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Sep 2024
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106\\ Proven Strategies to Elevate Your ...

Rebecca Ward, CID | Interior Designer, Interior Design Mentor, Designers Coach
About this episode

Are you an interior designer struggling to build a profitable, sustainable business? Do you feel overwhelmed by the marketing and business side of your creative practice?

In this episode, Jacqueline Green, founder of Behind the Design, shares her proven strategies to help designers overcome these challenges. Her journey from corporate marketing to interior design provides a relatable roadmap. She discovered that designers often excel creatively, but need support in branding, systems, and outsourcing. Through her company, Jacqueline empowers designers to transform their passion into a thriving business.

She shares practical tips on networking, content repurposing, and leveraging platforms like LinkedIn.

Tune in now and discover how Jacqueline's expertise can help you build the creative career you've always envisioned.

Featured Guest:

Jacqueline Green is the founder, CEO, and Chief Strategist of Behind the Design, a training and education company that provides interior designers and other creative business owners with the tools they need to build profitable businesses. Through comprehensive education, coaching, marketing, and community offerings, she and her team empower designers to reach their full potential.

Jacqueline is a seasoned commercial interior designer, former college instructor, and highly experienced marketing expert. After working in architectural firms, she knows talented designers and architects grappling with various career and business challenges. With a solid background in business and marketing, Jacqueline realized that she had a unique skill set that would help design firms overcome these pain points and fulfill their deep desire to make a difference and assist others. In 2018, she founded Behind the Design, where her mission was and still is to build a stronger design community by reimagining how we educate, train, and support designers after college.

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

  • Learn strategies to overcome your fear of networking and enhance your visibility
  • Develop an action plan for consistent marketing, effective networking, and smart outsourcing
  • Overcome common challenges faced by designers & creative entrepreneurs with Jacqueline's insights

Check out the show notes >>> Proven Strategies to Elevate Your Brand, Streamline Operations, and Grow Your Design Business

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Thanks for listening! I hope this helps you discover if interior design is the career for you. See you next week...

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