How are you going to construct real relationships with purchasers, and the way does it rework enterprise success?
Kara Cox is becoming a member of me for this dialog – one that’s filled with tangible recommendation that can assist you develop your model and affect.
Kara is a folks individual by nature and an inside designer by commerce. Obsessed with connecting with others and studying about her purchasers needs and life, Kara strives to create lasting relationships that allow her to design stunning areas which are contemporary, tailor-made and timeless.
A love of journey overseas, good meals and the humanities has led Kara to a lifetime of fixed exploration. Whether or not looking for new artists, sources or tradespeople, she is all the time striving to carry one of the best assortment of products to her purchasers. After returning to her native state of North Carolina, she served as editor for a house furnishings journal overlaying nationwide and worldwide commerce exhibits, development forecasting and gathering an intensive base of product data.
Constructing upon her experience, Kara adopted her ardour for design by acquiring her inside design diploma. Kara skilled beneath Lindsay Henderson Interiors, one in every of North Carolina’s premiere residential designers earlier than establishing her namesake design agency in 2010. Kara’s work has been featured nationally in magazines like Conventional House, Domino and HGTV Journal.
Her consumer initiatives have graced the quilt of publications like Triangle House and Design, Seasons and O. Henry. She’s been recurrently featured by design bloggers and partnered with trade insiders from Alden Parkes to Uttermost and just lately launched her first licensed assortment of kitchen and bathtub designs with Thompson Merchants.
When not searching auctions or classic shops, Kara will be discovered on the again of a Harley along with her husband, Stephen, working her two youngsters to numerous actions or entertaining her associates with classic china, her grandmother’s silver and a great Vidalia onion dip from the native deli.
We speak about:
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[4:35] How Kara acquired her begin within the design trade
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[5:50] What Kara is most happy with in 12 years of enterprise
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[7:40] The inner drivers that permit Kara to maintain transferring ahead in difficult moments
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[9:15] How Kara defies the percentages and “norms” within the inside design trade
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[14:10] Networking suggestions for assembly like minded friends
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[17:50] What a ‘showhouse’ is
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[23:40] Recommendation for entrepreneurs seeking to construct peer relationships
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[34:15] Constructing and managing a profitable workforce
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[43:30] Kara’s largest recommendation for entrepreneurs
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