Archmark

MAY 13, 2022

Set Up and Use Your Linkedin Profile to Find, Attract, and Connect with Your Ideal Architecture Firm Clients Archmark's Definitive Architecture Firm Marketing Guide to Perfecting Your Linkedin Profile. How can you build high-quality marketing relationships for your architecture firm? Sorry, but it’s true.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Years before launching EntreArchitect, I published a quarterly newsletter for my own residential architecture firm, Fivecat Studio. With more than 5,000 subscribers, I have built a strong community of like-minded small firm architects who look forward to my letter and respond in kind with thoughtful communication.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 10, 2018

Almost 40 tips for Starting an Architecture Firm. After obtaining my license as an Architect in New York, I brainstormed several long term goals and decided to start a personal blog, develop design projects, and learn everything that I could about starting an architecture firm.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 25, 2016

Most firms, here in the United States, experience a slow down at the same time every summer. For many of us small firm architects, this sounds a bit scary. This year, my firm Fivecat Studio will completely shut down for two weeks during August. 5 Steps to a Summer Shut Down at an Architecture Firm.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 9, 2014

One of the items in that post was the list “ Top 5 Reasons to work in a Small Architectural Firm ” which is somewhat biased because I didn’t really represent the benefits to working in a large architectural firm. International Projects International projects can be very exciting!

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Archmark

MARCH 29, 2019

How to make marketing work for your architecture firm. Recently, we asked Richard Marshall, Principal with Perkins+Will , about the importance of marketing for small firms, “The best organizations view marketing as just as important a skill set as design. . “ ” — Richard Marshall, Principal, Perkins+Will.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 6, 2015

Originally published on the week of this blog’s relaunch on December 12, 2012, this article has been the most popular week in, week out. Every business, including architecture firms (yes, its true!), Most sole proprietors and small firms I know, struggle to meet the minimum requirements of operation.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 15, 2015

It was originally prepared in February 2013 by my friend Steven Burns, FAIA as Step 7 of the original EntreArchitect Academy “12 Steps to Success” Blog Series. Steve is the creator of ArchiOffice ® the leading office, project management and time tracking software used in more than 1,000 small and mid-sized architectural firms.

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Archmark

JULY 26, 2021

Five Architect Marketing Building Blocks to Grow Your Firm! Recently, we asked Richard Marshall, Principal with Perkins+Will , about the importance of marketing for small firms, “The best organizations view marketing as just as important a skill set as design. What makes your firm better or different than your competitors?

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EntreArchitect

MAY 26, 2014

Many small businesses, including many small architecture firms, after years of finding ways to keep the doors open are succumbing to the years of economic instability and calling it quits. We’re spending only what needs to be spent to build a stronger firm… and much sacrifice remains. AIA KnowledgeNet.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 21, 2016

Years before launching EntreArchitect, I published a quarterly newsletter for my own residential architecture firm, Fivecat Studio. With more than 5,000 subscribers, I have built a strong community of like-minded small firm architects who look forward to my letter and respond in kind with thoughtful communication.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 5, 2016

A Culture at Your Architecture Firm Will Make or Break Your Firm. As your small firm grows beyond its infancy of the sole practitioner and you develop a strong team , the culture of your firm will evolve. Your firm’s culture and how you manage it is critical to the success of your firm.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

When architects ask me how much it will cost to launch an architecture firm, I say, “as much as you need.” ” Below I will discuss the very basics required to launch a sole proprietor architecture firm. Again, to launch your new firm, keep your equipment expenses to a bare minimum.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 7, 2016

An Email Management System for Architecture Firms. A question I am often asked by members of EntreArchitect Academy is, “How do you manage the many email messages for your architecture projects? So Evernote is the first place I turned when I developed an email management system for architecture firms.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 30, 2014

If you listened to the episode , you heard me talk about starting a blog as part of my Lead Conversion Action Plan. Following the launch of our website and working to keep fivecat.com well represented on the Google search engine, launching the blog was the most successful marketing strategy we’ve ever implemented.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Today I’m in Chicago at AIAS Forum 2013 celebrating the new year with a thousand architecture students from every corner of North America. I’ve been asked to present a workshop session based on the Entrepreneur Architect Academy blog series , which I posted during the first weeks of this year. Build a Debt Zero Business.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 23, 2018

You have read this from me before here at EntreArchitect Blog… Profit, Then Art. Money may not buy you happiness, but running an architecture firm that works most certainly will. Last week, I presented a 60 minute webinar where I shared the step by step process of developing a profit plan for a small firm.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 2, 2014

We were 29 years old, had a dream of starting our own firm and jumped. I always knew I would own my own firm. Blessed with friends who needed architectural services for their new restaurant, we signed a contract and thought we were on our way. I loved to talk about our firm and we were great at marketing.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Celebrating 7 Years Serving Small Firm Architects. All this month EntreArchitect is celebrating our 7th-anniversary serving small firm architects around the world. Recently we launched our 13th professional peer group at the EntreArchitect Academy Small Group Mastermind. Click here. Click here.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 22, 2017

Wintner, AIA, Emeritus , an architecture management consultant and co-author of the book, Financial Management for Design Professionals: The Path to Profitability. Financial Management for Architects (blog). How To Fix Your Profitability Problem as a Small Firm Architect (blog). More from Steve L.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

With no clients and no money, we launched the firm as a sole proprietorship; Annmarie McCarthy, Architect. Slowly, we grew the firm and in 2002, with my license in hand, we incorporated as McCarthy LePage Architects, PC. We knew from day one that we needed a way to differentiate ourselves from the many other local firms.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

So I thought I would put together an architectural job “starter kit” of all the things you should be paying attention to if you’re planning on getting a job at an architectural office. My experience demands that I champion the advantages of working in a small firm, it’s what I know and love.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Working with many architecture firms over the past several years our agency, Archmark Architect Branding & Marketing, has been approached by many architects who have struggled to establish a consistent, repeatable, and reliable process to attract new clients and projects.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 5, 2016

The all-new EntreArchitect is built exclusively for you; the small firm entrepreneur architect. We’ve developed a comprehensive content calendar for the entire year, which will allow us to systematically improve our firms, step by step. Return to this blog each week throughout the month to learn more about money.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 10, 2017

How to Achieve Your Goals as a Small Firm Architect. My architecture firm, Fivecat Studio , was in the process of developing a new “virtual” business model and required the development of many new systems. We’re developing new resources and working on better ways to serve small firm architects. My ONE Goal.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 30, 2012

A few years ago, we started a new tradition at the firm. Success in life, for me, is finding that all important balance between the firm and my family. But… I also have an architecture firm to run. How do YOU find the balance between the firm and your family? Tweet This). I am very involved in my kids lives.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 1, 2018

We’ve read the EntreArchitect blog and listened to the podcast. We may even perform the calculations explained in the free EntreArchitect Profit Course and discover the amounts of revenue needed to flow into our firms in order to be profitable. As a small firm entrepreneur architect, profit makes everything better.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I watched TV news, listened to talk radio and read many of the blogs available on the subject. Around the same time, I was running a residential architecture firm in full “survivor mode” and growing this blog in the early days of its rebirth as a platform dedicated to inspiring small firm architects to build better businesses.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In a recent conversation with a professional colleague who is a small firm practitioner (3 people total), he expressed his frustration with not being able to get to the ‘business of his business’. The ‘project’ is in its ‘beta’ testing stage at this time, in the anticipation of having it ready to ‘roll-out’ at the start of 2018.

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A Better Built Environment

MAY 9, 2021

It has been a great source of information, comradery, and community as I embarked on my architecture career, started my first architecture firm, and currently as I transition to writing about practice and working as a consultant that helps architects run better businesses. Below are some links for where to get started.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Understanding business fundamentals and building systems that will lead to a healthy profitable firm is critical. As small firm architects, we have so many responsibilities. Soon after launching my own small residential architecture firm, I was faced with the reality of running a small business.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 26, 2016

We’ve read the EntreArchitect blog and listened to the podcast. We may even perform the calculations explained in the free EntreArchitect Profit Course and discover the amounts of revenue needed to flow into our firms in order to be profitable. As a small firm entrepreneur architect, profit makes everything better.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Most firms can’t afford to sponsor visas and move people across the world. Large offices might be able to do this, but not the smaller firms that make up the majority of our profession. This probably means focusing on the larger firms in the place you want to move, or international firms who have offices in many cities and countries.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 29, 2015

We were two young architects seeking the freedom of our own firm. I wrote a 3-part blog series a couple years back sharing the full story of how Annmarie and I started our own architecture firm. Years of experience has taught us that not every project is right for our firm. In those early days, my answer was “Yes”.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 15, 2014

This man founded his own architecture firm in the same year as we launched Fivecat Studio, in 1999… and merged his practice with another firm just a few years ago. Way back in October of 2012 I featured him on the blog, before relaunching the site as EntreArchitect.com that same year in December.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 1, 2015

I watched TV news, listened to talk radio and read many of the blogs available on the subject. Around the same time, I was running a residential architecture firm in full “survivor mode” and growing this blog in the early days of its rebirth as a platform dedicated to inspiring small firm architects to build better businesses.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

We talked about how to self-publish books as a small firm architect. I asked Eric how he runs his successful architecture firm and finds enough time to write two books. I appreciate you for reading this blog and for listening to the episode each week. His answer? Pay it Forward.

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