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Blogging Basics for Interior Designers
Blog Hosting Platforms
Choosing what tool to use for blogging can be a bit overwhelming. There are several options out there, but I’m going to focus on what’s easy and affordable. If you have something that works for you there’s really no need to switch, unless you find yourself frustrated with features, complexity or expansion [...]
Working In The Clouds For Interior Designers
You probably already work in the cloud and not even realize it. If you use Facebook or Twitter, your data is hosted outside of your computer and accessible from any device with an internet connection. Your photos, posts and links are all stored on remote computers.
There are other things that you can do besides using [...]
How You Can Create Client Evangelists With Your Brand-Defining Fees & Services…& Thrive During Turbulent Times
What were your biggest AHAs or insights from the “How You Can Create Client Evangelists With Your Brand-Defining Fees & Services…& Thrive During Turbulent Times?”
We’ll select the best AHA to win a scholarship to our upcoming Value Based Fee System series starting this month. Your comment must be posted by midnight Eastern, Sunday, June 27th, [...]
Interior Design Fee & Salary Survey
Last year, we surveyed interior designers about how they charged and how much they earned. Thousands of designers downloaded this eBook, and learned helpful information about the state of the industry, and how the economy affected their peers.
We’re revising it, and we need your help. The deadline for participating is June 30th, 2010 at midnight [...]
Virtual Marketing Platform Questions?
Thank you for attending the webinar. If you have questions we were unable to answer during the complimentary one hour session, please post them here. We will answer them all!
Gail Doby, ASID & Robin Heppell
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Dan L. Question:
Thank you for allowing me to submit a few questions related to virtual business platforms. There are as follows:
Many [...]
June 10, 2010 | Gail Doby | Continued
Interior Designers – Ten Easy Steps To Simplify Your Life
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
Isn’t life getting faster and more complicated? I know it is for me, and I’m on a mission to simplify.
It takes work to simplify our lives and our businesses, so where do we start?
Decide to simplify your life
Identify the area of your life that is causing the [...]
Interior Design Marketing Hub
Marketing your interior design business requires new thinking today. If you’ve been relying on referrals for your business, you might be missing great prospects.
Your marketing strategy requires a new approach that includes online strategies.
Where do you start?
If you have a static website, I am not suggesting that you get rid of it, but your new [...]
Cloud Computing for Interior Designers
Republished from Minutes Matter Blog by Debbie Green…
Simple Technology
There’s no need to install any software on your own computer. All the software is installed on a remote machine somewhere on the Internet and you use it. There’s no need to install hardware or software. This means that you don’t have to worry about different versions [...]
Interior Designers Question Themselves
Interior designer’s work is extremely challenging and time consuming, so it’s hard to fit in time to think about our businesses.
If you haven’t read the book series Emyths by Michael Gerber, it’s worth your time. The Emyth is the entrepreneur’s myth. Basically, Gerber talks about many entrepreneurs having a job vs. a business. He also [...]
Interior Designers Get Clients With Video Marketing
Do you know how many people visit your website every day? If you don’t, then it’s time to install one of the analytics programs such as Google Analytics or Woopra. Just set up an account with them and copy the code to give to your webmaster and you’ll be able to track valuable data about [...]
May 15, 2010 | Gail Doby | Continued
We're offering a complimentary copy of Design Success University's 2009 Interior Designer's Salary & Fee Schedule Survey Results eBook ($79 Value) as our gift to you...all we need is your name and email.
