In 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.
Read MoreJoin me Tuesday, 8.6 from 5-6:30 pm CT for my new workshop where I will teach you how to use LinkedIn’s PREMIUM features to maximize your LinkedIn profile in a way that will attract highly qualified clients that match your ideal client avatar as well as how to use their other PREMIUM features to easily reach key executives for other brand opportunities. Ready to register without reading further? Do it here for $149.00.
Read MoreJoin us on Tuesday, July 23rd from 3-4:30 pm CST live on Zoom and learn from Annilee Waterman how to create and train your own custom GPT AI assistants to save you time and transform your backend workflow. Click See More to see and listen to the testimonials from other designers who’ve taken this workshop!
Read MoreEnjoy seeing my favorite lighting designs from the June 2024 edition of Lightovation, North America’s largest residential lighting tradeshow - held twice a year in June and January at Dallas Market.
Read MoreJoin us this Wednesday, June 26th from 3-4:30 CT, for a live Zoom webinar [ $149.00 ] and learn how to create and train your own custom GPT AI assistants in your brand voice to save you time and transform your workflow. See real life examples of how interior designer and rendering artist, Annilee Waterman, uses her AI assistants in her own business and be amazed!
Read MoreRetailers, Designers, Exhibitors:
Learn about an exciting, free new way to educate, inspire, and entertain existing clients and customers and to attract new customers and clients to your businesses with my step by step plan outlined for you in this new post.
In the age of AI, it’s essential for all design organizations and individual interior designers and kitchen and bath designers to learn how to communicate their value to their potential clients. It’s my hope that the rest of this post will give you some ideas for how to do that, and will help your potential clients understand the REAL value they get from hiring you vs. using a robot.
Read MoreInterior designers and creatives: a deep dive into self awareness and having the courage to charge what you’re really worth…and the faith that the right clients will be there when you do.
Read MoreLearn from Annilee Waterman how to create and train your own Chat GPT AI assistant in your own brand voice in order to save time and transform your workflow. Take our new live Zoom webinar either Wed. June 5th or Wed. June 26th, from 3-4:30 pm Central Time for $149.00. Register now on Eventbrite.
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