The Interior Design Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to ProfitabilityDiscover how you can run the practical side of your practice more profitably. This comprehensive guide to managing an interior design business gives you an arsenal of proven procedures and practical tools and techniques perfected over the course of some thirty years. New to this edition are sections on establishing an electronic office, the pros and cons of working alone and creating partnerships, hiring and working with off-site employees, and more. It also includes more than fifty sample forms and letters, such as an existing conditions survey and a letter of transmittal, that can easily be adapted to your own uses. |
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We sign contracts and letters of agreement, address personnel problems, and seek out neW re— sources. We cope With masses of paperwork, including Writing specifications and placing orders. Often We do these tasks Without the background ...
We sign contracts and letters of agreement, address personnel problems, and seek out neW re— sources. We cope With masses of paperwork, including Writing specifications and placing orders. Often We do these tasks Without the background ...
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The creative process is very valuable in problem—solving situations. ... some near bankruptcy, others among the most profitable firm in the country, I have found that they have very specific problems. l've seen What goes Wrong; ...
The creative process is very valuable in problem—solving situations. ... some near bankruptcy, others among the most profitable firm in the country, I have found that they have very specific problems. l've seen What goes Wrong; ...
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Design education stresses problem—solving. The four to six years you spend in the formal study of interior design gives you the infor— mational tools to use in your work—problem—solving skills being perhaps the most valuable tool of all ...
Design education stresses problem—solving. The four to six years you spend in the formal study of interior design gives you the infor— mational tools to use in your work—problem—solving skills being perhaps the most valuable tool of all ...
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When designers Work With other designers, there is a chance to test each other's designs, to determine What Will Work. When three other people look at a design and all say “I don't see any problems,” obviously the ...
When designers Work With other designers, there is a chance to test each other's designs, to determine What Will Work. When three other people look at a design and all say “I don't see any problems,” obviously the ...
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Experienced designers have found this arrangement one of the most profitable and most pleasurable ways to work. Let someone else handle the business problems. Designers want to design. Also, the clients know there is a higher power, ...
Experienced designers have found this arrangement one of the most profitable and most pleasurable ways to work. Let someone else handle the business problems. Designers want to design. Also, the clients know there is a higher power, ...
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Índice
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| 29 | |
Chapter 3 Planning For Profit and Growth | 51 |
Chapter 4 Setting Up a Design Studio | 63 |
Chapter 5 Developing a Team of Staff and Consultants | 79 |
Chapter 6 Marketing and Selling | 117 |
Chapter 7 Succeeding in Project Management | 191 |
Chapter 8 Charging For Your Services | 217 |
Chapter 9 Working With Sources and Contractors | 241 |
Chapter 10 Managing Your Office | 271 |
Chapter 11 Mastering Financial Management | 313 |
Chapter 12 Growing as a Professional | 371 |
Recommended Reading | 377 |
Design Schools | 381 |
Index | 387 |
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The Interior Design Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Profitability Mary V. Knackstedt Pré-visualização indisponível - 2002 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 185 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Página 262 - This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.
Página 159 - Architect shall not thereby be deemed to represent that he has made exhaustive or continuous on-site inspections to check the quality or quantity of the Work...
Página 172 - Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or the breach thereof, shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association, and judgment upon the award rendered by the Arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having jurisdiction.
Página 163 - In no event shall the demand for arbitration be made after the date when institution of legal or equitable proceedings based on such claim, dispute or other matter in question would be barred by the applicable statute of limitations.
Página 163 - Subparagraphs 9.7.5 and 9.7.6, shall be decided by arbitration in accordance with the Construction Industry Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association then obtaining unless the parties mutually agree otherwise.
Página 262 - This instrument contains the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the transactions contemplated herein, and may be modified only by a duly executed purchase order change form signed by our authorized representative.
Página 163 - The award rendered by the arbitrators shall be final, and judgment may be entered upon it in accordance with applicable law in any court having jurisdiction thereof.
Página 165 - No deductions shall be made from the Architect's fee on account of penalty, liquidated damages, or other sums withheld from payments to contractors.
Página 159 - Architect in writing to become generally familiar with the progress and quality of the Work and to determine in general if the Work is proceeding in accordance with the Contract Documents.
Referências a este livro
The Complete Guide to Designing Your Law Office Suzette S. Schultz,Jon S. Schultz Pré-visualização limitada - 2005 |
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| Título | The Interior Design Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Profitability |
| Autor | Mary V. Knackstedt |
| Edição | 3 |
| Editora | John Wiley & Sons, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0471227501, 9780471227502 |
| Número de páginas | 416 páginas |
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