Success Habits
Interior Designer Goals: 5 Mistakes You’re Making
When it comes to interior designer goals it’s not like any other profession. We are creatives and as such we tend to lose focus quickly, chase more bright shiny opportunities than other professionals, and unwittingly set ourselves up for disappointment because we take on too much. Sound familiar? To get your year off on the…
Time Management for Interior Designers: Get More Done
Time management for interior designers can be distilled to a single simple 3-step practice that keeps you on track every day and having a wildly productive week, every week. It isn’t complicated, it is a new habit that you’ll want to implement. The tricky bit about habits is that they take 21 days to form,…
Interior Designer Coaching: Making Your Passion Profitable
When I met Justin a few years ago, he was selling supplemental insurance to the education industry (AFLAC for teachers, only he wasn’t with AFLAC.) We had a fascinating conversation around his passion of travel. At just 25 years of age, he’d already been to 75 countries (not a typo.) I urged him in my…
5 Lame Excuses Stopping Interior Design Success
This is going to sound harsh. You’ve been lying to yourself. It’s ugly and true. Here are five lame excuses stopping interior design success for you. Actually, there are probably a lot more excuses, I’m just going to dish up the really obvious ones that I hear from my design coaching clients regularly. (At least…
Interior Designer Follow Up, Find Your Fortune
In order to juggle multiple projects effectively, I’ve always had a specific interior designer follow up process. It’s the same simple process that I teach to the designers that I coach. It not only awes and amazes your clients but can also be a great way to get add on sales. Each week, either on…
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…
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…
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…