Finance
End-of-the-Year Financial Housekeeping
The end of the year is fast approaching (we probably didn’t have to remind you!). A few things to keep in mind so that you can turn over an organized file to your accountant in January:
1. Make all of your charitable contributions before the end of the year in order to get [...]
Design Investors: Venture Capital for Architects and Interior Designers
I can’t begin to explain how ecstatic I was to see this article posted yesterday on Fast Company’s website. It’s about time that 1. the extremely complex nature of the interior design industry was brought to the forefront and 2. the industry, in and of itself, garnered respect as an industry of professionals and not [...]
Cash is King
This is the first part of a multi-part series of lessons learned from Inc. Magazine’s GrowCo conference. These lessons have been translated and applied to the interior design industry for relevance.
Dr. Ram Charan, author of Execution and Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty and former Harvard Business School faculty member, gave a [...]
Get Paperwork in Order
Day Ten of our 12 Day Countdown - Suggestions for things you can do this month to prepare for a fabulous 2009! It seems like we’ve officially hit the holiday season with the start of this week. Most designers I know are taking this week and next off to enjoy the holidays with their family and friends. Today, [...]
“What Designers Earn” Survey
Designing Profits, Inc. performed a major national survey of interior designers this year. These survey results are now available for purchase on their website ($89). From the DPI site: “This package contains both the actual results of the 2008 “What Designers Earn” survey, and David Shepherd’s 38 minute PowerPoint presentation with audio voice over. More [...]
Protecting Your Interior Design Firm in our Current Climate
With the fall of Lehman, the Merrill Lynch acquisition, and the AIG fiasco, many of us could be left scratching our heads and wondering, “What could possibly protect my business if these giants can’t even hold it together?”
I watch CNBC every morning. In the last few weeks, there has been a recurring theme that these [...]
