Start your Interior Design Business with Absolute Academy’s Workshop

The Absolute Academy will be holding a one-day workshop with the theme: “How to Run your Own Interior Design Consultancy.” The course caters to those who are planning on setting-up an interior design consultancy business or become a part of the design industry.

According to the academy, the unique program’s intended student profile would be those who already acquired a certain amount of experience and skills in interior design and are looking for ways on how to establish their own design-centered business. Students will be able to learn how to maximize the sales and marketing aspects of the business and inevitably manage a successful and lucrative interior design consultancy business.

Absolute Academy’s Business School has been specially developed to offer exclusive programs for future interior designers so students can expect to receive a kind of design management education that will be relevant, practical and useful to their profession. The program is comprised of top advices, practical sessions, workshops and discussions and students will also receive presentation templates as well as notes from the workshop.

The course outline includes: establishing your consultancy through business plans; sales and marketing- identifying customers and ways to tap your market; the importance of market research; PR- what is it and how it can help your business; Meeting the client and taking a brief; understanding contracts with suppliers; and how to charge for fees.

The course will be team-taught by an experienced professional interior designer and a marketing professional who are currently running their own business and design consultancy firms.

The course will take place on July 3, 2014 from 10am to 4pm at The Langton, Cheltenham Gloucestershire. The cost for the one-day workshop is £145, inclusive of lunch. Enrollment for the course ends on June 19, 2014. Interested parties may contact Anne Wall, Course Director of Absolute Academy.