Elevate Your Business: Handpicked Interior Design Podcasts for Residential Designers
Interior Design Business Podcasts #169
If you’re an interior designer who wants to elevate their interior design business, have I got the podcasts for you!!!
Today’s podcast hosts include Michael Boodro, Jessica Bennet & Suzanne Hall, Kate Bendewald, Tobi Fairley, LuAnn Nigara, Rebecca Hay, Dennis Scully, Mirjam Lippuner, Jason Lockhart & Maria Martin .
Today’s podcast guests are Noz Nozawa, Dan Mazzarini, Emily Evans Eerdmans, Vita Vygovska, Jessie Kelly, Carly Nemtean, Kaitlin Petersen & Felix Burrichter.
It’s time to elevate your interior design business:
The Chairish Podcast - Michael Boodro - How is The History of Design Crucial To Its Future? - 46 min
Dear Alice - Jessica Bennet & Suzanne Hall - Luxury In Doses - 42 min
Designer’s Oasis - Kate Bendewald - Revenue Generating Activities for Interior Designers - 26 min
The Design You Podcast - Tobi Fairley - Create New Revenue Streams: Is This Really the End of Interior Design This Time? (Part 3) - 46 min
Window Treatments for Profit with LuAnn Nigara - LuAnn Nigara - Vita’s Tip in 10 with Vita Vygovska: An Easy Money Making Tip - 12 min
Resilient By Design - Rebecca Hay - The Difference between Decorator vs Designer Part 1 - The Process with Jessica Kelly & Carly Nemtean - 43 min
Business of Home - Dennis Scully - The Thursday Show: Felix Burrichter on the evolution of the Barbie Dreamhouse, commercial real estate's refinancing problem - 54 min
Designer Discussions - Mirjam Lippuner, Jason Lockhart & Maria Martin - 10 Common Video Marketing Mistakes - 14 min
The Chairish Podcast - How is The History of Design Crucial To Its Future? - 46 min
Designers have always looked to the past for ideas—but there is so much design history to choose from! What styles and periods remain relevant? What still works even though modern life has undergone so many dramatic changes? What’s ready for a revival and what remains hopelessly dated, never to rise again from the dustbins of history?
Two young designers—Noz Nozawa and Dan Mazzarini—and historian Emily Evans Eerdmans weigh in on why a knowledge of the past remains crucial, which periods they love and which they would rather forget, and why even 18th century bows, cuckoo clocks, and folk art quilts are ripe for reinterpretation.
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Dear Alice - Luxury In Doses - 42 min
Everyone at Alice Lane take luxury in doses, and Suzanne Hall is doing that this very moment as she is in the middle of her own remodel in her bathroom, creating achievable interiors on the fly.
In this episode, hosts Jessica Bennet & Suzanne Hall get into different countertop materials that they like in addition to marble, as well as materials that we do not like so much. We suggest investing in the rug to really take that step toward luxury in your own home, or when working with a sofa, you can really up your game by getting great pillows.
What is your favorite countertop material if you can’t choose real marble? 6:55
Defining luxury 14:50
How you can get luxury in doses in your home: invest in the rug 20:30
Getting a sofa and pillows 25:00
What Suzanne splurged and did not splurge on 34:00
Anything you have always wanted 38:55
“What does luxury in doses, or what does luxury in your house look like to you?” “I think I can answer it the same way that I was going to anyway, and that’s just fully expressing who you are and working towards who you are meant to be.” 15:30
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Designer’s Oasis - Revenue Generating Activities for Interior Designers - 26 min
Energy begets energy. Money is energy. If we know that energy begets energy, what happens in your business when you sit down and you spend the time to commit some energy towards revenue-generating activities and lead-generating activities?
In today’s episode, host Kate Bendewald is talking about revenue-generating activities and what that means, how and when to do these activities, and how they keep your business thriving! This episode was inspired by a listener question that we received from Julia,
“Hi Kate, I’ve followed your advice and started batching my days so that I have more focus and not drawn in 100 different directions at once. I’ve set aside Mondays as my Marketing & Money Mondays. The problem is, I don’t always know what to do with this dedicated time. Can you provide some specific examples of revenue-generating activities that I can be focusing on during this time? Thanks so much. I appreciate everything.”
Here’s a glance at the episode:
[5:00] We dive into a list of revenue-generating activities and get started with following up with leads.
[8:25] I share about putting together proposals and my methods for getting these done in time efficient manner.
[10:10] Invoicing clients can occasionally drop by the wayside when you’re deep into projects and a one-off invoice or an invoice outside of the regular schedule pops up so keeping these front of mind is necessary.
[11:30] I discuss how I make time to reach out and cultivate strategic partnerships on a regular basis.
[14:40] I share how utilizing Facebook groups can help build your clientele and the right methods for trying to both share helpful information and build relationships while also promoting your services.
[18:00] Sometimes the key is in the follow-up and continuing to follow up with past clients. I share how this has worked for my interior design business.
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The Design You Podcast - Create New Revenue Streams: Is This Really the End of Interior Design This Time? (Part 3) - 46 min
When host Tobi Fairley asks designers what they think they need in their businesses, they generally say better clients with more money, a marketing strategy, systems, and new or better revenue streams. I agree, we want all of these, but the one that seems to confuse people most is the revenue streams piece.
Tune in for a discussion about how to launch new revenue streams in your design business. Tobi is discussing why the most successful entrepreneurs are the ones who try new things with a willingness to fail, and I'm sharing a proven process for coming up with new revenue streams in your design business.
What You'll Learn From This Episode
What is stopping you from launching new revenue streams.
Why the great design leaders are willing to try new things, even if it means failing.
What sets those who launch things apart from those who don’t.
Some innovation blockers you need to look out for.
Why business is less about making the right decision and more about who you become in the process.
The innovator thinking you need to get used to practicing when coming up with successful revenue streams.
How to develop the mindset required to create successful revenue streams in your design business.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Window Treatments for Profit with LuAnn Nigara - Vita’s Tip in 10 with Vita Vygovska: An Easy Money Making Tip - 12 min
In today’s episode of Window Treatments for Profit, LuAnn University instructor Vita Vygovska shares an easy money making tip.
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Resilient by Design - The Difference between Decorator vs Designer Part 1 - The Process with Jessica Kelly & Carly Nemtean - 43 min
Today's episode is part one of two where we discuss the definition and difference between "decorator" and "designer".
Host Rebecca Hay chats with returning guests and Designer Besties Jessie Kelly, of Jessica Kelly Design, and Carly Nemtean of Carriage Lane Design + Build and Co-founder of the Collective Workspace to learn about how they structure their processes and services for clients.
We shared how each of us approaches design vs decorating and how we tackled some misconceptions and distinctions before diving into how things have changed over the years. Tune in next week for part two where we get into the money talk!
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Business of Home - The Thursday Show: Felix Burrichter on the evolution of the Barbie Dreamhouse, commercial real estate's refinancing problem - 54 min
BOH editor in chief Kaitlin Petersen joins host Dennis Scully to discuss the biggest news in the design industry, including Crate & Barrel’s answer to rising renovation costs, Banana Republic’s effort to build a lifestyle brand, and a New York magazine cover story that paints a stark future for commercial real estate. Later, Pin-Up editorial director Felix Burrichter discusses Barbiecore.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Designer Discussions - 10 Common Video Marketing Mistakes - 14 min
Video is King, and there is no better way to elevate your design business. In this podcast episode, hosts Mirjam Lippuner, Jason Lockhart & Maria Martin cover the top 10 mistakes and tips on improving your videos.
Choosing a Poor-Quality Video Production (01:12)
Not Having A Defined Story (02:14)
Targeting the Wrong Audience (03:19) – Marketing Studio Link (03:32)
Creating Extra Long and Boring Videos (04:06)
Not Having a Call-to-Action (CTA) (06:12)
Neglecting SEO (06:50)
Forgetting the Captions and Sub-titles (07:27)
Overdoing Your Sales Pitch (08:52)
Not Using Metrics to Track Progress (09:48)
Adding Too Many Messages in a Single Video (11:24)
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