Business Success
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…
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…
3 Real Reasons Your Business Is NOT All About Your Clients
I got an email from a client recently, bemoaning a client she had who was arguing over fee and suggesting her agreement wasn’t clear. My client was very upset and worried that her client would speak poorly of her and damage her reputation. She wanted to know what to do. Never Allow Your Clients to…
How to Craft Your Pitch Perfect Elevator Pitch in Just 30 Seconds
If you are like a lot of business owners, you struggle with creating a truly engaging and effective elevator pitch. As you move around the room at a lunch or networking event, do you find yourself tuning out because everyone sounds the same no matter what their business is? Check out the formula I describe…
Small Business Success Tips: 5 Sneaky Ways You Are Sabotaging Your Success
Success requires focus, commitment, resilience, and the willingness to do whatever it takes to move your business forward. It is all too easy to be derailed by temporary obstacles, to spin your wheels in confusion and chaos, and to allow poor choices and bad habits to stall your climb to the top. #1 Sickness You…
The Entrepreneur’s Journey: 7 Surefire Ways to Beat Loneliness in Business
In a recent survey I took, one of the greatest challenges facing solopreneurs and home based CEOs these days is the isolation that can come with working from home and doing a lot of that work by phone or online. While you have the convenience of working in your pajamas, you also face the loneliness…
Time Management Tips: 3 Secrets to Making More in Less Time
Rebecca is a talented interior designer, but lacks the time management tips and savvy to claim the success she deserves. She’s made a beautiful difference to many clients over the last decade. Her frustration is that her business growth seems to have plateaued and she’s stuck spinning her wheels and not moving forward. Her time…