Hi!: 1 New ASID Course; Bye!: 4 Others

In with the new, out with the old. Grumpier Old Men release ASID has included my newest course, "Supersize Your Success : 7 steps to Peak Profits in Challenging Economic Times," in its  2009-10 Distinguished Speakers Series. Dropped from the DSS lineup are four other courses I have taught the past

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Higher Profits are Just a (Coach) Call Away

What if, despite this challenging economy, you can substantially increase the fees you set and get within 30 days? What if you can land bigger projects with better clients? What if you can beat and actually benefit from this recession, and earn your highest income ever? Well, you can -- and you will

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Interior Design Fees: Get Out of Your Own Way

Only one person is holding you back from earning the kind of income you want and deserve in these challenging times. That one person isn't a competitor or client. Darkman III: Die Darkman Die the movie That one person is you, because you're not giving yourself permission to charge what you’re w

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Interior Designers Who Cut Fees Pay A Price

Interior Designers Who Cut Fees Pay A Price

  The Black Pimpernel psp Thinking of reducing your fees in these challenging times? Don't you dare! Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd movie full Doc Hollywood Of all the bad ways for design professionals to cope with this economy, price cutting may be the worst. It's bad for your f

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Interior Design Selling Made Simple, by Top Window Fashion Dealers

.!. The most successful dealers of  the most expensive window treatments do little things to make big sales. The Little Shop of Horrors rip That was a key takeaway from an award-winning research project I conducted in behalf of Hunter Douglas on the sales of  Luminette Privacy Sheers. In the proj

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Your "Only" Could Win You a $300 Prize!

Your "Only" Could Win You a $300 Prize!

I'm so pumped up about personal "only" commercials that I may give you a gift worth $300 for yours. Two rules: 1/ Your commercial must include the word "Only," and 2/  I must receive your "only" commercial by  11:59 p.m.  on April 30.  Please email your entry to me at Fred@FredBerns.com Walk the

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Interior Design Website Visitors Aren't Following Orders

A whopping 98 per cent of the people who visit your website don't take a next step. They leave your site without signing up for anything, ordering anything, contacting you, or doing whatever else you tell them to do, according to a Google survey I learned about yesterday. All of which means you're s

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