634: Power Talk Friday: Jessica Harling: A Specific Process for Onboarding a New Hire
Release Date: 01/22/2021
645: Window Treatment Friday: Scaling to Your First Million Dollar Year
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Today with Vita Vygovska Welcome to a Well-Designed Business®. On today’s WTF— Window Treatment Friday, Vita and I are talking about scaling to your first million-dollar year. As most of you probably know, scaling is not an easy task. It takes hard work and lots of blood, sweat, and tears. But when you can learn from someone who has already done it, it cuts the time and effort down and makes scaling attainable far before you thought it was possible. Today, Vita shares with us her five core pillars for scaling your business and how her course in LuAnn University, Scale Your Window...
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644: Kat Anderson: Design Build and Bookkeeping Classes for Interior Designers
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Welcome to A Well-Designed Business®. Kat Anderson of Material Design, an interior design business specializing in design-build projects, shares her experience as a recently-graduated interior design student struggling to find her way in the design world. You’ll hear Kat tell how she succeeded by growing her skillset in more than just design. Kat also walks through the classes she teaches at LuAnn University.
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643: Nathan Brookshire and Paul Davidge: Design More, Manage Less: Agency Representation for Your Design Firm
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Welcome to A Well-Designed Business®. Nathan Brookshire and Paul Davidge of Design: Agency & Management share how they help creatives develop a financially sound path to achieve their goals and run their business in such a way that they have the freedom to focus on their zone of genius.
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642: Thom Sweeney: Sage Advice About Salesmanship And The Upside of Failure in Interior Design
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Welcome to A Well-Designed Business®. Thom Sweeney’s unconventional path to interior design started after a 30-year career in advertising. Thom shares what brought him to design and how he lost his design business before rising again to build something even greater. He also has great advice on salesmanship and how to build meaningful relationships with clients.
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641: Celebrating 5 Years: Reflecting on the Bigger Picture
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Welcome to A Well-Designed Business®. Today, we are celebrating the show's 5th Birthday! It is hard to believe that there have been five years of outstanding guests, infinite ah-ha moments, and countless businesses changed. Thank you for coming along for the ride.
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640: Power Talk Friday: Ashley Connell, Founder of Prowess: Helping You Find Your Next Hire
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Welcome to A Well-Designed Business®. Today we’re going to talk about one of those key things you have to do in your business if you want to grow—outsourcing. We all know we need to do it, but finding the right fit is a major challenge. Ashley Connell of Prowess runs a business that matches you with your perfect fit business manager or employee. She’s sharing with us how she makes those perfect fits and the impact it can have on your business.
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639: Mina Duque: Starting an Interior Design Firm in a Foreign Melting Pot
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Welcome to A Well-Designed Business®. Can you imagine starting your firm in a foreign city—one where you have no connections, no network, and where you haven’t even visited? That’s exactly what Mina Duque ended up doing. Today, she’s sharing her story of how she started her business in Tulum, the unique challenges presented by working in a major melting pot, and how she grew her business even without a community and network.
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638: What Would Lu Do?: Processes and Contracts: They Aren't Made to Be Broken
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Welcome to A Well-Designed Business, it’s time for another riveting episode of “What Would Lu Do?”, where you ask the difficult questions and LuAnn gives the expert answers you’ve been wanting.
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637: Carley Page Summers: Lift Others As You Climb to Success.
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Carley Page Summers shares her journey to interior design that began only after she first built a robust photography business catering to the design trade. 184k Instagram followers strong, Carley chronicles how just nine years ago, she pulled herself out of a dark place, found hope, and is now on a mission to inspire hope in others.
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636: Window Treatment Friday Ep. 13: On-Air Coaching with Vita
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Today with Vita Vygovska For Window Treatment Friday, LuAnn and Vita conduct a live coaching session around a big issue that so many businesses encounter when they scale—clients wanting you on their project, not your staff. Listen to see how LuAnn advises Vita and prepares her to eliminate her problem with confidence and some carefully chosen words. LuAnn and Vita's Aha-Moments “Having the combination of a virtual hug and a little bit of a whip is very unique.” - Vita Vygovska “If you only get comfort, then you don’t learn how to avoid that the next time.” - LuAnn Nigara...
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Stop the turnover in your business! Listen in as Jessica Harling, founder of Behind the Design, and a leading expert in employee and process development for design organizations guides us through a simple (not easy) and actionable process of hiring, training, and retaining top staff.
Pick it apart:
[16:52] Jessica reviews week 1: Process
[25:31] LuAnn reviews how she would use Shadowing at Window Works
[29:35] Jessics reviews week 2: Product/Services
[33:05] Jessica reviews week 3: Paperwork and Pricing
[37:58] Jessica reviews week 4: People
[47:35] LuAnn and Jessica review how to set goals for non-sales role such as Office Administrator
LuAnn and Jessica Harling’s Ah-Ha moments:
“It would be easier to train somebody in the papertrail process if they actually had been physically through the full process.” - LuAnn
More About Jessica Harling:
Jessica Harling is a 4th Generation Window Treatment Specialist, founder of Behind the Design, and leading expert in employee and process development for design organizations. Her specialty in recruiting, training and change management drives innovative and high-producing results while keeping your team inspired. Behind the Design offers recruiting, onsite and online training, and operations development consulting for design organization to streamline costs, increase productivity, and develop rockstar employees to take the company to the next level.
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