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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

When I started, I wasn’t an entry level student worker, I had 3 years’ experience in other architecture offices before this job and I was at the end of my education. In his world, I was just a cheap architecture student day laborer. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients. My boss was a difficult man.

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Be Better

EntreArchitect

I had many interesting conversations with architecture students while I was in Chicago. Others wanted to know about how to start their own firms. My answer to those students, as well as to anyone else concerned with this very volatile issue? Architecture is a business. Some were concerned about finding a job.

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Mentoring is an Integral Part of the Profession

EntreArchitect

When I started, I wasn’t an entry level student worker, I had 3 years’ experience in other architecture offices before this job and I was at the end of my education. In his world, I was just a cheap architecture student day laborer. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients. My boss was a difficult man.

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21 Rules for a Successful Life in Architecture

EntreArchitect

DON’T GET UPSET BY CLIENTS THAT THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE. Educate and show multiple options (divergent thought processes) to open up thinking. Remember that you were educated as an ARCHITECT (not him/her). The Architectural world is way too small. Future clients will be the result.

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The 14 Books Every Future Architect Should Read

EntreArchitect

Being a successful architect takes more than creating a wonderful idea and presenting it to your client. The work involved in setting up your design firm can be overwhelming and 99% of it was never taught to you in school. I once had a phone call with an architecture student asking for advice. Entrepreneurship.

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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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