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What Level is Your Design Business?

Oana Molodoi

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  • in reply to: Week 1 – Conversation Thread #33195
    oana.molodoi
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    Hi Jessica,

    I’d love to get your feedback on the presentation. Let me know if you’d like me to send it via email, if that’s easier for you.
    I’m still trying to figure what what are some of the differentiators that are worth mentioning even in the presentation and that I can highlight when sitting with the customer.
    Thanks, Oana

    in reply to: Differentiator for blinds & shades #33148
    oana.molodoi
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    Peggy, are you only selling Hunter Douglass? I think adding different lines that are not that easy to price shop will make you stand out: like Insolroll or Oxford or Lafayette. I am also not competitive with HD so I don’t push that unless the customer asks for it, but I will have other brands including Alta, Graber, Norman and the ones above.
    Hope that helps

    in reply to: Week 1 – Conversation Thread #33089
    oana.molodoi
    Participant

    Is this working? Is there another way to communicate with the participants?

    in reply to: Week 1 – Conversation Thread #33060
    oana.molodoi
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    Hi Jessica, I uploaded my presentation in the Dropbox folder. Being able to talk about myself and the company has been the hardest thing for me. Once I developed this presentation, I started finding it easier to sit down and actually talk about how we’re different. This has been very recent (in the last month) but I was pleasantly surprised to see that people do take the time to listen. Now I am trying to hone in to what I want them to hear and keep it simple, only a couple slides about us and the rest pictures of our work and different window types.

    I would be very happy to receive your feedback on this. thanks, Oana

    in reply to: Hours tracking and CRM/ Client tracking #20792
    oana.molodoi
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    Hi all,

    I am in the Window Treatments industry, however my background is in sales and marketing, so I am a big Fan of processes and using technology to streamline.
    I use Hubspot (the free version for now) to keep my CRM but am planning to start automating my marketing through Hubspot. Used it for my previous work as CMO and you can do really nice email automations, and workflows in it.
    I use Asana for project management and keep my tasks updated, I like the timeline view. I heard about Monday as well and ClickUp, and I think I’ll look into those too.
    I use Mailchimp for newsletters, but will eventually do it all in Hubspot. The thing with Hubspot is expensive.
    I use Quickbooks for accounting and Canva for my social media posts and most of my branding needs.

    What else are you using?

    in reply to: How is Everyone Doing?! #20727
    oana.molodoi
    Participant

    Hi Sara,

    Thank you for all the flows and information you are sharing with us, it is SOO valuable. I am a chart flow person too and I feel like this is sparing me of a lot of work and thinking, because it’s a great starting point.

    You mentioned in Session 3 that you have a paid Consult for Window Treatments. Would you mind sharing that with me? How much do you charge, what are the deliverables, what is the work flow for that one?

    Here is my progress so far:
    – Decided to have on website Paid Consultations
    – I have a good idea of what my deliverables will be for a paid consultation. (your feedback would be appreciated, can I send you via email?)
    – I have designed a questionnaire, but because I am traveling to Europe at this time, will implement it in Typeform once I get back
    – I am still to decide how to treat the leads that come from platforms like Yelp, Thumbtack. If anybody has advice or can share how you respond and how you loop them into your process, that would be great to learn.
    – I am still keeping the unpaid virtual consults, which end up in only sending an estimate based on rough measurements that they take. Next step is either paid consult or contract if they are ready (sometimes it happens like that in WT)

    Thank you and please feel free everyone to share your experience with Window Treatments.

    Thank you,
    Oana

    in reply to: Presentation slides #20726
    oana.molodoi
    Participant

    Hi,

    I would like to know if we can also have the slides that Sara is presenting every session.

    thanks for taking your time

    Oana

    in reply to: Questionnaire link #20600
    oana.molodoi
    Participant

    Can we please see Sara’s Questionnaire? Thank you

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