Now imagine your business one year from now. What amount of revenue are you generating? What types of projects are your working on? Which are you doing more? What are your strengths?
Eric Reinholdt, RA, NCARB – Architect + Entrepreneur Course
Architect + Entrepreneur Course
Create a business that works.
Imagine your business one year from now. What is your revenue? What types of projects are your working on? Which are you doing more? What are you doing more of? Imagine getting up on Monday mornings without worrying about where your next dollar is going. Your to-Your task lists should be manageable. Keep your focus on what you are doing. There are systems in place for handling new leads, earning while you sleep, and systems that eliminate the boredom from your day.
There is time to think. Time to think, time to create, and time to be creative. Time for your family. The time you spend, you’re working on the business, not in the business. You’re strategic, not reactionary. You possess the ability to Freedom to speak “no” to the things that aren’t a good fit. There is enough. Enough money in the bank, enough time with your family and friends and you’re doing work you enjoy.
If this sounds like somewhere you’d like to be, this course is for you.
You don’t have to defer the dream, this day is attainable, it can be your Everywhere day. I say this with confidence because I’ve been there too. Frustrated by a career that was not what I had imagined. I decided to leave. “safe” Looking for a more satisfying creative practice? I’m looking for a job with a steady salary.
This course shares my lessons learned since I started my entrepreneurial business, 30X40 Design Workshop in 2013. This course was created as an accelerator. It will help you move from struggling to success. From idea to execution. These are the strategies and techniques I used to make my living as an independent creative professional.
Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been at this a while and you’re not where you’d thought you’d be, you’ll find valuable lessons here. What I do each month to save time and make my business more profitable is what I share. The curriculum gives you a framework and steps to help you create the business you want. You’ll have the freedom to choose what you work on each day, a purpose driving you forward and the time to spend on the things in life that really matter: your personal relationships.
Without the Freedom To choose what I do each day, Objective Personal strength and driving me forward Relationships I don’t consider my self successful. You may have a different definition of success. Your metrics might be financial. Or maybe you want to manage an international team, win the Pritzker Award, or travel full-time.-time. There are no right or wrong answers. Only the ones that work for you. This course teaches how to be intentional and work towards goals that matter.
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My goal was to create a non-profit organization when I opened 30X40 design workshop in 2013.-Traditional studio. Although I loved designing homes, I also wanted other things. A creative person with many interests, I wanted a company that would allow me explore all of them. This course will help you make that simple change in your practice. My principles will help you create creative whitespace so that you can do more of what you love. You What you want to do. It is possible to create a business that meets your financial needs, supports you family, and feeds your creative mind. You don’t have to live in a big city or suburb. If you apply the principles and entrepreneurship to reinvent an established practice model, you will earn more and have more free time for what you enjoy.
This course will take you from a brandless business to an operational and lean startup. You will learn about my systems, how I built a brand that is targeted to your ideal client and how you market to them. This course also teaches you how to earn passive income. You’ll discover how to use your design process as a marketing device and you’ll see some of the other creative pursuits I’m able to pack into my day, the things you probably don’t have time for now.
This course will help you get more clients and freedom in your work, regardless of whether you are an established business owner or just starting out.
What’s Included?
- Client Handbook (25-Page PDF
- Branding Workbook (16-Page PDF
- Marketing Workbook (24-Page PDF
- Passive Income Product Workbook/ Ideabook (21-Page PDF
- Financial Handbook (12-Page PDF
- $100K “Hyperfine” Case Study + (PDF).
- Excel spreadsheet of Financial KPI’s
- Contractor Interview Checklist + Sample
- Template for Budget Proposal
- Services Proposal / Terms + conditions Examples
- Spreadsheet to track project fee
- Invoice sample
- Break Even Analysis spreadsheet
- Passive Income Product Revenue tracking spreadsheet
- Guide for Design Process at 30X40
- Site analysis template and sample
- Parcel Review Template + a sample
- Program worksheet / template
- Template for presentation + sample schematic presentation
- Email templates (6-Page PDF
- Anatomy of an Email Campaign Cheatsheet
- Worksheet on success metrics
- Scope document (sample)
- Code + Zoning checklist (sample)
- Video production workflow and checklist for 30×40
- 30X40 Business Folder Structure
- Videos can be used to teach. “homework” section + additional context resources for further study
- Regular updates are made to the content (i.e. – “Pandemic Plan: What I’m doing right now”, Case Study: Architecture for the Unserved
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Course Curriculum
- Introduction (12:06).
- (re)Defining Success (7:30).
- Financial Fears + Your Budget (17:54).
- You are planning for a pandemic?
- Tell me about yourself
- Your Business (Revenue Model) (32:01
- How to Choose Your Business Structure (48:48)
- Productized Service Example – New Client Parcel Evaluation (4:19)
- Proposal for a Survey on Existing Conditions and Productized Services
- Productized Service Example – Short Course 2:18 for Homeowners
- Affiliate Links (Done Artfully). (11:53).
- Lessons learned from selling plan sets (12:12).
- $100K “Hyperfine” Case Study (13.48)
- Case Study – Architecture Business Plan Reality Check (54.28)
- The Brand Plan (8.45)
- Your Brand Visuals + Stories (10:52).
- Your (Virtual) Studio (33:25)
- Your (Physical) Studio (21:09)
- Case Study: Employee to Firm Owner (17.28)
- How to find Clients (+ How They Find you) (19:36).
- Document as you create (Your marketing plan) (22:37).
- How to write proposals (10:53).
- Overcoming Client Objections (5:28).
- A phone call from a potential client (26.40)
- Social media for architects (29:26).
- Your email list (11:11).
- Pricing your Work (17.41)
- Project Scheduling (13.01).
- Profit + Hourly Rates (15.30)
- Accounting (Simplified for Designers) (6:16).
- What you need to know about invoices (14:50).
- Your Process (What Your Client Is Actually Buying) (3.57)
- The Outpost (26.08) – Client Site Visit + Predesign Meeting
- Programming and Budgeting – The Outpost (7:00).
- Site Analysis + Contractor Interviews (The Outpost, 14:38)
- Interviews with contractors – The Outpost (22.49)
- Concept Development – The Outpost (1:49)
- The Outpost (24.48) – Design Concept Presentation + Client Meeting
- Presentations for Design Development Clients – The Outpost (22.48)
- Collaboration with consultants (25:38).
- Client Presentation: Preparation + Process + Materials (12.21).
- Problems + Challenges in Practice (23.34)
- The MVP of SOOPs (8.57)
- Part 1 of Designing Your Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), (10:06)
- How to Use and Organize Your SOPs (2.50).
- Project + Office Management using Notion (21:09)
- Side Hustle to Solopreneur (11.10)
- Time Management Strategies (14.00)
- Reimagined Goal Setting (4:33).
- A Day in the life (12:46).
- The Value of Side Projects (4:48).
- Course Handbooks + Workbooks
- Email templates
- Template for Meeting Notes
- Business Folder Structure
- Site Analysis Template and Sample
- Spreadsheet to track passive income
- Software, Links, + Recommended
- Outro (Go Make Things …)
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If you are looking to improve your business or find clients, or to create a life that aligns with your values, it is important to seek out an experienced instructor. There’s a meaningful difference between someone who simply teaches principles and someone who has actually implemented those principles in the field, to find clients and generate passive income. I know what works and what doesn’t because I’ve done it. You can learn from my mistakes and be a better competitor.
Need more proof? See my work here.
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I am an award-Winner architect, entrepreneur, and founder Design Workshop 30X40The design studio is located on Mount Desert Island in Maine. The author of the Architect + Entrepreneur Book series creator and the best-loved architect-You can find a YouTube channel that is focused online. For more than 24 years, I have been designing modern, simple residential architecture. In addition, I am a practitioner for all the new, entrepreneurial business techniques I teach in my classes.
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Here’s what you’ll get in Eric Reinholdt, RA, NCARB – Architect + Entrepreneur Course
Course Features
- Lectures 1
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 130
- Assessments Yes