Do This One Thing Before You Automate Your Interior Design Business

Feb 27

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Updated September 2023

If your goal for the year is to automate as much as possible in your interior design business, you have to know this one thing before you invest in technology, consultants, strategists, or done-for-you services.

You must know your process AND what happens at each step.

Essentially, you must know how to run your business manually, without any automations.

Once you know that, you'll be ready to automate and create workflows.

So before dumping thousands into automating your business, FIRST fix your process and know how to run clients through it manually.

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If your goal for 2023 is to automate as much as possible in your interior design business, you must know your process AND what happens at each step before you invest in technology, consultants, strategists, or done-for-you services.

Our favorite parts of the interior design process to automate:

Contact form submission redirect page
Initial inquiry response emails
Initial inquiry follow-up emails (if you're not following up, you're missing out)
Appointment reminders
Payment reminders
Form thank you emails
Onboarding emails
Client waitlist emails
Offboarding emails