EntreArchitect

APRIL 6, 2014

From the point of view of our clients, great architecture is where we start. So, yes, great design is important, but it’s not what’s going to keep our clients happy? The first step, before you ever put your pen to sketch paper, is to know what your client is looking for. We’re in the Client Happiness Business.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 23, 2022

But the ping pong game starts when the user/client sees the options we define, with their preconceptions, and hopes fully presented, then variants, then fully reconsidered ideas derived from the same database the user/client gives you. The ideas of user/clients are thus transformed by the open creative process.

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Archmark

MARCH 29, 2019

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. Read on to learn about five effective marketing building blocks that contribute to architecture firm growth.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everything I have learned about succeeding in business as a small firm architect has come to me in two ways; either through trial and error (with lots and lots of error) or through the many dozens of business and “self-help” books that I’ve read over my many years as an architect. by Seth Godin. by Seth Godin.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 9, 2018

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. With clients? How involved was your client throughout the design process? Caja Negra (Spanish Book) 2009 ?Trends

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Finding clients you seek to serve, who have projects with appropriate budgets and realistic schedules is very important. 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. That didn’t work.

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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 second printing of the expanded book will be self-published in 2017, as an e-book, or as a hard copy, on request.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 10, 2017

How to Achieve Your Goals as a Small Firm Architect. Inspired by one of my all-time favorite books, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results , written by Jay Papasan and Gary Keller, my ONE Goal was to be the primary focus for the next twelve months of 2016. My ONE Goal. The ONE Goal Experiment.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 3, 2016

As we move into a new month, we are shifting our focus to a new category of small firm success. All throughout the month of May, we will be diving deep into the subject of Client Fulfillment. How do we best serve our clients? How do we manage expectations and keep our clients happy?

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 20, 2020

The content for this article, published here with permission, was first published on March 25, 2020, on the Win Without Pitching blog here. Keeping current clients active. I’m going to avoid offering guidance on broader finance and personnel management issues, like right-sizing your firm. The client replied, “I might not.”

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EntreArchitect

JULY 4, 2021

Scaling is about serving more clients, earning more money, but without having to necessarily become the big machine. Systems, if designed and set up well can save you an incredible amount of time, and in doing so you have this time free to serve more clients. Here’s three ways to scale without growing: Systems. Collaboration.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I have almost always worked in small firms – except for that one time when I didn’t, which wasn’t a bad year but it cemented in my mind that my skill set is better suited for a small architectural firm. Here are my Top 5 Reasons to work in a Small Architectural Firm: 1.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 5, 2018

This allows us to educate future clients on what is important to us, how we work, what we are working on, what we’ve recently completed, what is available, etc. We did not sell the house from the open house, but we did secure 4 other jobs from clients who attended that open house. With clients? Autocad and Sketchup.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 9, 2015

Finding clients you seek to serve, who have projects with appropriate budgets and realistic schedules is very important. 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. Get Things Done Faster.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Architects get the most attention for new work that actually gets built, from those who find them from somewhere else (usually a friend or client)… through referral. My second book was coming out in 1986 and I would go on to write 6 more, all meshing with the demands of the media. But the books were not about me.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 7, 2021

Traditionally architects have withheld their ignorance of how to build, how to listen to clients, and often their inability to just work in the world of builders and codes in hopes that when given a chance to build something, anything, the world will see their value. Dickinson has written eight books.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 9, 2021

Every potential client who architects serve under 40 has created a software derived sketch. Architecture schools need to address their faculty’s experience in actually building buildings, with clients and builders. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 11, 2015

Eric has authored several books on architecture, his most recent is entitled, Architect and Entrepreneur: A Field Guide to Building, Branding, and Marketing Your Startup Design Business , which expands on his thoughts below and other topics related to contemporary practice. Clients began calling, writing gigs popped up, and I sold plans.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 13, 2017

This post is my contribution to an international blog series called #ArchiTalks. Our prospective clients learn with their heads, but decide with their hearts. Our prospective clients learn with their heads, but decide with their hearts. Imaginative systems and strategies makes the process more real for our clients.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 9, 2014

I have had very limited exposure to the large firms, only work for 1 in my career and it was only for a year – I’m probably not the authority to explain why working at a large firm could be the best decision you’ve ever made in your life. This will continue from the next conceptual stages and beyond.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 28, 2020

The content for this article, published here with permission, was first published on April 6, 2020, on the Win Without Pitching blog here. It was reassuring to know that business was still happening and clients were still in need of creative, marketing and digital services, even if some parts of the economy had ground to a halt.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Most sole practitioners and small firms I know struggle to meet the minimum requirements of operation. These are services available to your client, but are NOT included in your basic architectural services. Through the years we have learned that not every project and not every client is a good fit for these services though.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 9, 2020

The content for this article, published here with permission, was first published on March 17, 2020, on the Win Without Pitching blog here. This crisis is hitting creative and marketing firms differently. Some are seeing only a small blip in client spend or minor inconvenience in working conditions. How are they doing?

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 20, 2018

We struggled to launch our firms, often without the education or a firm knowledge of the basic fundamentals of business. We searched for the best clients and we serve them each, to the best of our ability. It’s my rule book for life. Why do you read this blog and listen to the podcast. Something small.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 10, 2018

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. So I purchased several inspiring books written by life coaches, architects, and business professionals.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Home / Blog / Out with the Old, In with the New Out with the Old, In with the New Bob Borson — December 30, 2013 — 58 Comments It’s pre-dawn on a Sunday and I am currently sitting in my kitchen, the rest of my house still in bed, trying to get my bearings in place before the new year kicks off in earnest.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

I’ve written about many here at the blog before and many others will be covered in subsequent articles. Again, to launch your new firm, keep your equipment expenses to a bare minimum. As you grow, you will upgrade and purchase the items you need to efficiently service the clients you serve. Check your attic.).

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

If you are a regular reader of my Living Well in Westchester blog, you know that my Mom and Dad live way up north in a house on the St. I shared my speech on Living Well and on that day in 2008, a Google Alert for “being nice” was automatically sent to a contributor of a book titled The Power of Nice. Lawrence River.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 27, 2013

So share this blog with every architect you know!). When we present our initial schematic designs to our client, we are selling. When I present a product or service to a prospective client, I am presenting them with something that will improve their lives. Qualify the Client. Are you making enough to simply pay the bills?

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 28, 2016

This ties back into issues mentioned above, like using professional cost estimation software, as well as resulting from neglecting to look closely at the project’s spec book. Putting in additional resources early on can have huge savings down the line when costly mistakes and client conflicts are avoided.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 9, 2010

But, I did start my own firm with my architect wife, from scratch, with no clients and no money. Blogging is another low cost way to be perceived as an expert. Sites like Blogger and WordPress offer free easy-to-use blogging platforms. Your firm MUST be there when a prospect searches for your services.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Every architect has a dream of having their work published in books and magazines. Publication is a form of social proof indicating that our designs are worthy of our prospective clients’ attention. Start a blog, a podcast or video channel. For others, its a marketing strategy. Build Your Platform.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 2, 2014

There is no doubt that our clients love them, but that’s not the only reason why we build them. Clients respond to these models in a very different way than when we just show them 3-dimensional computer images of their projects. Robert Rockefeller Bob, my first post on your blog. I ama big fan of your blog and your work.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 23, 2007

It has gone through a few redesigns since then, but it has always been intended to simply educate our potential clients. It’s bascially a preview to our client interview. This was my first blog, launched at the beginning of this year. Readers can subscribe to this blog here. I launched this blog in February.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 6, 2013

I eat dinner with my family every evening (unless I have a conflicting client meeting). After five years of suffering, the firm has full boards again and clients with high expectations. ” I have read every book I can find on personal productivity and getting things done. YOU determine when you meet with clients.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 31, 2014

As I strive to improve the workflow at my firm Fivecat Studio as well as here at EntreArchitect, I will share everything I do here on the blog. . Airmail 2 – $10 – The only app I’ve paid for this year – Airmail is a unified email client with many features not found in Outlook or Mail.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Most sole proprietors and small firms I know, struggle to meet the minimum requirements of operation. These are services available to your client, but are NOT included in your basic architectural services. Through the years we have learned that not every project and not every client is a good fit for these services though.

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