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How to Create Add-On Sales on Every Interior Project
Did you know that you can significantly increase your revenue as an interior designer when you create add-on sales on every project? I see so many beautiful projects that missed thousands of dollars in additional revenue by failing to do add-on sales. (I know because the designers I’m looking at are my coaching clients who…
How to Make More Money in Interior Design
As an interior designer you got into business with a passion to change people’s lives through design, and now you want to know how to make more money in interior design. The design landscape has changed dramatically in the last decade. The advent of the internet, design centers opening to the public, online design, and…
Interior Design Website Marketing: 5 Essentials to Get More Clients
The whole point of interior design website marketing is to attract and capture clients. It isn’t just because everyone else has a site or to hold a place on the web. Your interior design site is your invitation to check out your talent, your design process, and your story and explore a fit. When a…
15 Ways to Stop Losing Money in Your Interior Design Practice
You deserve to make more money in interior design today. You have the talent, education and experience but you’ve noticed that despite working long hours, you aren’t earning the return you expected. The reality is that you may not need to add clients or projects to increase your income. Instead you simply need to more…
How to Borrow Credibility for More Business
Do you know how to borrow credibility to catapult your trust and capture more clients? Here is a recent and real experience that will show you how to do it right. Recently, I was contacted by a business coach out of Australia to participate in a telesummit. (It’s better to re-frame those as master classes…
Purposeful Priorities Learned from Loss
Do you ever find that you lose track of your most purposeful priorities in the crush of day to day operations? As I headed up to Highlands over Labor Day I was thinking of one of my neighbors who had just lost one of their pets. They have a pair of Wheaton terriers, Zooey and…
What is Being Cheap in Business Costing You?
Being cheap in business is one of the fastest ways to attract cheap clients. These are the kind of clients that are never satisfied and will constantly demand more for less. Your money values are what attract your clients, when you are being cheap in business, you will attract like minded clients. Here’s an example.…
Forget Your Weaknesses: Focus on Your Strengths
One of the biggest keys to success is to focus on your strengths and let your weaknesses go. This means that you’ve got to know clearly (as in slap your face silly), what you are NOT any good at. And then making sure you either never do it or do very little of it. (Ideally…
Entrepreneurial Freedom: 26 Freedoms You Deserve
Owning your own business, being your own boss, and claiming the responsibilities as CEO of your own company can be liberating or it can be a trap. The list here is a reminder of what to keep yourself free of and what to give yourself the freedom to do, be, and have. Think of these…
Power Words to Grow Your Business: Are You Under Valued?
Words are a powerful tool to impact your business growth. Leveraging power words will grow your business and there is no better pair than price vs value. Understanding the key difference between price and value can add thousands of dollars of revenue to your business bottom line. Years ago when I was a Purchasing Agent…
Marketing Luxury Design: Attracting Affluent Clients
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