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Are 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…
How 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…
How 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…
Interior Designer Resources: Where to Find a Quality Contractor
Whether your design practice is you as a solopreneur or you have a team, you’ll always want to know where to find a quality contractor. You may be looking for a reliable painter, a reputable plumber, a licensed electrician, or a quality cabinet company, throwing darts at Google isn’t the answer. Professional Accredited Industry Associations…
Interior Design Marketing: Instead of Doing Everything, Do This
Interior design marketing can swallow you whole and leave you with less time for clients and creative design work than it takes to market. UGH! Stop trying to do it all and get super selective. Yes, I know you’ve likely been told on a webinar, read in a blog post, seen in a video, or…
5 Fast Strategies to Increase Your Design Revenues
Whether you are an independent interior designer, or you head a small firm, you want to increase your design revenues. Often you make it much more complicated than it needs to be. Money loves simplicity and money loves speed. Apply one or more of the strategies here to rock your interior design revenues and boost…
33 Wretched Ways Self Sabotage is Wrecking Your Design Success
Self sabotage is an ugly monster that all of us wrestle with from HGTV famous Joanna Gaines to seasoned superstar Candace Olson, the designer just launching and one who’s been in business for decades. Self sabotage doesn’t play favorites. The list of self sabotage here is going to make you feel both very bad and…
3 Ways You’re Hiding in Your Business
When I spoke with Andrea and Jonathan, they said they’d launched their design practice almost 8 months ago. They were struggling to meet clients and getting frustrated. I took a look at their marketing and saw only time online on Instagram. I asked Jonathan about it and he said that they spent a lot of…
What to Do When Your Social Media Isn’t Working…
Social media is not your salvation, in fact when social media isn’t working it can trap your business in a downward spiral. Are you one of those interior designers that keeps doing what you’ve always done even when it isn’t working? That’s the very definition of insanity according to Einstein. Now, I’m not saying stop…
Are Your Business Cards Costing You Business?
It may seem like an odd question “are your business cards costing you business?” Yet, I see so many interior designer cards that are poorly branded, cheaply produced, badly designed, and even missing key information (like an email address.) Your business card is that tiny, tangible piece of your brand that has a powerful and…
Marketing Luxury Design: Attracting Affluent Clients
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