Interior Design Business Podcasts - Episode 54
Interior Design Business Podcasts Episode 54 - January 9, 2023
I’ve got seven marvelous Monday morning interior design podcasts for y’all. Happy listening & learning :)
Interior Design Business - Terri Taylor - The Systems Strategy - 30 min
Designed for the Creative Mind - Master Your Smartphone for Stellar Design Photos with Linda Holt - 43 min
Designed by Wingnut Social - Darla Powell - Mini News: Twitter Advanced Search on Mobile: How to Use for Social Media Marketing - 5 min
The Affluent Creative - Melissa Galt - When and How to Fire a Client - 41 min
The Kate Show - Kate Greunke - 3 Business Boundaries I Use as a Work-at-Home Mom - 28 min
The Business of Home Podcast - Dennis Scully - Sophie Ashby wants to fight back against 'unidentifiable global chic' - 53 min
Design Curious - Rebecca Ward - Do You Have a Passion for Interior Design but Scared to Make the Switch? How to Take the Leap with Kricia Palmer - 25 min
Interior Design Business - The Systems Strategy - 30 min
You’ve got a good design practice, a steady stream of ideal clients, and your jobs are consistently profitable. What’s the problem? You have absolutely no time for yourself. In fact, you spend most of your time putting out fires.
Does that sound familiar?
It’s hard to grow your business when you’re spending all your time fixing things. Do you want to know the solution to the chaos? Systems and processes.
When you have repeatable systems and processes in place, your problems will start to solve themselves. In this episode, host Terri Taylor is talking about systems strategy and teaching you how to start getting systems set up in your business so that you can reclaim some of your time.
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Designed for the Creative Mind - Master Your Smartphone for Stellar Design Photos with Linda Holt - 43 min
In this episode, host Michelle Lynne interviews an interior designer/photographer who teaches designers and home stagers to take stellar photos of their work using their smartphones.
As a former professional photographer, Linda Holt is no stranger to merging her creative eye with aesthetic appeal, having worked with more than 5,000 celebrities, actors, and models as one of Boston's top commercial headshot photographers. Today she uses her skilled photographic eye to help homeowners create a stylish, fresh, and relaxed home that is reflective of their unique personality and lifestyle.
The majority of photos a designer needs can now be taken with a smartphone. In this episode, Linda tells us the biggest mistake designers make when photographing with their smartphones, when and why designers should photograph their own projects, and when it's best to leave it to the professionals. She also shares three quick tips we can start using today to get better photos with our smartphones.
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Designed by Wingnut Social - Mini News: Twitter Advanced Search on Mobile: How to Use for Social Media Marketing - 5 min
Twitter advanced search for mobile is here! Is there a tweet you’ve been trying to find forever, or do you want to clean up some of your old tweets? Twitter is launching a new “advanced search” feature on the mobile app that will provide users with a range of filters when searching for content. Social Media Manager Hayden Medlock is here to walk us through the latest developments.
Highlights
Twitter’s advanced search on mobile will provide you with a range of additional options when searching for content, including accounts mentioned, date ranges, personal mentions, hashtags, and like and retweet counts. All of these qualifiers are already built into the app, and are available in the Advanced Search tab on desktop - but until now, they haven’t been easily accessible on mobile. You’ll also be able to use these additional search parameters when conducting a tweet search on an individual user’s profile.
This new feature can be a very helpful addition for businesses and interior designers when trying to search things that are specific to your field. If someone is looking for interior design trends, they will be able to easily search any of these in the new Twitter advanced search option. Being able to search tweets with large amounts of retweets and engagement will be a fantastic way to identify content that is trending currently.
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The Affluent Creative - When and How to Fire a Client - 41 min
Us listener’s to Melissa Galt’s podcast are used to getting a heavy dose of strategic inspiration, motivation, and momentum. Firing a client doesn’t sound very motivating…but the fact of the matter is that you need to be in charge of your business at all times, and that means when a client goes rogue, becomes abusive, or goes from being a great fit to being a poor fit, you have the right to fire them.
It is never an easy decision to make when you are considering firing a client. You will need to make sure you have all of your ducks in a row, that you have thought through your options and are not making decisions in the heat of the moment, and that you and your business are protected. Melissa is here to help guide us through the process.
In today’s episode, Melissa shares some of the most common reasons that you may want to make the tough call to fire a client. We will also look at circumstances when it is in your best interest not to fire a client as well as how to go about the firing process. So before you find yourself sacrificing your peace of mind to make a project work for someone not willing to work with your terms, listen in to today’s episode for some practical solutions.
In this episode, you will hear:
The most common reasons for firing a client
How to navigate the process of discontinuing your work with a client
The best ways to ensure you and your team are protected when working with clients
Reasons you may want to hold off on making the decision to fire
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The Kate Show - 3 Business Boundaries I Use as a Work-at-Home Mom - 28 min
In today’s episode, host Kate Greunke shares a few of the struggles, solutions, and boundaries she has uncovered thus far in her own journey. If you run a business and have kids or plan to in the near future, it's time to listen up. It's about to get real.
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The Business of Home Podcast - Sophie Ashby wants to fight back against 'unidentifiable global chic' - 53 min
A member of the UK’s rising generation, interior designer Sophie Ashby has achieved widespread attention for her colorful and eclectic projects. During COVID, she got even busier, opening Sister, a retail brand, and United in Design, a nonprofit that seeks to address the lack of diversity in the British design industry. On this episode of the podcast, she speaks with host Dennis Scully about why shipping furniture from the UK is cheaper than buying it in the US, whether RH can succeed in England, and why being brutally honest with clients is tough but worth it.
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Design Curious - Do You Have a Passion for Interior Design but Scared to Make the Switch? How to Take the Leap with Kricia Palmer - 25 min
Did you know that your own personal experiences can help you niche down and speak authentically to the interior design market you serve? It’s all about really understanding their needs and who better understands them is one of their own.
In today's episode, host Rebecca Ward interviews Kricia Palmer. Kricia is a doctor turned interior designer and life coach who left clinical medicine to pursue her Interior Design degree. Through her business, House Calls for Physicians, she now helps other busy women physicians create inspiring, mindful homes, so they can kick back, relax, and enjoy life's moments in them.
She also has a course where she teaches women physicians how to be designers and design their homes for themselves. So if you want to learn how to niche down & serve your tribe, grow, and pivot your interior design business to work for you, check out her episode.
Shownotes
02:14 – Working as a physician and the reason why she left medicine
02:46 – Growing up artistic and creative, her dreams when she was younger, and finally deciding to take a different career path
04:34 – Who inspired her to pursue medicine
05:33 – The long road to finishing her interior design degree
6:29 – Her Internship with Tobi Fairley and creating her own interior design business
8:15 – The fun and not-so-much-fun sides of running an interior design business
10:10 – How she turned to help women physicians with interior design and decor on Facebook Groups into an online course for everyone
12:41 – Her main two pieces of advice for those interested in interior design as a career
Decide whether you want to do it full-time (replace your main source of income) or part-time (side gig or for enjoyment). Why? Because it’s different when you’re doing something for fun versus if you’re really trying to make money and you’re running a business.
Start doing it. Ask a family member or a friend and just get your feet wet. You can charge them, not charge them, it doesn’t matter but actually start going through the process and doing it and see if you really like it. Why? Because a lot of people glamorize the designer job – glamorous, fun, and games. While a lot of it is not. It’s like with any job; there’s always that other side of it. The only way you can really know is just by getting your feet wet and taking action and starting designing for your friends.
NOTE: If Residential Interior Design is your main focus, you don’t have to go back and get a degree. You can. It totally depends on you. Kricia chose to, but you don’t have to. You can learn design. There are all sorts of courses. There’s her course. AND there are a lot of amazing designers that are self-taught.
16:37 – The advantage of being a physician doing interior design and how her services nurture women physicians with their wellness
18:50 – Using her home as a testing ground for different products
19:36 – Three tips on how to switch careers with ease
It’s never too late to change paths. You’re never too old. She feels like she’s only getting started even though she’s almost in her 50s. Why? She chose her family, her kids are about to leave for college, and now it’s time for her to really work on her business.
Create your own path. We often get wrapped up in thinking there’s one right path or one right way to do things or a certain order. If you’re someone from a non-business background and have no clue what you’re doing, realize that there’s no set path that you have to find and take for yourself.
Continue taking action by figuring out what needs to be done next, then do it. There’s no right or wrong way; it’s just creating and finding out what works for you.
21:11 – All about the next best thing for her and her business: The Design Doctor Podcast
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