EntreArchitect Podcast with Mark R. LePage

We all have a story. We all have knowledge that we can share. We are all experts at something. I think… we all have a book in us that needs to be written. On this.. Part Three of the EntreArchitect Podcast Field Guide Series, I welcome back to the show, the founder of 30X40 Design Workshop and author of two self-published books, our friend Eric Reinholdt. This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, we will share, step-by-step How to Self-Publish Your Book as a Small Firm Architect. Visit our Platform Sponsors ArchiSnapper A simple cloud-based tool for creating and managing field reports. Try the ArchiSnapper Field Report App Free for 30 Days FreshBooks The easiest way to send invoices, manage expenses and track your time. Access Your 30-Day Free Trial at FreshBooks.com/architect (Enter EntreArchitect) Referenced in this Episode 30X40 Design Workshop Episode 84: Field Guide Series – Building, Branding and Marketing Your Startup Design Business Episode 89: Field Guide Series – Passive Income for Small Firm Architects The Unofficial Guide to Houzz.com: Create a Profile That Resonates with Clients and Outranks Your Competition (book) Architect and Entrepreneur: A Field Guide to Building, Branding, and Marketing Your Startup Design Business (book) 30X40 Design Workshop on Houzz.com The EntreArchitect Report (Our fee weekly newsletter) Evernote Microsoft Word Scrivener Byword Headspace App (Guided meditation) Focus@Will Houzz.com Discussion Boards Quroa Editor Software Hemingway Editor Grammarly The Creative Penn Createspace UpWork The Book Designer 99Designs CreativeINDIEcovers Apple iBooks Amazon.com Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)   Leave a review for this episode on iTunes Photo Credit: Shutterstock / Unuchko Veronika   The post EA097: Field Guide Series – How to Self-Publish Your Book as a Small Firm Architect [Podcast] appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Mentioned in this episode:Frosty & Fired UpBuild Smart

We all work so hard at what we do. We spend hours meeting with potential clients, preparing proposals and selling our services. When we finally get the job, we spend months developing the designs for our projects to be the best they can be. They're built under our observation and we provide construction administration services to ensure a safe, healthy complete project and to ensure a happy client leading us to more happy clients. So, if we spend all that time creating our art, should we not value it enough to document that art through professional photography? Too expensive you say? This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I will share 15 Reasons Why Hiring a Professional Architectural Photographer is Worth Every Penny. Visit our Platform Sponsors ArchiSnapper A simple cloud-based tool for creating and managing field reports. Try the ArchiSnapper Field Report App Free for 30 Days FreshBooks The easiest way to send invoices, manage expenses and track your time. Access Your 30-Day Free Trial at FreshBooks.com/architect (Enter EntreArchitect) Referenced in this Episode Anthology Photography (Scott LePage) Amazon Self Publishing Apple Print Products Leave a review for this episode on iTunes The post EA096: 15 Reasons Why Hiring a Professional Architectural Photographer is Worth Every Penny [Podcast] appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Mentioned in this episode:Build SmartFrosty & Fired Up

Your story in the mind of the client is your brand. That story is told, one chapter at a time, through everything you do and everything you say. At every point of contact your client is learning more about who you are and what you do. They are developing their thoughts and carrying their opinions about your firm at every step and throughout the entire process. It’s an overwhelming process with barriers and obstacles found throughout. The more we define these obstacles and develop systems that successfully guide our clients through the process with comfort and understanding, the stronger our brand will be. The story our clients tell their friends will be the story you want told. Throughout the process of delivering a typical architecture project, there is a series of touch points that our clients experience. The level of development, intention and management at each one of these points of contact determines the overall satisfaction of our clients. This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I will share 5 Steps for Successfully Managing Your Architecture Client’s Experience. Visit our Platform Sponsors ArchiSnapper A simple cloud-based tool for creating and managing field reports. Try the ArchiSnapper Field Report App Free for 30 Days FreshBooks The easiest way to send invoices, manage expenses and track your time. Access Your 30-Day Free Trial at FreshBooks.com/architect (Enter EntreArchitect) Referenced in this Episode EntreArchitect Hybrid Proposal Leave a review for this episode on iTunes Photo Credit: Shutterstock / Rasstock   The post EA095: 5 Steps for Successfully Managing Your Architecture Client’s Experience [Podcast] appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Mentioned in this episode:Frosty & Fired UpBuild Smart

We are living at a time when massive, paradigm shifting technologies are being introduced everyday. Change is happening very rapidly. New technologies are going to change the way we practice, how we run our businesses and how we live our lives. Reach into your pocket and pull out that iPhone and you will understand what I am talking about. Do you remember what it was like before we had the knowledge of the entire world in our pocket? These changes and developments in technology will provide new opportunities to the profession as a whole and to us as individual independent architects. This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I welcome back a former guest and friend of the show George Valdes to discuss The Consequence of Technology on the Profession of Architecture. Visit our Platform Sponsors ArchiSnapper A simple cloud-based tool for creating and managing field reports. Try the ArchiSnapper Field Report App Free for 30 Days FreshBooks The easiest way to send invoices, manage expenses and track your time. Access Your 30-Day Free Trial at FreshBooks.com/architect (Enter EntreArchitect) Referenced in this Episode Virtual Reality in Architecture with George Valdes (Episode 86) IrisVR (Virtual Reality for Architecture, Engineering, Design) Damien Hirst on Charlie Rose (YouTube) The Lean Startup (Book) Leave a review for this episode on iTunes The post EA094: The Consequence of Technology on the Profession with George Valdes [Podcast] appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Mentioned in this episode:Frosty & Fired UpBuild Smart

Last week on the podcast, I shared my 12 Steps to Business Success in Architecture, the same presentation I shared at the recent AIA CRAN Symposium. I proposed that if you learn how to execute on each of the 12 steps, you will be a successful architect, with a profitable business leading to creating more art and better architecture. This week we are continuing where I left off last week. We will get more practical, go deeper and discuss what it takes to be successful in small business; whether you are running an ice cream stand, a manufacturing company or an architecture firm. This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I am speaking with CEO of Crown Point Cabinetry Brian Stowell and we discussed the anatomy of a successful small business. Visit our Platform Sponsors ArchiSnapper A simple cloud-based tool for creating and managing field reports. Try the ArchiSnapper Field Report App Free for 30 Days FreshBooks The easiest way to send invoices, manage expenses and track your time. Access Your 30-Day Free Trial at FreshBooks.com/architect (Enter EntreArchitect) Referenced in this Episode Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) Crown Point Cabinetry (web) 12 Steps to Business Success in Architecture (episode 92) Leave a review for this episode on iTunes Photo Credit: Crown Point Cabinetry   The post EA093: The Anatomy of a Successful Small Business with Crown Point Cabinetry CEO Brian Stowell [Podcast] appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Mentioned in this episode:Frosty & Fired UpBuild Smart

12 Steps to Business Success in Architecture I'm a day late on producing this episode because Annmarie and I just returned from Minneapolis, Minnesota where we attended the Custom Residential Architects Network 2015 Symposium (aka CRAN). This was the second CRAN event we attended. Last year we traveled to Charleston, SC, which was a fantastic introduction to the symposium and certainly the inspiration for attending again this year. As we began to plan for our travel arrangements to Minneapolis, the incoming CRAN chairperson and the chairperson of the 2015 Symposium, Dawn Zuber contacted me and asked if I would present at this year's event. Of course, I jumped at the opportunity to spread the word of EntreArchitect and our mission to become an influential force in the profession. So I did just that and I had a great time. I hung out with several of my friends from the last event and from the EntreArchitect Academy. My favorite part of attending these conferences is connecting with other small firm architects. The presentation was very well received and I think I may have inspired a few more small firm architects to take a closer look at building a better business in order to allow them to be better architects. This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I will share my CRAN2015 Symposium presentation; Profit Then Art: 12 Steps to Business Success in Architecture. Visit our Platform Sponsor ArchiSnapper.com A Simple Cloud-Based Tool for Creating and Managing Field Reports Try the ArchiSnapper Field Report App Free for 30 Days Referenced in this Episode Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) GetFocused Course (personal productivity course) Profit Plan (free digital course) Photo Credit: Marica McKeel The post EA092: Profit… Then Art [Podcast] appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Mentioned in this episode:Frosty & Fired UpBuild Smart

One guest-post that has made a major impact on the EntreArchitect Community was written by architect and educator Kevin J. Singh about a year ago. That post, 21 Rules for a Successful Life in Architecture, is consistently one of the most visited articles on the site. This week I invite Kevin to join us here on the EntreArchitect Podcast to expand his thoughts on that article and discuss his new e-book, Beginning Your Career in Architecture, inspired by that original post. Visit our Platform Sponsor ArchiSnapper.com A Simple Cloud-Based Tool for Creating and Managing Field Reports Try the ArchiSnapper Field Report App Free for 30 Days Referenced in this Episode The Journey to Success Begins Within You (blog) 21 Rules for a Successful Life in Architecture (blog) Beginning Your Career in Architecture: Candid Advice for Emerging Professionals (e-book) The post EA091: Beginning Your Career in Architecture with Kevin J. Singh [Podcast] appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Mentioned in this episode:Build SmartFrosty & Fired Up

One of my favorite parts of running things here at EntreArchitect is that I get to speak with people who are thinking outside the box; people who are coloring outside the lines; people who have new, innovative ideas and have “jumped in with both feet and are making things happen. They are taking their ideas, developing plans and making progress, one small step at a time. This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I've invited architect Jeremy Welu, a partner at DELV Design and winner of the 2015 Charrette Venture Group Architecture Business Plan Competition, to talk about Innovation and the Practice of Architecture. Visit our Platform Sponsor ArchiSnapper.com (Creating and Managing Field Reports 30 Days Free) Referenced in this Episode DELVdesign.com Charrette Venture Group Architecture Business Plan Competition EntreArchitect Podcast Episode 000 (Introduction) Contact Jeremy if you are interested in DELV Lab (BETA testing) ArchitectureAndChildren.com   The post EA090: Innovation and the Practice of Architecture with Jeremy Welu of DELV Design [Podcast] appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Mentioned in this episode:Frosty & Fired UpBuild Smart

Imagine working in your studio, designing a great project for another happy client and your receive a notification on your iPhone that Paypal dropped $50 in your pocket. Then after work, you head over to the ball field to watch your daughter's game. As you are cheering her on, Paypal drops another $50 in your pocket. The next morning, you wake up, check your email and there are 5 more notifications. Two hundred and fifty dollars was delivered to your account while you dreamed. Sounds crazy? Well it's not… That could be you with some work up front and minimal maintenance, you can develop strategies for an additional income to supplement your income as a practicing architect. This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I've invited my good friend Eric Reinholdt of 30×40 Design Workshop to join us for Round 2 of the Field Guide Series. This week, we're talking Passive Income for Small Firm Architects. Visit our Platform Sponsor ArchiSnapper.com (Creating and Managing Field Reports – 30 Days Free) Referenced in this Episode Field Guide Series – Building,Branding and Marketing Your Startup Design Business 30X40 Design Workshop The Unofficial Guide to Houzz.com: Create a Profile That Resonates with Clients and Outranks Your Competition (Book – Affiliate Link) Architect and Entrepreneur: A Field Guide to Building, Branding, and Marketing Your Startup Design Business (Book – Affiliate Link) Smart Passive Income (Pat Flynn) WordPress.com (Free Blog Platform) WordPress.org (Self-Hosted Blog Platform WooCommerce (WordPress Plug-in) GumRoad.com Amazon Associates Affiliate Program Bluehost.com (WordPress Hosting Service – Affiliate Link) YouTube Advertising HowToArchitect.com Doug Patt on EntreArchitect Podcast Episode 52 30X40 Design Workshop Channel on YouTube Aweber.com (Email List Service – Affiliate Link) MailChimp.com (Email List Service) Fedora.com (Digital Courses) Udemy.com (Digital Courses) ArchiOffice Charrette Venture Group Fulfillment by Amazon Marmol Radziner Jewelry Houzz.com e-junkie.com (Selling Digital Products – Affiliate Link) EntreArchitect Facebook Group Join Eric’s “Street Team” for his next book Photo Credit: Shutterstock / Max Sattana   The post EA089: Field Guide Series – Passive Income for Small Firm Architects [Podcast] appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Mentioned in this episode:Frosty & Fired UpBuild Smart

Leaders of small firms are experiencing many of the same challenges as the leaders of large firms. Leadership transition, balancing our firms and our families, and equity in architecture (as my friend Rosa Sheng calls it) The Missing 32%. As architects and leaders, we all have our issues and we are all struggling with finding our way to be successful in the many roles to which we have committed ourselves. Bottom line… we're stressed and we're overwhelmed. If we don't do something about it, we're going to burnout and its going to get much worse. Stress unmanaged will lead to real physical health issues. I know . I'm dealing with stress related issues myself. The dangers are real. This week on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I’ve invited business management consultant and executive coach, Jane Walton to join us and discuss this very serious issue, How to Avoid Burnout as an Architect. Referenced in this Episode JaneWaltonConsulting.com Charrette Venture Group Moments of Clarity (article) Jane Walton Consulting on Twitter Jane Walton Consulting on Facebook The post EA088: How to Avoid Burnout as an Architect with Jane Walton [Podcast] appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Mentioned in this episode:Build SmartFrosty & Fired Up