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The Interior Design Business Handbook: A Complete Guide
to Profitability, 4th Edition
Author: Mary V. Knackstedt, Hardcover, 528 pages, February
2006
$75.00
Discover 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
an expanded focus on the use of technology to enhance your practice, the
use of project management software or database tools, and the use of an
intranet to streamline internal office processes. There are also updated
banking and credit sections that will help you take advantage of recent,
important changes in these areas. You also get 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1. Finding Your Place In Interior Design.
Chapter 2. Starting a Business.
Chapter 3. Planning For Profit and Growth.
Chapter 4. Setting Up a Design Studio.
Chapter 5. Developing a Team of Staff and Consultants.
Chapter 6. Marketing and Selling.
Chapter 7. Succeeding in Project Management.
Chapter 8. Charging For Your Services.
Chapter 9. Working With Sources and Contractors.
Chapter 10. Managing Your Office.
Chapter 11. Mastering Financial Management.
Chapter 12. Growing Your Firm and Your Professional Skills.
Professional Associations.
Design Schools.
Definition of Words.
Recommended Reading.
Index.
