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You are about to discover how to build your own extremely rewarding, highly profitable home based interior design business making money faster and easier than you ever thought possible.

 

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I am going to show you how to eliminate wasted time and your frustration of not knowing where to find good clients so that you can make a serious impact on your family’s income…

 

They didn’t tell us when we were working on our Interior Design education that we were going to have to be successful small business entrepreneurs in order to have clients to help; We were well educated on how to create beautiful spaces but…did they tell us or talk about anything that could actually help us earn a dime? No, it never happened…

 

I had all the passion in the world for designing environments that help people live better lives, but I was so frustrated with the struggle of trying to find good clients to who would pay me. I was even feeling secretly envious of those designers who were getting the big juicy jobs, getting published and making great money. I knew I was just as good at interior design as they were. Why not me?

 

I was silently afraid that my design business was stuck just where it was and I would never be able to move up-market to those big design jobs and clients. I even missed out on a huge job opportunity because I didn’t know how to price, produce and present a restaurant design job. I lost out on the chance to design a whole restaurant chain because I just didn’t “get” how to do the business part…and because nobody would share with me how design business in general is supposed to work.

 

It was a big secret…

 

  • I often under bid my jobs, of course my clients loved me but I wasn’t making the money that I could.

  • I consistently under-charged for my time, billing 1 hour when it really took 4 hours to complete.

  • I didn’t understand how to attract those big clients and jobs that I desperately wanted.

  • I was afraid and unsure of how to talk about money, budgets and what I charge.

  • I was intimidated by the prices of very high end product and I couldn’t imagine myself actually selling a $7,000.00 chair…

I became successful in the interior design business because I had no other choice…I had to make money to raise my daughter. I stumbled, made mistakes and paid the price. Over a period of years I put together a string of successes that allowed me to turn my little design practice into a multi-million dollar design business. I have not forgotten how hard it is to learn and understand the design business.

 

My private coaching clients ask me all the time for advice on how to price or present a design job or go after a special client.

 

Getting Paid What I Am Worth

I got another job yesterday…I’m on a roll!  This time I will be getting paid what I am worth AND my client might take me to Bali to go furniture shopping!  Your LOA, Client Expectations forms, PO, etc. etc. are a lifesaver.  THANK YOU!!!!  I am happy with every penny I have spent with you and the Good Clients Great Money program already!

~ Vanessa Schreiber

 

That is why I have set up the Good Clients, Great Money program.
In this 12 month teaching and coaching Good Clients Great Money program you will master:

  • How to effectively market and find good clients and bring them into your design business. It is not what you think… and it doesn’t cost a lot of money.
  • How to identify old family money beliefs that can sabotage your success and how to turn them around so you can happily sell that beautiful Ann Sachs $350.00 per foot tile.
  • What you should always say – and never say – in the first phone call with a prospective client so that you don’t get “shopped,” AND you get the interview
  • How to get your client to agree upon a realistic budget for the job in the first interview so that you know exactly what you should be designing.
  • How to identify your new client, and how to brand yourself so that you attract that kind of client.
  • How to develop a clear vision of what you want your business to be so that you know what the next steps are to making it happen.
  • How to accurately and quickly estimate your design fee for a job and write a Scope of Work that protects you and your time so you are paid what you deserve.

Terri, I have heard enough! Where do I sign up?

FULL PAY OPTION

$3197.00

FINANCE OPTION

$297.00 x 12

THANK YOU TERRI!

I am starting a project with my “dream” client… They interviewed three other designers and mentioned that they were very pleased with the way I presented the LOA to them. Very clear, straight forward, no hidden fees, and a fair fee. Without your time estimating schedule,the LOA template and all your valuable coaching advise and support I would not have been where I am now!!

Kirsten Ursem

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This is how the program works…

The 1st Tuesday of each month we meet as a group on the phone where I teach a new lesson on interior design business. These lessons are supported with guided learning pages downloaded from the website to deepen your understanding of the information.

On the 3rd Tuesday of each month we will meet in small groups on the phone for personal coaching and a questions and answers session.

Here is what we will study…

 

Define Your Design Business Style, Set Your Goals
Discover your own personal business style and what it means to you
Become crystal clear about what you want your business to be and the life style that goes with it
Set your short term and long term milestones
Coaching call: Strengthen your understanding, ask questions, get answers, strategize a job opportunity, and get some focused coaching

Identifying Your Client and Creating Your Brand
Define exactly who is your good client and what your best design job is
Understand the power of branding and what that means to a designer
Tailor your personal brand to align with your good client
Coaching call: Review your branding plans with Terri in this live coaching call, and get answers to your questions

How to Find Your Good Clients Marketing Plan
Identify where to find your good clients
Understand how to attract them to your business
Create your own personal marketing plan so you know what to do next week, next month and next year to keep clients flowing into your business
Virtual Retreat format: three webinar/telecall series with Q & A to solidify your understanding

I will be giving you word for word scripts for:
The first phone call with a prospective client
The first on-site interview with the new client
How to establish a budget in the first meeting
What you should give away in the first on site interview
Coaching call:
Now that you have had a chance to try out these scripts this call will help you fine-tune the process

The first Appointment: How to Create a Budget on the Fly” Even if the Client Doesn’t have a Clue
Learn how to walk your client their project… identifying each piece and agreeing to an appropriate price. Giving the client the gift of a budget establishes you as the outstanding professional and gives you a benchmark to work from.
Coaching call: Now that you have tried” budget on the fly” with a client, let’s trouble shoot the your process. Ask questions and get real life examples and explanations to improve your skills.

Clients Like Choices; How to Make Offers on 3 Levels
Understand how to create Good, Better and Best design service offers that give good value, allow the client a level of service choice and pay you well regardless of the level that they choose. Template for making 3 level offers included.
Coaching call: Bring your current client challenges to the call and we will together design a 3 level offer to fit.

Estimating Your Design Fee and Writing a Good Scope of Work
Learn two ways to accurately estimate your design fee. Estimate your fee based on the proposed job budget and then use the Project Time Estimating System to see where you will be spending your time. Find out easy ways to stay accountable for your time.
Coaching call: Question and answer call about the advantages and challenges of fee based design work

How to Sell the Value of Your Design Work
How to price your time and product for profit in today’s market
Understand why client buying decisions are based on emotion and how you should connect to that emotion
Learn how to create small yes’s throughout your presentation so the client is willing and wants to purchase at the end
Coaching call: Strengthen your understanding of soft sell techniques, strategize a new job opportunity, or get help with a current challenge.

How to Get Rid of the Money Gremlins and Get Paid What You Are Worth
Discover how to break through inherited family or unconsciously adapted money issues, fears, stories, beliefs and habits. You will come to realize that you are not stuck with these for the rest of your life.
Create new empowering money habits that transform your relationship with money, increase your self-esteem, improve your relationships with loved ones or grow and earn more in an existing business.
Virtual Retreat format: three webinar/telecall series with Q & A to solidify your understanding.

How to Write a Good Letter of Agreement
Learn how to write a scope of work that sells the job and protects your time.  Be specific about how many selections, “do overs,” shopping trips and constriction site inspections you will be providing. Establish when you will be paid… ahead of the design work, not after.
Coaching call: Discuss real life examples and strategize new upcoming client agreements.

Selling Product: Proposals, Purchase Orders and Keeping Your Profit
Tips and strategies for developing wholesale and to the trade relationships, understanding and charging purchasing fees and how to write proposals and purchase orders. Understand how much you should make on a job.
Coaching Call: Q&A call focused on examples of purchasing and profit margin strategies.

How to Grow Your Business By Hiring a Team to Support You
Discover how to help more people and create more design with a knowledgeable, trained staff. Learn how billing your time and your assistants’ time can be a win-win for you and your client. Learn how to find and manage the help that you need.
Coaching Call:  Ask questions and get real life answers about the advantages and challenges of working with a staff.

Good Advice

Many thanks for a wonderful Good Clients Great Money retreat weekend to top off the many weeks of educational phone calls. I really appreciate all of your good advice for the interior design business and life in general!


~ Catherine Grasso

 

The Good Clients Great Money program is for interior designers and decorators who…

 

  • Are serious about their careers but just don’t understand how to make the business side work
  • Want to eliminate the trial and error phase of learning the business
  • Need to reduce the time that it takes to create a successful business
  • Want to be hired by their good clients – right now
  • Care about dramatically increasing their income
  • Want to go to start their own design business

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The Good Clients Great Money program is NOT for…

 

  • Those designers who look at interior design as a hobby
  • Designers who are lazy and aren’t willing to do the homework necessary to become successful
  • Designers who are not serious about Interior Design as a profession and just want to use the title

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FULL PAY OPTION

$3197.00

FINANCE OPTION

$297.00 x 12

Step by step and piece-by-piece, over a period of 12 months I will give you the information that you need to build your design business. I will teach, coach, support and mentor you to set your goals and achieve your dream interior design business.How the Good Clients Great Money program works for you…

Education – Every few weeks, via phone and webinar we will conference on the phone and I will deliver a new interior design business lesson, complete with handouts and homework exercises to strengthen your understanding, so you can use this information right away to build your business.

VALUE $3997.00

Coaching – Soon after the lesson we will conference on the phone for an open coaching call where you can ask questions, clarify your understanding, strategize a job opportunity or get some coaching on an issue that seems to be holding you back. It is all up to you how you use this time…

VALUE $4797.00

BONUS #1 – How to Find Your Good Client Marketing Plan – Virtual Retreat.

VALUE $897.00

BONUS #2 – How to Get Rid of the Money Gremlins and Get Paid What You Are Worth – Virtual Retreat

VALUE $897.00

TOOL BOX INCLUDES ALL 4 SYSTEMS

    • Project Time Estimating System
    • Letter of Agreement
    • Forms and Facts for Setting Up Your Interior Design Business
    • Purchasing Product and Selling it at a Profit

VALUE $1258.00

Accountable - I know that you work alone and need some help staying focused and accountable. So to keep you on track you will have a Monthly Check in Journal where you will record your progress and write your new monthly goals and email them to me.

VALUE $597.00

Forum - I don’t want you to be out there with no one to talk to, so the online Good Clients Great Money Forum will give you a place to ask questions, get answers and comfortably share information with the other Designers in the program.

VALUE $3564.00

Support -You will have my personal cell number in case you have an emergency situation and need help. We don’t expect that to happen, but just in case…

PRICELESS

Surprises – You can expect special gifts, surprises and bonuses specially chosen by me, Terri during the program

TOTAL VALUE $16,007.00

 

The Amazing 60 Day Guarantee
‘Get a Client or Your Money Back’

 I guarantee that if you don’t get a client or you don’t think that what you are learning in Good Clients Great Money will benefit your business…then just call us and we will refund your investment and you have no further obligation! It’s that easy.!

You are right… I have all the risk here, but it is OK. I know how amazing this program is and I know that it works for my designer students….and I know that it will work for you.

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Here is the deal…

The full up-front investment for the Good Clients Great Money 12 month Program is $3197.00 We will finance your investment with a $297.00 down payment and divide the rest into 11 equal payments of $297.00 commencing in 30 days and continuing every 30 days until the balance is paid in full. The total program investment with the finance option is $3564.00

FULL PAY OPTION

$3197.00

FINANCE OPTION

$297.00 x 12

The bottom line is this…

If you want a successful Interior Design business you must take action and move toward your dream. This kind of unique program that can move your design business quickly ahead will never be more affordable than it is today.

You know, you don’t have to learn all this stuff now…

You can spend the next 5 years, maybe 10 years, with your business stuck in the same dead end place while you try to figure out how the business should work.
You can stay frustrated that you don’t have the kind of business, clients and design jobs that you want, and wonder how it would have changed if you just had a little help.

But if you are looking for the answers…

If you are looking to end the struggle of not knowing how to find good clients, and not knowing how to get paid what you really deserve, then my Good Clients Great Money program is for you.
This is your chance to step up and have the design business that you want. It is all up to you…

Beauty and Success,

Terri Taylor

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All This From One Idea

I can’t believe it, I am so busy! I did what you told me to do Terri. I asked my client if I could put her kitchen on the ASID home tour and she agreed! First, I was published in San Diego Home and Garden Magazine, as the featured ASID Kitchen designer for the fall 2010 tour. Then, a story was featured about me and the kitchen I designed for my client in the San Diego Tribune newspaper. The day of the tour I spoke with many interested attendees, and within a week, I had secured three new clients- big clients as well, not just kitchens!

~ Laura Wireman

The results are in…

I had great success from the Tour – I signed 3 new clients. I am now completing a Master Bath/Bedroom/closet remodel that is well over $100,000 and got to design my own custom iron lighting collection for them, as well as a custom Wing Bed! Too COOL!! And I have already started on Kitchen Remodel plans and Backyard Remodel plans for 2012!

The Design Road Map For the Future

I want to thank you so very much for the wonderful advice you had given me. I now  have a good road map to follow for my marketing strategy, and research/actionable items for the next 6 months. We tackled so many issues during our very intense day, and was mentally exhausted. It wasn’t until I transcribed your outlines into the notebook with my own words and side comments, I was able to absorb the issues and our solutions. I hope that I would be able to work with you again in the near future, extending my mentoring program. I can’t wait to starting working on my eNewsletter!

~ Mimi Fong

I Signed Up Two New jobs

“I feel so much more confident about my business. I know that I can do this for the next ten years. You were just the next step that I needed. All that great energy is flowing now; I have new clients and I am signing up jobs and getting deposits! Thanks Terri, you helped me so much.”

~ Laurie Buell

The results are in…

Terri, you were the next step that I needed. The week after our Retreat Day I got deposits on two new jobs. The first one was for $20,000 and the second was for $80, 000. WOW!

Inspiration and Information

 

I learned many extremely useful concrete business techniques and processes from your spiritual approach to personal empowerment. It is a very well rounded program that is rich with information and inspiration.

~ Saffronia Baldwin