Business Development
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…
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…
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…
Power Words to Grow Your Business: How to Get Definitely Profitable
Your thoughts dictate your words, your words dictate your actions. You cannot grow your business without using powerful words. The words you choose on a moment to moment, day to day, and week to week basis will predict your fortune or your failure. You have a choice when you pay attention to your words. You…
Client Attraction: 7 Sexy Stages to Client Courtship
A great business relationship is a lot like dating. If you are good at dating and courting, it is likely you are going to be good in business. You understand the nuances of client attraction (lead generation), how to warm them up, how to ensure they are qualified (you wouldn’t just date anyone, now would…
5 Extremely Exciting Ways You’ll Grow Your Impact with More Income
Are you one of those talented professional service providers who gives yourself and your gifts away because you love what you do so very much that you’d do it for free? Are you struggling with the delusion that everyone deserves your help and that you’ll make the world a better place by accepting less compensation…
Your Best Year Yet Marketing Plan: When You Hate Marketing, You’ll Love This
Are you one of those business owners or professional service providers who wants to outsource your marketing because it makes you feel like you are chewing foil? NEWS FLASH, the only way you can outsource your marketing is if you outsource your personality, your experience, your talent, and your expertise. Yup, that means you need…