Posts Tagged ‘business of interior design’
Setting Boundaries for Clients
You owe it to your clients to do your very best for them. You owe it to them to listen and be respectful of their needs and wishes. You don’t, however, owe them every minute of your day. For the sake of your productivity and sanity, it’s important to be clear with clients about how…
Read MoreTaking a Break Is Good For Your Psyche
By Drue Lawlor, FASID,
We’ve encouraged you to calendar your week and we’ve talked about the value of “time chunking”, but are you including “recharge” breaks on your calendar? Designers are often so focused on fitting as much as possible into their days so that taking a break –often seems crazy and impossible. Yet plenty of studies have proven the value of including short breaks in your day as well as longer breaks that might even include a short out of town trip.
Trend Poll by Karen B Wolf
By Karen B Wolf Karen B Wolf Interiors Fellow designers, this is FUN. Test your consumer trends design IQ and see if your answers line up to our poll results. You might just be surprised. Which of these Home Design Trends are Here to Stay and Which will look so 2020 Ten Years from Now?…
Read MoreDo You Feel Independent or Shackled to Your Business?
By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Running a small business can consume all your time if you let it. While hard work and commitment are critical to success, you can reach a point where you come to resent devoting so much of yourself to your job at the…
Read MoreDo You Struggle With Numbers?
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching at Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting “Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” -Benjamin Franklin Talk about these topics at GE: Even if you’re creative, you need to understand them, negotiating pricing with manufacturers at market, expand or stay lean. Are you overwhelmed…
Read MoreDo You Have A Rock Star Team?
By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Photo Credit-@bakerbroduction Running an interior design firm is a team effort. No matter how talented or driven each of us may be, at the of the day, the success and growth of our firms depends on how well we build and manage…
Read MoreHave You Seen the Mansions in Newport, Rhode Island?
Step back into the Gilded Age and relive a time when design was all about opulence and ostentation. Nestled along Newport, Rhode Island’s scenic coast are some the nation’s most magnificent mansions, built for the country’s nouveau ultra-rich around the turn of the 20th century. Leading architects such as Richard Morris Hunt and landscape architects…
Read MoreWhat Is Masterminding?
Photo Credit: Masterminding is truly about forming a team to help each other succeed. The key to successful masterminding is to surround yourself with the right people who can add value to you and your business as well as you adding value to theirs. That’s why it is a team – you are each a…
Read MoreBuild Your Business by Hiring Strategically
By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Photo Credit: Stark Photography Less than ten years ago, Garrison Hullinger was a successful project manager with Old Navy when he suffered a work-related brain injury that required him to relearn how to walk, read and write. During his recovery, on the…
Read MoreShould TV be in Your Marketing Mix?
When George to the Rescue contacted me to do a segment for their TV show I was very flattered and excited but had some immediate reservations. Was the show in line with my target audience? (No) Will it bring me clients? (Probably not) How much time will it take from existing clients? (Probably too much)…
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