Posts Tagged ‘interior design’
2018 Fall HPMKT Recap
Fall High Point Market is officially in the books! And it was definitely one to remember with all of the weather that the residents of North Carolina endured. Luckily we missed the tornado in High Point by an hour or so and had no problems with electricity at our rental house. Gail and I always…
Read MoreFocused 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…
Read MoreCreating Your Company Culture
Photo Credit: @bakerbroductions Your company culture includes a number of elements and defines the personality of your company. It includes your company’s mission, values and ethics as well as describing the environment in which your employees work and your expectations of them. Your company culture can be effective in attracting and retaining employees that are…
Read MoreCreate a Values-Driven Business
By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching Consulting and Design Success University Photo Credit-DesiLu Photography We hear a lot these days about socially responsible business. People want to work for, do business with, and support companies that set a larger goal for themselves than just focusing on the bottom line. If…
Read MoreFOMO Is Costing You Money
By Gail Doby, ASID CVO & Co-Founder, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting & Design Success University If you’re an iPhone user, you may have noticed something new that showed up on your phone with the latest iOS version 12.0. It’s called Screen Time. When active (the default setting), it keeps a daily and weekly record…
Read MoreFall 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…
Read MoreWhen Should You Hire A PR Company?
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Photo Credit-@bakerbroductions Interior designers, because of the creative nature of their business, often tend to feel they are, or have to be, experts in every creative area – graphic design, website design, and even PR. When you are just launching your business, you…
Read MoreWhy YOU Should Be Showing Up at Market
Last month, I wrote about building a personal brand and the benefits that can follow. Now we’ll go a step further to explain why showing up at market is crucial to becoming recognizable, connecting with movers and shakers, and creating opportunities. Everyone loves market. Whether you’re at High Point, Las Vegas, or BDNY, the food,…
Read MoreIt’s A Wrap On “Sheer Genius” | Genius Exchange 2018
We confess… Genius Exchange was more like an Interior Design Summit with lots of speakers and break-outs, but we had the room, the stage and the opportunity to give The Ritz-Carlton, Denver a last hurrah and maximize this event. Next year, we’ll be taking the Genius Exchange on the road. We’ll also return to our…
Read MoreFreedom of Time
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting How many of us have wished for more time at one point or another – or possibly every day! During this month, as we celebrate American’s freedom with Independence Day in the United States, it’s a wonderful time to think about another kind…
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