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Conversion Rates for a Small Firm Architect

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The bottom was 2008. I know this as fact, because I track my firm’s Prospect to Project Ratio. Every year since Annmarie and I launched the firm in 1999, we’ve had a full workload. Below are two charts that present data collected throughout the history of our small firm architecture studio.

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A New Business Model for Small Firm Architects

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In 2003, with many accolades and a determination to take our firm to the next level, we moved out of the darkness of the basement and into a light-filled 2,000 square foot office space in Pleasantville. In 2008, after nine years of hard work, long hours and tremendous progress, things started to change. We would be successful.

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EntreArchitect Behind The Design 008: Soaring Wings by Winn Wittman

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EntreArchitect: Behind the Design is a weekly blog series where we feature work designed, developed and/or built by small firm entrepreneur architect members of The EntreArchitect Community. Firm Address. Spaces (UK) September 2008 ?REM REM (Spain) September 2008 ?Innovative Innovative Home Winter 2008 ?Architectural

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How To Build a Successful Architecture Firm With No Debt

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The illusion of an “established architecture firm” gave way to our reality each time a calling prospect heard the the crying baby in the background. We learned to accommodate our new “partner” and established routines to allow us to keep the firm and our family as separate as they could be within 900 square feet.

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The Gift of Crisis

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The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought me back to the last time I experienced something seismic like this: the 2008 financial crisis. In the years that followed the 2008 crisis, I experienced professional and financial adversity from which I feared I would never recover. Would I ever get that momentum back?

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Taking A Different Path

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Despite NCARB’s hold on the licensure process, the establishment’s grip on the use of the word architect, and old guard’s unwillingness to give up design control in firms, creative people are using their skills to break down established barriers and show that architectural training can have an impact far beyond the traditional firm.

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Architecture Is Human: Part II – History: The Other Gravity

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(Derby CT 2008). The post Architecture Is Human: Part II – History: The Other Gravity appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Every second passes, and there was a before, now and after. Unrelenting. Unchanging. On every thing we see, hear, taste and touch. Time is universal. Madison, CT 2021).