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Home Office Interior Design: Making it Productive and Successful

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The key to a productive and successful home office is organization and creating an interior that really works for you. Melissa Galt, Business and Life Success Expert, shares how analyzing the functions and tasks you perform in your home office helps you put together a winning space.

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Why Design Isn’t Like an Oreo Cookie: Don’t Start in the Middle

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I like to eat my oreo cookies from the middle out, which means I like to take things apart and put them back together. Many people want to start their interior design projects in the middle, but that just doesn’t work.

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Keeping Room Interior Design: Making It Cozy

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Many kitchens have nooks or mini-great rooms attached, this is a keeping room. What you really want to know is interior design basics and how make this room cozy. Here are a few design tips to help you get started!

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The #1 Critical Component to Success in Every Business: Do You Have It?

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Wars are won or lost based on this. Relationships will bloom or fade based on this. Your business will succeed or fail based on this. It is one simple concept that is all too often forgotten and when it is, your failure is guaranteed. It’s called FOLLOW UP. It isn’t in your client’s best interest [...]

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When Policies Prevent Profits: Are You Stalling Your Success?

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This is a lesson in how your policies and procedures may be preventing your profitability.  Read closely not as a business owner but instead as a customer or client. Too often we get caught up in our operations, and forget that we are in business to serve our customer and clients.  We must see it [...]

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Getting Organized: Are You a Sample Hoarder?

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I’ll never forget visiting a client for the second time, years ago. It had been six months since our first visit and at the time I’d reviewed all of her samples and provided guidance and selection. I urged her to get rid of those that didn’t work, after all, samples don’t improve with age. Unfortunately [...]

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Match Your Message to Your Market

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5 Deadly Ways to Fail Fast and Publicly Picture this if you will. A high end furniture showroom holds a grand re-opening coming out of a reorganization and launches with a party for interior designers, builders, and developers in Atlanta. The majority (90%) of the attendees are women and gay men. This is only important [...]

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Market Trends: Glamour Amongst the Herd

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When you want to stand out from the herd, you can either highlight your brand with vivid color or you can glam it up with a dose of dazzling gold and shimmery silvers. This is what rug manufacturer Global Accents did at High Point Market. They took the standard hide rug and blinged it! No [...]

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Decorating and Design Trend Marketing: All for a Good Cause, Breast Cancer Awareness

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We all know about Breast Cancer and easily recognize the global symbol of a pink ribbon, but did you know that you can now have that symbol as a functional part of your home interior? With Furniture for the Cure™ The Platt Collections has taken cause marketing to a new level with their fresh and [...]

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Decorating and Design Top Trends: Luxe Lamps with a Vintage Flair

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J Douglas aptly states their tag line as The Art of Living, and an art it truly is. At the recent Highpoint Market I had the pleasure of meeting a handful of their creative manufacturers, including Julie Pinnell of Gallery Designs Lighting. Gallery Designs is part of a third-generation, family-owned lamp manufacturing company based in [...]

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