Loving Your Clients

We all have our favorite clients. They are the ones who truly value our services, heap tons of praise on our designs, and freely refer their friends and associates to us. Others we just click with personally and enjoy being in their company. Some eventually may become good friends. It’s easy to love those clients.…

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Build Your Team’s Skills

By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Photo Credit-@bakerbroductions Would you like to have more time to devote to areas of your business you feel need shoring up or are being neglected? Do you wish you could offload some of the routine tasks that keep you from doing work…

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Starting Your Year Off Right

By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Photo Credit-@bakerbroductions Who’s that making a list and checking it twice? No, not Santa Claus. It’s a well-organized, successful businessperson putting things in order at the start of a new year. Just like a project punch list, an annual checklist of key…

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Plan for Cuts in 2019

Taking a read on what’s in store for interior design services in 2019, we are not getting any clear signals. Some, but not all, designers have experienced a tapering off in business over the past several months. Forecasts for the housing and remodeling markets suggest that trend likely will continue in the coming year. Which…

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Gratitude for Your Gifts

This Thanksgiving, as you gather with family and friends to acknowledge the many blessings and joys you have in your life, don’t forget to give thanks for your gifts. I am thinking especially about your talents, your aesthetic sensibility, and your creativity. They are the gifts that make us interior designers unique. I know you…

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Focused on the Top Line Instead of the Bottom Line?

By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting and Design Success University How do you measure your business’s success? If you follow the financial news, you might assume what matters most are your revenues, the amount of money flowing into your bank account. That’s the top line on your profit…

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Fall Forward Quickly

By Gail Doby, ASID CVO & Co-Founder, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting & Design Success University Photo Credit-@bakerbroductions Any entrepreneur or small business owner will tell you, the road to success is marked with a thousand stumbles. We make mistakes. Hopefully, we learn from them. And we move on. Those who are really successful have…

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Take More Vacations

By Gail Doby, ASID CVO & Co-Founder, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting & Design Success University We designers invest a lot in our businesses – a lot of our time and a lot of ourselves. Sometimes we forget that both time and our energies are limited. Driving away day after day at your business may…

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Are You Marketing 10 Hours a Week?

Whenever designers tell me they are not satisfied with the amount of work they are getting or with how much they are earning, my first question is, “How much marketing are you doing?” Why? Because I know from years of counseling and conducting surveys that most designers do shockingly little marketing. And yet they wonder…

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How to Promote Your Small Business For Free

As any small business owner knows it’s not always about how great your product is, it’s about how many people know your business exists. So how can any small business afford to promote itself? Maybe with one of these same cost-free ways that many other small businesses have in the past. Partner up Depending on…

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