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That's me and Jitka in my design studio in The Woodlands. We are surrounded by our favorite samples. :-)

Interior Designers, Why Blog If You Hate Blogging?

April 06, 2018 in Marketing, Blogging, Attracting Clients

Maybe you don't have a goal of becoming a big design blogger or even like writing! You just want to be a great designer with fabulous projects and beautiful work. So, why should you worry about blogging? (That's my current design studio in this pic.:-)

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Tags: blogging, blogging ideas, interior design business, marketing, interior design biz, blogging tips 1, blogging tips a

The Best Way To Explain Your Interior Design Business Processes And Begin To Filter Clients

March 30, 2018 in Business, Blogging, Design Process

Ever struggled with explaining just exactly how things work in your design business? You might want to see how blogging has helped me do just that.

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Tags: design process, project processes, blogposts, blogging, what to blog, how to blog, blog fodder, blogpost ideas, blogging ideas

HOUZZ - Designers, Here's A Perfect Statement For Labeling Images IF You Are Staying On The Platform

March 23, 2018 in Marketing, Attracting Clients

Designers, are you keeping a profile on the Houzz website in spite of what you've read lately? Do you want to address the way Houzz shops your images on their site? Do you need a great way to answer their user base without seeming elitist and rude? I've got some great takeaways from Kate O'Hara's presentation at the Design Bloggers Conference that you might want to check out.

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Tags: Houzz, Houzz profiles, Houzz questions, questions on houzz, Kate O'Hara, Martha O'Hara Interiors, Design Bloggers Conference, DBC2018

5 Basic Pinterest Tips For Interior Designers

March 16, 2018 in Marketing, Blogging, Social Media

I'm always surprised by how little interior designers use Pinterest to drive traffic to their site. It has basically been responsible for putting my site on the map. I'd have been nowhere without it.

Click through for some Pinterest basics for interior designers.

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Tags: interior design biz, interior design marketing, Pinterest, Pinterest basics, Pinterest tips, Pinterest for Interior Designers

Do You Want To Be Published In A Major Design Magazine....Or Are You Self Publishing?

March 09, 2018 in Marketing, Social Media, Attracting Clients

It’s a whole new world out there in publishing these days.

For an interior designer, being published in a big shelter publication, especially a national one, used to make your career. No doubt it lends legitimacy, authority, and just makes you look good.

But, do we really need to abide by all the recommendations shared in the how-to-get-published-heavy content that was shared at the recent Design Bloggers Conference? Is that in YOUR best interest, with your goals in mind?

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Tags: publishing, self-publishing, getting published, Design Bloggers Conference, DBC2018
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