Posts by Melissa Galt
Time 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,…
Read More6 Secrets to Direct Mail for Interior Design
Direct mail for interior design may seem old school but it still works very well today when done correctly. One of the key reasons it works well is because with email becoming a daily avalanche and spam filters kicking in hard, your message in email may never get through. Direct mail is part of an…
Read MoreHow to Grow Your Instagram Following
While I’ve always said it’s not about how many followers you have, it’s about how hot they are, the challenge is that people are unreasonably impressed by larger followings and they forget it is a meaningless metric. A large following can be gained for a price and can be entirely hollow made up of bots…
Read MoreInterior Design Discovery Call that Wins Clients
Whether you meet a potential interior design client online or offline, you want to schedule a discovery call. This is a structured conversation that allows you to find out if they are truly a good fit and if their project is one that you want to take on. (You always have a choice!) The discovery…
Read MoreInterior Designer Coaching: Making Your Passion Profitable
When I met Justin a few years ago, he was selling supplemental insurance to the education industry (AFLAC for teachers, only he wasn’t with AFLAC.) We had a fascinating conversation around his passion of travel. At just 25 years of age, he’d already been to 75 countries (not a typo.) I urged him in my…
Read MoreInterior Design Fail: When You Screw Up Do It With Grace
On a recent project where we’re installing hardwood floors, my clients offered to have their handyman/contractor, Tommy, receive the hardwood. We had it delivered 4 days early to acclimate before installation. I know Tommy through another client who has used him for years. When I called him, I got a pick up on the first…
Read More5 Lame Excuses Stopping Interior Design Success
This is going to sound harsh. You’ve been lying to yourself. It’s ugly and true. Here are five lame excuses stopping interior design success for you. Actually, there are probably a lot more excuses, I’m just going to dish up the really obvious ones that I hear from my design coaching clients regularly. (At least…
Read MoreHow to Increase Your Furniture Profit Potential
The great news about home furnishings is that for every home built, every home renovation completed, every move made, and every family addition whether a baby, young adults, or seniors moving in, furniture is needed. Knowing how to increase your furniture profit potential is the key to benefiting from the consumer need for home furnishings.…
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