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Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer contains all the necessary tools and strategies to successfully launch and grow a professional design business in the competitive world of interior design. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience, this book includes case studies, and personal anecdotes that help teach you how to:* Choose a design field* Obtain and keep clients* Garner referrals* Market and position your business* Bid competitively on projects* Manage sales* Organize a budget* Manage start-up costs and cash flow* Promote your business* Branch out into product and architectural design* Design within a retail environment* Set pricing guidelines* Sell to your target demographic* Set up your officeReaders will find a history of the business side of interior design as well as various career tracks available to today's budding entrepreneur.