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Interior Design Business — 213 episodes

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Title
1

Stop Matching Internet Pricing

2

Where is the Profit? or How to Have a Paycheck

3

“How to Hire a VA” with Evelyn McDougall and Shanna Rose of 4D Biz

4

Imposter Syndrome with Master Mindset Coach, Valerie Priester

5

The Two Income Stream Business

6

Purchasing Secrets

7

What's Your Money Story

8

What's Your Story

9

Being Paid What You Are Worth is Not About Design Fees or Hourly Billing

10

Getting Out of Your Own Way

11

Why Design Fees Work Best… and Why They Don't

12

Why Hourly Billing Works and Doesn't Work

13

Why Templates Don't Work

14

Do You Have the Right Insurance?

15

Is My Design Fee Enough?

16

How to Manage Clients Who Can't Make a Decision

17

Looking for Clients?

18

Abundance vs. Scarcity

19

Success Story

20

Why Are Boundaries So Hard?

21

The Secret to Asking for Money

22

Leadership Part 2

23

Leadership Part 1

24

5 Tips for Time Management

25

Presenting Your Design

26

How to Up-Level Your Clients

27

Healthy Boundaries Part 2

28

Healthy Boundaries Part 1

29

Boundaries and Financial Risks Part 2

30

Boundaries and Financial Risks

31

Boundaries and Scope Creep

32

Boundaries and Pricing

33

Why Boundaries Matter

34

Starting a Design Business

35

Financially Sustainable Design Business Part 4

36

Financially Sustainable Design Business Part 3

37

Financially Sustainable Design Business Part 2

38

Financially Sustainable Design Business Part 1

39

Design Jobs Gone Wrong

40

Hiring Lessons Learned

41

Fees By the sq ft? Hourly?

42

Absolutely Fabulous Job

43

Asking For Help

44

Bad Contractors

45

Planning Profitable Jobs

46

Protecting Profits

47

Confidence Builder

48

Reality Check-In

49

Ethics and Bad Taste

50

How to Get Clients

51

Revisions and Boundaries

52

Systems = Freedom

53

Boundaries and People Pleasing

54

Boundaries and Overdelivering

55

Boundaries and Your Time

56

Boundaries and Billing Design Services

57

5 Money Leaks

58

Budgets and Clients

59

How to Handle Challenging Clients

60

Confidence or Imposter Syndrome

61

Breaking the Money Ceiling

62

Purchase Orders: Who, What, Why, When

63

Debt and Design Business

64

Design Fee Boundaries

65

Tariffs - Heads Up

66

Tariffs and Clients

67

Experiencing Hesitation

68

The 4 Rules of Pricing

69

Imposter Syndrome

70

Shine Your Light

71

Clients with Bad Taste

72

Hobby or Business?

73

Standing Up to Clients

74

Powerful Budgets

75

Getting Clients and Social Media

76

About Overwhelm

77

Making Clear Offers for Design Services

78

Scale Doesn’t Mean Bigger

79

Money Boundaries

80

Budgets and Money Conversations

81

Starting Out Cheap

82

Remodel Right, 5 Mistakes Costing You Big

83

Design Without Limits or You Are Not Getting Paid for This

84

Profitable Remodeling

85

Avoiding the Money Conversation

86

Published in House Beautiful with Erin Shakoor of Shakoor Interiors

87

Starting a Design Business

88

Money Conversations with Clients

89

You don't need to network...

90

Partnering for Profit

91

When is the Right Time to Hire?

92

I can’t afford to hire

93

When 3 is a crowd

94

Streamline Your Design Jobs

95

Fees: By the sq ft? Hourly?

96

Design Fee Guide Part 3

97

Design Fee Guide Part 2

98

Design Fee Guide - Part 1

99

Pricing Challenges Part 2

100

Pricing Challenges Part 1

101

Crickets Again?

102

The Energy Crash (and how to fix it)

103

What is a Money Magnet?

104

Saying No

105

Dream Big

106

Discovery Call Expectations

107

Published in House Beautiful with Erin Shakoor of Shakoor Interiors

108

Looking for Clients?

109

About Those Systems

110

From Lead to Design Job

111

Designer Marketing

112

"Keep Your Shape"

113

Too Many Little Jobs

114

True Green with Special Guest Megan Thompson of IDGreenList.com

115

Business or Hobby?

116

5 Tips for Time Management

117

What's Profitable and What's Not

118

5 Profit Strategies for Design Businesses

119

Appointment Do’s and Don'ts

120

Control Your Design Job

121

How Perfectionism Gets in Your Way

122

From Roadblock to Success

123

The Mini-Me Myth

124

Networking Doesn't Work

125

Not Charging Enough?

126

Why Crazy Busy Doesn't Work

127

Systems = Freedom

128

Template Trouble

129

Owning Your Financial Situation

130

The Golden Moment

131

Getting Out of Your Own Way

132

Stop Leaving Money on the Table

133

Money and Boundaries

134

Ethics and Bad Taste

135

Clients Asking for Resources?

136

Is My Design Fee Enough?

137

The Magic Question You Should Ask a Prospective Client

138

The Systems Strategy

139

Profitable Purchasing with Heather McManus from The Designers Collaborative

140

Starting a Design Business

141

Hold Your Shape with Guest Marsha Sewdass

142

Feeling Resentful About Your Business?

143

Profitable Remodeling

144

How to Find Clients

145

Money and You

146

Losing Control

147

5 Money Leaks

148

Pricing Challenges Part 2

149

Effective Discovery Calls

150

Pricing Challenges Part 1

151

Time Starvation Epidemic

152

The Luxury Mindset

153

5 Ways Design Fees Are Better Than Hourly Rates

154

The Tipping Point

155

The 4 Rules of Pricing

156

Abundance vs. Scarcity

157

When Should I Hire?

158

Growing Too Fast

159

Getting Out of Your Own Way

160

Scale Your Design Business

161

Is Perfection Slowing You Down?

162

Design Fees and Legacy Clients

163

Stop Working So Much

164

Time Values

165

Designer Marketing

166

Take Back Your Time

167

Leadership Part 2

168

Leadership Part 1

169

Healthy Boundaries Part 2

170

Healthy Boundaries Part 1

171

What to Do When You Look Successful But You’re Not Profitable

172

The Luxury Mindset

173

Big Price Tags

174

Follow the System

175

From Lead to Design Job

176

The Slow Design Advantage

177

Profitable Remodeling Jobs

178

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone

179

Purchasing Secrets

180

How to Handle Challenging Clients

181

Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make Working With Contractors

182

Boundaries and You

183

The Danger of Throwing Out Design Fee Numbers

184

How to Use a VA (Virtual Assistant)

185

3 Hiring Mistakes to Avoid

186

Common Mistakes

187

The Art of Delegating

188

The Big Goal Secret

189

Commercial Design with Guest Megan Thompson

190

Design the Business You Love

191

The Systems Strategy

192

Goodbye Imposter Syndrome with Guest Thea Stephens

193

Starting a Design Business

194

Design.Peace.Freedom with Guest Sarah Conti

195

Where Is the Money?

196

Moving Upmarket Part 2

197

Moving Upmarket Part 1

198

Little Money Habits with Big Results

199

The People-Pleasing Problem

200

Eliminating Distractions

201

First Appointment Dos and Don'ts

202

Budget Mistakes (Part 2)

203

Budget Mistakes (Part 1)

204

Establishing Boundaries

205

Little Money Magnets with Great Results

206

Stop Apologizing For Your Design Fee

207

Owning Your Value

208

Making Clear Offers for Design Services

209

The Power of Abundant Thinking

210

What Are You Really Making Per Hour?

211

5 Ways Design Fees Are Better Than Hourly Rates

212

The Magic Question You Should Ask a Prospective Client

213

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