EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

What do you wear when meeting with clients?”. About 20 small firm architects posted their response and the answers were mixed, but certainly leaning toward the casual. Small firm architects, many of whom are working solo from home offices, tend to dress for comfort over fashion. Or something in between?

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 17, 2017

I’m a “scout dad”, a “swim dad” and a “row dad” I eat dinner with my family every evening (unless I have a conflicting client meeting). As a small firm architect running a virtual studio , I am wearing many hats these days. I encourage you again… read the book! It’s impossible.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Originally published in 2013 as Part 4 of the original EntreArchitect Academy Blog Series, this final article of our month dedicated to Business Development shares my firm’s simple sales system. When we present our initial schematic designs to our client, we are selling. A Simple Sales System for Small Firm Architects.

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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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Architizer

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Architizer's A+Awards Best Firm categories allow design firms of all sizes to showcase their practice and vie for the title of “World’s Best Architecture Firm”. Start an A+Firm Award Application today. . As winners of the Best Firm Categories , each office was judged based on the strength of their portfolios.

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Architizer

MAY 7, 2024

Crafting a well-defined business strategy is crucial for the success of any business, architecture firms included, but according to the most recent AIA Business Survey Report in 2022, only 26% of small firms, 40% of medium-sized firms, and 71% of large firms have one written down. So, where do you start?

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 24, 2014

On April 8, 1999, I discovered a book that changed the way I view business; a book that helped me to realize that running a successful architecture firm required so much more than designing great architecture. It is the book that inspired me to begin to work “on my business, rather than in my business.”

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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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Architizer

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Architecture and design firms of all sizes, locales and specialisms are invited to submit their projects and portfolios for major industry recognition, publication in print and more this year. Architizer is thrilled to announce that the 11th Annual A+Awards is officially open for entries! Celebrating the People Behind the Projects.

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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

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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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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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

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

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

AUGUST 15, 2017

I just need to tack up my shingle, design great buildings and clients will come knocking. Maybe… but whether clients come knocking or not, its not so simple to keep them knocking. Jim Horan, author of The One Page Business Plan series of books says, “The greatest value in creating a business plan is not the final document.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 9, 2014

One of the items in that post was the list “ Top 5 Reasons to work in a Small Architectural Firm ” which is somewhat biased because I didn’t really represent the benefits to working in a large architectural firm. Democratic Work Ethics Some firms, mine included will tend to have an open space office.

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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

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

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. Procrastinate on Purpose.

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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

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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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

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

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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