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Back to School: Marketing for Architects

EntreArchitect

This month, the #ArchiTalks topic is “Back to School”, so I am encouraging my fellow small firm architects to go back to school themselves and learn what they need to know to find the work they want and live a life they’ll love. As small firm architects, how do we get noticed by those prospects? Back to School.

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Mentoring the Young Architect Will Enrich and Strengthen Our Profession

EntreArchitect

In his world, I was just a cheap architecture student day laborer. In my world, I was working around the clock, stressed out over my classes, had my own projects to worry about and was taking out big student loans in the pursuit of someday becoming an architect. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients.

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Work / Life … Different Letters, Same Word

Life of an Architect

We didn’t keep time sheets; our deadlines were identified by the day, not how many hours we had to finish the work. I can only remember a few brief periods where we all came together to get something completed in order to meet a promise we made to a client – but normally everybody can leave when they want.

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2 Simple Systems That Will Transform Your Studio

EntreArchitect

The phone gets quiet and current clients have their priorities pulled in other directions. Once you finish tuning up your current procedures, here are two new systems that you may want to launch before things get busy again. Mail, deliveries and client furnished documentation often finds its way to stacked piles on my worktable.

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Mentoring is an Integral Part of the Profession

EntreArchitect

In his world, I was just a cheap architecture student day laborer. In my world, I was working around the clock, stressed out over my classes, had my own projects to worry about and was taking out big student loans in the pursuit of someday becoming an architect. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients.

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21 Rules for a Successful Life in Architecture

EntreArchitect

Instead of recapping the course or giving a final exam, I share with my students a presentation titled Advice as You Finish School and Start to Practice. Advice as You Finish School and Start to Practice. Get to know everyone in the Architecture community and allied fields (all ages and experience levels). Be patient.

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Pricing Creativity with Author Blair Enns (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

Do you know how to calculate the exact amount you need to charge your clients in order to earn 20 percent profit on that project? Learn how by downloading our free course Profit for Small Firm Architects today at entrearchitect.com/freecourse. What is it that we sell as small firm architects? Start Transcript.

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