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September 11, 2020
7 designers on how COVID has impacted their businesses
Seven interior designers—Melissa Bodie, Kati Curtis, Javier Fernandez, Taj Hunter Waite, Christina Nielsen, Alisa Popelka and Danielle Rollins—share the most significant ways the virus has affected their businesses.
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August 28, 2020
Who was your first hire?
Starting a firm is full of important choices, but choosing the right people to join your new team is particularly crucial to success. We asked five designers—Victoria Amegno, Brian Brown, Lisa Kahn, Ariel Okin and Vicky Serany—what positions they hired for first.
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August 21, 2020
How often do you reassess your fees?
We asked five designers—Tiffany Brooks, Brian Brown, Aurielle Jones, Ariel Okin and Chloe Warner—how often they reevaluate their rates.
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August 14, 2020
How often do you install smart home tech?
We asked five designers—Clara Jung, Leyden Lewis, Melissa Morgan, Paul Sherrill and Mimi Wittstruck—how often they actually use smart home technology in their work.
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August 7, 2020
What outside services do you recommend most often?
Whether it’s landscaping or professional organizing, we asked eight designers—Christine Gentile, Deborah Hensley, Kesha Franklin, Melissa Morgan, Paul Sherrill, Amy Spargo, Kara Thomas and Mimi Wittstruck—what additional services they most often recommended to their clients.
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July 30, 2020
How do you organize your portfolio?
We asked eight designers—Alexa Stevenson, Tori Alexander, Mark Weaver, Ellen Kavanaugh, Lynne Scalo, Veronica Sanders, Stephanie Kraus and Tracy Morris—how they organize their web portfolios and if they update the selection as they do new work.
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July 24, 2020
How do you handle reference requests?
We asked six designers—Veronica Sanders, Tracy Morris, Alexa Stevenson, Kelly Finley, Lynne Scalo and Tori Alexander—how they direct clients who want references.
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