaces House: An Experience happening November 14-16 during the week of AfroTech in Houston!

Join me as I participate in a Fireside Chat about UX, CE, & UI, alongside an amazing group of founders, creators, and innovators. You won’t want to miss this!

📍 The Us Space (Esperson Building - 808 Travis Suites 400 & 415)
📅 November 14-16, 2024

🎟 https://bit.ly/3BDOmGt 🔗

Spots are limited, so make sure to register now! See you there 🔥
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11/01/2024

October is gone and it was so good to me. I'm so thankful for all the connections I made. All the people who touched my life last month. All the colleagues I ran into or reached out.

I'm so grateful for the new opportunities that came to me without me having to do anything except be ME.

I had more beautiful conversations than I can remember with so many unexpected people -- at the gym, in the grocery store, standing in line, at church, and, at a conference. What this shows is that 1) people crave connection and 2) there is so more goodness in the world than you realize, especially if you lead with it.

Kindness comes back in unexpected ways when you give it.

The most important thing I did though was vote. I'm so grateful for my ancestors and the paths they paved for me to have the right to use my voice in such a powerful way. I won't ever take it for granted.

10/24/2024

Voting was easy peasy. Go vote early. The lines were not bad at all and they had about 60 machines at my polling center. Took my 21 year old with me as well and ran into my sister.

10/20/2024

Let’s Go Sunday! What a lovely day! Great worship, good people, feeling happy and grateful 🙏🏾. Enjoy your day!💕