Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer
eBook - ePub

Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer

About this book

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 officeReaders will find a history of the business side of interior design as well as various career tracks available to today's budding entrepreneur. This updated second edition also examines the current state of the interior design industry, and what's in store for the future of firms. 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.Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

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Information

Publisher
Allworth
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781621535102
eBook ISBN
9781621535164
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Advertising
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Designs on an Industry: It’s Not a Job, It’s an Adventure
  9. Chapter 2: The State of Interior Design: Staking Your Claim in a Boom Industry
  10. Chapter 3: Cutting Your Teeth in the Real World: Do You Have the Chops?
  11. Chapter 4: Understanding Design Segments: The Art of Interior Design
  12. Chapter 5: Plunging Off the Designer High Dive: On Starting Your Own Business
  13. Chapter 6: Defining Your Dream: Understanding Models, Pricing, and Fees
  14. Chapter 7: Marketing Your Business: Networking, Public Relations, and Advertising
  15. Chapter 8: How to Attract Clients: Selling Yourself in the Design World
  16. Chapter 9: Setting Up Your Design Studio: Getting It Right the First Time
  17. Chapter 10: Building Your Village: Procurement, Delivery, and Installation
  18. Chapter 11: Client Management: Game-Planning Your Design Business
  19. Chapter 12: The State of Interior Design: Now and Beyond
  20. Index

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