Start Your Own Interior Design Business and Keep It Growing!: Your Guide to Business Success : Touch of Design (Paperback)

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"A business start-up guide and a career skills manual for designers, this reference manual is a storehouse of info. gleaned from years of experience from a So. California design firm. It provides guidelines for everything you can think of when starting your own design business as well as info on how to secure interior design jobs, keeping customers satisfied and making money." -- Vocational Educational Journal

Product Description

Are you thinking about starting your own interior design business? Do you want to make your present interior design business into a profitable success? Then read this information-packed book. The information is applicable for design professionals, interior designers, decorators, and consumers considering their own interior design business.

Packed full of successful, useful, practical, helpful, and profitable ideas for anyone starting or growing an interior design business! This easy-reading book will offer these solutions (and much, much more).

How to: Start your own interior design business Ensure business success Productively bid on assignments Provide quality customer service Troubleshoot the job Handle collection problems Avoid costly mistakes Charge for all your time Market without advertising Effectively answer customer objections Do credit checks Expand and relocate Make much higher profits Compete with your competition Pick an effective site location Write an exciting press release Constructively network to build your business Create and market a successful business image Supercharge your design business Eliminate legal problems before they arise Create effective advertisements Correctly price your products and services Minimize risks, maximize opportunities Design and implement and effective business plan Offer products/services so prospects buy them now!

This book also thoroughly covers: New sales strategies that work! Commercial design jobs Problem-solving information Residential design jobs Forms of owernship Shipping & installation Sources of business capital Personnel considerations Independent contractors Employee agreements Trade sources, trade journals All about contracts Paperwork, order expediting All about marketing and promotion Home solicitation agreements Successful direct marketing programs Money-making marketing & publicity approaches Understanding the business of interior design New strategies, tactics, weapons for big profits Starting a new interior design business Buying a franchise or existing ID business Management and financial considerations Successful telemarketing and seminars How to advertise a d promote your interior design business Nuts & bolts of running a successful interior design business Leasing property and business equipment Characteristics and rules for successful print ads All types of business equipment and supplies Types of taxes, governmental regulation Insurance, legal aspects, security Obtaining and preserving merchant accounts Directory of design programs, organizations

This book is a must for start-up interior design businesses - but should be read and absorbed by all interior design business owners who want to grow and earn more money in today's business climate. Extremely comprehensive, information-packed and complete.

This book is a real bargain! The smallest interior design problem that chan occur is more expensive than this book!

Anyone in the interior design business will gain vast knowledge and information from ownership of this book.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 367 pages
• Publisher: Touch of Design; 1 edition (January 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962991805
• ISBN-13: 978-0962991806
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #549,992 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)