The BEST Interior Design Podcasts - Episode 71
The BEST Interior Design Business Podcasts - Episode 71
Hey designers….there are a ton of awesome interior design podcasts for y’all today. Way, way, way too much educational content for my early-morning cardio workout today. Happy listening & learning :)
Interior Design Business - Terri Taylor - The Danger of Throwing Out Design Fee Numbers - 26 min
Profit is a Choice - Michele Williams - Quiet Quitting in the Workplace - 11 min
Designed for the Creative Mind - Michelle Lynne - Breaking Through the Internal Barriers Blocking Your Leadership with Tonya Comer - 39 min
Designed by Wingnut Social - Darla Powell - Mini News: How to Get Discovered by More Interior Design Clients on Instagram - 6 min
The Affluent Creative - Melissa Galt - Harness the Power of Instagram to Build Your Brand, Part 1 - 52 min
The Kate Show - Kate Greunke - How to Create a Legacy Business from Ground Zero - 34 min
Design Curious - Rebecca Ward - Designing Your Success: Finding the Right Niche in Your Interior Design Career with Yvonne Harty - 24 min
Interior Design Business - The Danger of Throwing Out Design Fee Numbers - 26 min
Throwing out design fee numbers to potential clients without thinking about it can get you in all kinds of trouble, so why does it happen?
In this episode of Interior Design Business, host Terri Taylor teaches us how to take a $1,500 throw-out fee that’s going to get you in trouble and turn it into a $4,500 fee with a $30,000 budget (or more!). It’s not hard to do, you just need to know how to say it and how to work through it.
Topics covered in this episode include:
How to avoid situations that require you to throw out a number without having time to consider it
The importance of scheduled discovery calls
How to fight the scarcity mindset
Interior Designher: Terri makes a very, very, very important point about pricing your interior design services in this podcast. Since we started Interior Designher, I can’t tell you how many interior designers I have spoken with via email, in Facebook groups, in our own little Linkedin group, on Instagram and in actual real life.
And the number one thing we talk about is money. Which kinda makes sense as we’re all in business to make money to pay the bills and feed our kids, etc. How we price our services is key to that discussion. Being organized & systematized is key to effective & profitable pricing.In the coming days, I am going to be conducting an interview with interior design coach Nancy Ganzenkaufer about the pricing tool she just created for designers. Called The KEY, Nancy has poured her years of experience coaching 1000s of interior designers into creating a tool that delivers mare than it promises. I’ve had access to The KEY and have had a gaggle of designer friends test it specifically to look for problems.
At it’s core, The KEY is a spreadsheet that calculates pricing estimates for any type of design project - decor, virtual design, full-service decorating, remodel with project mgmt & new builds. But it’s way more than that.- The KEY lets us accurately estimate design jobs in minutes.
- The KEY comes loaded with time estimates based on Nancy’s years of coaching experience. For designers struggling to get their pricing right, this gives us a yardstick to help us fine tune our rates.
- To avoid underpricing ourselves, The KEY comes loaded with a comprehensive project scope planner.
- The KEY’s Good, Better, Best Guide helps to set client expectations surrounding budgeting for furniture, lighting, etc
- And to help present all of this pricing data to our clients, The KEY also includes Canva-based proposal templates.
As I mentioned above, I will be interviewing Nancy Ganzekaufer about The KEY in the coming days. My interview will give you a lot more specific info about The KEY than my little synopsis here. But…if you don’t want to wait for the interview, you can buy The KEY right now.
Full Disclosure: After testing & critiquing The KEY, we decided that we could fully & honestly endorse it & we agreed to register for her affiliate program. So…if you do purchase The KEY via the link above, we will receive a percentage of the sale prices. I hope everyone is cool with that.
Coming back to Terri Taylor’s awesome podcast episode, you can listen to it here:
Profit is a Choice - Quiet Quitting in the Workplace - 11 min
Have you heard of quiet quitting? Maybe you have seen or felt it in your business or when speaking with a colleague. Quiet quitting is defined as an emotional quitting instead of physically doing so. On the podcast today, host Michele Williams is exploring quiet quitting. What it is, how it occurs, how to spot it and hopefully stop it before it escalates.
Topics Mentioned:
Disengaged
Lack of motivation
Employee health
Connected workplace
Key Thoughts:
Quiet quitting is a thing! And we are seeing it more and more in the workplace. It is defined as emotionally quitting – tapping out, all while physically still coming in and doing the job. Michele (1:13)
Every person on the team should know the high level of what the business does, why it does it, who it serves and how their job fits in. Michele (1:58)
Quiet quitting, when hitting its peak, can show that expectations are out of control and that team members are demanding a realignment. Michele (6:37)
One of the best ways to reduce quiet quitting is to have one meaningful conversation each week with each employee lasting 15-30 minutes. Michele (7:30)
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Designed for the Creative Mind - Breaking Through the Internal Barriers Blocking Your Leadership with Tonya Comer - 39 min
In this episode, Michelle Lynne interviews Tonya Comer. Tonya is the Principal of the boutique interior design firm, Tonya Comer Interiors, and an award-winning product designer with products that have sold around the globe.
In this episode, Tonya shares her story of hitting rock bottom and how it helped her learn the ultimate lessons for living an empowered life. In her upcoming self-help narrative book, she provides a model called the “Power Tools”, which will help women on their healing journey. Her mission is to help women find wholeness through the discovery of their shame and self-doubt and encourage women to know they are not alone in feeling like a fraud or an imposter.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Designed by Wingnut Social - Mini News: How to Get Verified on Instagram and Facebook With Meta Verified - 7 min
After Elon Musk's success with Twitter Blue, Meta is following suit with Meta Verified, a subscription bundle to help you establish and grow your presence on Instagram and Facebook. With Meta Verified, you get verification with a government ID, proactive account protection, access to direct account support and more. On today's Mini News sesh, host Darla Powell walks us through all the features of Meta Verified, shares why she decided to join the waitlist, and how you can use Meta Verified to leverage your business and marketing.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
The Affluent Creative - Harness the Power of Instagram to Build Your Brand, Part 1 - 52 min
With today’s episode, host Melissa Galt is starting a two-parter series on the impact of Instagram on our businesses and how to harness its power to build your creative brand.
As creatives, everything we do is about the visual and tactile components, which is why Instagram can serve us so well. In Melissa’s episode today, you’ll learn how harnessing those visual and tactile components makes engaging with your clients beneficial to your brand but also how Instagram can be a fun and exciting method of inspiration for yourself and your own creativity. It does not have to be as overwhelming as you may think!
In this episode, you will hear:
Strategies to follow to make engaging with Instagram fun
Why it’s so important to blend business and personal when curating your content
What to include when crafting your bio
Tips for setting up a routine of impact that will gain you the most engagement
You can check out this podcast episode here:
The Kate Show - How to Create a Legacy Business from Ground Zero - 34 min
Do you ever feel like growing your business is an insurmountable task? Maybe you have young kids and no extra time. Maybe you're working out of your garage. Maybe you don't "come from money" or you have very few connections. If you are feeling discouraged or intimidated by your lofty business goals, you need to hear the wisdom shared by today's guest.
Today, host Kate "the Socialite" Greunke is talking with Taylor Angel of Angel's Linings. Not only is Taylor the third generation in her family-run, multi-million dollar business, but she's also the vice president of a brand that eats five-star reviews for lunch. When you've been in business as long as Angel's Linings (a whopping 45 years), you learn a thing or two about what does and doesn't work. If you want your startup business to become the legacy company that fuels generations to come, or if you need to breathe new life into an older business, this episode of The Kate Show is for you.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Design Curious - Designing Your Success: Finding the Right Niche in Your Interior Design Career with Yvonne Harty - 24 min
In this week’s episode, host Rebecca Ward chats with Yvonne Harty, a NorCal Award-winning luxury interior designer. Yvonne shares her journey of leaving her 20-year career in aviation, enrolling in a design school, overcoming challenges, discovering her niche in kitchen and bath design, and finding a renewed sense of fulfillment in her second career.
Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:
Find out the main challenge a new interior designer face so you can avoid it
Learn the benefits of having a coach in your interior design career or business
Discover how staying on your lane attracts the type of clients or projects you want to work with
Episode highlights
2:53 – What prompted Yvonne to get into interior design
07:36 – Why Yvonne stopped working for another designer and open her business
10:08 – Yvonne’s experience in aviation helps her in her interior design career, and how aircraft handling is similar to managing design projects
11:59 – The main challenge Yvonne faced when she started her business
12:49 – The challenge of running a business without a business plan or direction
14:42 – The benefits of having a coach in your interior design career or business
can assist you in developing career or business plans or directions
changes your mindset from a mere employee to a CEO
teaches you how to charge for your services and make a profit at the same time
helps you figure out the kind of projects you want to work with
helps increase your confidence so you can work on your projects
16:28 – The type of client and project Yvonne is pursuing and her plans for her Kitchen & Bath Design Business
18:16 – Yvonne’s advice for those starting an interior design career or business
Make a plan
Decide on what you want to offer
Determine the type of clients or projects you want to work with
Get help from a professional coach to guide you through the process
Join a local or national organization, like National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA), to improve your business and networking skills
You can check out this podcast episode here:
