How to Start and Operate Your Own Design Firm, Second Edition: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects / Edition 2

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Overview

Build a business from the ground up with this complete step-by-step guide.

For interior designers and architects who have always dreamed of having their own design firm... this book can make that dream a reality. How to Start and Operate Your Own Design Firm takes readers step-by-step through the process of establishing a business, from developing a business plan to running an office. This comprehensive guide is packed with nuts-and-bolts information on such topics as getting financing, setting fees, establishing a client base, advertising and marketing, dealing with insurance and banking, and getting accounting and legal assistance. There’s even valuable help with the psychological challenges of starting a business—fear, risk, guilt, success. Filled with real-life success stories, business checklists, and self-evaluation forms, this invaluable guide offers everything designers and architects need to make their dreams come true.

• All-new, fully updated edition of a classic

• Practical advice on starting a business and on coping with the psychological challenges involved

• Written by an expert, designed specifically for architects and designers

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781581154740
  • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
  • Publication date: 5/28/2007
  • Edition description: Second Edition
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 630,081
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.96 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Albert W. Rubeling, Jr., owns his own architectural firm, a $5 million enterprise with 28 employees. A fellow in the American Institute of Architects, he has served on the group’s national board of directors, and he is currently a trustee of the National AIA Trust. He lives in Baltimore.
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