Getting More Business
45 Ways to Stop Doing Too Much in Design
In the fast-paced world of interior design, it’s easy to fall into the trap of constant doing—always working, always striving, and always feeling overwhelmed. But what if the key to greater success and fulfillment lies in doing less and being more? Here are 45 ways to step back from the hustle, embrace a state of…
Turn Dreams into Reality with Specific Goals
Vision boards have long been a popular tool for setting and visualizing goals, but many of them fall short because they’re too vague. Learn why traditional vision boards aren’t working and how to transform them into powerful tools for achieving your interior design goals. By turning your vision board into a celebration board with specific,…
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…
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… Growing Your Interior Design Business With Referrals: What Not to…
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.…
Goal Setting for Interior Designers in 7 Steps
It’s almost time for goal setting for the new year! The final quarter of the year has launched. What were the goals you set back in January? Are you on track? Did you back your goals up with quarterly plans, monthly action, weekly achievements, and daily tasks? It’s easy to dream big once a year…
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…
3 Ways You’re Hiding in Your Business
When I spoke with Andrea and Jonathan, they said they’d launched their design practice almost 8 months ago. They were struggling to meet clients and getting frustrated. I took a look at their marketing and saw only time online on Instagram. I asked Jonathan about it and he said that they spent a lot of…
What to Do When Your Social Media Isn’t Working…
Social media is not your salvation, in fact when social media isn’t working it can trap your business in a downward spiral. Are you one of those interior designers that keeps doing what you’ve always done even when it isn’t working? That’s the very definition of insanity according to Einstein. Now, I’m not saying stop…