Monthly Archive for: ‘October, 2008’

Here is a recent post on Marketing Sherpa about Twitter. Just in case you aren’t following me on Twitter, please go to http://www.Twitter.com/gail.doby.
How to Target Twitter: 8 Ways to Build a New Audience in this Niche Community
SUMMARY: Publishers looking to social networks to connect with new audiences are finding Twitter, the short-form content [...]

My mother was a rebel from the time she was born in the Midwest in 1913. She grew up in Grinnell, Iowa and Chicago, and during the Depression, she was paid to go to nursing school.
To say my mother was a character would be an understatement. She was brilliant and funny and she intimidated my friends…especially my [...]

Hello Everyone! I have to apologize that I haven’t written in a few weeks. We have been incredibly busy preparing for the Interior Design Summit, I took my NCIDQ and became a new mother to an 8 week old Basset Hound puppy. So needless to say, my plate has been full!
As I mentioned, we have been [...]

I am perplexed! Why is it that only 25% of all interior designers have a website?
One of the speakers at our upcoming Interior Design Summit, David Bassett-Parkins, founder and CEO of Ava Living and I talked last week about the industry and how it is changing radically with social networking (conversing with other like-minded [...]

Guest Blogger Stephen James Smith ASID, FRSA
Co-owner and Managing Director of Deborah James Coastal Kitchens, LLC
I’m almost afraid to start with, “in the current economic climate…”
However, in the current economic climate all businesses are faced with an enormous challenge: “How to remain profitable so that we can make it through. Unless we retain our [...]

Today’s blog post is about survival of the fittest.
This economy does not leave room for you to succeed in interior design unless you are a warrior. If you are doing things the same way you were even 90 days ago it is time to do some careful thinking.
If you want to keep your business operating, and interior [...]