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This is one of the most challenging times I’ve ever seen in our industry, and I’ve been around it for 32 years.  Many designers are closing their doors and downsizing…some after 20 or 30 years of business.
We know this first hand.  When we send emails, the number of bounces is increasing and we don’t want you to be one of [...]

Adweek just published a post about Nielsen Global’s Online Consumer Survey.  They surveyed 25,000 Internet consumers from 50 countries, so the statistics are extremely relevant and important for you to understand for your own business.
Here’s the degree of trust that consumers have in the following forms of advertising (April 2009):

90%  Recommendations from people they know
70% Consumer opinions posted online
70%  Brand [...]

One of the greatest challenges in any business is getting clients. You probably categorize this as selling, and you are right.
Are you one of the people that thinks being a salesperson is a negative thing? Most of us that are interior designers don’t like to think of ourselves as sales people, and we shouldn’t. We are really high-level consultants that [...]

Are you tired of hearing about the doom and gloom?  I know Erin and I are!
That’s why we decided to ask our good friend, Barbara Barton, CMKBD & Certified Neuro Linguistic Programming Coach, to share a very special session with you on July 30th at 1 pm Eastern.  Barbara’s Monthly Mentor call is, “Taming Your Emotional Roller Coaster.” This is [...]

Erin was “twittering” one day and found Leslie Carothers tweets. She said I should check her out, and the next thing you know, we started talking on the phone. That led to us asking Leslie to speak at our first Green Design Summit.
She’s an experienced interior designer, that has found her true passion in social media. She is also passionate [...]