I want to choose the method that will produce the most amount of qualified leads.
2006-07-20 14:30:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
Decorate a house belonging to influential people who have friends that can afford an interior designer.
Ask them for references, make sure you give them business cards of yours. Take pictures of your work and carry it with you, all of the time.
See if you can do a real estate agents office. Do some home staging for them, and leave your cards there.
2006-07-20 14:36:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
outside of word of mouth is the best. if you have any friends or if you don't in the real estate business, leave cards with all the real estate companies. flyers are tacky and don't look good. your local real estate guide book or magazine. local paper in the real estate section. if you have something like the penny saver or flyer type paper magazine is very good on prices and you can run weekly ads in them. a trick i've seen done is at the entrance to a expensive sub-division of homes has bus benches or a small billboard by it. as soon as they start building, put a ad on the billboard or the bus bench. all prospective buyers of exclusive homes will see it. it works well and you will get calls. i've had friends that did differant things do it to several new sites being built and they got to many instead of doing just one or two sites where expensive homes are being built and they may be building 500 or more per site.
2006-07-20 20:54:41 · answer #2 · answered by hollywood71@verizon.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's a way that works. Start out with an ad in the paper and work at an inexpensive price just to get customers who can brag about your work. Ask them to keep the price confidential that you gave them a good deal but don't tell them that until the work is finished. Then as your clients increase so does your price gradually. Word of mouth will take it from there if you do good work.
2006-07-20 15:24:17 · answer #3 · answered by Go Rush! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
word of mouth is the most powerful! Hand out business cards to everyone you know and have them SPREAD THE WORD run an ad in a newspaper, produce a commercial
are you just a designer or also a decorator?
2006-07-20 14:34:33 · answer #4 · answered by Angelina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use to work at a high end interior design studio. We sold Benjamin Moore,Pratt and Lambert, Ralph Lauren Paints, and fabrics,window treatments, wallpaper (and now they even sell furniture,rugs,ect.) We would give out business cards if clients asked for them. Take pictures start a portfolio. Word of mouth is definately the way to go. Frequent the same supplier, they get to know you and feel comfortable referring you.
2006-07-20 17:06:52 · answer #5 · answered by Kelly T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would go around to small furniture stores or hardware stores -- ones that do not have an inhouse designer -- and ask to either put up an artfully designed flyer, or maybe you could do a trade. Provide some service to them (like display work) or refering your business to them in exchange for a referal from them. It generates credible word-of-mouth.
And a refering website, with lots of picture of your work.
And a Yellow Page ad.
2006-07-21 04:10:20 · answer #6 · answered by Lynne D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. You might try introducing yourself to architects and general contractors. Leave business cards with realtors also may be helpful.
2006-07-20 14:35:45 · answer #7 · answered by Paleo C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you should probably run a short ad on television on the home and garden channel "hgtv" or maybe on "tlc"
2006-07-20 14:36:31 · answer #8 · answered by nflgal42 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great advise
2016-03-27 01:31:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋