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A Well-Designed Business® | Interior Design  Business Podcast

694: Flashback Friday: Christine Lin: Success Starts with Your Goals

A Well-Designed Business® | Interior Design Business Podcast

LuAnn Nigara

Business, Design, Arts

4.9810 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On Today’s Flashback Friday Welcome to a Well-Designed Business! Flashback Friday is back and we dug up another favorite from the podcast archives.  Christine Lin of San Francisco’s Form and Field walks through how she went from working for a designer part-time to starting her own thriving business. A podcast listener, Christine implemented much of what she heard, but she also experienced some bumps along the way. Listen in to learn what tripped her up and what she’s doing so it doesn’t happen again. Pick it apart: [6:33] Christine talks about how she got her business systems set up [15:50] Christine tells how she works with friends who are also clients  [23:03] Christine talk about mistakes she made with hiring  [29:20] Christine shares her experience with hiring and managing a bookkeeper [39:41] Christine tells how she got fired from one of her projects [46:34] LuAnn asks Christine what went wrong when charging a flat fee [58:10] Christine shares the mantra that has helped makes her business better LuAnn and Christine's Ah-Ha moments: “I had an employee handbook before I even hired anyone.” -Christine Lin   “I knew I could go farther and faster on my own.” -Christine Lin   “It wasn’t about what’s leftover, that’s what I’m going to pay myself. It was, this is my goal, and I’m going to do whatever it takes to hit it.” -Christine Lin “What can you do differently to produce a better result.” -Christine Lin   Connect with Christine Lin Website  Instagram Pinterest   What’s new with LuAnn Nigara luannuniversity.com insidevoiceoutsidevoice.com http://www.luannnigara.com/cob Get The Goodies! For checklists, resources, and extra goodies from A Well-Designed Business sign up for free here. To Get on LuAnn’s Email List, text the word designbiz to 444999! Purchase LuAnn’s Books Here: Book 1: The Making of A Well – Designed Business: Turn Inspiration into Action Book 2: A Well-Designed Business – The Power Talk Friday Experts Pre-Order Book 3: A Well-Designed Business – The Power Talk Friday Experts Volume 2 Connect with LuAnn Nigara LuAnn’s Website LuAnn’s Blog Power Talk Friday Like Us: Facebook | Tweet Us: Twitter | Follow Us: Instagram | Listen Here: Podcast A Big THANK YOU to Today’s Podcast Sponsor: Revel Woods. Please go to revelwoods.com to learn how you can add wood flooring to your product offerings. I know you make money on design fees-- but to generate real revenue you have to be selling product too, and why not wood flooring? Revel Woods has their design trade program so well thought out that it makes it easy for you to get into this, experience or not.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, are you getting ready for Thanksgiving? Maybe you're hosting and you're busy getting all of your dishware organized and your menu organized. Or maybe you're like me. You're at the season where you just get to ring the doorbell with a pie in your hand, right? Either way, I hope you are planning to spend some quality time with friends and family, whether that means it's a big,

0:21.1

raucous crowd and lots of carrying on or downtime. Either way, I'm wishing you a happy

0:26.5

holiday season. And, you know, what happens after Thanksgiving, we have Black Friday.

0:31.6

And on Black Friday, Luann University is officially opening registration. And here's the thing. Because it's Black Friday,

0:39.2

we got some Black Friday deals for you. All right, first of all, let me explain this. Early Bird for

0:44.0

Luann University is open from November 29th through December 31st, 2024. So that is the entire early bird

0:52.4

period. And during the early bird period, you get two bonuses.

0:57.2

Number one, you get the early bird pricing.

0:58.8

But you also get, if you buy, whether you buy a five-week course or a three-hour intensive,

1:05.2

if you purchase and register during the early bird period, you are going to be enrolled in the workshop that

1:13.4

Amber DeLegarza and I are hosting together live. It's called Success by Design. Strategic

1:20.6

Goal Setting meets Time Mastery. Okay. So this is going to be a live workshop. It is going to happen in real time on january second

1:30.4

twenty twenty five and we're going to spend part of the time mapping out how do you set your goals

1:37.1

what do you do how do you decide if it's a legitimate goal if it's a reach goal if it's a too easy

1:43.2

of a goal what should your goals be?

1:45.5

And then Amber will take over and she will help us figure out how to carve that time in our

1:52.9

work life to work on our business. Okay. So it's managing the expectations of the hours

1:59.6

you have available so that you can get it all done.

2:02.3

So this is going to be a fantastic class that you are going to take real time and ask us real questions.

2:08.5

Okay, so those are two bonuses that you get if you sign up any time during the early bird period,

2:14.3

November 29th to December 31st.

2:16.4

But there is an extra bonus if you sign up during

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