Design Business Freedom
By Melissa Galt
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What if you had a business coach who was a creative just like you, and could ask them about how they built a successful business they love? That's what we do each week on Design Business Freedom. Hosted by Melissa Galt –– award winning business coach, marketing consultant, and interior designer with over 3 decades of creative experience –– every episode is an in-depth look at how to create systems and processes, increase your confidence, and build a quality team to support you. The goal is to give you the information and resources you need to avoid being overworked and undervalued, and help you earn more in less time with less stress.
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168: The Hidden Costs of Interior Design Success (And How to Take Back Your Profit)
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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167: Creative Comeback Rituals to Reignite Your Design Genius
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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166: Lead With Imagination: The Interior Designer's Edge in a Data-Driven World
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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165: Crafting Your Digital Twin: AI Meets Your Personal Interior Design Brand
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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164: The Human Advantage in an AI World for Interior Designers
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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163: The 15 Best Uses of AI in Your Interior Design Practice, Right Now
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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162: How to Get Your Interior Design Firm Found by AI
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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161: Are You Over Automating Your Interior Design Business?
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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160: The Interior Design Client Experience Map & Journey
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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159: Create Design Demand to Fill Your Profit Pipeline
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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158: Design Flat Fees Done Right
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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157: Stop Hiding & Get Hired by High-End Design Clients
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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156: Breakthrough to 7-Figures in Interior Design
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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155: The Designer's Guide for Thriving in Tough Times
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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154: #1 Silent Success Killer in Your Interior Design Business
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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153: How Much Does an Interior Designer Make?
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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152: Interior Design is the Ultimate Deal: No Discount Required
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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151: Tame Your Inner Imposter: Escape the Interior Design Comparison Trap
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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150: The One Marketing Move for Interior Design Clients, Cash, and Confidence
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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149: Skip the Scope Creep: The Design Agreement that Safeguards Your Sanity
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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148: Speak The Language of Luxury Design to Attract Top Clients
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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147: Charge Your Worth in Interior Design, Without Apology
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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146: Your Interior Design Freedom Starts Here
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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145: How to Leverage Every Project for Future Profit
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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144: Bootstrapping Your Interior Design Business: My Start Up Story
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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143: From Employee to Entrepreneur: Launching Your Own Interior Design Firm
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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142: Break the Bottleneck in Your Interior Design Business
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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141: The Interior Designer's Secret Weapon to Q4 Success
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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140: From Poverty to Limitless Profit: Your Interior Designer Mindset
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May 26, 2025 |
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139: The High Cost of Waiting for Interior Design Success
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May 19, 2025 |
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138: Delegate to Elevate: How Interior Designers Can Get More Done
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May 12, 2025 |
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137: When MORE Is NOT the Answer
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May 05, 2025 |
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136: Attracting High End Interior Design Clients Authentically
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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135: Interior Design Marketing that Works in 2025
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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134: From Interior Design Inquiry to Raving Fan — Creating a Seamless Client Journey
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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133: Smart Pricing Strategies for Interior Designers
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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132: 5 Surefire Steps to MORE Design Success
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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131: 7 Low Cost, Quick Strategies to Get Design Clients
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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130: The Cure for Uncertain Times in Interior Design
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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129: Is this the Interior Design Business Solution You Need?
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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128: Your Design High Point Market Planner, Inside Now
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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127: Boost Profitability Today With Design Sponsorship
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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126: How to Grow Your Interior Design Practice with Profit Partners
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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125: Upscale Your Interior Design Lifestyle for MORE Ideal Clients
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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124: 5 Interior Design Marketing Essentials for More Clients, NOW
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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123: 7 Essential Criteria for Selecting Your Next Design Project
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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122: Dissolve Your Design Business Fears
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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121: 21 Mindset Hacks to Drive Interior Design Success
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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120: What's Your Word of the Year?
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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119: Overcoming Your Fears for Greater Design Success
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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118: Stretch Yourself for Greater Design Success
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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117: How Incompletions Hurt Your Design Business
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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116: Design Success Without the Sacrifice
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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115: Your Secret Weapon for Interior Design Success
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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114: Are You Breaking the Law in Your Design Practice?
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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113: Are You Avoiding Design Success?
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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112: 10 Fast Steps to MORE Design Profit & Clients
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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111: 15 MORE Psychological & Emotional Triggers to Sell MORE Design
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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110: 15 Triggers to Sell MORE Design
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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109: The 70% Solution for Your Designer Perfectionism
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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108: 10 Big Little Things Killing Your Design Business
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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107: What Are You Tolerating?
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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106: Your Perfect Design Agreement
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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105: Your Perfect Design Agreement
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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104: Your Interior Design Feasibility Package
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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103: Profitable Interior Design Discovery
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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102: 7 Myths of Client Money Talks
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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101: Is Pay to Play Design PR Worth It?
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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100: You Are Only as Good as Your Sources
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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099: Interior Design Business Recession Remedies
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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098: Interior Design as a Second Career: You Have What It Takes
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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097: Your True Value as an Interior Designer
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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096: 15 MORE Tips for Design Business Efficiency (Part 2)
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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095: Saving Time & Money with AI
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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094: 10 Tips for an Efficient Design Business, Part 1
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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093: 5 Steps to Get Everything You Want
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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092: 45 Ways to Stop Doing Too Much
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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091: Your Vision Board is Broken: How to Fix It
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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090: How to Prioritize Your Profit
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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089: How To Prepare For MORE Profit
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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088: 5 Ways To Beat Overwhelm
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May 27, 2024 |
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087: Are You Using the F– Word In Your Business?
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May 20, 2024 |
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086: Your Clients Aren't Qualified, Take the Lead
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May 13, 2024 |
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085: Mastering Client Testimonials, Referrals, and Photography to Propel Creative Business Success
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May 06, 2024 |
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084: Build Your Business Around Travel & Thrive! Success Story with Megan Siason of M Studio Interior Design
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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083: Uncover the Home's Interior Potential (Design Discovery 3)
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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082: Design Discovery that Guarantees You Land the Project
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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081: The Four Steps to Landing Every Project
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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080: Money Personalities for More Profit: Bethany Palmer of Interiors by Bethany in Colorado Springs, CO
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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079: If She'd Only Met Me 8 Years Ago
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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078: Your Library Card to Designer PR Opportunities Without the PR Firm Commitment with guest Molly Schoneveld Founder & CEO of The Storied Group
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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077: Getting Published To Get More Ideal Clients
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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076: How Being Cheap Is Killing Your Profits
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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075: Thriving in Economic Uncertainty: Growth and Stability Tactics for Design Businesses
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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074: Think & Get Clients
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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073: Are Your Clients Allies or Obstacles?
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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072: 4 Must-Haves for Every Client
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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071: The Power of One
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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070: What To Do If You Get A Bad Review
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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069: 7.5 Weekly Questions To Grow You And Your Business
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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068: C.R.E.A.T.E. a More Profitable Practice
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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067: Guaranteed Growth From Every Project
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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066: 7 Steps to Your Best Design Year Ever
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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065: The Language of Luxury
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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064: What Your Affluent Clients Want
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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063: Mastering the Art of Hiring and Onboarding in Creative Businesses
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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062: Who Your Brand Needs To Be For Affluent Clients, Part 2
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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061: Who Your Brand Needs To Be For Affluent Clients, Part 1
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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060: When You Let Love Lead, Business Grows: Meet Jenna Wedemeyer of Schnabel Interiors in Lexington KY
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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059: What to Release for More Revenue
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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058: Your 4 Ingredients for Higher Profits
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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057: Unlocking the Principles of Profit: Harnessing Social Media for Your Creative Business
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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056: 7 Unexpected Ways to Amplify Your Client Base in the Creative Industry
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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055: From Zero to $1.5M in 18 Months with Lisa Scott
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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054: Hybrid Career Designer Deanne Bridenstine on Hiding Your Stuff
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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053: Unlocking Business Growth with Effective Design Contracts: An In-depth Guide
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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052: What To Do When Inquiries Aren't Coming In
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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051: Your Clients Aren't Qualified, Take the Lead
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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050: Where Your Focus Goes, Finances Grow
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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049: Get Your Team to Get More Done
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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048: Your Permission Slip to Play (for More Profit)
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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047: The Ultimate Sourcing System for More Profit
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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046: When You Break Your Process, You Break Your Profit
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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045: 10 Secrets to Get Yourself out of the Comparison Trap
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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044: Your Creative Business Wouldn't Exist Without This, Take Care Of It!
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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043: How Perfectionism is Killing Your Profits and What to Do About It
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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042: 7 Signs You're Stuck in a Business Rut & 7 Ways to Get Out Of It
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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041: What Are The Three G's for a Successful Business?
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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040: How to Work With Contractors Without Losing Your Mind
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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039: 7.5 Weekly Questions To Grow You And Your Business
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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038: Building Your Circle of Influence and Income
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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037: When Bad Business Habits Happen to Good Designers
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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036: 15 Reasons You May Not Be Getting Hired
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May 29, 2023 |
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035: How to Get More Done in Less Time
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May 22, 2023 |
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034: The 20 Keys to Effective Client Communication
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May 15, 2023 |
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033: How To Be Your Design Client's Superhero
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May 08, 2023 |
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032: Is Your Marketing Working?
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May 01, 2023 |
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031: How To Reclaim Your Productivity & Profit From Procrastination
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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030: Designer Tips to Maximize High Point Market Experience
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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029: How to Sell the Design Dream
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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028: Are You Forgetting Your Clients?
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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027: Overcoming Client Objections for Designers
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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026: The Fast Path to Revenue Referrals for Designers
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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025: Harness the Power of Instagram to Build Your Brand, Part 2: Hashtags and Who To Follow
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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024: Harness the Power of Instagram to Build Your Brand, Part 1
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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023: The 12 Social Media Principles of Profit
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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022: Multiply Each Project Investment To Maximize Profit
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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021: Creating Profitable Client Expectations Every Time
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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020: Outsource Online for Ultimate Flexibility
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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019: Interviewing Tips and Tricks for Hires that Stick
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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018: How To Hire Local Assistants Right the First Time
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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017: 7 Unexpected Ways to Get Clients When You're Starting Out or Stuck
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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016: When and How to Fire a Client
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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015: The Welcome Kit That Wins Clients
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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014: The Three G's for a Successful Business
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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013: The Right Design Agreement To Protect Your Profit & Peace of Mind
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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012: Five Steps to Planning Your Best Design Year Ever!
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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011: How To Prepare For Uncertain Economic Times
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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010: Never Worry About Money Again When You Learn to Fuel the Soul of Your Business
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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009: Taking Care of WHO Matters Most In Your Business
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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008: How Being Cheap Is Killing Your Profits
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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007: Lead Generation to Fill Your Profit Pipeline
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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006: How To Define & Identify Your Ideal Hot & Buying Client
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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005: How To Stop Hiding In Your Business and Get Hired
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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004: How To Reclaim Hours Each Week
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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003: How to Charge Your Value: A Money & Value Episode
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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002: You've Got This, I've Got You
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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001: The Story You Didn't Know
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Welcome to the Affluent Creative!
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Aug 29, 2022 |