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Do Small Firm Architects Need Professional Liability Insurance?

EntreArchitect

Relative to the other expenses of a small firm, professional liability insurance is down right expensive… until you need it. we would have been required to exercise the protections our professional liability policy provides. If your firm is practicing without insurance, you should reconsider your decision.

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How to Build Sustainable Recruitment Strategies for Small Firm Success

EntreArchitect

Recruitment Strategies for Small Firm Architects. Recruiting new employees is one of the most important things a professional services firm can do to be sustainable. He is also an adjunct lecturer on Entrepreneurialism at the University of Iowa and chair of the board of trustees of Grinnell Regional Medical Center.

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How to Make More Money as a Small Firm Architect

EntreArchitect

Like any small business, architects must pay the typical operating expenses required to remain buoyant, such as utilities, professional service fees, consultants’ fees, insurances and several other overhead expenditures. Most sole proprietors and small firms I know, struggle to meet the minimum requirements of operation.

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Mapping Your Firm’s Strategy: Visual Business Frameworks for Architects and Designers

Architizer

Crafting a well-defined business strategy is crucial for the success of any business, architecture firms included, but according to the most recent AIA Business Survey Report in 2022, only 26% of small firms, 40% of medium-sized firms, and 71% of large firms have one written down. So, where do you start?

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The Problem with ‘Hope Marketing’ and What to Do Instead

EntreArchitect

Working with many architecture firms over the past several years our agency, Archmark Architect Branding & Marketing, has been approached by many architects who have struggled to establish a consistent, repeatable, and reliable process to attract new clients and projects. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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Your Story is the Key to Your Success

EntreArchitect

There’s a statistic that gets thrown around from time to time in professional services industries like architecture. It says that 80% of new commissions come from repeat clients and referrals. They were the repeat clients and referrers; the R&R’s. What if that firm had 8 R&R’s instead of 4? Could 10 Be 20?

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How To Market Your Residential Architecture Firm

EntreArchitect

Marketing a residential architecture firm is perhaps different than marketing any other kind of professional service or product in the world. Selling architectural services is all about relationships. This makes it very difficult to find new clients unless they come seeking us out. Pick The Right Bait.