Completely revised and updated, this guide includes the author's experiences and advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based interior design business. It covers everything from developing a business plan and estimating start-up costs to pricing the services and staying profitable once in business.
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Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based interior design business? Have you been hesitant to put your business plans into action? This book contains all the necessary tools and success strategies you need to successfully launch and grow your own business.
Author Suzanne DeWalt shares her experiences and advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based interior design business. She will show you how to develop a business plan, estimate your start-up costs, price your services, publicize your business and stay profitable.
Learn all about getting clients and referrals, outshining the competition, bidding competitively, managing your sales, organizing your business, getting paid and much more.
Also included are these special features and workbooks pages: Start-up cost Worksheet, Products and Services list, Sample Balance Worksheet, Profit-and-Loss Worksheet, Cash-Flow Projections Worksheet, Vendor Sale Sheet, Change Order and Bid Sheet.
Author Suzanne DeWalt shares her experiences and advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based interior design business. She will show you how to develop a business plan, estimate your start-up costs, price your services, publicize your business and stay profitable.
Learn all about getting clients and referrals, outshining the competition, bidding competitively, managing your sales, organizing your business, getting paid and much more.
Also included are these special features and workbooks pages: Start-up cost Worksheet, Products and Services list, Sample Balance Worksheet, Profit-and-Loss Worksheet, Cash-Flow Projections Worksheet, Vendor Sale Sheet, Change Order and Bid Sheet.
About the Author
New Braunfels resident Suzanne DeWalt started her own home-based interior design business in Texas in 1988, successfully growing and expanding the enterprise. She has also worked as a representative for a carpet, window covering, and fabric manufacturer.
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119 of 122 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Should be called "How to Start a Drapery Business",
By A Customer
This review is from: How to Start a Home Based Interior Design Business (Paperback)
The title is truly misleading. The authors "Interior Design" Business is a window covering business. She sells window coverings, flooring and wallcoverings but is apparantly not a designer. Don't expect any in depth advice on working with clients creating integrated room plans, using trade-only showrooms etc. If you want to focus on one aspect of the business, simply selling floor or window coverings, great. But, I feel cheated even though this book was inexpensive
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
how to start a home drapery business,
By A Customer
This review is from: How to Start a Home-Based Interior Design Business, 3rd (Home-Based Business Series) (Paperback)
i definitely agree with the other comment that it's all about window coverings. interior design is not all about window treatments and trying to sell products to your clients. interior design is about designing the homes of your clients. definitely a misleading book.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book gave me the courage!,
By A Customer
This review is from: How to Start a Home Based Interior Design Business (Paperback)
This is exactly the book I've been looking for. I completed my degree, but still feltthat I needed some "real world" guidance. This book did that. The author explained the how to things that I couldn't figure out, like where to find the business, how to estimate jobs, where to buy the stuff, etc. I love this book!
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