Interior Design Business
Get Inspired At Fall HPMKT
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting There is a quote on the High Point website from a friend and member of my local design community, Jeanne Chung, stating “I can’t afford to just hear about trends. I have to experience them for myself.” It caused me to think about…
Read MoreIncrease Your Profit
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Including visits to fall and spring markets at High Point and/or summer and winter visits to Las Vegas in your annual budget can offer you opportunities to increase your profit, whether you provide purchasing services or just specify product. First, if you offer…
Read MoreMarketing: How to Creatively Distinguish Your Business
By Nick May Owner at Walls By Design and Podcast Host at The Chaise Lounge We live in a challenging time to grow and market a business. Twenty years ago, when I was just starting to build an exterior painting firm, you had to spend thousands on an enormous Yellow Pages advertisement for people to…
Read MoreChaos in Your Business Starts and Stops With You
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Are you working in the midst of chaos? ! If you want to grow your business, “have a life”, and truly be viewed as a professional, you need to address and eliminate the chaos. There could be a variety of reasons for the…
Read MoreComplimentary Clarity Coaching
Free 30-minute session with Gail Doby Coaching and Consulting can help get your business unstuck Is your business lacking momentum? Are you frustrated with making plans that just don’t seem to go anywhere? Do you find yourself envying your competition and wondering why more projects or better projects aren’t coming your way? Sometimes, all you…
Read MoreGet To The Point
Information and idea central for all things High Point Market Plug into all things Market at The Point. To find any showroom or event, just ask one of our on-site advisors. Join a roundtable discussion to gain insider tips from industry leaders. Connect with some of the biggest names in home fashion at our fun,…
Read MoreSanely Grow Your Design Business
Tips to improve your profitability from business transformation consultant Gail Doby Interior designers, do you often feel that your business is spinning out of control? Do you want to increase sales but are struggling to manage your current projects? Do you dream of becoming a design star but don’t know how? If any of this…
Read MoreEliminate Email Overload, Use Slack Instead
Even if you use tags, spam filters, sub folders, and other tactics to help sort through the torrent of emails that passes into your Inbox each day, you still have to spend a good deal of time trying to identify the ones you most need to respond to from the ones you can set aside…
Read MoreShould You Wait For A Magazine Before Publishing Your Project On Your Website?
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting & Design Success University Photo Credit: DesiLu Photography When you have a wonderful project most designers want to see it published. Before you do anything with those photos ask yourself a few key questions because the bottom line is that once you post…
Read MoreHow to Get Published
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting & Design Success University Photo Credit: Katie Klein Media is changing and a number of traditional print magazines have closed or consolidated, while others have reduced the page count of projects. These changes mean designers are competing for fewer pages, so it is…
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