Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer

✍ Scribed by Williams, Thomas L.;Hooker, Murphy;Hale, Robert K

• Publisher: Allworth Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cover; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 Designs on an Industry: It's Not a Job, It's an Adventure; Chapter 2 The State of Interior Design: Staking Your Claim in a Boom Industry; Chapter 3 Cutting Your Teeth in the Real World: Do You Have the Chops?; Chapter 4 Understanding Design Segments: The Art of Interior Design; Chapter 5 Plunging Off the Designer High Dive: On Starting Your Own Business; Chapter 6 Defining Your Dream: Understanding Models, Pricing, and Fees.;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.

✦ Table of Contents

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

✦ Subjects

ARCHITECTURE--Decoration & Ornament;DESIGN--Interior Decorating;;Interior decoration--Vocational guidance;;Interior decoration -- Vocational guidance;ARCHITECTURE -- Decoration & Ornament;DESIGN -- Interior Decorating