Take a look at how I lay out an interior design concept in SketchUp and Layout.
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When should you start outsourcing and how do you even get started? This is a question lots of people ask me - so today I am sharing some tips for how to get started with delegating and outsourcing. I also have a completely free checklist you can use to work out what you could be outsourcing!
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Here's a different way to think about your initial sales calls with potential interior design clients….
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Far too many designers use their content to just talk about themselves...But nobody really cares about any of that! They aren’t that interested in you - they want solutions to their problems. And creating high quality content that helps with that is one of the best marketing and lead generation strategies you can be doing. Here are six reasons why it’s so important for your business...
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If you want more interior design clients you need to be attacking the problem from multiple angles and avoid only having one source of leads. You also need to be doing some form of lead generation every single day (even when you’re busy delivering client work). Here are five proven strategies to help you get more design clients…
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Today I’m sharing a full day in the life of running my 7-figure online business…
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Most design schools do a terrible job of equipping students with the skills they are really going to need when they get out in to the 'real world'. Very little about running a successful design business is to do with being a talented designer and much more is about other business and communication skills you will need. Here are the 12 skills you will need to become a successful interior designer.
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Here is my monthly business reset and review for February 2022. I share my revenue, wins and learnings from last month and plan for the month ahead.
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New Years Eve of 2019 was the last night I drank alcohol. This started off as an experiment to take 2020 off drinking, but I am now at the end of February 2022, more than two years later and I doubt I will now ever drink again. Here’s what I have learned from not drinking….
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In this post I want to talk a bit about how to make more money in your creative business by introducing multiple streams of revenue. This is something that I have done in my own business over the past few years with the introduction of my online courses and it's been a game changer for me. I can tell you there is nothing like waking up in the morning to find you’ve sold thousands of dollars of online courses while you were sleeping…
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Today I'm sharing three apps I use to manage my Instagram account. If you're having issues with growing your Instagram account it's likely related to lack of consistency, lack of visability or creation of the wrong kind of content. These three apps will help you with all of those problems.
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In this post I’m sharing the floor plan and a bit of an update on our home renovation project in Sydney’s North Shore.
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My passion for constant learning and growing is one of my superpowers and definitely a huge part of my success. There's so much research that demonstrates the importance of lifelong learning being a key part of a successful person's toolkit. And in this post I share three practical ideas for you that will help you develop the habit of lifelong learning.
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Don’t create a business around something you 'think' you are good at or something you ‘think’ people need. Make sure you have validated your business idea in the market before you spend time or money creating it. In this post I share some ideas for how to do that and explain how I do this myself using my pre-sell strategy.
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There are 5 things I do in business now that I didn't do when I was first starting out. In this post I share what they are so you can learn from my mistakes and get started with these earlier than I did!
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Sometimes we set goals that are so ambitious we then start to wonder how we will ever achieve them and doubt starts to creep in about whether or not we are even capable. We think “who am I to be trying to do this?” Self doubt like this often stems from being scared to put yourself out there. But to make progress in life we have to do it anyway - it’s a muscle we need to build.
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Today I'm giving you 4 reasons why I think it's essential to pass on your trade discount to clients. There's a tradition within the interior design community that in order to make money you have to take a cut of the discounts you get from trades. But I built a very successful design business by passing my discounts on in full and it was one of the secrets to why I managed to book so many clients. I'll share what I mean in this video!
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I'm sharing three strategies that will help you grow your design business. These are things that many designers put off (due to being scared) or don't do consistently (because they are difficult) but I want to try and convince you that if you start to do these things then really good things will come from it and your life and business will change dramatically.
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Having been involved in the renovation and remodel of hundreds of bathrooms over the past 10 years I’ve seen a lot of things that work well and many things that don’t. Bathrooms are one of the most expensive spaces in the home and there are so many decisions that need to be made along the way. So today I’m sharing a round up of some of my top tips for your next bathroom renovation or remodel project.
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The fact is that if you run a client service based business you will, at some point, meet a difficult client. But there are strategies you can use to manage those clients better so they don't end up driving you crazy! :) And in this video I’m sharing some ideas for how you can deal with difficult design clients.
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