Why your design business might need more than one tagline 🤓


Happy Tuesday, Designers & Savvy Service Providers!

Let’s talk taglines.

A few simple words, meant to capture the heart of your brand.

They can take ages to find and refine, and once you finally discover language that explains what makes your business different, it's tempting to treat those words like they've been carved into a stone tablet.

This is the tagline. We shall use it forever. Nobody touch anything.

But clear messaging does not mean repeating the exact same sentence to every audience. It means knowing the central idea behind your business well enough to express it in ways different people immediately understand.

Let me give you an example.

Josepha Rood of Blue Streak Interior Design helps her clients make bolder design choices. During Nail Your Niche, she found a great tagline that leaves each client in control of what “bold” might mean to them:

Find Your Bold.

Josepha helps homeowners define their version of bold, then balance distinctive ideas with practical, everyday living. Groovy! 🕺

But what about the contractors?

While her mission is to help homeowners make bolder choices, Josepha knows contractor referrals are one of her most reliable sources of work. And frankly, most contractors don't care whether your tile is delightfully bold or disappointingly beige. They need to know that selections will be clarified, decisions will be documented, and the remodel will keep moving.

Josepha needed language that stayed true to Find Your Bold, attracted the right kinds of projects, and gave contractors a memorable reason to refer her over other options.

So the message became:

Design support that keeps remodels moving.
Bold decisions. Buildable designs.

Same Josepha. Same point of view. Different doorway into the business.

The real goal of nailing your niche is not to find one perfect sentence you are forbidden to change.

It is to become clear enough about your business that you can explain its value to the person standing in front of you—no matter who they are.

You've got this.

And if you need help, you know where to find me. 💛 Rebecca


Thinking about joining Nail Your Niche?

Josepha told me that the differentiators she developed in Nail Your Niche—her geography, personality, luxury level, service structure, and aesthetic point of view—have become anchors she can return to whenever her thoughts start swirling.

And the one-page flyer she created during the program?

It helped her land her biggest client to date.

Wahoo! 🙌


Enrollment is open for Nail Your Niche. 💪

The next two-week class begins September 14. The earlier you enroll, the more support you receive: place your deposit, and we’ll schedule your private marketing audit so you can begin clarifying your message right away.


Well, hello there — have we met?

I’m Rebecca West. I help residential interior designers feel seriously confident about their marketing, sales, and client onboarding.

Everything I teach comes from running my firm, Seriously Happy Homes, for 17 years. Between 2007 and 2023, my team and I helped over 2,000 clients transform their small, tired houses into happy homes. 💛 Our work, and my book Happy Starts at Home, was featured on TV’s New Day, in The Wall Street Journal, Live Happy Magazine, Success Magazine, & beyond!

Then, in 2023, I closed my design studio and moved to Paris, and, a couple of years later, to the south of France. ( 🤩 !! )

As a coach, consultant, and gal-who's-been-there, I'm here to help the next generation of creative, hardworking, detail-oriented interior designers get found, get great clients, and get paid like a pro!

Let’s make it happen for you!

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