Posts by Melissa Galt
Change Your Words: The 4-Letter Word Killing Your Confidence
How you describe and refer to yourself inside your design practice says a lot about the level of your confidence. Change your words and you can up level your business, serve a higher class of clientele, and enjoy increased success. It’s simple to do, and not easy or everyone would do it. As I was…
Read MoreBest Practices for Interior Design Client Communication
Interior design client communication is the cornerstone to your success. It doesn’t matter how talented you are, how many certifications you have, how many clients you’ve worked with, or how much experience you have, if you don’t communicate effectively with clients and prospects. And today with so many channels of communication, it can be harder…
Read MoreInterior Designer Goals: 5 Mistakes You’re Making
When it comes to interior designer goals it’s not like any other profession. We are creatives and as such we tend to lose focus quickly, chase more bright shiny opportunities than other professionals, and unwittingly set ourselves up for disappointment because we take on too much. Sound familiar? To get your year off on the…
Read MoreSocial Media Overwhelm: 5 Simple Steps to Stop It
Whether you’re a seasoned social media user or just taking baby steps in your business, one of the biggest challenges you have is social media overwhelm. Here are 5 rock solid steps to keep you out of social media overwhelm and have you reap the benefits of strategic social media. #1 Don’t Be Everywhere It’s…
Read MoreHow to Bring a Decorator Showhouse Room to Life
When you bring a decorator showhouse room to life, it’s a collaborative effort between you, your suppliers, your workrooms, artists, and your installers. You can invest a fortune or you can do it the smart way and negotiate for all goods with suppliers whether you’ve worked with them in the past and have a relationship…
Read MoreHow to Participate in a Decorator Showhouse
Since we reviewed WHY you’d want to participate in a decorator showhouse in a recent blog post, I want to share HOW to make that happen in this post. It takes both digital smarts as well as strategic real time connection and readiness to be selected for a showhouse. (And in case it’s bugging you…
Read MoreWhy Participate in a Designer Showhouse?
When you participate in a designer showhouse, while it may seem glamorous, that isn’t why you do it. In fact, it’s actually a boatload of work, expense, time, and then there is the reward. Having done 5 showhomes in the last 20 years, there is that familiar feeling of “no way, not going to do…
Read MoreTime Management for Interior Designers: Get More Done
Time management for interior designers can be distilled to a single simple 3-step practice that keeps you on track every day and having a wildly productive week, every week. It isn’t complicated, it is a new habit that you’ll want to implement. The tricky bit about habits is that they take 21 days to form,…
Read More6 Ways to Calculate Interior Design Fees with Transparency
Setting and calculating interior design fees today is quite possibly the most challenging part of growing your interior design practice. You want to be fair to clients and transparent, at the same time you want to make a good living and have a profitable business that you love. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. In fact,…
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