Posts by Melissa Galt
Connect to Clients: 7 Keys for Designers During COVID19
How you connect to clients is more important than ever before. It’s not enough to send a well intentioned, carefully crafted statement of your interior design practice’s COVID19 response. Everyone is doing that. This crisis requires a lot more if you want to keep your current clients, nurture past clients as a source of repeat…
Read More7 Instagram Tips for Interior Designers
Instagram is a powerful and free (unless you decide to advertise) tool to grow your interior design practice. Whether you want more clients, to connect with editors of design publications you’d like to be featured in, to find new vendors, to become an influencer, or to collaborate with colleagues, it’s all possible and here are…
Read More7 Simple Steps to Safeguard Your Interior Design Business
Have you been watching non-stop news about COVID19? Are you spending your time hunkered down at home, distracting yourself with anything but work? Your interior design business needs you now more than ever. Binge on your business, not on netflix! Perhaps you’ve had clients put the brakes on projects in progress, delay the start of…
Read MoreKeep Coronavirus Out of Your Business: 5 Ways
As an interior designer, your business is going to be impacted by coronavirus whether you realize it or not. It may be a significant impact or just a blip, it’s unpredictable. In many ways it’s not unlike the many other disruptions you’ve weathered, from recessions to hurricanes, new regulations to vendor challenges. You came through…
Read MoreLuxury Interior Design Today, What You Need to Know.
The Definition of Luxury The definition of luxury interior design has changed significantly over the last decade. While there is a growing demand for luxury design, the recession of 2008-2010 disrupted the days of excess and flashy and moved affluent consumers from conspicuous consumption to discreet investment and even conspicuous frugality. Today’s luxury interior design…
Read MoreWhat to Do When an Interior Design Client Tries to Take Control
Are you a control nut like me? Do you ever have a vision for a client’s home, one that fits them to perfection, and you know that the only way it can happen is if you are in charge of every single detail. I hear you! Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as it sounds. A…
Read More5 Passive Income Streams for Interior Design Pros
Are passive income streams something you have considered during your interior design career? Well, if you have, stop considering, and start doing! While you may have a full slate of projects and clients in real time, you also have the opportunity to add passive revenue streams to your design practice. In fact, it may be…
Read MoreHow to Be a Successful Interior Designer
Do you know what it takes to be a successful interior designer? Being a successful interior designer requires you to maximize your revenues from every project. But how does someone do this? The most effective way to maximize your revenues is to deliver more of what your clients want in less time. Because time is…
Read MoreInterior Design Referrals: How to Grow Your Business
Interior design referrals are the lifeblood of your interior design business.  While they will happen organically, you can do a lot to ensure they happen on a regular, predictable basis. But I do have a cautionary tale about how NOT to lose interior design referrals… Growing Your Interior Design Business With Referrals: What Not to Do…
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