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The TOP Interior Design Business Podcasts - Episode 86
Hey designers….we’ve got 7 great interior design podcasts for your listening & learning pleasure this fine Monday morning. Today’s interior design podcasts episodes come from Terri Taylor, Michele Williams, Michelle Lynne, LuAnn Nigara, Rick Campos, Melissa Galt & Dennis Scully featuring Jane Dagmi, Garrison Hullinger & Susan Crater and Eliza Harris from Sister Parish Design. So much good stuff to help us grow & improve our businesses.
Interior Design Business - Terri Taylor - How to Handle Challenging Clients - 26 min
Profit Is A Choice - Michele Williams - Delegating to Free Your Time - 28 min
Designed for the Creative Mind - Michelle Lynne - Reimagining High Point with Jane Dagmi - 40 min
Window Treatments for Profit - LuAnn Nigara - What Would Lu Do?: Profitability - The Interior Design Trade - 23 min
Design Biz Survival Guide - Rick Campos - Garrison Hullinger - Balancing Residential, Commercial and Hospitality Design - 49 min
The Affluent Creative - Melissa Galt - Overcoming Client Objections for Designers - 35 min
The Business of Home Podcast - Dennis Scully - The mother-daughter duo behind Sister Parish Design are putting "faith over fear" - 1 hr 7 min
Interior Design Business - How to Handle Challenging Clients - 26 min
How do you handle clients who are difficult to work with?
A lot of business owners dread facing challenging clients because they don’t know how to handle them professionally while still sticking to their boundaries. It’s not fun dealing with challenging clients, but it does happen, so let’s talk about it.
In this episode, host Terri Taylor covers things like when to walk away from a situation, how to end a job that’s dragging on, how to communicate additional fees, and when to say no. I’m sharing my most effective solutions so that next time you face something like this, you’ll know exactly what to do.
Topics covered in this episode include:
How to excuse yourself from uncomfortable situations
How to fulfill a project when your client won’t make a decision or purchase
Standing up for yourself without creating drama
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Profit Is A Choice - Delegating to Free Your Time - 28 min
In today’s episode, host Michele Williams chats with Dominique Deraiche. Dominique is a co-founder of Designer Elite, which provides Operations and Support for interior designers. Dominique & Michele discuss how to get help, how to determine when we're in overwhelm, and how to ask for support and delegate without dumping. Enjoy.
Topics Mentioned:
Delegate
Virtual assistant
Overwhelm
Key Thoughts:
It's very hard to say that we're process driven because everything's so custom, and it is custom. But having a process to work within then allows us the freedom to be so creative. Michele (4:32)
Some of the ways you could determine that you really need to reach out for help is if you have a huge to-do list. There are pieces of your business that are slipping through the cracks, you're pushing out projects because you're just so overwhelmed. Maybe you're completely turning away projects. These are all key indications that you should be reaching out for help and delegating some. Dominique Deraiche (9:25)
One of the ways that I suggest preparing to make it work with a virtual assistant is having an idea of what it is we think we need. Michele (17:22)
I always set the expectation, that we need to hire the right amount of people who are going to be specialists in these various areas. It's really rare to find one person who can mold themselves into all aspects of your business. Dominique Deraiche (23:16)
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Designed for the Creative Mind - Reimagining High Point with Jane Dagmi - 40 min
Have you ever been to High Point Market? If you haven’t, you may be surprised to hear that High Point, North Carolina, is a vibrant city year-round if you know where to go. In this episode, host Michelle Lynne chats with Jane Dagmi about why coming to High Point off-Market will be valuable to your business.
Jane Dagmi is the managing director of High Point x Design (the “x” stands for “by.”), a non-profit organization that champions for High Point as a year-round destination for design, creativity, and innovation by uniting and promoting the city’s resource-rich ecosystem.
In this episode, Michelle & Jane chat about how HPxD got started and how it has evolved over the past year and the goals for High Point Market. Jane also explains what High Point is like during the other 50 weeks of the year.
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Window Treatments for Profit - What Would Lu Do?: Profitability - The Interior Design Trade - 23 min
Today on Window Treatments for Profit, super-host LuAnn Nigara talks about structuring your business for profitability, including every sale, and every project.
There are 3 pillars of profitability, which determine how profitable you will be. I'll talk about them today, so go ahead and grab a pen a paper for this one!
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Design Biz Survival Guide - Garrison Hullinger - Balancing Residential, Commercial and Hospitality Design - 49 min
In today’s episode, host Rick Campos chats with Garrison Hullinger, founder and principal designer of Garrison Hullinger Interior Design. The Portland-based firm has been recognized as one of the 100 fastest-growing businesses in Oregon and SW Washington, but the design journey for Garrison has been one of patience, self-discovery, and reinvention.
In this episode, Rick & Garrison discuss the development and growth of his design career and then dive deep into the process of developing a truly multi-disciplinary design firm. We also discuss the structure and dynamic of his 22-member design team and Garrison’s leadership approach of measuring outcome, not output.
Show Highlights:
How Garrison’s previous career as a processes and software developer transferred into his design career and being a business owner
The balance between residential, commercial, and hospitality design projects
Balancing teams and individual skill sets in each disciple
How employees learn to work as dynamic problem solvers
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The Affluent Creative - Overcoming Client Objections for Designers - 35 min
Receiving objections from clients can feel incredibly uncomfortable without the right frame of mind. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of taking objections personally or resisting them outright. It can feel like your own worth is being rejected.
However, dealing with objections becomes much easier when you can learn to actually welcome them. They can instead become an opportunity to educate your client on the value of your design and the transformation that you are going to create for them.
In today’s episode, host Melissa Galt tackles how to overcome those negative associations with objections. Instead of being afraid and resisting when clients push back, I want to help you embrace them. The goal is to reframe the potential for an objection to be viewed as an opportunity to build more trust, clarity, confidence, and comfort for your client.
In this episode, you will hear:
Ways to reframe your relationship with client objections
Why you should never reduce your fees
The importance of a thorough and vetted client agreement
How to distinguish between objections to overcome versus objections to honor
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The Business of Home Podcast - The mother-daughter duo behind Sister Parish Design are putting "faith over fear" - 1 hr 7 min
Sister Parish was one of the 20th century’s most iconic designers. Working for presidents, celebrities, socialites and titans of industry, she and her partner Albert Hadley crafted a uniquely American style, and their firm, the legendary Parish-Hadley, was a proving ground for a generation of future stars, from Bunny Williams and David Kleinberg to Thomas Jayne and David Easton. Now Parish’s legacy is being carried on into the 21st century as a fabric and wallpaper brand run by her granddaughter Susan Crater and great granddaughter Eliza Harris.
On this episode of the podcast, Susan & Eliza chat with host Dennis Scully about why Sister Parish was an entrepreneur ahead of her time, why they’re embracing both consumers and designers alike, and putting faith over fear as the industry enters a new era.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Design Curious - Want to Elevate Your Interior Design Business? The Power of Coaching for Success - 19 min
Have you ever felt hesitant to ask for help? You’re not alone; most of us hesitate to ask for help too. But, you should know that there is power in asking for help.
In today’s podcast, host & business coach Rebecca Ward talks about how business coaching can elevate your interior design business.
Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:
Identify the value and power of coaching
Learn from my experiences with different coaching programs
Examine the misconceptions about life coaching and discover what they help you with
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