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. I’m going to avoid offering guidance on broader finance and personnel management issues, like right-sizing your firm.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Annual profit plans and annual budgets are your firm’s financial goals expressed in dollars—your vision of what you hope your firm will achieve in the coming year. Firm principals who are good financial managers monitor such trends, determine why they are occurring, and respond to them before they develop into a serious problem.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 2, 2016

Wintner, AIA, Emeritus , an architecture management consultant and co-author of the book, Financial Management for Design Professionals: The Path to Profitability. Nevertheless, in order to run a successful and profitable operation, the firm leader (owner/managing partner/P-I-C, etc.) Firm-Wide Accountability.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Gerber, in one of my favorite books of all time, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It , introduces an exercise to help us better understand what we’re talking about here. Have you found a balance between your firm and your family? What do you want your life to be? If not… no way.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 1, 2017

Wintner, AIA, Emeritus , an architecture management consultant and co-author of the book, Financial Management for Design Professionals: The Path to Profitability. And for that reason the lowly timesheet is actually the most critically important financial resource of every professional design firm. Time Tracking.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Really I was renting a small conference room from a larger engineering firm. And when the economy started booming again the engineering firm expanded and needed the space, they politely asked us to leave. I make an effort to consistently book two business development meetings with referral partners per week.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 14, 2018

This method is applied to ensure that, if selected, the Firm has an opportunity to earn the minimum 20% Net Profit. It might seem that with the client setting the parameters for the architect’s fee that the Firm has few, if any options, to be able to negotiate what has been offered. To a degree that is true, but not completely.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 14, 2013

The space was just large enough for one Dell workstation, a couple of book shelves, a desk chair, a telephone, five cats and me. 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. It was time to take the firm to the next level.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 10, 2018

Do you know if your firm is profitable? Well, you can learn how by downloading our free course profit for small firm architects right now at EntreArchitect.com/freecourse. Gusto is making payroll benefits and hr easy for small businesses. LePage: . Do you know how much profit you’re actually making?

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 12, 2018

Learn how by downloading our free course profit for small firm architects today at EntreArchitect.com/freecourse. LePage and you are listening to EntreArchitect podcast where I speak with inspiring, passionate people who share their knowledge and expertise all to help you build a better busines as a small firm entrepreneur architect.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2013

Gerber, in one of my favorite books of all time, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It , introduces an exercise to help us better understand what we’re talking about here. Have you found a balance between your firm and your family? What do you want your life to be?

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A Better Built Environment

APRIL 12, 2021

Helping architects run better businesses is something I’ve been thinking about for 8+ years, since I started my own firm with a couple of partners. After a few years spent getting the firm off the ground, we partnered with Charrette Venture Group to help us better manage our business and focus on growing the firm.

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