Melissa Galt
Looking Forward to Business Success in 2021
While 2020 threw monkey-wrench-type challenges into businesses across the spectrum, the home furnishings industry — both for interior designers and retailers after lockdowns were lifted — have for…
3 Ways to Boost Your Interior Design Confidence
Confidence is an aphrodisiac that can lead to clients and cash, and it is essential to your interior design business success. It’s a mindset muscle you can train with the exercises presented here in…
7 Interior Design Marketing Strategies
Interior design marketing strategies only work when you apply them to your business. The point of the strategies here is to generate more quality leads for your interior design business in a lot less…
Time Mastery for Interior Designers
The bottom line is that when you apply these interior design time mastery tips, you’ll get more done in less time with far less stress. Will you take the challenge?
Step One
Create your master list…
Panel: Where Will 2021 Take Interior Design?
After a year fraught with change as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, which has shifted — and propelled —interior design businesses in ways that we wouldn't have imagined a few short months ago,…
The Keys to Building a Brand
For interior designers and retailers in the home design business, much of their success hinges on the ability to brand themselves in a way that connects with clients and carries through all of their…
7 Deadly Distractions Stopping Your Interior Design Business Growth
Nothing is more important than your interior design business growth. You’ve got to invest your time in the tasks and actions, in your practice, that will deliver the greatest impact. There are seven …
Meet Our 2020 Showroom of the Year Finalists
Meet our finalists in the $2 Million to $5 Million and $5 Million and Over categories.
The Showroom of the Year Awards, now in its 11th year, honors the best and brightest in lighting retail. These…
7 Steps to Staying Connected with Design Clients
How you connect to clients is more important than ever before. It’s not enough to send a well-intentioned, carefully crafted statement of your interior design practice’s COVID19 response. Everyone is…
May Think Tank Series Focuses on Brand Messaging, Communication
Whether just starting out or a veteran in your design or home furnishings business, the brand message you convey to your customers/clients changes often. Take the time we’re living through now. Are…