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Seeing the Forest AND the Trees

Can Your Firm Benefit from a Third-Party Business Assessment for Architects? As a busy architect and business-owner, it’s easy to become so focused on day-to-day tasks that we forget the importance of stepping back and taking in the big picture. How is my business performing as a system? What are the weak links that I […]

Make Your Social Media Content More Shareable

Many (if not all) of us are using social media on a daily basis. Some of us restrict our time online to personal social interactions, while others use these powerful networking platforms to help promote our architectural businesses. Social media can certainly be a powerful tool, but if not carefully and intentionally managed, our time […]

The Simple Profitable Power of 1%

There’s a very simple, easy method to demonstrate to your staff the critically important issue of how to constantly improve effectiveness and efficiency. We have all heard the phrase, “work smarter, not harder” and yet I would venture to guess that few of us really understand how to apply that lesson on a daily basis. […]

How To Improve Your Architecture Fee Proposals

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Six Ways To Earn More Profit As A Small Firm Architect

The Passion Profit Cycle of Success Prior to starting our own firms, we business-owner architects experienced an “entrepreneurial seizure”, as Michael Gerber so accurately described in his book, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. It’s the precise moment when a passionate employee commits to starting her […]

How Custom Proposals Overcomplicate Your Business

This is the third guest post by Ashley Gartland in a series of three about simplifying your business. Save Time and Make More Money By Developing a “Signature Package” Do you spend too much time creating custom proposals and delivering custom work to your clients? Nine times out of ten, my business coaching clients answer […]

How To Systematize Your Marketing

This is the second guest post by Ashley Gartland in a series of three about simplifying your business. Marketing Without the Overwhelm Let’s just call it like it is: marketing takes up a lot of time in your business – not to mention space in your head. Between social media, content marketing, networking and pitching, […]

How Systems Support More Success in Your Business
(and Freedom in Your Life)

Back in the early days of my coaching business, I didn’t place much importance on systems. They simply didn’t seem necessary, and they certainly didn’t strike me as something that would contribute to my success. Plus, creating systems just felt like more work, a way to waste time I didn’t really have. That changed as […]

How to Rewrite the Story of Our Profession

No More Starving Artist With a twisted sense of pride, too many architects today accept the small firm stereotype of “starving artist”. Seeds planted in architecture school bloom into a full-on virus as professionals launch their own firms and find their way to small business. New firms are launched every day without proper planning, without […]

The EntreArchitect Profit Challenge

A Quick & Dirty Version You have read this from me before here at EntreArchitect Blog… Profit, Then Art. Build a profitable business and you’ll have the time and resources to do the work you love. You will be happier. You will be less stressed. You will have stronger relationships with your family and friends. Money […]

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Behind The Design 010:
House on Kona Coast by
Dynerman Architects

EntreArchitect: Behind the Design is a continuing blog series where we feature work designed, developed and/or built by small firm entrepreneur architect members of The EntreArchitect Community. Want to have YOUR best work featured here at EntreArchitect? Click here to learn how. House on Kona Coast by Dynerman Architects Project Name House on Kona Coast Project Location Kona, HI Firm Name […]

They Try to Publish…
And Thus They Perish

Starting out in architecture on your own, not as an intern, or a middle career employee, those of us who want personal expression in design see two venues: competitions that are open to anyone or publication of what you have done. You know you have the chops. You are convinced that what you do has […]