In this post I am sharing my brand new goal setting process for 2024 - including how I’m making achieving my goals FUN this year.
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In this video I’m sharing 7 ways that I use Canva inside my business. Hopefully it gives you some ideas for how you can use it too!
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In today’s video I am sharing the goal and planning process that I do at the end of each year to prepare for the year ahead.
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I often get asked questions about how my business has come to be and how I got started. I have talked about snippets of this all over the place but I don’t think I’ve really ever spoken about the full story from start to finish. So for anyone who is interested, here’s the story!
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Today I’m sharing my complete productivity system in Notion. I’ve also finally launched some Notion templates that you guys have been asking me to create for SO long. In this video I walk through the full system and how the templates work together.
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In this video I share the 5 online business opportunities that I think exist for 2023.
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In this mini-training I’m sharing 10 tips for creating an email newsletter that people will open and read.
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In this mini-training I share 6 strategies I use to always have new content ideas ready for my social media posts, blog and YouTube videos.
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In this video I share a walk through of a project I worked on with some clients in Lane Cove on Sydney's upper north shore. I share my entire process from importing the initial JPEG floor plan all the way through to creating design documentation to scale in Layout.
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Today I'm giving you 4 reasons why I think it's essential to pass on your trade discount to clients. There's a tradition within the interior design community that in order to make money you have to take a cut of the discounts you get from trades. But I built a very successful design business by passing my discounts on in full and it was one of the secrets to why I managed to book so many clients. I'll share what I mean in this video!
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The fact is that if you run a client service based business you will, at some point, meet a difficult client. But there are strategies you can use to manage those clients better so they don't end up driving you crazy! :) And in this video I’m sharing some ideas for how you can deal with difficult design clients.
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Running a large business, pretty much on my own, requires me to use a lot of tech to help me automate and manage what I’m creating and delivering for my clients and students. And I am often being asked questions about which programs or apps I use to run the different parts of my business. So in this video I am sharing all the different tech I use and what I use it for.
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In this post I share what I think it takes to reach the top 1% in your chosen field. This is something I’ve done a few times in my life now and there are specific habits I have and ways I think about things that have helped me do this. I share what those are in this post.
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I’m sharing a full tour of my Notion set up and how I use it to run my life and 7-figure business.
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You don’t need a big Instagram following to build a successful business. What you need is a variety of valuable content that builds your ‘know, like and trust’ factor and establishes you as an expert in your niche. And to do that you should be creating three specific types of content every week on social media, which I share in this post.
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People want to do business with other people – not with brands that have no face or personality behind them.
And that’s why it’s crucial that you are showing your face – both via pictures and videos – in your marketing and content. In today’s video I share some actionable tips and ideas for you to start doing so you can get some great images of yourself to use in your marketing (e.g. on your website, Instagram, YouTube channel).
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Is your business making money? You may not even know if you aren’t tracking these key metrics.
Here are the key numbers or metrics you should be tracking in your business so you can keep yourself accountable, follow any seasonality (e.g. are there particularly slow periods you need to stay on top of), find out how many leads you’re getting and ultimately help you to see if your business is actually making any money!
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Today I am sharing a simple 3-step framework for creating better content (e.g. blogs, videos or Instagram stories). If you spend 5 minutes planning out your content around this framework before you hit record or start writing your blog post you will find it so much easier to get your point across and it will also help your community remember the messages that you are trying to share.
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I hear a lot of excuses and reasons why people can’t start or grow their businesses. “I’ll do it when my kids start school”, “I’ll do it when COVID is over and I don’t have to home school”, “I’ll wait until I have a bit more time”.
The problem with these sorts of excuses is they hold you back from ever achieving anything. Instead of excuses for why you CAN’T do something what you should be doing is designing a life on purpose – so you fit what you want to achieve in terms of goals, dreams, aspirations around what you CAN achieve in your life.
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One of the questions I get asked the most is about how to price interior design services.
The overarching answer is that pricing creative services is really more an art than a science but in this video I give you a formula (that’s easy to use I promise – no tricky maths required!) for how to think about pricing your services so you can base it in some kind of foundation rather than pluck a number out of thin air and hope you make some money (which is the way I find many designers price their work).
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