Architizer

JANUARY 11, 2024

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. Order your copy today.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 9, 2016

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. Assemble a collection of your best works and publish your own monograph to share with prospects and clients.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 6, 2015

Every business, including architecture firms (yes, its true!), 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. must earn a profit. Additional Services.

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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. . ” What makes your firm better or different than your competitors?

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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

JUNE 6, 2017

After responding to a hopeful architect on Dwell.com I decided to flesh out my answer and include more books. Naturally there is some overlap and some of these books could fit in multiple headings, this is architecture after all. Being a successful architect takes more than creating a wonderful idea and presenting it to your client.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2022

The laptop suffices for many, but a bunch of humans can make more things better, so firms of humans result: These gatherings are organized somehow, usually by one or three who know more and some who know less, and are learning, by helping to make things. So communication within a firm is crucial. That is User/client communications.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

If there were good, recent books on passing a design firm’s ownership from founders to successors (there aren’t), it sounds as if Cheryl Barton, FASLA, and Kate Orff, FASLA, would have had little use for them. It’s neither a merger nor an acquisition. It’s our invention,” Barton said in June on a joint call with Orff.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 22, 2022

When I worked with her, Beth was a project manager at a small civil engineering firm. Her mountain was to become a principal in the firm, but that was probably seven years off. Beth was driven and extremely competent and loved by clients. In three years, she wanted to be an associate. Division of labor: You have your job.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 4, 2015

Marketing a residential architecture firm is perhaps different than marketing any other kind of professional service or product in the world. And yet residential architects have a challenging situation when finding new clients: we rarely know who may be thinking about remodeling or building a new residence. Is the work fun to do?

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 13, 2018

It was a fantastic discussion about how SALA was founded and the journey to where Dale finds himself today as a principal at the firm, a teacher and an author of several books published by Taunton Press. Here are 4 strategies that SALA Architects has used to grow their residential architecture firm: Write.

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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. Firm Address. With clients? How involved was your client throughout the design process? Click here to learn how.

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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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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

It was a fantastic discussion about how SALA was founded and the journey to where Dale finds himself today as a principal at the firm, a teacher and an author of several books published by Taunton Press. Here are 4 strategies that SALA Architects has used to grow their residential architecture firm: Write.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. Ranging in size, geography and expertise, these 26 studios came out on top in the Best Firm Categories. Order your copy today.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 31, 2017

The illusion of an “established architecture firm” gave way to our reality each time a calling prospect heard the the crying baby in the background. We learned to accommodate our new “partner” and established routines to allow us to keep the firm and our family as separate as they could be within 900 square feet.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 22, 2021

Roger Fulton in his book Common Sense Leadership says there has to be “The desire to lead the way. It is important to understand our profession, but it also important to understand the industries surrounding us and the industries of those who will become your clients. It was a major accomplishment at the time for the firm.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 20, 2020

Learn more about Blair Enns, his fantastic books, The Win Without Pitching Manifesto and Pricing Creativity: A Guide to Profit Beyond the Billable Hour , and his impactful coaching and training programs here. Keeping current clients active. We are a small business that works with only a handful of clients.

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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

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. Equipment and Software.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 12, 2016

Much here will be dependent upon the Job itself – For instance, will there be direct role with Clients? No doubt and at some point, Booking Rates, and Salary Grades will be cascaded to a level of ‘Middle Management.’ Process of Recruitment at an Architecture Firm. Will the New Recruit be a Permanent Member of the Studio Team?

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EntreArchitect

JULY 5, 2018

Firm Address. 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?

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

One platform may be your personal favorite over the many others, but are your prospective clients enjoying their time on that same platform? Researcher and author Jonah Berger in his book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On , identified six principles at work in the most shared messages, products and ideas.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For years architects have been looking for ways to justify their fees and hourly rates to their clients. We need to take the time to understand our clients’ needs and concerns and then educate them about the value-added aspects of our service. Their EXPECTATION is for their professional consultants to be technically competent.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

This is a guest post written by architect Jeff Echols, the founder of echoEngagement , an Indianapolis-based brand storytelling firm. It says that 80% of new commissions come from repeat clients and referrals. They were the repeat clients and referrers; the R&R’s. They were the repeat clients and referrers; the R&R’s.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 24, 2021

When we build referral plans with our clients, the outreach is always memorable and meaningful so your monthly marketing eNewsletter doesn’t count. The fact is – over 80% of the clients I work with will determine after creating layer #1, that they need more referral sources to receive the number of referrals they want per year.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 11, 2021

Paying attention to where your business – or clients – come from helps you make decisions on where you should be spending your time and resources. When your client is still a prospect, do they find you through networking, advertising, speaking engagements, direct mail, or being referred to you? Identifying Your Lead Gen Sources.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2017

One platform may be your personal favorite over the many others, but are your prospective clients enjoying their time on that same platform? Researcher and author Jonah Berger in his book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On , identified six principles at work in the most shared messages, products and ideas.

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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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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Every business, including architecture firms (yes, its true!), 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. While our clients shop, we develop the design.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 9, 2020

Learn more about Blair Enns, his fantastic books, The Win Without Pitching Manifesto and Pricing Creativity: A Guide to Profit Beyond the Billable Hour , and his impactful coaching and training programs here. This crisis is hitting creative and marketing firms differently. May you live in interesting times,” goes the old Chinese curse.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 19, 2011

And with each month unused, the software weighed on us: waiting for the right time, the right project, the right client, the right phase, the right people to put on the project, the right people to train… Sound familiar? It takes great leaps of faith that BIM will actually help your firm be more efficient. More accurate.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 28, 2020

Learn more about Blair Enns, his fantastic books, The Win Without Pitching Manifesto and Pricing Creativity: A Guide to Profit Beyond the Billable Hour , and his impactful coaching and training programs here. In a conversation facilitated by a good salesperson, it does not show that the future of this person’s job or the firm is on the line.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 15, 2018

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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EntreArchitect

JUNE 13, 2021

I am in the infinite game, as described by Simon Sinek in his book of the same title. I feel professionally and personally fulfilled and after 11 years of running a structural engineering firm from home, I think I’ve found something that works. What would the results of that shift look like at your firm? Not for a sprint.

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