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How to Create Add-On Sales on Every Interior Project

Did you know that you can significantly increase your revenue as an interior designer when you create add-on sales on every project? I see so many beautiful projects that missed thousands of dollars in additional revenue by failing to do add-on sales. (I know because the designers I’m looking at are my coaching clients who…

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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…

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Purposeful Priorities Learned from Loss

Do you ever find that you lose track of your most purposeful priorities in the crush of day to day operations? As I headed up to Highlands over Labor Day I was thinking of one of my neighbors who had just lost one of their pets. They have a pair of Wheaton terriers, Zooey and…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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3 Fast Fixes to Turn Your Fear Into Fuel and Move Your Business Forward

Fear is the only thing that is stopping you from getting exactly what you want and fear is something that is created inside of you. Whether you grapple with fear of failure or fear of success (much more common), fear of being poor or fear of being rich, fear of not having enough clients or…

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How to Be Happy in Business (and How It Delivers Success)

A friend of mine, Tamara is one of those truly rare individuals who has sorted out how to create a life and make a living out of things that make her happy. In fact, when something stops being fun and stops making her happy, she stops doing it and moves on to something else. She…

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5 Questions to Uncover Your “Boutique” Brand Advantage: The Keys to a Business You Love

I’m about to turn everything you know about business upside down. You’ve been taught that to make more, you’ve got to serve more clients, you have to climb on an endless treadmill of more, more, more. Stop. The marketing strategy I’m sharing here is the key to making more money with fewer better clients in…

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