Build your business around YOU first

I hear a lot of excuses and reasons why people can’t start or grow their businesses. “I’ll do it when my kids start school”, “I’ll do it when COVID is over and I don’t have to home school”, “I’ll wait until I have a bit more time”.

The problem with these sorts of excuses is they hold you back from ever achieving anything. Instead of excuses for why you CAN’T do something what you should be doing is designing a life on purpose – so you fit what you want to achieve in terms of goals, dreams, aspirations around what you CAN achieve in your life.

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How to price your interior design services

One of the questions I get asked the most is about how to price interior design services.

The overarching answer is that pricing creative services is really more an art than a science but in this video I give you a formula (that’s easy to use I promise – no tricky maths required!) for how to think about pricing your services so you can base it in some kind of foundation rather than pluck a number out of thin air and hope you make some money (which is the way I find many designers price their work).

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Instagram Tips Week: Are you using Instagram strategically or just wasting your time?

In today’s Instagram tips week video I want to make sure that you are regularly reviewing your insights tab on Instagram. This is massively important if you are going to be using Instagram as a strategic business tool rather than just as a bit of a time waster. So I talk you through the key metrics I review on a regular basis and show you how to find out information about your Instagram community via the insights area.

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Instagram Tips Week: 4 mistakes I see designers make on Instagram

In today’s Instagram tips week video I am sharing four of the biggest mistakes I see interior designers make on Instagram. These mistakes largely stem from the fact that many designers and new business owners forget that they should be using Instagram as a strategic business tool NOT as a place to just talk about themselves and show off what they know or like. So, make sure you take a look at today’s video and if you’re making any of these mistakes you can then think about how you can fix them up.

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Instagram Tips Week: 3 ways to find more design clients on Instagram

In today’s Instagram tips week video I am sharing three ways to find more design clients and grow your following (and business!) on Instagram. In particular we are talking about hashtags, location tagging and mentions. These are all great ways of helping you get in front of a larger audience and bringing awareness to the content you’re sharing.

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Get more done with habit stacking!

I’m demonstrating today’s concept live in action! And that is how to get more done by habit stacking.

I am always trying to maximise my time by stacking tasks and doing more than one thing at a time – especially when it comes to things like going for walks, folding washing, making school lunches etc. In this video I’m sharing the two steps to being a great habit stacker!

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Manage your kids' daily activities

When you're running a business anything that saves you time in your personal, family OR business life is going to give you back time to put towards the stuff you love to do in your business. So with that in mind I'm sharing the calendar that I put together for my boys to help organise our weeks and for them to help pack their school bags with the right things each morning.

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Ideas for what to post on Instagram

If you’re working as a designer there’s about a 99% chance that your ideal client is hanging out on the Instagram platform. Investing time into your Instagram means that you’ll have a steady stream of new leads coming in to your business that you can then nurture and hopefully eventually turn in to paying clients.

In this video I’m sharing some ideas today on how to do all the thinking about what you will post in one block of time – so that your daily post creation becomes a breeze!

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