Your About page should do more than tell your story 🤓


Happy Thursday interior designers and small business owners!

A quick one today. 🙂

If your About page mostly explains where you came from, what you’ve done, and how you became a designer, it may be leaving some of your best marketing on the table.

When I recently helped a student in my Nail Your Niche class rewrite hers, she didn't need to make her story more impressive.

She just needed help connecting the dots.

Her previous career, childhood home, project experience, and design instincts were already there. We just needed to show prospective clients why those things make her especially good at the work she does now.

I wrote a blog about how we strengthened her story and leveraged her decades of experience, and included a simple test you can try on your own About page.

You can read it here! 👉 What Should Be on a Designer’s About Page?

The point:

Your story matters.

But your client should not have to figure out why. 😉

Wishing you a Seriously Happy Thursday!

💛 Rebecca


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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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