By: Mardi Dover
An interactive course that provides a practical and tested foundation for starting, growing, and maintaining a successful landscape design business.
A Course Designed for:
Students and recent graduates of design programs
Emerging professionals
Garden and landscape designers
Landscape architects
Design-build professionals
Current designers who are experiencing overwhelm
Creative entrepreneurs who want to grow their business
Designers who are ready to launch their own firm
The Course Overview:
Week 1- Defining your Core Values: How they impact your business model.
Week 2 - Creating Processes: Systems that will save you.
Week 3 - Defining your Business: The what, who, how, where and why?
Week 4 - The Workday: Schedules, time blocks, tracking work.
Week 5 - The Design Proposal: What to include, determining pricing, invoicing.
Week 6 - Clients: Evaluating fit, maintaining engagement, red flags.
Week 7 - Business Framework: Structure, licenses, insurance, accounting.
Week 8 - Creativity: Making time for design work and inspiration, staying motivated, dealing with overwhelm.
