Professional Practice for Interior Designers, 4th Edition

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Professional Practice for Interior Designers, 4th Edition, covers everything you need to launch and sustain a successful interior design practice, from creating a business plan to launching a promotional campaign to setting up a computerized accounting system.

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Author: Christine M Piotrowski, ASID, IIDA
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 784

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The text of choice for professional interior design practice - now with companion CD-ROM!

Since publication of the first edition in 1990, Professional Practice for Interior Designers has remained the leading choice for educators for teaching interior design business practice as well as for professionals seeking to advance in their own practices. This ASID/Polsky Prize winner is recommended by the NCIDQ for exam preparation and covers the gamut of legal, financial, management, marketing, administrative, and ethical issues. You gain all the essential skills needed for planning and maintaining a thriving interior design business, presented in the clear, easy-to-follow style that is the hallmark of this text.

This edition is completely current with the latest business practices and features a host of new practice aids:

Companion CD-ROM includes a trial version of professional practice software, business forms, numerous short articles, plus additional information and resources.
New examples help you manage the latest challenges and implement the latest business practices.
A new chapter devoted to strategic planning explains this important business concept in easy-to-understand language for students and professionals.
Brief "what would you do" case studies in each chapter challenge you to respond to ethical issues faced by today's interior designers.

From creating a business plan to launching a promotional campaign to setting up a computerized accounting system, everything you need to launch and sustain a successful interior design practice is here.

Contents
Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I The Profession of Interior Design. Chapter 1: Interior Design as a Profession. Chapter 2: Professional Preparation. Chapter 3: Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Chapter 4: Legal Responsibilities. Part II Getting Started. Chapter 5: Personal Goals. Chapter 6: Professional Options. Part III Establishing an Interior Design Practice. Chapter 7: Creating a New Interior Design Practice. Chapter 8: Advice and Counsel. Chapter 9: Business Formations. Chapter 10: Business Legal Filings and Licenses. Chapter 11: Preparing the Business Plan. Part IV Growing the Practice. Chapter 12: Practice Organization and Management. Chapter 13: Strategic Planning. Chapter 14: Human Resource Management. Chapter 15: Legal Issues of Employment. Chapter 16: Basic Financial Accounting. Chapter 17: Financial Management. Part V Marketing and Business Development. Chapter 18: Marketing Interior Design Services. Chapter 19: Promoting the Interior Design Practice. Chapter 20: Additional Promotional Methods. Chapter 21: Selling Strategies. Chapter 22: Design Presentations. Part VI Project Compensation and Agreements. Chapter 23: Project Compensation and Fees. Chapter 24: Preparing Design Contracts. Chapter 25: Product Pricing. Chapter 26: The Sale of Goods and the Uniform Commercial Code. Chapter 27: Warranties and Product Liability. VII Project Management. Chapter 28: The Project Management Process. Chapter 29: Trade Sources. Chapter 30: Contract Documents and Specifications. Chapter 31: Contract Administration. Chapter 32: Contract Administration: Delivery and Project Closeout. Part VIII Looking Ahead. Chapter 33: Getting the Next - or First - Job. Chapter 34: Landing the Job. Appendix. Glossary. Internet Resources. General References. Index.

About the Author
Christine M Piotrowski, ASID, IIDA, currently provides consulting services to interior designers on business practices from Phoenix, Arizona. She is a former professor of interior design at Northern Arizona University and has more than twenty-five years of commercial and residential design experience. She is the author of several books on interior design including the award-winning Becoming an Interior Designer and the coauthor of the recently released Second Edition of Designing Commercial Interiors.

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