Rates & Fees
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…
Power Marketing Words: How to Erase the Limitations of a BudgetÂ
Your business growth is intrinsically tied to the words you use, dictated by the thoughts you think. When you use powerful words that indicate wealth, possibility, and abundance, that is going to follow. When instead, you get stuck in a pattern of using weak words, lack and limitation are likely to follow. Power marketing words…
6 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,…
2 Biggest Design and Home Furnishings Profit Strategies From HGTV
As a designer, I’ll confess, I’m not a fan of HGTV. It delivers an entirely false picture of both the process and investment required in home renovation and home furnishing. But, it is a consumer favorite and only getting bigger, so better to look for the lessons and here are two to drive your profits…
How to Raise Your Rate and Keep Your Clients
As an interior designer you may be reluctant to raise your rate because you fear you’ll lose current clients, and will fail to attract new clients. In reality when you do it right, a rate increase reinforces your value and attracts a higher quality of client. Regardless of how you charge, you can raise your…
3 Ways to Raise Fast Cash When You Aren’t Online
It can happen to anyone, no matter how well you budget, and how great you are at planning, you can find yourself short suddenly and needing to raise fast cash. Now I know that in the internet age, most online marketers would try to sell you a program to make you money. That is going…