The home industry is crazy right now. I have seen most designers, stagers, and beyond fall into one of two camps: Either they are wildly busy and losing their minds, or they are scrambling to make ends meet and wondering if their businesses will last through 2021. If your goal is to help your home industry business create steady revenue even when the economy does weird things, you need to hear this episode.

Often, the key to success in business isn't about knowing the right people, but about being the right person — one that is willing to learn and work hard. If you are looking for a legacy business that exemplifies empowerment, look no further. Today on The Kate Show, you'll learn that most of the obstacles we face as aspiring entrepreneurs are internal. What we believe about ourselves and the world around us holds us back. If you think you can't do something because: 1) You are too young or old, 2) You were born into rough circumstances, or 3) You don't look like everyone else in your community, well, then you are in for a really strong dose of hope and a whole lotta elbow grease. Let's get into today's conversation with Roger.

On today's episode of The Kate Show, I'm speaking with Openhaus co-founder Carson Clement. Rather than simply showing your customers a photo of your SideDoor product, Openhaus 3D home tours will let you show it in your client's actual home. This gives context to what you are selling and can make that sale so much easier. If you aren't selling products, Openhaus can be a great way to showcase your portfolio with professional, immersive virtual tours.

Today on The Kate Show, I am speaking with the charming Rick Campos of Design Biz Survival Guide. If you've ever felt like you and your design firm needed a survival guide, well, you were right. Building a strong business and creating a lasting legacy requires a community. In this interview, Rick shares deep insights on the struggles that home professionals face over and over again, why he calls himself a "recovering interior designer", and how he can help each of you move forward. Don't miss these words of entrepreneurial wisdom.

Guys, SideDoor recently released the best feature ever. You can now embed your collections and products directly into your own website. SideDoor's new iFrame embed feature is so exciting to me as a marketer because it makes implementing and selling products so much easier. If you haven't at least investigated this platform yet, you need to before you get left behind. Today, I'm going over my suggested step-by-step process for selling with SideDoor. It's one thing to have an amazing tool like this at your disposal, and it is quite another to actually start making sales. If you nail it, you can truly set your business up with a brand new income stream that doesn't require hours of unbillable time.

You have a great lead magnet on your website. But... No one is signing up for it. If this describes you, stick around. Today on The Kate Show, I'm revealing the three primary actions you need to take in order to get people to sign up for your lead magnet. You already know this, but I'll say it anyway: You can't set it and forget it. No matter how wonderful your lead magnet is, you still have to promote it in order for it to do its job.

The idea of marketing your business so that you can continue to grow when you are already being pulled all over the map (mentally, creatively, financially) doesn't seem feasible. Or does it? The truth is you can trim and lighten your marketing workload by letting go of a few mindset traps that our modern business culture has built around us. If you are ready to get minimal with your marketing, this episode is for you.

The feast to famine cycle (or the many clients to no clients pattern) that is so prevalent among designers, stagers, workrooms, and organizers can easily be circumvented. Today on The Kate Show, I'm sharing two productivity routines that I use in my own business to ensure I am never marketing more or less than what I should be, regardless of how many or how few leads are coming into our pipeline. While these productivity routines apply to nearly any creative business, I'm sharing them specifically from the perspective of applying them to the home industry.

If you are ready to refresh your social media, your content marketing, your website, and your client process with beautiful verbiage and flowy-yet-crisp designs, this episode of The Kate Show is for you. Get ready for your marketing to be completely transformed. Today, by popular demand, we are revealing a completely new marketing resource for interior designers, home stagers, professional organizers, and window treatment specialists.

Curious whether your website is making even just one mistake that is preventing your business from growing? In today's episode of The Kate Show, you'll learn the answer to this question.