This is the transcript from EntreArchitect Podcast Episode 226, Successful Project Planning for Small Firm Architects. Listen to this podcast episode or download the audio file here. ***Start Transcript*** Mark R. LePage: Do you know how to calculate the exact amount that you need to charge your clients in order to earn 20 percent profit on that project? It's simple to do. If you don't know how, learn how by downloading our free course profit for small firm architects … [Read more...]
You Already Know How To Be Successful in Architecture
You already know how to be successful. You’ve read all the books. You follow the blogs. You listen to the podcasts. You are subscribed to all the most informative and inspirational newsletters. You have the information. You know how to succeed. So, why are you not crushing it? Why are you struggling to pay the bills each month? Why are you not spending more time doing the things you love doing? The formula to business success is simple. I’ve been writing about it for years. How To … [Read more...]
Two Perspectives You Need to Launch a New Business as a Small Firm Architect
I recently reached a very big milestone. About eighteen months ago I dropped my daughter off for her first full day with her childminder (home-based daycare for non-Brits.) She was six months old and I was filled with those new parent anticipations: nervous, desolate, excited, hopeful. Not only was it a big day as a parent, it marked the beginning of a new journey in my career. I was starting my new business to support unconventional designers craft their career paths and create businesses … [Read more...]
How to Write a Business Plan for Your Architecture Firm in 60 Minutes or Less
A Simple Business Plan for Architects No one told me that I needed to know how to run a business. I’m an architect. I just need to tack up my shingle, design great buildings and clients will come knocking. Right? Maybe… but whether clients come knocking or not, its not so simple to keep them knocking. The solution? Write a business plan. I know, I know; “I don’t need a business plan,” you say. “It takes too much time and effort.” The knowledge you gain by the process of developing a … [Read more...]
Developing Your Life Plan for Success as an Architect
Developing Your Life Plan for Success as an Architect Architects and creative professionals are born dreamers, so I am pretty sure that you are going to like the suggestions that I will make in this article. A Life Plan is our road map to what we are truly meant to be. It's a way to figure out what matters most to us and how we are going to get to that place in our lives. Use the time management skills that you learned in the GetFocused Productivity Course and find a place on your … [Read more...]
The second step will build upon the first… Just Start!
This article was originally published here at EntreArchitect back in May of 2013. It's one of my favorites. -Mark What's holding you back from the success of your dreams? Last summer my son Henry built a rowboat; an eleven foot poorboy skiff built from mahogany lumber and plywood. I shared Henry’s story here on the blog and sent a copy to the local newspaper in Alexandria Bay, New York near where Henry’s boat was christened and launched. Henry was so excited when he saw his name and … [Read more...]
The 12/12/12 Project: Two Years Later
This coming Friday is December 12th. Two years ago on December 12, 2012 I launched my 12/12/12 Project and announced my plans at the introductory episode of the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast. If you were following this blog "way back when,” I thank you for your continuing support. If you are newer to this platform and have not heard about my 12/12/12 Project, let me give you a bit of background. What is a 12/12/12 Project? First, I will tell you what it is not. A 12/12/12 Project is not … [Read more...]
Living Your Best Year Ever
Searching for success has always been a focus of mine. Even as a child, I would live my life years ahead, dreaming of the days of my future. I look at my kids today and remember myself at that age spending hours and hours sketching scenes of what my life would one day become. Fast cars and speed boats dominated my “gallery”. I lived in a loft bedroom that my dad and I finished in the attic together when I was 11. The “gallery" were the walls of the closet housing the pull-down attic stairs … [Read more...]