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Biweekly business tips for residential interior designers who want better-fit clients, smoother projects, and more business strategy with less business stress. 💛
Hi interior designers and happy home pros! I don’t normally email on Wednesdays, but... I have something to share! I’m officially opening Happy Starts at Home to article submissions. 🎉 Do you like to write? Do you have practical expertise, experience, or a perspective homeowners could benefit from? If so, keep reading... (If not, share this with your writing friends! 🤗 ) It's time for the next chapter of Happy Starts at Home: transforming it from my former interior design business site into a...
Happy Thursday, interior designers and small business owners! First, a special welcome to the 16 (!!) new readers who joined us yesterday. 😀 You’ve landed right in the middle of a conversation about figuring out what kind of design business you actually want to run. Read about how my design-only firm reached $425K in revenue without relying on procurement. Catch up here → On Tuesday, I asked y'all whether you would have wanted my design-only, modest-budget, one-room-at-a-time clients, and a...
Happy Tuesday, interior designers and small business owners! Here's a fun fact: A lot of interior designers would not have wanted my clients' projects. The question is... Would you? 👀 Their homes were usually under 3,000 square feet. Budgets ranged from about $60K for a hall bath remodel to $500K for a home addition. They didn’t want to pay us to manage construction. They didn’t want to pay furniture markups. Nearly all of them lived within about nine miles of my Seattle office. I freaking...