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Sep 03 2015

EA089: Field Guide Series – Passive Income for Small Firm Architects [Podcast]

Imagine working in your studio, designing a great project for another happy client and your receive a notification on your iPhone that Paypal dropped $50 in your pocket. Then after work, you head over to the ball field to watch your daughter’s game. As you are cheering her on, Paypal drops another $50 in your […]

Aug 13 2015

EA087: 12 Rules for Hiring Your First Employee [Podcast]

After you have all your business fundamentals in place; your branding is nailed, your marketing is set up and your sales system is bringing in consistent new work… you are going to start getting busy. Your going to need some help. This week on the EntreArchitect™ Podcast, I will share my 12 Rules for Hiring […]

Aug 10 2015

5 Fundamentals To Learn Before Launching Your Own Architecture Firm

When Annmarie and I launched Fivecat Studio, we were “young and dumb”. We were optimistic and enthusiastic, but we didn’t know what we didn’t know. We were 29 years old, had a dream of starting our own firm and jumped. I always knew I would own my own firm. I’m a born entrepreneur. What I […]

Aug 03 2015

Building a Culture of Transparency at Your Architecture Firm

This is a guest post by Todd Reding, the Chief Operations Officer and Vice President for Investments at Charrette Venture Group. How Much Should We Share With Our Employees? Some design firms have a culture of secrecy. Few people outside of the partners know anything about the finances, the vision or the ways in which the […]

Jun 22 2015

My Simple Financial Projection Calculator

At the beginning of each new year, along with my annual goals and business plan, I review my firm’s financials. I look at where we’ve been over the past 12 months and I prepare a projection to plan for the year ahead. Several years ago, I developed a Google Docs spreadsheet to calculate my projections. No […]

Jun 09 2015

6 Steps To The One Thing That Matters Most

Finding clients you seek to serve, who have projects with appropriate budgets and realistic schedules is very important. Understanding business fundamentals and building systems that will lead to a healthy profitable firm is critical. Developing an effective marketing strategy that provides appropriate leads and a sales system that converts those leads to clients, may make […]