Members of a designers' networking group in Atlanta regularly do what few design professionals elsewhere in the country ever do. Share. Sure, other designers talk and mingle and socialize. But they don't support and exchange business-building ideas with one another as do members of the Atlanta
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"Interior designers have a way of screwing things up." It was a local builder talking, at a party I attended recently. For 25 minutes I listened to him bellyache about how designers foil his efforts, spoil his work and "ruin the integrity" of the new homes he builds here in Colorado. He added t
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I met a designer and landscaper once who wrote letters of introduction for each other. The landscaper's letter to his clients began: "I'm writing to introduce you to the most talented interior designer I know, and to recommend that you contact her the next time you or someone you know needs the ser
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So, you're a designer and you want to hook up with builders. Good idea. Problem is, so does every other designer within a 500 mile radius. What to do? Well, you can do what those others do. You can hang out at local HBA meetings, and pass out business cards. Or, you can get a list of local builders,
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