Posts by Melissa Galt
Interior 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…
Read More5 Red Hot Revenue Streams for Interior Designers
Are you aware of how digital technology can give you multiple passive income streams? In today’s interior design world, savvy interior designers have extra revenue streams because one-on-one interior design is time intensive. If you’re looking for red hot interior design revenue streams that can bring dollars in the door, you’ve reached the right place.…
Read MoreHigh Point Market Highlights & How To’s
Just got back in Tuesday from High Point Market, the world’s largest furniture and home decor market. If you haven’t been, make it a priority. And start your planning NOW. If you have and are planning to return in April, put it together now. The sooner you book a hotel or Airbnb, the likelier you…
Read MoreGoal Setting for Interior Designers in 7 Steps
It’s almost time for goal setting for the new year! The final quarter of the year has launched. What were the goals you set back in January? Are you on track? Did you back your goals up with quarterly plans, monthly action, weekly achievements, and daily tasks? It’s easy to dream big once a year…
Read More5 Simple Steps to Build Better Client Relationships
The fastest path to growing your business and your revenue is to build better client relationships. Business is all about relationships, and particularly the business of design. As design professionals we often have unprecedented access to our clients’ private lives and idiosyncrasies (whether we want to or not!) The stronger the relationship you craft, the…
Read More7 Savvy Reasons to Attend High Point Market (and Other Top Design Markets)
High Point Market is the largest home furnishings market in the world, but that’s not the reason you want to go. In fact, what I’m telling you here applies to every design market whether it’s High Point Market, Dallas Market, Vegas Market, the annual Architectural Digest Show in NYC, the ICFF Show, or the European…
Read MoreAre You an Interior Design CEO or Stuck Wearing the Business Owner Hat?
Interior Design CEO is more than just a title you adopt in your design practice or words you print on your business card, it’s a mindset and way of being. There are 3 core differences between being an interior design business owner and an interior design CEO. #1 Busy vs. Productive The interior design business…
Read MoreHow to be a True Interior Design Professional
In reading a lot of the conversations in online forums for designers, I’ve noticed something worrisome. It seems that many designers, new to the field in the last 2-10 years, are not stepping into being a true interior design professional. Instead they are abdicating the responsibilities that requires and acting more like hobbyists. Truthfully, you…
Read MoreHow to Handle an Impossible Interior Design Client
The interior design business can be a triumph or a trial, and sometimes both. There are always lessons to be learned and improvements you can make in your practice. I’m leaving names out to protect both the innocent and the guilty. If you’ve been in business over 5 years, and likely over 1 year, you’ve…
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