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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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...
56 min
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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...
60 min
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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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44: How to Host Fabulous Events to Grow Your In...
Today on the show we have Michael Mitchell and Tyler Hill! They have their own design firm in Charleston, South Carolina. They also deal with fine arts, have a retail store and deal with gallery events. Putting on an event is one thing but putting on...
55 min
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43: Farrha Hyman- Success Story- How I Re-Desig...
Today we have Farrha Hyman on the show! You may be thinking where have I heard that name before? Farrha is the designer that Kae Whitaker mentioned in her interview from a previous episode! She is going to share with us her story and what can happen...
57 min
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42: Rachel Laxer: Build on Your Experiences, Yo...
On our show today we have Rachel Laxer! Rachel runs a pretty big firm that is based out of London and New York City. She is a member of the British Institute of Design, and ASID here in the states. She graduated from Washington State with a BA in...
39 min
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41: Cheryl Janis: Create Clarity for Your Inter...
Our guest, Cheryl Janis has been an interior designer for more than 19 years! She has a background in full service interior design for residential design, restaurant design, office design, the whole she bang. But in the last 2 to 6 years she has...
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40: Meryl Santopietro- How to Re-Invent, Re Vit...
Today on the show we have Meryl Santopietro! She is going to be sharing with us about her career and her decision to move her business to Manhattan. Meryl’s business was based in Rhode Island until she moved her business to Manhattan. She also has...
55 min
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39: Andrew Joseph- Advice From the Principal of...
Today on A Well Designed Business we have a treat! We have Andrew Joseph who is the principal of a design boutique public relations firm in New York city! This is a big time firm and he has clients from all over and his reach is worldwide. He is going...
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38: Patrick Cain - Resource Management- A Skill...
Today on the show I’m excited to have Patrick Cain! He is a custom furniture designer based out of Los Angeles. He specializes in furniture made from wood, metal and concrete. The designs are gorgeous! He is going to share with us a little about the...
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37: Lesley Myrick - Strategies I Used to Build ...
Leslie Myrick is an interior stylist and has not only built her business from the ground up once but three times! She has been in Canada, California and now Texas! She has very specific ways how she has built her business in such a short amount of...
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36: Susan Brunstrum- Practical Advice for Proje...
Susan is founder and principal of award-winning Sweet Peas Design, which she launched 13 years ago in the Chicago suburb of Libertyville as a one-woman firm. Today Sweet Peas Design is a full-service studio with a staff of six in downtown Libertyville...
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35: Jerri Eskow- Integrity is the Foundation fo...
Today on A Well Designed Business we have Jerri Eskow! She is a full-service interior designer and has been in business for more than 20 years! After becoming friends on Instagram I went to her website and did a little research. Sometimes when I have...
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34: Mary Fisher - Author, Artist, Advocate, Soc...
On today’s show, we have Mary Fisher who is a passionate designer of many trades. She is a textile designer, the author of 6 books, a jewelry designer, artist and photographer! Mary had some terrible news in 1992 that she had been...
62 min
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33: Arlene Angard - Mix 1 Part Passion + 1 Par...
Arlene Angard is a New York City Interior Designer. She manages a full service interior architecture and design firm that specializes in luxury residential and new age commercial. She has been an Art Curator and table top connoisseur most of her life....
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32: Robin Baron - The President of ASID NY Metr...
Robin Baron, interior designer and lifestyle expert creates homes that are uniquely fabulous , yet captures her clients’ individual personalities . She brings a striking sense of style to everything she does. Her motto “Confidence...
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31: Steven Cooper - The Value of a Trusted Vendor
Steven Cooper is the CEO of Cooper Pacific Kitchens, the experts in the field of kitchen design, kitchen remodeling, interior design, engineering, and installation. Through innovation and premium design, Steven’s team always aims to bring each...
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30: Kimberly Serafim - Advice to New Grads in T...
Graduation is coming up! So I thought we would do a week of podcasts giving advice and tips to the new graduates coming into the design business. One of my employees: Kim is our special guest today. She has been out of school for 9 years now and has...
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29: Shannon Leddy Returns for Graduation Week- ...
This is Shannon Leddy’s second time on the show! We are so happy to have her back! She is going to share some tips on how students can be more effective before and after graduation. Shannon shares with us: Keep up with your portfolios- think about...
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28: Andrew Suvalsky - What Are You Waiting For?
Andrew Suvalsky has been in the interior design business for 11 and a half years! He worked for icon designer Benjamin Noriega Ortiz for a time and then established his own business: Andrew Suvalsky Designs. Andrew has a very interesting story about...
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27: Marlaina Teich- Balancing the Line Between ...
Marlaina Teich has been in business for ten plus years with her business Marlaina Teich Designs. She did not start out in interior design. She started out in fashion and then had a family and while she was home taking care of family she decided to go...
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26: Kae Whitaker- Branding Your Business- Final...
Kae Whitaker and her husband/business partner have a unique
business called Kae Whitaker Solutions. Kae is a personal
branding and business development coach who specializes in creative
business. She will teach you specific strategies to build...
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25: Peter Fasano - An Exceptional Artist, A Hum...
On the show today, we have Peter Fasano who sells hand-silk
screen, hand painted fabrics and wall coverings. Peter’s story is
special because he discovered his business by accident. He had
gotten out of the Army and started painting, and that’s...
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24: Krista Coupar- Not Your Average Business Co...
I am so excited about our guest today on the show. Krista Coupar
has a unique business that includes business coaching, PR,
marketing, staffing, design support and management. Wow! She can
work virtually or in person. If you can FedEx, you can work....
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