You're Working Too Hard: Interior Designers Need to Rethink Procurement | Brittanie Elms Interview

Are you spending countless hours managing purchase orders and chasing vendors instead of designing? In this eye-opening interview, procurement expert Brittanie Elms reveals how successful interior designers are transforming their businesses by rethinking their approach to procurement.

You'll discover:

Why doing everything yourself is actually hurting your business
The surprising truth about what procurement should really cost you
How to know if your procurement process needs an overhaul
Real examples of designers who transformed their businesses
Simple systems you can implement today
The crucial first steps to breaking free from operational chaos

Whether you're drowning in administrative tasks or ready to scale your design firm, this conversation reveals the operational secrets that could transform your business.

CHAPTERS
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:39 Origin Story
0:07:46 Pain Points
0:16:05 Systems & Processes
0:20:44 How Will My Design Assistant Help Me?
0:25:10 Solo Interior Designers
0:30:16 Procurement Nightmares
0:35:17 Procurement Success Stories
0:38:48 The University of Interior Design Systems and Processes
0:42:51 Free Resources
0:45:37 Why Designers Should Use a Receiver
0:48:11 Why Designers Need to Collect a Retainer
0:52:28 Interior Design and Technology
0:58:35 Artificial Intelligence
1:04:44 How Can My Design Assistant Help You???
1:07:10 Outro

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About Interior DesignHer

Hey there! This is Douglas Robb, and I am happy to welcome you to the Interior DesignHer Youtube channel.

I created Interior DesignHer as a way for solo & small-team interior designers to improve the business-side of their interior design business.

After selling my online & IRL fitness businesses, I was hired [100% nepotism] by my wife Nicole Robb to work on the back-end (operations, staffing, marketing, etc) of her Toronto-based residential interior design firm - Robb and Company - https://www.robbandcompany.com/

To be honest, I think she felt sorry for me. After selling my fitness businesses, I was in need of a new challenge. While I am 100% clueless about interior design, I have always admired Nicole's ability to help me (and her clients) see her vision for a space and...to be completely honest, it's the most fun I have had in business in a long time :)

In addition to helping improve the back end of Robb & Co, I spent months speaking with solo & small-team residential interior designers across North America [online & IRL] about what they love, hate & struggle with in their businesses.

After all this chit-chat, I was 1000% convinced that the vast majority of solo & small-team residential interior designers struggle with the same exact problem....the business-side of their interior design business. And the reason for that struggle is their education...or lack of education...of how to imagine, launch, improve & scale a successful interior design business. Interior Design business schools do a great job teaching design, but a poor job teaching business.

And that's why we started Interior DesignHer - https://www.interiordesignher.com/

This Youtube channel is part of our mission to help designers build better businesses and enjoy the process.

If you're an interior designer looking to improve and/or scale their business OR a designer or design student looking to start a business, we would be honoured to have you subscribe to our channel:    / @interiordesignher  

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Before you go, I have to thank you for tuning in to my channel. I truly appreciate that you were willing to gift me some of your valuable time. Much appreciated.

Douglas Robb