The Designer's Coach: Business Strategies for Interior Designers and Decorators

by Neil Perry Gordon

Welcome to The Designer's Coach, a coaching and consulting manual for professionals in the interior design and decorating business. With more than twenty years of experience in the field, author Neil Gordon provides powerful tools to grow your business. Drawing on his hands-on knowledge from the window covering business, combined with his training and certification as a business coach, Gordon presents inspirational advice and material to help you make real changes in the way you lead and manage your business. The Designer's Coach will show you how ·Learn effective negotiating skills ·Examine your leadership competency ·Develop a great selling-and-design system ·Create a team chart and a strategic vision plan ·Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of your business ·Understand the value of position and vendor agreements ·Prevent problems by creating flawless client-fulfillment systems ·Examine lead generating systems and the effectiveness of your positioning statement In addition, Gordon discusses the six fatal flaws that can prevent your ultimate success. By avoiding these mistakes and following the clear and concise advice in The Designer's Coach, you'll be well on your way to building a successful business enterprise.

Paperback

First published November 1, 2006

About the author

Beginning with his debut novel—A Cobbler’s Tale, followed by Moon Flower, The Righteous One, The Bomb Squad, Hope City, Sadie’s Sin, Cape Nome, Otzi’s Odyssey, Denali, Thunder Falls and soon to be released—The Nazarite, Neil Perry Gordon has established himself as a well-respected and prolific historical and metaphysical fiction novelist.

​His storytelling ability has earned him high editorial praise from the likes of Kirkus, Midwest Book Review, Book Viral and others, including hundreds of four and five star reader reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.

Neil attributes his love of the writing process from his formative education at the Green Meadow Waldorf School, where he understood that classes such as music, dance and theater, writing, literature, legends and myths, were not simply subjects to be learned, but lessons to be experienced.

His creative writing methods and inspiration have been described as organic; meaning he begins his work with a premise for his characters, rather than working within the confines of a formal, detailed outline. This encourages his writing to offer surprising twists and unexpected outcomes, which readers have celebrated. His novels have the attributes of being driven by an equal balance between character development and face-paced action, which moves his stories along at a swift page-turning pace.