Business Development
5 Passive Income Streams for Interior Design Pros
Are passive income streams something you have considered during your interior design career? Well, if you have, stop considering, and start doing! While you may have a full slate of projects and clients in real time, you also have the opportunity to add passive revenue streams to your design practice. In fact, it may be…
How to Be a Successful Interior Designer
Do you know what it takes to be a successful interior designer? Being a successful interior designer requires you to maximize your revenues from every project. But how does someone do this? The most effective way to maximize your revenues is to deliver more of what your clients want in less time. Because time is…
Interior Design Referrals: How to Grow Your Business
Interior design referrals are the lifeblood of your interior design business.  While they will happen organically, you can do a lot to ensure they happen on a regular, predictable basis.But I do have a cautionary tale about how NOT to lose interior design referrals… Key takeaways ✓Interior design referrals happen organically, but you can make them…
5 Red Hot Revenue Streams for Interior Designers
Are you aware of how digital technology can give you multiple passive income streams? In today’s interior design world, savvy interior designers have extra revenue streams because one-on-one interior design is time intensive. If you’re looking for red hot interior design revenue streams that can bring dollars in the door, you’ve reached the right place.…
5 Simple Steps to Build Better Client Relationships
The fastest path to growing your business and your revenue is to build better client relationships. Business is all about relationships, and particularly the business of design. As design professionals we often have unprecedented access to our clients’ private lives and idiosyncrasies (whether we want to or not!) The stronger the relationship you craft, the…
7 Savvy Reasons to Attend High Point Market (and Other Top Design Markets)
High Point Market is the largest home furnishings market in the world, but that’s not the reason you want to go. In fact, what I’m telling you here applies to every design market whether it’s High Point Market, Dallas Market, Vegas Market, the annual Architectural Digest Show in NYC, the ICFF Show, or the European…
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…
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…
