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SAVE UP TO 40%

DURING OUR 5TH ANNUAL
BLACK FRIDAY PARTAAAAY

YOU’RE INVITED | SALE STARTS NOVEMBER 14TH THROUGH DECEMBER 1ST

PREVIEW THE SALE

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SAVE UP TO 40%

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WIN DAILY PRIZES

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👀 NEW OFFERS DROP SOON

| SAVE UP TO 40% | WIN DAILY PRIZES | 👀 NEW OFFERS DROP SOON

Client Experience Templates | 30% OFF

Contract Templates | 30% OFF

Lead Magnet Templates | 30% OFF

Financial Tools & SOPs | 30% OFF

Workroom Educational Workshops | 35% OFF

Hiring Blueprint | 40% OFF

Design Business Foundations | SAVE $200

Designed to Scale® Method Live Cohort #6 | BF SPOTS SOLD OUT

PLUS, WATCH FOR NEW ITEMS:

New Secret Offers Drop 11/27 | Up to 25% OFF

WIN PRIZES!

🍾 Designers who spend $150 or more will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win that day’s PRIZE (yup—you can win more than one day!), and everyone who purchases during the event gets a PARTY FAVOR. See details below.

*All times are in central time. All sales prices will be reflected online. No coupon codes needed. No other coupon codes or discounts can be applied.

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SHOP THE SALE

SALE ENDS MONDAY 12/2 AT 8 PM CENTRAL TIME

Add it to your calendar: Google Cal event | iCal event

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Daily Raffle

Prizes

Shop each day for a chance to win our daily raffle! Or, schedule your shopping days based on the daily prizes you’ve got your eye on!

Eligibility to win a Daily Raffle Prize drawing is a purchase of $297 or more. One prize winner will be drawn per day. Yes, you can win more than once! Winners will be drawn on Friday 12/6. Details below.

11/14-11/26 | RAFFLE PRIZE

All purchasers from 11/14-11/26 will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a $300 Gift Card to The Design Library. ($300 value)

THURSDAY 11/27 | RAFFLE PRIZE

All purchasers on Thursday will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win an Asana Audit & Clean Up Report from my team. ($500 value)

FRIDAY 11/28 | RAFFLE PRIZE

All purchasers on Friday will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a Private Design Presentation Review from Katie & Gloria. ($600 value)

SUNDAY 11/30 | RAFFLE PRIZE

All purchasers on Sunday will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win the Designer’s Pick—Choose One: A $300 Gift Card to The Design Library, OR a 60 Minute Call with Katie, OR an Annual Pass to ALL 2025 Live Workshops!!!

SATURDAY 11/29| RAFFLE PRIZE

All purchasers on Saturday will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win an Annual Pass to ALL 2025 Live Workshops we host! ($600+ value)

MONDAY 12/1 | RAFFLE PRIZE

All purchasers on Monday will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a private 60 Minute Consulting Call with Katie. (Value $550)

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Party Favors

Everyone who purchases during the Black Friday Party will receive an invitation to our virtual Holiday Happy Hour with me and my team. These “Ask Me Anything” style consulting calls are a designer favorite! The Holiday Happy Hour will take place on

12/6/2024

FROM 12:30-2:00 PM CENTRAL TIME

**Champagne optional!

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Ready to maximize your business dollars this Black Friday? Download our exclusive Black Friday Wish List—plan your purchases, save big, and win business-building prizes! 

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—> Download your Black Friday Wish List here!

🆕 🙌 Dropping on Black Friday! This product will serve as a training tool and go-to guide when you’re working on floor plans and need to get things juuuuuuuust right. Grab the Residential Design Size & Standards Guide for Interior Designers. 25% OFF

🆕 🙌 Dropping on Black Friday! This product will help lighten your load and give you the well-rounded support you’ve been looking for. Say goodbye to overwhelm and hello to a more efficient, streamlined way of managing the day-to-day. Grab our Entrepreneur’s Guide to Hiring a House Manager. 25% OFF

🆕 🙌 Dropping on Black Friday! Just about every designer we’ve worked with could benefit from putting a brighter spotlight on their expertise. This product will make that OH SO EASY. Grab our YEAR of Authority Building Blog Posts for Interior Designers. 25% OFF

🆕 🙌 Dropping on Black Friday! We have tools and templates for everything process related, but did we leave out a template kit to make it easier to do the #1 thing I say you should always be doing? Say less. Grab our Editorial Toolkit for Interior Designers. 25% OFF

🙌 Register During Black Friday. If you confuse your clients, you lose (or end up with tons of revisions, designs that don’t get purchased and implemented, and lots of wasted hours). In this two hour LIVE training that will take place on 12/11/24, Elevate Your Design Presentation, you’ll learn how to increase sales and client satisfaction, shave hours off your design presentation process, and communicate your vision so clients say YES, plus get a chance to have your design reviewed!! Live training will take place 12/11/2024. 35% OFF

🙌 If you’re like most designers we’ve worked with over the years, you’d probably love to book more large-scale, high-end projects. But how? Our Construction Design Client Experience Templates & Contractor Kit. Showcase your value, expand your reach, foster new collaborations, and communicate roles and expectations flawlessly—all while generating new business. Templates and resources to use with contractors AND clients. 30% OFF

🙌 If you’re constantly recreating the wheel, struggling to explain your pricing to prospects, and pulling your hair out trying to get clients to send you revisions, our Client Experience Templates will be game-changing for you. 30% OFF

🙌 If you’re ready to say “byeeeee” to project management and “hey girl hey” to a service that lets you focus on the ever-elusive “design only,”—you’ll be OBSESSED with our Design Day Client Experience Templates and Contract Template and our Design Day Workshop.

Designers have shared they rolled this service out THE SAME DAY they bought these templates - how would that impact your Q4 if you booked a few more services in a day? 30-35% OFF

🙌 Tired of the endless “Can I pick your brain?” requests? Turn those soul-crushing inquiries into a profitable and oh-so-easy to deliver service with our Paid Advice Consultation templates. 30% OFF

🙌 If your clients get anxious when things are “quiet” while waiting for their orders to arrive. Keep them in the loop AND make it a beautiful, elevated waiting experience with our HoneyBook Project Status Update Template. 30% OFF

🙌 If you have no idea how to scope a project and fear the day you send your Frankenstein-style contract to a client who is also an attorney (talk about scary!), RUN and grab my Full Service Scope and Service Agreement. And, when a client wants to add scope, you’ll be able to whip up an addendum in minutes with our short and snappy Addendum Template (included with the full-service contract). Not sure how to scope a project? Enjoy the two included Sample Scopes of Work. 30% OFF

🙌 If you struggle with getting leads, are tired of playing rock-paper-scissors with the social media algorithm, and are ready to increase your revenue with simple email marketing, check out our Complete Lead Magnet System for Interior Designers. 30% OFF

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The Design Library & Workroom

Gift Guide

🙌 Spending more time than you’d care to admit googling residential building codes? Grab our handy Residential Codes Handbook + Cheat Sheet with illustrations and get a refresher on code-related requirements. Perfect for interior designers who haven’t had any formal training in codes affecting the construction and design of single-family homes or for designers who want a handy resource to educate their team. 35% OFF

🙌 If you're ready to step into the role of creative director of your firm and are tired of spending your day answering your team's questions and putting out fires (then wonder WHY you can't get past a certain revenue level), you’ll want to whip your behind-the-scenes into shape with standard operating procedures (SOPs), pricing calculators, and project budgeting tools from our Business Blueprint. 30% OFF

🙌 If you’re ready to stop wearing all the hats and start scaling your biz (be sure you have SOPs + a solid Client Experience in place), then add the Hiring Blueprint to your cart and have our HR Veteran approved hiring processes, hiring emails, interview questions, and Company Guidebook in minutes — same ones we use with our multi-million dollar 7+ people firms. 40% OFF

🙌 Are you a brand new designer who is new to the industry and wants to launch your interior design business but you’re overwhelmed by information overload, conflicting advice, state legislations, and the fear of making a mistake you might regret? Join our Foundations program and get 6 weeks of support + the ultimate framework for building a streamlined design business like a pro from day one. $200 OFF

🙌 If you are ready to redesign how you do business so you can increase profitability, enjoy solid boundaries, attract better clients, and get your business running like a well-oiled machine, our sixteen-week group consulting program, The Designed to Scale® Method will be a great fit. For designers with a few years under their belt, we’ll help you refine your services, establish profitable pricing, and develop step-by-step processes to deliver an elevated experience to your clients every time. Lock in 2024 pricing PLUS Black Friday savings and go into 2025 with a plan! Our 6th cohort begins March 2025 and runs for 16 weeks. $600 OFF - FIVE ZERO SPOT LEFT

🙌 If you feel like you’re leaving money on the table, I can almost assure you, with kindness, of course, YOU ARE. Earn more revenue on every project, expand your sourcing opportunities, and easily explain your furnishing pricing with our mini-course, Beyond Retail: Increase Profitability By Selling Trade Products. 35% OFF

🙌 Tired of getting steamrolled during construction projects and pulled into the chaos? Not anymore! With our on-demand From Permits to Punchlists training, you’ll learn how to effectively collaborate with contractors, price your construction administration services, onboard contractors and clients, stay in your lane when it comes to orders (and oversight), and protect your boundaries. If you are involved in construction projects, you don’t want to miss this. 35% OFF

🙌 If you are clueless about how to price your services and prepare a detailed scope of work, our Pricing and Proposals workshop spills all the details on what designers charge across the US and Canada and tells you how to figure out what YOU should charge and lays out the logistics so you never end up wrapping a project only to realize you made $1. CRY. Our clients and students have gone from taking TWO WEEKS to prepare a design fee proposal to less than ONE HOUR!!!!! 35% OFF

🙌 Does it feel off brand to send a word doc proposal and contract for a huge design fee? Elevate your proposal process and impress your clients with our Canva proposal template or HoneyBook proposal template and have an elevated, plug-and-play way to present the design fee and scope to clients. WOOP WOOP. 30% OFF

🙌 If you’re like, PEOPLE WON’T WAIT TO WORK WITH ME, I say false. Grab our Waitlist Workshop and find out exactly how long each phase of your process SHOULD take (and what industry standards are for each service), plus how to figure out your capacity so you can finally stop overbooking yourself. Then, learn how to communicate your value so clients never push back on having to wait a few weeks or months to get started. Then queue up our Waitlist Email Templates and serve your clients like no other. 30-35% OFF

🙌 If you’re tired of keeping everything for your business and clients in your brain and are ready to get organized behind the scenes, our power packed on-demand Asana Workshop is for you. With step by step over the shoulders trainings and tips, you’ll have your Asana set up and working FOR you in no time. The training covers the free version of Asana. 35% OFF

🙌 If you dream of growing your audience, supporting a new client base with your expertise, increasing your revenue with email marketing, and making money while you sleep (umm, yes, please), check out our Design Style Guide for Interior Designers. Use this as a lead magnet or sell it as a digital download on your site. 30% OFF

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NEW OFFERS | LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE

TWO NEW 1:1 OFFERS ANNOUNCED 11/27 AND WILL BE AVAILABLE UNTIL THEY SELL OUT

details drop on 11/27 at 9 am central time

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Two new private consulting intensives drop on November 27th.

Think high-touch, done-with-you strategy to elevate how you serve and sell.

Spots are extremely limited. Watch your inbox for the reveal.

**This is our first time opening 1:1 spots since 2022. EEK!

DETAILS DROP 11/27

If you grab one of these spots now ...when will we start?

If you lock in one of the private intensive spots during our Black Friday Party (yaaayyyyyy!!!), you'll receive your New Client Onboarding Kit in December and can book your kickoff meeting for January or February 2026. This is the perfect way to start the new year!

01

THE BLACK FRIDAY

Private Intensive #01


Two new private consulting intensives drop on November 27th.

Think high-touch, done-with-you strategy to elevate how you serve and sell.

Spots are extremely limited. Watch your inbox for the reveal.

**This is our first time opening 1:1 spots since 2022. EEK!

DETAILS DROP 11/27
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Daily Raffle & Prize Details

🎁 $300 GIFT CARD | WEDNESDAY

Receive a $300 gift card to use in The Design Library or The Workroom. Shop email and Canva templates, workshops, contracts, SOPs, and have all the tools you need to streamline your design business. No cash value, but can be combined with other savings, if applicable. Valid 11/28/24 - 12/31/2025.

🎁 ASANA AUDIT REPORT | THURSDAY

Receive a recorded Private Asana Audit and Clean Up Report from my implementation team. Make sure you are leveraging all that Asana can do for your business so you never miss an important detail. Audit information must be received by 2/28/2025.

🎁 DESIGN PRESENTATION REVIEW | FRIDAY

Receive a private review of a design presentation from Katie & Gloria and get written feedback from both the technical side and the client side. Review information must be received by 2/28/2025.

🎁 2025 WORKSHOP PASS | SATURDAY

You’ll receive a private code for complimentary access to ALL live workshops we host in 2025. Gloria and Katie generally host one workshop each quarter to address common challenges we see in the industry. Valid from 1/1/2025 through 12/31/2025.

🎁 DESIGNER’S CHOICE PRIZE | SUNDAY

Choose your prize! Winner’s choice of a $300 Gift Card to The Design Library, OR a 1:1 Consulting Call with Katie, OR an Annual Pass to ALL Live 2025 Workshops.

We want 2025 to be the year you get exactly what you want! Choose one! Winner must make selection by 12/15/24.

🎁 1:1 CONSULTING CALL | MONDAY

The 1:1 Consulting Call is a 60-minute private Zoom call with Katie. During the call, we can address your biggest challenges like pricing, processes, services, contracts, client management, team, and software, and you can bring any documents you’d like me to review. Call must take place before 2/28/2025.

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🎁 HOLIDAY HAPPY HOUR INVITE | PARTY FAVOR

Make any purchase during the Black Friday Party (Wednesday to Monday), regardless of the price, and receive an invitation to our Holiday Happy Hour on 12/6 from 12:30-2:00 pm CT. This is an “Ask Me Anything” format with my team and other designers. Champagne optional. Replay will be sent if you can’t join live.

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DAILY RAFFLE & PRIZE FINE PRINT. No refunds, credits, substitutions, or cash value for Daily Raffle Prizes. If you don’t redeem your item by the date listed, it will expire. No exceptions. Raffle prize winners will be notified by email on 12/6/2024. Only one winner will be chosen per Daily Prize Raffle. A purchase of $297 or more is required to be entered. And, yes, you can win more than one prize if you spend $297 or more on multiple days.

*If you purchased items from The Design Library or The Workroom in November before the Black Friday event, you’ll receive an invitation to our Holiday Happy Hour. Watch your inbox for details.

I can’t wait to see you at the event and hope you have FUN and grab whatever you need! Thank YOU for supporting my small business and for giving me the opportunity to support yours.

Cheers!

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Questions? Email hello@dakotadesigncompany.com.

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