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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. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients. What if you viewed your junior staff as one day they might be your future client? Take the time to explain the business side of architecture, how you find clients and how you manage your projects.

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Work / Life … Different Letters, Same Word

Life of an Architect

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. As a general rule, don’t work overtime in my office. When it’s late, sometimes I work at this teeny tiny desk.

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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. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients. What if you viewed your junior staff as one day they might be your future client? Take the time to explain the business side of architecture, how you find clients and how you manage your projects.

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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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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. As individual small firm architects, we have more important tasks requiring our attention. We have businesses to build, clients to serve and families to feed.

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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.