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Design Business Freedom — 191 episodes

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190: 15 Ways You're Repelling Luxury Design Clients, and How to Fix It

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189: Where Your Interior Design Business is Leaking Profit & How to Fix It

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188: The Interior Design Discovery Consultation That Converts Without Selling

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187: Attracting Poor Fit Interior Design Clients? Here's the Fix

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186: The Hidden Cost of Over Delivering in Interior Design

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185: The New Interior Design Luxury Clients Crave: Your Leadership

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184: How to Sell Interior Design Flat Fees Effectively & Earn More Profit

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183: Proximity to Profits: Why Luxury Interior Design Clients Ignore Hustle

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182: Interior Design Discovery: The Gateway to More Profit on Every Project

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181: The Identity Shift: From Talented Designer to Strategic Firm Owner & CEO

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180: The Business of Interior Design: How Profitable Design Firms Succeed in Uncertain Times

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179: When Interior Design Leads Slow Down, Do This!

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178: Interior Design Business Not Growing? Let's Fix That!

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177: Why You're Losing Money In your Interior Design Practice

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176: Interior Design Team Building for Sustainable Growth

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175: 10 BIGGEST Reasons Designers Attend High Point Market

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174: What to Do When an Interior Design Team Member Quits

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173: Why Successful Interior Designers Choose a Word for the Year

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172: Interior Design Contracts: The Clauses Designers Need to Protect Time, Profit & Sanity

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171: Interior Designer Profit Pipeline Playbook

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170: Interior Design Burnout: When Success Becomes Unsustainable

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169: 12 Beliefs Blocking Your Interior Design Business Growth

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168: The Hidden Costs of Interior Design Success (And How to Take Back Your Profit)

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167: Creative Comeback Rituals to Reignite Your Design Genius

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166: Lead With Imagination: The Interior Designer's Edge in a Data-Driven World

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165: Crafting Your Digital Twin: AI Meets Your Personal Interior Design Brand

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164: The Human Advantage in an AI World for Interior Designers

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163: The 15 Best Uses of AI in Your Interior Design Practice, Right Now

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162: How to Get Your Interior Design Firm Found by AI

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161: Are You Over Automating Your Interior Design Business?

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160: The Interior Design Client Experience Map & Journey

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159: Create Design Demand to Fill Your Profit Pipeline

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158: Design Flat Fees Done Right

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157: Stop Hiding & Get Hired by High-End Design Clients

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156: Breakthrough to 7-Figures in Interior Design

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155: The Designer's Guide for Thriving in Tough Times

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154: #1 Silent Success Killer in Your Interior Design Business

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153: How Much Does an Interior Designer Make?

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152: Interior Design is the Ultimate Deal: No Discount Required

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151: Tame Your Inner Imposter: Escape the Interior Design Comparison Trap

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150: The One Marketing Move for Interior Design Clients, Cash, and Confidence

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149: Skip the Scope Creep: The Design Agreement that Safeguards Your Sanity

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148: Speak The Language of Luxury Design to Attract Top Clients

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147: Charge Your Worth in Interior Design, Without Apology

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146: Your Interior Design Freedom Starts Here

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145: How to Leverage Every Project for Future Profit

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144: Bootstrapping Your Interior Design Business: My Start Up Story

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143: From Employee to Entrepreneur: Launching Your Own Interior Design Firm

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142: Break the Bottleneck in Your Interior Design Business

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141: The Interior Designer's Secret Weapon to Q4 Success

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140: From Poverty to Limitless Profit: Your Interior Designer Mindset

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139: The High Cost of Waiting for Interior Design Success

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138: Delegate to Elevate: How Interior Designers Can Get More Done

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137: When MORE Is NOT the Answer

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136: Attracting High End Interior Design Clients Authentically

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135: Interior Design Marketing that Works in 2025

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134: From Interior Design Inquiry to Raving Fan — Creating a Seamless Client Journey

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133: Smart Pricing Strategies for Interior Designers

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132: 5 Surefire Steps to MORE Design Success

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131: 7 Low Cost, Quick Strategies to Get Design Clients

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130: The Cure for Uncertain Times in Interior Design

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129: Is this the Interior Design Business Solution You Need?

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128: Your Design High Point Market Planner, Inside Now

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127: Boost Profitability Today With Design Sponsorship

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126: How to Grow Your Interior Design Practice with Profit Partners

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125: Upscale Your Interior Design Lifestyle for MORE Ideal Clients

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124: 5 Interior Design Marketing Essentials for More Clients, NOW

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123: 7 Essential Criteria for Selecting Your Next Design Project

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122: Dissolve Your Design Business Fears

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121: 21 Mindset Hacks to Drive Interior Design Success

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120: What's Your Word of the Year?

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119: Overcoming Your Fears for Greater Design Success

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118: Stretch Yourself for Greater Design Success

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117: How Incompletions Hurt Your Design Business

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116: Design Success Without the Sacrifice

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115: Your Secret Weapon for Interior Design Success

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114: Are You Breaking the Law in Your Design Practice?

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113: Are You Avoiding Design Success?

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112: 10 Fast Steps to MORE Design Profit & Clients

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111: 15 MORE Psychological & Emotional Triggers to Sell MORE Design

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110: 15 Triggers to Sell MORE Design

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109: The 70% Solution for Your Designer Perfectionism

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108: 10 Big Little Things Killing Your Design Business

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107: What Are You Tolerating?

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106: Your Perfect Design Agreement

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105: Your Perfect Design Agreement

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104: Your Interior Design Feasibility Package

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103: Profitable Interior Design Discovery

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102: 7 Myths of Client Money Talks

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101: Is Pay to Play Design PR Worth It?

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100: You Are Only as Good as Your Sources

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099: Interior Design Business Recession Remedies

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098: Interior Design as a Second Career: You Have What It Takes

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097: Your True Value as an Interior Designer

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096: 15 MORE Tips for Design Business Efficiency (Part 2)

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095: Saving Time & Money with AI

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094: 10 Tips for an Efficient Design Business, Part 1

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093: 5 Steps to Get Everything You Want

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092: 45 Ways to Stop Doing Too Much

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091: Your Vision Board is Broken: How to Fix It

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090: How to Prioritize Your Profit

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089: How To Prepare For MORE Profit

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088: 5 Ways To Beat Overwhelm

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087: Are You Using the F– Word In Your Business?

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086: Your Clients Aren't Qualified, Take the Lead

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085: Mastering Client Testimonials, Referrals, and Photography to Propel Creative Business Success

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084: Build Your Business Around Travel & Thrive! Success Story with Megan Siason of M Studio Interior Design

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083: Uncover the Home's Interior Potential (Design Discovery 3)

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082: Design Discovery that Guarantees You Land the Project

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081: The Four Steps to Landing Every Project

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080: Money Personalities for More Profit: Bethany Palmer of Interiors by Bethany in Colorado Springs, CO

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079: If She'd Only Met Me 8 Years Ago

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078: Your Library Card to Designer PR Opportunities Without the PR Firm Commitment with guest Molly Schoneveld Founder & CEO of The Storied Group

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077: Getting Published To Get More Ideal Clients

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076: How Being Cheap Is Killing Your Profits

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075: Thriving in Economic Uncertainty: Growth and Stability Tactics for Design Businesses

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074: Think & Get Clients

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073: Are Your Clients Allies or Obstacles?

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072: 4 Must-Haves for Every Client

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071: The Power of One

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070: What To Do If You Get A Bad Review

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069: 7.5 Weekly Questions To Grow You And Your Business

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068: C.R.E.A.T.E. a More Profitable Practice

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067: Guaranteed Growth From Every Project

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066: 7 Steps to Your Best Design Year Ever

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065: The Language of Luxury

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064: What Your Affluent Clients Want

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063: Mastering the Art of Hiring and Onboarding in Creative Businesses

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062: Who Your Brand Needs To Be For Affluent Clients, Part 2

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061: Who Your Brand Needs To Be For Affluent Clients, Part 1

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060: When You Let Love Lead, Business Grows: Meet Jenna Wedemeyer of Schnabel Interiors in Lexington KY

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059: What to Release for More Revenue

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058: Your 4 Ingredients for Higher Profits

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057: Unlocking the Principles of Profit: Harnessing Social Media for Your Creative Business

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056: 7 Unexpected Ways to Amplify Your Client Base in the Creative Industry

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055: From Zero to $1.5M in 18 Months with Lisa Scott

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054: Hybrid Career Designer Deanne Bridenstine on Hiding Your Stuff

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053: Unlocking Business Growth with Effective Design Contracts: An In-depth Guide

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052: What To Do When Inquiries Aren't Coming In

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051: Your Clients Aren't Qualified, Take the Lead

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050: Where Your Focus Goes, Finances Grow

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049: Get Your Team to Get More Done

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048: Your Permission Slip to Play (for More Profit)

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047: The Ultimate Sourcing System for More Profit

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046: When You Break Your Process, You Break Your Profit

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045: 10 Secrets to Get Yourself out of the Comparison Trap

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044: Your Creative Business Wouldn't Exist Without This, Take Care Of It!

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043: How Perfectionism is Killing Your Profits and What to Do About It

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042: 7 Signs You're Stuck in a Business Rut & 7 Ways to Get Out Of It

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041: What Are The Three G's for a Successful Business?

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040: How to Work With Contractors Without Losing Your Mind

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039: 7.5 Weekly Questions To Grow You And Your Business

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038: Building Your Circle of Influence and Income

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037: When Bad Business Habits Happen to Good Designers

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036: 15 Reasons You May Not Be Getting Hired

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035: How to Get More Done in Less Time

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034: The 20 Keys to Effective Client Communication

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033: How To Be Your Design Client's Superhero

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032: Is Your Marketing Working?

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031: How To Reclaim Your Productivity & Profit From Procrastination

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030: Designer Tips to Maximize High Point Market Experience

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029: How to Sell the Design Dream

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028: Are You Forgetting Your Clients?

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027: Overcoming Client Objections for Designers

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026: The Fast Path to Revenue Referrals for Designers

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025: Harness the Power of Instagram to Build Your Brand, Part 2: Hashtags and Who To Follow

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024: Harness the Power of Instagram to Build Your Brand, Part 1

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023: The 12 Social Media Principles of Profit

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022: Multiply Each Project Investment To Maximize Profit

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021: Creating Profitable Client Expectations Every Time

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020: Outsource Online for Ultimate Flexibility

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019: Interviewing Tips and Tricks for Hires that Stick

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018: How To Hire Local Assistants Right the First Time

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017: 7 Unexpected Ways to Get Clients When You're Starting Out or Stuck

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016: When and How to Fire a Client

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015: The Welcome Kit That Wins Clients

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014: The Three G's for a Successful Business

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013: The Right Design Agreement To Protect Your Profit & Peace of Mind

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012: Five Steps to Planning Your Best Design Year Ever!

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011: How To Prepare For Uncertain Economic Times

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010: Never Worry About Money Again When You Learn to Fuel the Soul of Your Business

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009: Taking Care of WHO Matters Most In Your Business

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008: How Being Cheap Is Killing Your Profits

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007: Lead Generation to Fill Your Profit Pipeline

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006: How To Define & Identify Your Ideal Hot & Buying Client

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005: How To Stop Hiding In Your Business and Get Hired

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004: How To Reclaim Hours Each Week

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003: How to Charge Your Value: A Money & Value Episode

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002: You've Got This, I've Got You

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001: The Story You Didn't Know

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