What Would A Designer Do?

👆👆This is something that I think most new Interior Designers struggle with their first year in business.
I know I did.🙋‍♀️

🙈🙈That shyness when asking for money for your services - wanting to go the extra mile to just keep a client happy. Telling yourself if you make your Client happy, no matter what, it'll stand to you in the long run with a good review or a great photoshoot for your portfolio!🤷‍♀️

🙏🙏Well that's all lovely. But it's no use to you or your happy clients if you go broke and your business fails!!
🙇‍♀️It's also a sure-fire way to lose the respect of your clients and have them walk all over you. 😬😬

💫💫So how do you break this cycle early in your business and start commanding your true value?

👋👋Well, I'm here to tell you that asking for payment is what your clients expect. It's part of the process!!

💰💰Here are 5 things you can do to avoid awkward money conversations and ensure you get paid properly;

1️⃣ Package your services as modules that clients can purchase and add on as they need them. Eg - package 1, the drawing set, package 2, specification and sourcing package, package 3 construction management etc

2️⃣ Charge upfront for your services or 50% on commencement of each phase and 50% close to delivery or on a specific trigger date.

3️⃣ Track your time meticulously using a time tracker for any services you offer by the hour, such as shopping trips, project management etc.

4️⃣ Make sure your client knows the phases of work in advance and the trigger dates for each payment as well as clearly understanding how your hourly rates work. Offer hourly packages in advance - eg buy 10 hours upfront.

5️⃣ Detail the scope of work to be performed clearly at the start of the project and get signed agreement on that scope. Make it known that any scope creep will add to the cost.

👋👋If you're new here, Hi 👋 I'm Caroline. I'm an Interior Architect running a busy Design Business.

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👋5 Key Questions to Ask When Meeting New Interiors Suppliers. They're probably not what you think!! 👉👉 Scroll the images above to see 😃😃

🤗Whether you're meeting new suppliers at Trade Shows or visiting their Showrooms, it's important to have ALL the information you need, before placing your first order.🤔🤔

New Sketchup Course Launching 10th January 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Scroll the images above for answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about the course.
Feel free to DM me if you have any questions I haven't answered here. 🥰

Caroline x

Do you need to go to college to become an Interior Designer??
👉👉Scroll through the images to find out.

💫💫Don't forget, if you're interested to learn Sketchup, DM me and I will send you more info on my upcoming Sketchup Courses.🥳🥳🥳

Want to know the 7 steps I follow in almost every design project I work on? 💫

Swipe through to learn how I take a design from initial concept right through to delivery and completion, including the tools of the trade I use every day 💥

7 steps:
👉 Concept Development
👉 Space Planning
👉 3D Modelling and Materials Concepts
👉 Construction Drawings
👉 Client Presentation
👉 Sourcing and Ordering
👉 Project Management

Swipe Through 👉
If you're an Interior Designer, Design Enthusiast or a Soon To Be Designer With A Longing To Learn More About Design, this is the program for you!

Are you struggling to
💡Present your Design Concepts and Ideas to Clients?
💡Wishing You Could Create Beautiful 3Ds to Help Clients Understand Your Vision?
💡Struggling to Learn Sketchup from Free Videos and Tutorials?
💡Hand Drawing Your Designs or Paying Expensive CAD Technicians to Draw on Your Behalf?
💡Struggling to Communicate Your Ideas To Trades On Site?

Time For A Change ✋🛑🚦

Learn How To:

⭐Create Beautiful 3D Designs
⭐Communicate Visually With Your Clients
⭐Design Luxury Cabinetry
⭐Create Stunning Fly Through 3D Videos
⭐Draw Perfect Plans and Elevations to Communicate Design Intent to Trades On Site
⭐Build Your Business By Offering All Of This 👆 As A New Design Service (PS You Can Charge A Lot For This)

If you're tired of trying to learn Sketchup from free videos and wasting your time, and you'd like to learn from a trained designer in one comprehensive program, then hit the link in my bio 💕

You will have lifetime access and can start as soon as the course launches on 10th November.

PS 50% Early Bird Discount when you sign up before 10th November. 🥰

7 things you can do as an interior designer to make your client experience exceptional. Scroll to read!

Exciting news!
Our new account is live!
Join us there to see our live projects, get expert Interior Design Ideas and tips and for general Interior Design gorgeousness 😍

But if you're someone who has ever dreamed of starting your own Interior Design Business and you wish you could find more info about the ins and outs of Interior Design Business, then stick around with me on this page too .🤗

Having a 16 year Marketing career behind me and then going back to college at night to re-train and change my career in my mid-thirties so I could follow my passion and become an Interior Designer - I've picked up a thing or two along the way about this business.

I've als set up and run 2 successful businesses in the past.😉 So I've learned a trick or two!

So I'd love to now bring my combination of Marketing, Business and Design skills to this account specifically () to help anyone who has a real passion for Interior Design and a longing to know more about how to start out in the Interior Design Business.

So this page will now be more focused on;

✅ Behind the Scenes of starting up and growing our new Interior Design Business
✅ Teaching Sketchup - the main 3D software used by Designers
✅ Showing you how to find clients for your Interior Design Business
✅ How to market and sell your design services
✅ Pricing structures for Designers
✅ Lead generation for Designers
✅ The complexities of the Design and construction industry and how to overcome them.
✅ And much much more..

So, I hope that will be of interest to some people 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️💕
And if not, no probs - join us over on for some Interiors fabulosity😉 xx

Happy Friday all
Xx Caroline