How to Start a Home-Based Interior Design Business, 3rd (Home-Based Business Series) (Paperback)

by Suzanne DeWalt (Author)

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Product Description
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.


From the Back Cover
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.


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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 3rd edition (January 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762724811
• ISBN-13: 978-0762724819
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #704,965 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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113 of 115 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Should be called "How to Start a Drapery Business", January 17, 2000

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

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars how to start a home drapery business, August 7, 2003

By A Customer

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.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book gave me the courage!, August 26, 2002

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 felt
that 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!