Use weather words to describe a new government report on the interior design job outlook, and the forecast is Partly Sunny. Or, for that matter, Partly Cloudy. The good news in the study by the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS) is that there will be plenty of demand for d
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"There always will be those who say you take too long and you charge too much." The words of Alex Chapman, one of Toronto's best-known residential designers. And wise words they are. If you're a design professional, you're going to run into price objections. They come with the territory -- an
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What do you say when they say you're "too expensive?" If there's one thing that design trade professionals dread, it's price objections. It's gotta be the No. 1 frustration they express when I coach them, or speak to them at my programs around the world. That's why dealing with price objecti
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