Posts tagged interior design ceo
You Don't Need to Know, Trust Comes First

When you’re watching another designer’s business - you lose sight of your own.

Most of us get in our own way. We are what keeps us from getting to where we want to go. With my coaching clients, I see this pretty frequently, but I can also recognize when I do this to myself. This is a universal human struggle. But what if you don’t need to know, that trust comes first?

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5 Reasons Your Interior Design Business Isn't Growing

Your interior design business may not be growing because there are 5 areas that you are neglecting. I go into each area, however, these should be thought about as a rebalancing of your time, not about adding more to your already long to-do list. By incorporating these areas into your business you will be more productive and feel more balanced.

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6 Qualities of A Successful Interior Design CEO

Not everyone has the skills necessary to be a business owner. Sometimes people are born a natural entrepreneur and some others can learn the necessary skills. But there are others that it is just not in the cards for them.

Running a business is often a whole different ballgame than the purpose of the business. Meaning that you can be a plumber, but not know how to run a plumbing business. You can be a talented cake baker, but not have the skills to run a successful bakery. You could make the most beautiful pottery, but not know how to sell it.

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Power Hours

Last week I wrote about the ways you can work smarter and not harder and this week I want to share with you a super-simple system that I use that has changed my business. Because why create a system unless it makes your business run better? This one couldn’t be any easier, I call them Power Hours.

Power Hours are a time-blocking technique, which means that this is my hour a week to do very specific tasks. I found that there were things I kept putting off or never seemed to have the time to do. All those little random things that pop up that don’t fit into your normal business operations, but still need to get done.

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What a Goose and Golden Egg Has to Do With Interior Design Business

I’ve been rereading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey and it’s so good. So many wisdom bombs that has me underlining and affirming to myself. But of course, I’m always thinking of you and how it applies to running an interior design business.

So when I read the part where the author defines “effectiveness” by using Aesop’s fable of the goose and golden egg, I thought of interior designers over their head in business.

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How to be a Kick-ass (Interior Design) CEO

Take Ownership

You are in charge of your business.  You are at the top.  You must take ownership of your service, your business, your job, your employees, your subs, of every aspect of business.  "Every problem in the company was indeed my fault." says Horowitz, without this mindset you will be looking to others while they look to you because, "some employees make products, some make sales, the CEO makes decisions."  You are the decision maker.  If you can't take ownership of what you are building, don't start a design business, or as the author says, "If you don't like choosing between horrible & cataclysmic, don't become CEO."  

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