7 Ways to Grow Your Business to the Next Level

If you are serious about growing your business to the next level, then follow the advice of author and speaker Mike Michalowicz and don’t wait – take action – with a plan in mind. Following are some recommendations to help guide you as you begin to grow your business to the next level! 1. Focus…

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Hard Skills and Soft Skills for Designers

Ask an interior designer what’s something they didn’t learn in design school that they wish they had, and they are likely to mention how to deal with clients. The same is true for other creatives. Graphic designers, photographers, architects and illustrators, many of whom are self-employed or work in a small firm, all struggle with…

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The Technology that Keeps GDCC Running Smoothly

Are you taking advantage of available software to more effectively and efficiently manage your business?  Here is a quick review of software that GDCC uses and that you may want to consider integrating into your business if you are not currently doing so. Business Tool Suite G Suite is a product set including Gmail, Google…

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Which Business Model is Right for You?

Have you taken the time to ask yourself what business model is right for you, for your lifestyle and for the vision you have for your business?  Is your business controlling you or are you in control of your business?  Does it allow you time for other priorities in your life – family, friends, community,…

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Implement Systems in Your Business to Stay Sane

Imagine if every time you sat behind the wheel of your car the controls had changed and you had to learn how to operate it all over again.  On a normal day, it would make you crazy.  In an emergency, it would be crippling.  That’s what it’s like to run a business without the proper…

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A Successful Business is Your Real Art

If I were to ask you how do you think of yourself, as an interior designer who has a business or as a business owner who offers design services, what would you say?  Most designers I know consider themselves interior designers first and foremost.  They happen to have a business because they prefer not to…

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Build Your Business by Hiring Strategically

By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Photo Credit: Stark Photography Less than ten years ago, Garrison Hullinger was a successful project manager with Old Navy when he suffered a work-related brain injury that required him to relearn how to walk, read and write. During his recovery, on the…

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Focused on the Top Line Instead of the Bottom Line?

By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting and Design Success University How do you measure your business’s success? If you follow the financial news, you might assume what matters most are your revenues, the amount of money flowing into your bank account. That’s the top line on your profit…

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Creating Your Company Culture

Photo Credit: @bakerbroductions Your company culture includes a number of elements and defines the personality of your company. It includes your company’s mission, values and ethics as well as describing the environment in which your employees work and your expectations of them. Your company culture can be effective in attracting and retaining employees that are…

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