Success Tips
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…
Lead Generation: 5 Hurdles to Getting Hired by Your Ideal Client
Business is about creating an indelible sensory connection with your exclusive clients. They need to be able to see you, hear you, feel you, taste you, and smell you above and beyond the many competitors who do something like what you do, but not exactly what you do (no one can be an exact copy.)…
How to Get Everything You Want Faster Than You Thought Possible, Really!
Do you know that every house I’ve ever wanted, and I’ve owned four, I’ve gotten because I believed they were mine before they actually were. I know that may sound totally crazy, and it’s entirely true. In each case, I visualized how I would live in the house, what it would be like to entertain…
Branding Mistakes: 3 Ways You May Be Wasting Money on Your Brand
Are you on a shoestring budget for your business branding? Have you been trying to do a lot of it yourself and gotten stuck wondering what you have to have and what isn’t really necessary? Here is a quick primer on three branding and business elements you can let go of and still succeed wildly.…
7 Smart Steps to Make This Your Best Year Ever
Every year at this time, everyone is talking about resolutions and goal making. While those two activities may have merit, by themselves they are largely ineffective and a waste of your time, energy and focus. Instead by following the surefire, smart (and simple) steps here you are guaranteeing the realization of step one in the…
How to Use The 7 Laws of CLIENT Attraction: Marketing Made Easy
There are 7 Laws of Client Attraction that when you adhere to them and play by them, you will find your business growing by leaps and bounds. On the other hand when you ignore any given one of them, your business will be diminished, your profits less and your passion for your business challenged. Use…
7 Reasons I Suck at Marketing
As I deleted another day of over 600 junk mails from my junk filter, wrapped up skimming through 3K unread deletes in case I missed anything critical (is anything critical anymore?), it struck me that I suck at marketing. Oh sure, I’ve read about it, learned about it at live events and virtual classrooms, been…
10 Ways to Find Success by Phone: Are you breaking these rules?
While I know that most of our communication these days seems to be by email and text, I’ve noticed that phone manners have really gone downhill. Perhaps it is because of a lack of use and there are younger people coming into telemarketing and the workplace in general and they didn’t grow up with a…
Marketing Failure: Are you UNSELLING yourself?
I had a very interesting experience recently. I was looking for a graphic designer to help me with a new website. The gal I wanted to work with was unavailable and she referred me to three other providers. I checked each one’s website and decided to talk with one specifically. I liked his portfolio and…