A Well-Designed Business® | Interior ...
In today's world being a talented interior designer isn't enough to ensure that you have a profitable and successful business. Design school curricula doesn't always equip you with the business skills to have your interior design business be everything you imagined it would be! A Well-Designed Business® is here to fill in the gaps and give you real live business skills from some of the top interior designers. Your host, LuAnn Nigara shares her 40 years of success in the interior design industry, and she finds the most successful guests to share their interior design business best practices. This podcast is sponsored by Kravet Inc and Mydoma Studio.
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69: Power Talk Friday: Stacey Brown Randall - T...
It’s another power talk Friday! Today we have Stacey Brown Randall. She is a business growth acceleration specialist! Stacey’s mission is to help small businesses and solopreneours make more money and find more time. She is a certified...
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68: Chad James- "Think Forward” - Employee Mana...
Today we have Chad James with us from Chad James Group. Chad has a very thoughtful way of setting up his business. He considers his firm an educational firm and has the roles divided up into very specific categories. He identifies people as interns,...
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67: Alan Tanksley- Lessons and Observations fro...
Today on the show we are in for a real treat! Alan Tanksley has a “royalty” background in interior design and has his own successful firm: Alan Tanksley, Inc. We are going to talk about his “royalty” background and how space you work in can...
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66: Kae Whitaker- How to Hire and Train Interns
On this week’s power talk Friday I have a returning expert: Kae Whitaker of Kae Whitaker Solutions! When Kae was on the show before she shared with us a case study with a particular interior designer that she helped turn her business around in three...
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65: Natalie Reddell- Lessons From #Commanderinchic
We have Natalie Reddell for this Well-Designed Business podcast episode. She is an interior designer, lifestyle blogger, and founder of Commander in Chic Design firm. Natalie began her career as a designer at the age of 4 , when she began...
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64: Laura Umansky - Plan Your Career with Inten...
We have Laura Umansky from Laura U! This is a special interview for me because I love to meet the people you look up to in the design world. We love to see them create beautiful interiors but also big business platforms for themselves. Today we are...
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63: Power Talk Friday: Tim Templeton- How To C...
Welcome to another power talk Friday! I have Tim Templeton with us today. Tim is the author of a referral of a lifetime in the Ken Blanchard series. Ken is a veteran executive entrepreneur, consultant, international best-selling author, speaker and...
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62: Lori Sawaya- Land of color, Camp Chroma
Welcome back! Today we have Lori Sawaya! Lori has been in the business of color for over 20 years. She has a background working with print, architecture paint, and color. Her experience and knowledge enable her to make complex color concepts easy for...
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61: Our 6th-month Anniversary Celebration
(Designers who discovered and implemented Great Solutions for their Business)
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60: Power Talk Friday - Krista Coupar: Managin...
It’s power talk Friday! Krista Coupar is with us again! Today she is to talk with us about work-life balance. The key questions we need to ask ourselves to arrive at this perfect equation. Show Notes: Are hours wanting to work and amount of...
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59: A Special Visit with the Sr. Director of Me...
Guess what? This is our six month anniversary! I have two very special shows for you this week. The first show we are going to meet one of the masterminds behind the fabulous curatedkravet.com platform. Curatedkravet.com is celebrating a few...
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58: Maria Killam: Color-When You Can Own It As ...
Maria Killam is the founder and CEO of Understanding Undertones of Colour. She's a decorator, author, speaker and internationally sought-after Colour Expert. Transform the way you see color at Maria's has 5 Fall Specify...
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57: Power Talk Friday - Alice Seale - Thinking ...
Welcome to another Power Talk Friday! My guest today is Alice Seale, who has over 30 years entrepreneurial experience as a realtor in the retail design industry. She is the founder of Seale Realty Advisors in the Dallas area. Alice has co-authored the...
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56: Terri Lind Davis- 2 Ways to Build Your Pipe...
Hi, welcome to another episode of A Well-Designed Business! If you are a loyal listener—thank you for tuning in again! And whether you are new or returning, please go over to our Facebook page and like us there so you can be a part of...
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55: Rachel Moriarty - Message to Solopreneurs- ...
Today I would like to introduce, dare I say my first fan: Rachel Moriarty! She has been so supportive from the beginning on social media. I would like to give her a huge THANK YOU! One of the conversations that we had on social media about more...
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54: Power Talk Friday - Diane Gardner- What is ...
Diane Gardner is a tax coach and the author of Why Didn't My CPA Tell Me That? and Stop Overpaying Your Taxes. You are going to be blown away today by the information Diane shares. She saves her clients thousands of dollars in taxes with every...
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53: Deb Barrett - How Make the Most of Your Tri...
Today we are going to talk about going to market with Deb Barrett! She specializes in a niche for attending the different furniture and accessory markets: High Point and different markets around the world. Now she is specializing in bringing groups to...
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52: Turning the Tables - An Interview with LuAnn
LuAnn Nigara is an award winning window treatment authority, author, and host of the 5 star-rated podcast, A Well-Designed Business, which serves the design industry as an overall business dynamo. Based in Livingston, New Jersey, LuAnn got her start...
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51: Power Talk Friday with David D. Livingston-...
Welcome back to another Power Talk Friday! I’m happy to let you know that we have David Duncan Livingston with us today! He is a professional photographer from the San Francisco Bay area. He has worked in over 40 states and 4 provinces! His...
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50: Veronica Solomon – Powerful Marketing for y...
Today we have a treat because Veronica Solomon is a rock star powerhouse woman in interior design. I came across Veronica and I thought she is a smart lady, she has some great things to share and always seems to have good advice. Then I browsed her...
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49: James Swan - The Man Behind The Million Dol...
On the show today we have James Swan! James is the host of the podcast Million Dollar Decorator. This is in addition to his illustrious career as an interior designer. Being the host of this podcast and speaking with James about being guests on each...
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48: Power Talk Friday with Fred Berns
Welcome back to Power talk Friday! I am pleased to have Fred Berns back with us! If you remember he was on the show a couple of months ago and he discussed how to create a killer bio. I am aware that you all love his show so much that Fred and I have...
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47: Gail Davis: Make Your Life Count
Gail Davis has a very interesting past that would be very helpful to her colleagues. Interior design is her second career. Her first career was in fashion. When you hear her story about her career in fashion, I think everyone will understand why she...
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46: Barbara Viteri: Designerlebrity™ Comes to t...
Welcome back everybody! Barbara Viteri has such an interesting trail leading to where she is today with her Designerlebrity™ Barbara had a very successful business called Viteri Style Management where she was a consultant for interior designers. But...
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45: Power Talk Friday's with Krista Coupar
Krista Coupar of Coupar Consulting returns to the show to talk about billing and hourly fee’s. How To Effectively Bill Out Using an Hourly Fee Structure: • Step 1: Understand your existing pipeline • Step 2: Do an analysis of your current...
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