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How to Start and Operate Your Own Design Firm
A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects
Second Edition
by Albert W. Rubeling, Jr.
If you’ve always dreamed of having your own design firm, this book will take you step-by-step through the entire process of establishing a business—from developing a strategic business plan and financial management to the basics of setting up and running your office.
Written by the owner of a successful architecture and interior design firm, this useful and comprehensive guide will give you hands-on information to manage nuts-and-bolts issues such as:
- Financing your business
- Setting fees
- Establishing a client base
- Advertising and marketing your design services
- Dealing with insurance and banking
- Getting the right accounting and legal assistance
You’ll also receive valuable help with the psychological challenges involved in starting your own business along with straightforward advice on setting and reaching goals, handling fear and risk, and coping with success and unplanned growth. Filled with real-life success stories, business checklists, and self-evaluation forms, this invaluable guide contains everything you need to live out your dream. |
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Reviews
Praise for How to Start and Operate Your Own Design Firm
“Al Rubeling has written a wonderful book of importance to designers aspiring to be future firm principles—and leaders. He captures the essence of what it is like to start a firm and to run it successfully. It is most informative and most instructive. Rubeling clearly knows his stuff.”
—James P. Cramer, Hon. AIA, Hon. IIDA; Chairman, Greenway Group, Inc.; Editor, DesignIntelligence
“With conversational prose establishing instant rapport with the reader, this comprehensive, well organized guide lucidly explains the ‘why’s’ as well as the ‘how’s’ of launching one’s own firm—at once a daunting and exhilarating transformation for design professionals. Al Rubeling wisely draws upon his personal experience as a practitioner and firm owner to explore in detail the many ramifications of this life-changing career move.”
—Roger K. Lewis, FAIA; practicing architect and planner; Columnist, the Washington Post; Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland
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