12-Aug-2011

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Alexandra to Present at IIDA’s Recognizing Excellence Awards Gala (RE:Awards)

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Re:Awards invitationThe IIDA’s Recognizing Excellence Awards Gala is being held this weekend in New Orleans, masquerade style. The theme this year is “Unmasking Great Design,” and Alexandra Gibson will be there to tell you how to “Unmask Great Business.”

As a precursor to this event, you can download a free resource guide on why content and education should be essential elements of your website.


Resource Guide: Why Content and Education are Important on your Site


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About the event:
“The Recognizing Excellence Awards (Re:Awards) Gala is a celebration and awards ceremony announcing the winners of the individual professional service awards and design competition entries. The Individual Awards honor and recognize the contributions of individual Delta Regional Chapter IIDA members over the past year. The design competition will celebrate outstanding examples of designed interior spaces from the Delta Regional Chapter IIDA members by recognizing the work of peers, promoting public awareness of design excellence, and elevating the interior design profession. This year’s Re:Awards theme of “Unmasking Great Design” celebrates the Pride of Delta Regional in a New Orleans style masquerade theme. Participants are welcome to use the provided mask in the invitation packet. Or, show off your creativity and design talent for the mask competition during the event!”

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28-Oct-2010

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Seminar: Promoting Your Design Firm through Social Media

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Join Gibson Design Management’s CEO, Alexandra Gibson, on Tuesday, November 2 (election day – don’t forget to vote, of course) from 2:00-3:00pm to learn more about new digital ways to promote your interior design firm. She’ll give you not only the overview of how online marketing is changing the way that your clients find you and interact with you but will also give you a list of real tools so that you can get started when you get back to the office.

The presentation is sponsored, and will be held at, the J. Lambeth showroom in the Washington DC Design Center. Come early and see Lloyd Princeton talk about marketing interior design at 11 am!  RSVP: tonia@jlambeth.com

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27-Sep-2010

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Alexandra Writes Foreword for Interior Design Book

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We have some exciting news! The recently published Interior Design Clients: The Designer’s Guide to Building and Keeping a Great Clientele by Thomas L. Williams features a foreword written by Alexandra– and we’d like to wish her a big congratulations!

Here’s a quick summary, provided by Amazon: “Clients are the lifeblood of any interior design firm and a sound understanding of how to manage those clients is essential.  Interior Design Clients is an informative yet fun read for entrepreneurial designers interested in gaining a better understanding of how to build and manage their clientele.”

Make sure you order a copy and see what Alexandra has to say!

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20-Jul-2010

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Gaspedal’s Word of Mouth Supergenius Conference

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One of our favorite companies, Gaspedal, is holding their second Word of Mouth Marketing Supergenius conferences in New York today, July 20th.  Amanda attended the first in Chicago in December and found it to be one of the best days—full of information on how to find your brand’s influencers and encouraging them to talk about you.

Alexandra is also a graduate of the Word of Mouth Crash Course, an intensive day in a small group with Gaspedal in Chicago.

These guys are class acts and they provide conferences with tremendous speakers and today it has continued.  Stay tuned on our blog, LeftBrainsforRightBrains.com for more about the conference from Alexandra and Amanda when they return from their trip to NYC!

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15-Jun-2010

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Alexandra on Expert ASID Panel about Web and Social Media

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Tomorrow, June 16, Alexandra will sit on the expert social media panel for the Virginia ASID, Capital Region.

ASID VirginiaWhen: June 16, 2010
Time: 6:00-7:00 PM discussion, social following
Place: The Wine Loft mezzanine level – Short Pump location
What: Expert panel and open discussion about web and social media and how these sites, blogging can drive traffic back to designer’s websites – intermediate level discussion Meeting charge: 5.00 members, etc.
See additional event details on the flyer below. RSVP to Sharlyn Underwood at asidmail@yahoo.com or 804.370.5616.
Payments can be received in advance through Paypal. Send money to asidmail@yahoo.com.
Capital Region – June 16th – Social Media (249 kb download)

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15-Jun-2010

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Alexandra, CEO, Speaks in LEAD Business Seminar at Darden

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LEAD-2007-Class-PictureEach summer UVA’s Darden Business School selects a group of academically gifted and multitalented high school juniors to attend their Leadership Education and Development Program in Business (LEAD) . This morning, Alexandra, CEO, spoke with these gifted students about best social media business practices and was extremely impressed by the level of responsive questions and comments she received!

Alexandra: “If I was half as smart as one of those high school juniors from this morning, I think I would be in good shape.”

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14-Jun-2010

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Lolly, Our Senior Associate, is Married!

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It was an exciting weekend for the Gibson team, but especially for our Senior Associate, Lolly, as she married Tyler in a beautiful ceremony in Charlottesville.  View some of the beautiful photos from her wedding day.

We love you, Lolly!  Congratulations!

Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Lux

Beautiful wedding photo of the happy couple, by Cramer Photo

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27-May-2010

Posted by : Alexandra

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New Service: 3D Animations/Interior Fly-Throughs!

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We’re very excited to be rolling out a new service as part of our 3D and CAD services…
3D animated walk-throughs!

Add animation to your toolbox and show potential clients the vision for the project before it is a reality.  Wondering how these animated walk-throughs can help your business?  Read Alexandra’s blog post for 3 helpful tips.

Check out our sample video!

Contact Alexandra for more information today on adding animated walk-throughs.

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21-May-2010

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Event Recap: Blogging To Build Your Brand (Denver, CO)

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Alexandra Gibson, CEO, Gibson Design ManagementAlexandra presented at the Grange Furniture Inc showroom for the Rocky Mountain Designers’ Market at Denver Design District last week. The presentation, entitled “Blogging to Build Your Brand and Your Bottom Line,” covered how a blog can be a great way to better build your brand, to attract your ideal client, and to ultimately help your bottom line. And of course, martinis were served!

A special thanks to Grange and the Grange showroom in Denver for inviting Alexandra to speak. See the powerpoint that accompanied the talk here:

Blogging to Build Your Brand

Blogging to Build Your Brand

View the slideshow presentation!

My presentation will cover how a blog can be a great way to better build your brand, to attract your ideal client, and to ultimately help your bottom line.

Special thanks to Grange and the Grange showroom in Denver for inviting me to speak.

Of course, martinis will be served.

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13-Apr-2010

Posted by : Alexandra

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GDM Facelift

Category : Website Updates

Please bear with us while the Gibson Design Management website is going through a few revisions.  If you need to contact us about membership, please e-mail Alexandra at alexandra@gibsondesignmanagement.com.

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