Is the business of interior design on the "endangered species" list?
Gail Doby will address that question in a complimentary webinar this Saturday.
"Is Interior Design a Dying Profession? 3 Fatal Business Mistakes You Could Be Making, and How to Prevent Them"is the name of the webinar schedule
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Santa isn’t the only one who should be making a list and checking it twice this holiday season.
You should be, too.
This is a good time to focus on all those individuals who can help you generate revenue for your interior design business in 2013. And then plan how and when you’re going to
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Are you running your interior design business -- or is it running you?
That's an intriguing and important question in these challenging times, and it's a question that Julia Molloy can help you resolve.
Julia, the president of Molloy Management Group, is one of our industry's leading gurus and
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How to recharge your business by rebranding yourself is the theme of a new workshop I'm presenting at the Business of Design (BoD) Conference in September in Los Angeles.
And you can attend the $395 "Ready for Relaunch!" workshop for FREE if you're one of the first five people this week to re
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A high end interior designer I work with in Dubai has no "style."
And the lavish homes and villas and yachts and luxury hotels he designs have no common look. Or feel. Or theme.
He plans it that way.
When clients fork over fat fees to design professionals, he says, they're not p
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Sarah Richardson keeps it simple.
That was my takeaway from her presentation at a recent design industry conference at which I also spoke.
Sarah,the host and co-producer of "Sarah's House" and "Design Inc" on HGTV, offered some insights on her philosophy about interior design, and life.
Here ar
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Coming up in September is a conference that every serious interior designer should at least consider, but you'll have to do so quickly if you want to ensure a place and save hundreds of dollars.
David Shepherd's 8th Annual Business of Design Conference will be held September 1-2, 2011 in New York C
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Interior designers will discover cutting-edge profit & client attraction strategies during Design Success University’s third annual birthday celebration teleseminar/webcast interviews on March 24, 2011 from Noon to 6 pm Eastern.
Gail Doby, ASID and Erin Weir, Co-Founders of DSU emcee the fr
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What’s the best way to charge for your design services?
How can you set and get higher fees in this challenging economy?
What do you say when clients say you’re too expensive?
You’ll get answers to those and other vital questions in a tele-panel scheduled for next Tuesday, Dec. 7.
The prog
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How should design professionals charge for their services?
I say: by the hour.
Others say: by the project.
Others say: both ways. Still others say: neither way.
What do you say?
How to bill for your design services is, and always has been a complicated and controversial question.
I'll be one o
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