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EntreArchitect Blog Update & Call for Contributions

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Having been an active member of the EntreArchitect community for the past 8-10 years or so, I am honored to take a larger role in the community, helping Mark manage the EntreArchitect blog. If you are interested in writing and would like to contribute to this blog, we are actively looking for new content. Other Initiatives.

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AIA Antitrust and Establishing Fees for Small Firm Architects

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Fees for Small Firm Architects. There are hundreds of articles, forums, blog posts and comments discussing how we architects are not paid enough and how our clients don’t understand what we do. As creatives, our passion seeks the art of design and the process of developing a concept into construction.

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The EntreArchitect Profit Challenge

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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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How to Rewrite the Story of Our Profession

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With a twisted sense of pride, too many architects today accept the small firm stereotype of “starving artist”. Seeds planted in architecture school bloom into a full-on virus as professionals launch their own firms and find their way to small business. We change the world through our art. No More Starving Artist.

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The Power ofThe Profit First Architect

EntreArchitect

Our fuel is the excitement and emotional reaction that others have for our art. We feel an underlying sense of guilt for charging for the art that we love to create. We’ve read the EntreArchitect blog and listened to the podcast. If nothing else, remember this… Profit, then Art. We love being architects.

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My ONE Word for 2017

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How to Achieve Your Goals as a Small Firm Architect. My ONE Goal for 2016 was to Master the Art of Delegation. My architecture firm, Fivecat Studio , was in the process of developing a new “virtual” business model and required the development of many new systems. My ONE Goal. The ONE Goal Experiment. Stay tuned.

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The Power of the “Profit First” Culture in Architecture

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Our fuel is the excitement and emotional reaction that others have for our art. We feel an underlying sense of guilt for charging for the art that we love to create. We’ve read the EntreArchitect blog and listened to the podcast. As a small firm entrepreneur architect, profit makes everything better.