Starting a New Design Firm, or Risking It All!

Starting a New Design Firm, or Risking It All!

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Book Description
Artistic control and financial security…a pipe dream, right?…Not anymore, and this A-to-Z guide shows you how! Writing in an electrifying style that inspires as it instructs, Frank A. Stasiowski fills you in on everything you need to know about organizing, financing, managing, staffing, marketing, budgeting, and above all, succeeding in your own design practice. He also coaches you on a few of the less concrete problems of running a business, such as overcoming your internal obstacles to success and becoming an effective leader. Packed with hundreds of checklists, sample contracts, resumes, and forms garnered from a number of successful design firms, and offering dozens of inspirational true stories about architects and design professionals who did it their way, this book has virtually everything you need to get you up and running in your own successful practice.

Book Info
Stasiowski tells you why right now is the best time ever to start the design firm of your dreams - and he shows you how to do it right. A-Z guide has virtually everything you need to get up and running in your own successful practice. DLC: Architectural firms - U.S. - Management.

Starting a New Design Firm, or Risking It All!

Starting a New Design Firm, or Risking It All!,Frank A. Stasiowski,John Wiley & Sons,0471585769,Architectural Practice,Architectural firms,Architecture,Design & Drafting,Management,Reference,Small Business Management,Small business,United States,Industrial / Commercial Art & Design,Small businesses & self-employed

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