Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer

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Synopsis

Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer contains all the necessary tools and strategies to successfully launch and grow a professional design business in the competitive world of interior design. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience, this book includes case studies, and personal anecdotes that help teach you how to:

  • choose a design field
  • obtain and keep clients
  • garner referrals
  • market and position your business
  • bid competitively on projects
  • manage sales
  • organize a budget
  • manage start-up costs and cash flow
  • promote your business
  • branch out into product and architectural design
  • design within a retail environment
  • set pricing guidelines
  • sell to your target demographic
  • set up your office

    • Readers will find a history of the business side of interior design as well as various career tracks available to today’s budding entrepreneur. Any early career interior designer or student looking for practical advice on the ins and outs of running a design firm will need this one-stop guide.

    Copyright:
    2009

    Book Details

    Book Quality:
    Publisher Quality
    ISBN-13:
    9781581157253
    Related ISBNs:
    9781581156591
    Publisher:
    Allworth Press
    Date of Addition:
    Copyrighted By:
    Thomas L. Williams, Robert K. Hale
    Adult content:
    No
    Language:
    English
    Has Image Descriptions:
    No
    Categories:
    Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Business and Finance
    Submitted By:
    Bookshare Staff
    Usage Restrictions:
    This is a copyrighted book.

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