Marketing & Sales

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…

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Conversational Copy: Creating Personal Connection in Every Post

Conversational copy sounds like a mouthful and it’s actually a very simple concept. Instead of torturing yourself and your reader with a lot of industry jargon and pointless drivel, you simply have a conversation on paper. Too often when I’m checking out a designer’s site, it reads like either a term paper or a formal…

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10 Wickedly Simple Ways to Woo Your Clients

You can do what everyone else in business does or you can stand head and shoulders above the competition and make a real impact and remarkable difference. The “10 Wickedly Simple Ways to Woo Your Clients” described here will help you stand out when you implement them on a consistent and persistent basis with your…

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Social 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…

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How 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…

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How 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…

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Why 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…

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6 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…

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How 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…

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