The best advertisements for your design services are glowing recommendations from previous clients, who pick up the phone and call YOU each time a new design opportunity presents itself! Beyond delivering outstanding design, project management, budget management…these are the extra steps you can take to make your clients feel like VIP clients: Send a Welcome…
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Category: Interior Design Biz
Interior design trends are ever evolving. Keeping up with them or ahead of them requires attention. Design trends develop and evolve by reflecting social movements, overall lifestyle, fashion changes, and even economic outlooks. To easily stay ahead of trends, we’ve put together a few pointers. Stay Classic on Big Ticket Items Trends come and go,…
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Ready to hire your first full-time employee? Here are three fool-proof tips to follow: Know what you’re looking for Back-of-house? Senior Designer? Junior Designer? Full-time, contract, part-time, freelance? Take the time to sit down and REALLY define the expectations for the role you are seeking to fill. Writing “want ad”, copy can be time-consuming, but the…
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Just like Cinderella’s glass slipper, not every interior design job will be the right fit for you. The key is to know when to walk away if the fit is not right. Think of the last time you wore super cute shoes that were a size too small… I rest my case; nothing is worth…
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In my course, the Successful Design Business Academy, I teach new interior designers how to uplevel their businesses, market themselves, land the types of projects they’ve always dreamed of. But how does one become an interior designer in the first place? There are many paths you can take and I am not here to tell…
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Hi Lovelies! So today as my send off – I’m tackling a nice sticky, tricky topic…because I love you guys! 😉 Yes – today we’re diving into: What do you do when you disagree with your client’s design aesthetic – or – as a client, with something your designer is suggesting? Yes – you read…
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Let’s be honest, no matter what industry people may be a part of, whatever social setting they may attend, whatever relationships they encounter: EVERYONE likes to be heard. Design clients are no exception! More times than not, when I inquire as to why a client chose not to continue working with a former designer, countless…
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