Business Development
3 Easy Excel Formatting Tips
I wouldn’t tell this to just anyone, but I love working in excel. It is such a powerful tool that is too often underutilized. In the design industry it can improve your business no matter what purchase order management program you use. If you are struggling to make your spreadsheets look just right look, [...]
What Do Interior Designers Really Do?
If you are an interior designer, you’ve probably been asked this question. Or you’ve at least had to correct someone who thinks that your job consists of picking out fabric and paint colors (solely). If you are not an interior designer, you might actually wonder what it is that these creative interior designers do?
The good [...]
Snowpocalypse: Snowed In with Business Books
If you are in the Mid-Atlantic region you know what I speak of when I refer to the weekend’s blizzard as Snowpocalypse (or Snowmageddon). It was major snowfall, even for this Idaho girl. We ventured out briefly to trot around the city and take pictures of the sites in the snow, but most of the [...]
Social Media Success: Pizza Guy Delivers
For those of you who think that you just need to have a Facebook page, tweet, and do some blogging, think again. You actually need to use them as tools to get results. Ramon DeLeon, owner of 7 Domino’s Pizzas, is the king of monitoring what people are saying about his brand. He doesn’t just [...]
Social Media Success: Pizza Guy Delivers
For those of you who think that you just need to have a Facebook page, tweet, and do some blogging, think again. You actually need to use them as tools to get results. Ramon DeLeon, owner of 7 Domino’s Pizzas, is the king of monitoring what people are saying about his brand. He doesn’t just [...]
Latest Business Crush- Brains on Fire
Like an amorous high schooler (but less creepy), I occasionally run across companies that I develop a severe business crush on.
My latest company crush is on a Greenville, South Carolina identity and branding company called Brains on Fire. I am obsessed with the culture that they’ve created and enamored with the fact that their website [...]
A Vision for the New Year
Now that the New Year is upon us, we find ourselves cleaning up the holiday leftovers and formulating resolutions. This year instead of pledging to improve your life through diet, developing your tennis serve, or organizing your travel photo’s, I challenge all of you to look around and see what compels you. Think about what [...]
Why Your Design Firm Makes Less Than It Should
Contrary to popular belief, an interior designer’s job does not consist primarily of design time. This is not the sexy vision that young men and women dream about when they enter design school but it’s the reality that any seasoned designer can confirm. Project management and project administration are the largest part of being an [...]
Hope, Faith, and Football
On January 1, 2007, the Boise State Broncos shocked the country by upsetting the powerhouse known as the Oklahoma Sooners in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. At the same time, the Broncos showed, in a David vs. Goliath battle, that hope, faith, and preparedness can be recipe for greatness.
I was lucky enough to be at this [...]
Empower Your People To Make It Right
Recently our design firm ordered a few light fixtures for a project from Unilight out of Montreal, Canada. The project was under renovation so the fixtures needed to arrive before the contractor left to avoid extra charges. Two bathroom sconces shipped, one lacked a back plate.
After contacting Unilight to get a back plate shipped, it [...]
