Designing Your Business: Strategies for Interior Design Professionals

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Designing Your Business: Strategies for Interior Design Professionals

  • ©2005
  • 552 Pages
  • hardcover, 8.5 x 11
  • 1-56367-326-6
$98.00
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Bringing the expertise of a business and legal professional to the practice of interior design, Designing Your Business serves as a strong reference for basic business and legal concepts. It aims to make students savvy businesspeople as well as creative interior designers by offering strategies for working effectively with colleagues, clients, and resources. The text explores business organization, legal, and ethical issues arising in the practice of interior design, and business finance and accounting practices common to the profession. The hands-on approach and engaging interactive pedagogy bring relevance to the topics of law and business and show interior design students how their business decisions can facilitate their professional practices.

• Strategic approach that guides readers in planning their careers with their personal goals and competencies in mind

• Information tailored to the specific business needs of residential and contract designers

• Three types of activities for each chapter: development of personal business strategies, an ongoing exercise progressing through the stages of a residential interior design project, and case studies of contract design projects

You and Your Work
• Introduction to Professional Practices
• Becoming a Professional
• Working Ethically
You and Your Business
• Understanding Law and Your Business
• Planning Your Business Finances
• Managing Your Business
• Marketing and Promoting Your Business
You and Your Clients
• Defining Your Services
• Charging Clients for Your Services
• Managing Your Client's Project
• Defining the Client Relationship
You and Your Resources
• Working with Vendors
• Working with Service Providers
You and Your Career
• Beginning Your Work Life
• Planning Your Career

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Gordon T. Kendall , JD, MBA, is a freelance author and lecturer based in Maplewood, New Jersey. He has served on the adjunct fashion merchandising faculty at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) in San Marcos, Texas. He has also served as a lecturer and member of the fashion advisory committee at El Centro College in Dallas, Texas. He has published books and articles about fashion branding and interior design business practices.

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