Archive for November, 2008

Why Interior Designers Need Websites

Recently, GDM had the pleasure of making the aquantaince of Faith Monson, success consultant.  Faith is “crazy about two things - design and making things happen.”  Faith works with design firms and creative professionals around the country to help them “develop successful promotional campaigns to raise their visibility in trade magazines and the news media.” [...]

What Sets You Apart as a Designer?

What sets you apart as a designer?  Imagine being able to offer your clients a true vision of what their design project will look like when complete.  With Gibson Design Management’s CAD Services, your design firm has that capability.  Our members find this to be an excellent marketing tool.  These renderings enable you to provide [...]

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Let our rendering team create two 3D Renderings for your design firm between now and December 31, 2008 and you’ll receive 10 hours of CAD Services for future projects free, a $250 value.
Kitchen 3D Rendering - Gibson Design Management

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Great Resources for Protecting your “Valuables”

What do you consider valuable?  Your diamond wedding ring, a prized art collection, that set of china you inherited from your beloved grandmother?  What about the “valuables” stored on your computer?  Isn’t it critical that we ensure our information (files, documents, contacts, emails, calendar) is safe should our computer malfunction, get stolen, or not survive [...]

Gibson Design Management article featured on Ava Living

Ava Living launched their redesigned site this morning.  It will now feature more editorial content and great information that you can use as a designer.
Check out the website as GDM has a featured article about Thriving Now as an interior designer.
Click here to read the article.
TOPIC: BUSINESS OF DESIGN
Thrive Now
Alexandra Gibson, CEO, Gibson Design Management
Focus [...]

Want to improve productivity? The best approach might just be to take a day off.

That might seem like some strange advice, but sometimes a day off is exactly the right medicine.  Let’s face it, many of us in the interior design industry are either in business for ourselves or working at a small, close-knit firm where the lines between work and not can become a little blurry.  We love [...]

Do you waffle with your target market?

John Jantsch, the Duct Tape Marketing guru, recently posted this on his blog.
Are you waffling?

As interior designers, we often try to be all things to all people.  He argues to narrow your target market as much as humanly possible.  Is it possible that when we try to be all things to all people, we become [...]