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Raising Your Rates Without Anxiety
Worried, afraid, and stuck. Many designers confide in me their anxiety about raising their rates. They’re worried that their market area won’t withstand an increase and are afraid they won’t get the job if they are more expensive. So they stay small… often shrinking...
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3 Tips for Getting Great Photography
“I saw your photos and just had to meet you!” – Your Ideal Client Having great photography of your work is an important element to your success as a designer! Although you know good design has more depth than just the visual effect, your potential clients think of...
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How To Avoid Purchasing Product Pitfalls
Don’t make this expensive and painful mistake the next time you purchasing a product and reselling it to your clients. There’s a “bad” business practice happening in interior design businesses and I want to share with you how to avoid the pitfalls that are traping...
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IDBA Coaching Retreats – What’s It All About?
Connection, Magic, and Interior Designers Taking Control Of Their Futures. My IDBA Coaching Members and I met for our semi-annual Retreat recently and made this short video to help shine some light on the magic that happens at a Retreat: Fun - right?! Retreats...
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Tips About Confidence You Need To Know
Nearly every time I’m out talking with a design group about steps for growing a design business, a designer will come up to me afterward and share that she is just not ready to do those things because she needs to feel a bit more confident before making that kind of...
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That One Thing… For Marketing & Rooms!
Designers often ask me, “What is the one marketing thing I could do to ensure that I have a consistent flow of affluent customer calling me on a regular basis?” It’s a great question but most designers don’t like the answer. Let me put it in a different context, it’s...
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Mindset Shifts – FINAL VIDEO IN FREE TRAINING SERIES
Mindset shifts have filled my life with opportunity, transformation, and abundance, and I know it can happen for you too! A quick recap of the work you’ve done so far: In the first video, you reconnected with your bigger why/dreams/vision for being a designer, owning...
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What do ALL successful designers have in common? – FREE TRAINING VIDEO SERIES – PART 2
I’ll share that with you in just a second, but first… thank you! My cupeth (and email) runneth over with the moving, passionate, and thoughtful sharing of the dreams and bigger whys for becoming an interior designer. Working with great clients, enjoying plump bank...
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The Art of Creating The Life You Love – FREE TRAINING VIDEO SERIES
Broke, divorced, and heartbroken. This was me when I found myself as a single parent with a straight commission furniture store designer job selling the ugliest pink sleeper sofas you can possibly imagine. Motivated, passionate, and abundant. That’s how my world...
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Helping Your Business Grow – Secret for Doubling Your Income
A little-known fact about doubling your business and making twice as much income this year over last year is that it isn’t a matter of working twice as hard or twice as many hours. That’s right, it’s actually accomplished with a shift of your mindset. Your mindset is...
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She Did What?! How A Designer Made 10x More This Year!
This week a designer sent me an email full of joy, wonder, nd excitement… and I just have to share her story with you! Why all the excitement? She just received her biggest deposit check ever on a design fee of almost $30K and a signed Letter of Agreement that notes...
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Tips For Avoiding Travel Nightmares This Summer
Summer is a great time for traveling (especially if you live in Arizona) and it seems all too common to feel surrounded by a cloud of tension and chaos, with hordes of edgy, fearful people who seem to be waiting for something negative to happen when flying these...
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Don’t Have Time for Marketing?
I took some time off and had a fun with my kids at the San Diego Zoo. My grandson Easton and I searched for that little monkey we know is in there… somewhere. Just like you know that your next ideal client is out there… somewhere, but where are they? If you’ve been...
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