Enjoy all the images in this post from my time at the June 2025 Lightovation tradeshow - North America’s largest residential lighting tradeshow held 2x a year at Dallas Market. Part 2 of this post will be coming next week.
Read MoreRead this post for my 5 top tips for optimizing your interior design website for Chat GPT search - the new way your clients are finding you - and get a bonus tip, too.
Read MoreListen to Luann Nigara, podcast host extraordinaiire, interview me on A Well Designed Business about AI And The Metaverse - Are They The Future Of Interior Design?
Plus, see images from the the Metaverse Lighting Trendhouse installation at Lightovation, the AILA sink and learn more about Lori Carpenter’s Instagram Live Show, The 3rd Phase.
AI for SEO: Read the story of how one luxury interior designer, Rachel Moriarty, got hired by a client for a major project, through his search on Chat GPT and learn how to optimize your own websites for potential clients who are using Chat GPT versus Google to search for what you offer.
Read MoreI was so honored to have been invited by Toma Clark Haines, The Antiques Diva, to be a guest on her podcast, The Business Of Antiques, to talk with her about the various reinventions of my business and my career. Click MORE to see some .30 second video clips of our conversation and to listen to the entire conversation on Spotify or Apple.
Read MoreIs Sourcing Furniture That’s Made In The USA Better…Or Not? In this post, I share my thoughts on what to consider. I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
Read MoreMy thoughts on Made In The USA furniture and the broader picture interior designers and kitchen and bath designers want to consider when sourcing.
Read More2025’s Top 10 Housing Markets Markets For Luxury Home Buyers as prepared by Zonda, the country’s leading authority on data for the housing industry. In addition, please find a link to my newly revised and expanded LinkedIn + Instagram lead generation workshop happening next Thursday, 1.30 from 2-4 pm CT.
Read MoreIn this post, I share my reflections and many images of what made 2024 such a professionally rewarding year for me, along with the personal tribulations that taxed my emotional reserves. Thank you to each of you who subscribe to this blog and read and share my posts. I am so grateful and wish you each a professionally and personally rewarding 2025.
Read MoreMeet Keith Sauro and Andrea Darr, the publisher and editor in chief of Design KC Magazine, a stunning regional shelter magazine in Kansas City and learn the backstory of how I was invited to be a judge in their 2025 Design Awards, with the winners to be announced on January 26th, 2025.
Read MoreIf you’re an interior designer, kitchen and bath designer, artist or other creative entrepreneur selling physical products, and you need to develop quality leads with those that can afford to hire you, please join me for my final LinkedIn workshop of 2024 on Monday, 12.16 from 2-4 CT, where I will teach you my system. See the testimonials in this blog post from those that have taken it already.
Read MoreIf you’re considering attending January 2025 Lightovation at Dallas Market Center, North America’s largest residential lighting tradeshow, find out what you need to do to qualify for two free nights at the Hilton Anatole. In addition, see the entire programming schedule and learn more about this fabulous tradeshow that’s become my favorite.
Read MoreClick below to see what top interior design experts had to say about color trends for 2025. Do you agree or disagree? Let me know in the comment section of this post!
Read MoreGet inspired for your holiday shopping by seeing some of the gifts available from these 7 boutique brick and mortar retailers owned by interior designers - retailers who are supporting the communities they live in and the manufacturers we love.
Read MoreMeet the first designer to specify my AILA sink for Thompson for a client of hers on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and see how she changed it to accommodate their needs.
Read MoreRead about how you can support two particular Western North Carolina business owners on Small Business Saturday and get ideas for your own businesses, too.
Read MoreRead a wonderful story about friendship, kindness and the amazing synchronicity that occurred at Fall 24 High Point Market
Read MoreIn this post, vacation rental designers will learn how membership in Jessica Duce’s Vacation Rental Designers Collective differs from membership in a regular buying group, and you will learn more about other benefits of both membership and sponsorship.
Read MoreRead about the first time an AI designed product has ever been exhibited at High Point Market. Read what others had to say, learn the backstory and meet the Thompson Traders family who made it possible.
Read MoreIf you are tired of spending so much time generating quality client leads for your business, sign up for my new LinkedIn Premium workshop on Thursday, 9.12 from 6-8:30 pm CT where I will show you how to use LinkedIn's Premium features to connect with quality client leads much faster than is possible in any other way.
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