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5 Questions…

This week I am turning the blog over to YOU. Below are five questions. Please take a few minutes to share your story. Answer these five questions in the comments below and we will all have a great time reading the stories of others. Don’t wait. Take the time to contribute now. I look forward to […]

How To Turn Prospects into Projects

I just returned from a quick three-day trip to San Francisco, California. I was invited by architect Rosa Sheng, the co-chair of the Missing 32% Committee at AIASF, to present as a member of a panel discussing entrepreneurism in architecture at the Equity by Design Symposium. The symposium was a fantastic event. If you want to learn […]

EA049: Software Development for Architects with Michael Gallin of Adosar

This week on the podcast I am speaking with a friend of mine; a true entrepreneur architect. We are both active with our local AIA chapter here in the Westchester County Hudson Valley region. This man founded his own architecture firm in the same year as we launched Fivecat Studio, in 1999… and merged his practice […]

Building An Agile, Lean Practice in the Digital Age

As many of you may already know, tomorrow is a big day for small firm architects.   Thursday, October 16th starts the Business of Architecture Summit presented by my friend Enoch Sears over at BusinessofArchitecture.com. I will be speaking at the summit, so I asked Enoch if he would write a quick article to introduce my […]

20 Tips To Help Architects Build a Better Newsletter

Years before launching Entrepreneur Architect, I published a quarterly newsletter for my own residential architecture firm, Fivecat Studio. Without much effort, I acquired hundreds of subscribers through links on a few social media profiles. The newsletter was part of my marketing plan and every few months I half-heartedly scrambled to send something out. Even without […]