Interior Design Business

Have you ever felt like your client’s personal shopper instead of their designer? Or that you weren’t being paid enough for the amount of work you ended up doing for them? Making clear offers for design services is a challenge most designers face.  Often we start by charging for a couple of hours of work, but the problem with that is that there’s no clear deliverable. The client doesn’t know what...

Today we’ll be talking about the differences between working on an hourly basis vs. working on a fee basis as a designer, and why I switched to working on a fee basis in my own business. Not only is selling your services as more of a “package” deal beneficial to your clients, but it’s beneficial to your business. By presenting your work as a fee-based service, your billing processes, project compl...

Have you recently taken a look at your hours and your income and realized… “Hmm. That’s not quite adding up?” I’d like to talk to you about productivity, efficiency, and making the most of your time as a business owner. As counterintuitive as it may seem, making more money doesn’t always depend on an increase in your rates. Sometimes, the correlation between the two is barely even there! So what r...

How do you turn prospective clients into paying clients? Let’s talk about the magic question you should always ask a prospective client on an initial discovery call. This question will tell you everything you need to know about whether they will become a paying client or not.  In this episode you’ll learn how to structure your discovery call, what to charge for it, what to include, and so much mor...

When was the last time you checked in with yourself and your mindset surrounding your business? I realized many years ago that it didn’t matter how many templates, checklists, or scripts I provided designers, nothing was going to work unless their mindset shifted first. When I started developing my business to help designers with mindset work, I knew I would need some help. That’s when I met Valer...

Are you an interior design professional who wants to create time-accurate, money-generous, and fee-based job offers that clients jump to say "yes" to? Terri Taylor, President and Creative Director of the Interior Design Business Academy and the host of the Interior Design Business Podcast, is here to help interior design professionals who want to create lifestyle design businesses that p...