Design Success University is conducting their annual 2011 Interior Design Fee & Salary Survey, and they need your help. As an extra incentive, DSU will award one $100 Amazon gift card per week during the month of November. Four lucky survey participants will win. Click here to take the s
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First and foremost, you're not selling fabrics and furniture. You're selling yourself. That will be my message when I address the Canadian Decorators' Association (CDECA) at 3 -4:30 p.m. on Nov. 7 at the International Center in Mississauga, ON. (Details: http://www.
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Their web sites are hindering rather than helping many design professionals. That's my conclusion after reviewing hundreds of sites of designers, window fashion professionals, kitchen and bath specialists, architects, industry partners and others throughout North America. Most of the sites
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What is it about those interior design professionals who are earning the most money this year? What are they doing -- and not doing -- to make 2011 their best year ever? They run their design businesses in many different ways, but they have one thing in common: They're all following seven s
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How can you finish this year with a flourish? How can you dramatically increase your sales, income and profits in 2012? Key questions, and I'll provide practical and powerful answers to them at my presentation next Tuesday, Oct. 18 to ASID's New Jersey chapter
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My colleague, Gail Doby from Design Success University, is presenting her "Fee Fiascos" webinar tomorrow, and I can't recommend it highly enough. The topic is timely, and the price is right. There's no charge to attend. The program is entitled: "How to Avoid I
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Peggy Morgans used to have a boring website bio. Very boring... It formerly opened this way: "Peggy Morgans is the owner of Parkway Window Works. She has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon
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Tuesday marks the anniversary of International Toot Your Flute Day. That’s a day I created a while back to “sell yourself on the idea of selling yourself — and tell others how good you are.” The day was included in Chase’s Calendar of Annual Events up until recently, when I chose t
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Want to finish 2011 with a flourish? Consider these ideas, from my Big Splash, Little Cash Marketing Materials Manual, on how to generate short term income: + Position yourself as a design professional who helps high end homeowners in your
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Getting new business is not the primary goal of Facebook's 50 million users. But many interior design professionals are creating a "buzz" -- and new customers -- by adding Facebook to their marketing mix. How are they doing it? By directing traffic to their
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