Kim is an author who works with designers on creating better business strategies on an emotional and strategic level.
Buy her book: https://www.mebydesign.com/shop-2/branding-interior-design-visibility-and-business-strategy-for-interior-designers
QUESTIONS:
1.) What are some of the biggest problems you see designers facing?
2.) What is the best piece of advice you can provide designers when it comes to networking and getting their designs in front of the right people?
3.) How much does mindset play a role in designers feeling ‘stuck’?
4.) Do you believe that designers are lacking the right marketing or PR strategies? Is there something deeper going on or is it a little of both?
5.) How would you advise designers to become more ‘available’ for the life they truly want? What are some action steps they can take to become more available?
6.) How does gender play a role?
7.) So, explain to us your Visibility Strategy. What are some step-by-step things designers can do to be more visible online and in the real world?
8.) A lot of artists and designers are introverted, myself included. We’re not necessarily shy, but we don’t enjoy being ‘on’ and being in front of people all of the time. Do you have any tips for introverts? Would it be better for them to hire a PR manager or to outsource some of the extroverted tasks involved in becoming more visible?
9.) Do you have any suggestions for ways designers can earn more money in 2020?
10.) What are some of the biggest emotional hurdles designers face surrounding money and what are your tips to help them overcome these hurdles?
TRANSCRIPT
Speaker 1 (00:04):
What's up design tribe, but welcome back for a another episode. Now if you want to tune in to the live streams, then be sure to join in my design tribe Facebook group will where I go live with guests and do new episodes of the design tribe. To watch past episodes. Be sure to check out my playlist on YouTube for the video version and of course check out the design tribe on iTunes and Spotify for the podcast of version if you are wanting to listen while doing something else or getting crap done. All right, let's jump in.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Hello. Hi everyone and welcome to today's episode with Kim Kuhteubl where we're going to discuss the her visibility strategy and also go through all kinds of questions. So Kim is an author who works with designers on better business strategies and some kind of like emotional blocks that designers sometimes have. So Kim, if you want to introduce yourself and kind of give a little bit of your backstory to everyone in the design tribe, I'm sure. Thank you so much first of all morning for having me on the show. I really appreciate it. I work with interior designers on their branding and visibility. As you said. I actually am a producer by trade and I spent a lot of time in television and contributing articles to different publications and then when I was sort of looking to transition out, I started working with a success coach and put together a package of services for interior designers and then realized, Oh wait a second, they like what I'm offering here.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And it was initially video and it was blog production and blog content sort of things that I had done inside of my job as a producer is a content creator. But then I started to put together trends that were happening in terms of visibility and leadership and things that were getting in the way of designers actually getting the press or putting out the book in the world or getting the next level of client. And what it's, what I started to understand was that I was learning about women in leadership because 80% of interior designers are women. And so as I was working with them, I was learning about how women lead and also what gets in the way of them leading at their full capacity when they're creative. Right. So then what are some of the biggest problems you see designers facing? Lik
