Podcasts for Profit: Boosting Your Residential Interior Design Business
The BEST Interior Design Business Podcasts - Episode 156
Every day, interior design podcasters share stories, experiences & lessons designed to teach & inspire us to make our businesses just a little bit better.
Today’s interior design podcasts episodes come from hosts Terri Taylor, Michele Williams, LuAnn Nigara, Rick Campos, Melissa Galt, Laura Thornton and Dennis Scully.
Today’s podcast guests include Kelcee Sparks, Rachel Usher and Timothy Murenzi.
Here’s hoping you find something to help build your business.
Interior Design Business - Terri Taylor - Take Back Your Time - 29 min
Profit is a Choice - Michele Williams - How to Manage Money - 38 min
Window Treatments for Profit - LuAnn Nigara - What Would Lu Do?: The Ultimate Business Secret: The Hidden Key to Remarkable Success - 15 min
Design Biz Survival Guide - Rick Campos - Rachel Usher - Community Over Competition - 36 min
The Affluent Creative - Melissa Galt - What Are The Three G’s for a Successful Business? - 23 min
The Business of Beautiful Spaces - Laura Thornton - Let's Talk Project Management Software with Timothy Murenzi of Indema - 37 min
Interior Design Business - Take Back Your Time - 29 min
“If only I had another day in the week, then I could get it all done.”
“If I just had two more hours in the day, I could finish everything.”
How many times have we all said something like that?
In today’s episode, host Terri Taylor is talking about how to figure out where your time is going, eliminate time wasters, and set boundaries on your time. Once your time is used there’s no getting back. Terri is here to help us get in control of your time and spend it on the things that are most important to you.
Topics covered in this episode include:
Why time is your most valuable currency
The benefits of tracking your time for a couple of weeks
Why you need to stop people pleasing
Boundaries that you need to have in place
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Profit is a Choice - How to Manage Money - 38 min
In today’s episode, host Michele Williams is joined by Kelcee Sparks from Elite Ops. Kelcee & Michele dig into some questions surrounding how to manage money in our interior design businesses.
Topics Mentioned:
Pricing
Cash Flow
Billing
Strategic Plan
Thoughts from Michele:
We can’t measure everything all the time and need KPIs for measuring what is most important.
KPIs can be determined by knowing the goals your firm has for each quarter and measuring to the goals consistently.
Build SOPs to support your measuring goals.
Charging to grow allows for growth and reinvestment in your firm.
Having a strategic plan is crucial to grow your business.
Create a plan then build your time and money based on that plan for profitability.
If you don't know where every dollar goes, you don't know how that time is going to be spent then you need to halt and think about what you're doing.
Know your process.
Look at your business in cash and accrual.
See the 360 view of your business.
To protect what you are building, you need three to six months of a cushion to carry operating expenses.
Change allows us to get something different.
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Window Treatments for Profit - What Would Lu Do?: The Ultimate Business Secret: The Hidden Key to Remarkable Success - 15 min
In today’s episode, host LuAnn Nigara talks about the number one piece of advice that she believes will have the most impact on the success of your business!
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Design Biz Survival Guide - Rachel Usher - Community Over Competition - 36 min
In today’s episode, host Rick Campos welcomes UK Interior Designer Rachel Usher to the podcast. Rachel is Rick’s first international featured designer on the podcast, and in this episode, she shares her journey of transitioning from a career filled with structure and authority into a new creative career path and some of the challenges she faced and overcame along the way. They also discuss international and cultural nuances when it comes to the business of design and the benefits of expanding your professional network beyond borders.
Show Highlights:
Rachel Usher's transition from law enforcement to interior design and the challenges she faced.
The importance of expanding one's professional network and understanding cultural nuances in the design industry.
Overcoming imposter syndrome and managing client expectations through direct communication and honesty.
The lack of resources and closed-off nature of the UK design community compared to the US.
The impact of Rachel's background in law enforcement on her approach to business management.
The importance of community and collaboration in achieving success in the design world.
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The Affluent Creative - What Are The Three G’s for a Successful Business? - 23 min
When aiming for success, sometimes the biggest obstacles are your own personal thoughts and beliefs. Whether you are limiting yourself, doubting yourself, or just not pushing yourself hard enough, all of these can hold you back from the greatness that you are so capable of!
That’s where the Three Gs of Success will help. We’re talking about Gratitude, Goals, and Grit, in that order. These three qualities are so important in pushing yourself to become the best creative that you can be. You need to show gratitude for the successes you’ve already had, set goals for the success you want to achieve, and have grit to face the challenges ahead.
In today’s episode, host Melissa Galt dives into what the Three Gs of Success look like, why they are so important in helping you achieve success, and how to incorporate them into your daily life.
In this episode, you will hear:
How practicing gratitude in your daily life can shift your thinking toward success
Why it is so important to set specific and ambitious goals for yourself
How building grit can help you learn to tackle obstacles in the way of your success
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The Business of Beautiful Spaces - Let's Talk Project Management Software with Timothy Murenzi of Indema - 37 min
In today's episode, host Laura Thornton explores the benefits of online project management software for running an interior design business with the creator of Indema, Timothy Murenzi. They dive into Indema and see how this technology can streamline various aspects of the design process, from mood boards to invoice management and everything in between.
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