Today's episode is a little bit different in that Toma would like to share with you a talk she gave that was recorded live at The Point at High Point Market. While interior designers continue to face an uncertain supply chain, they are turning to antiques as a solution more and more. By sourcing and warehousing antique inventories, designers have the opportunity to build a storehouse of unique objects that not only please clients but increase profit margins.

In this episode, join Toma Clark Haines, CEO of The Antiques Diva & Co - the world's largest antiques touring company, and Interior Designer Andrea Hysmith for a lively discussion on how the antiquities marketplace can be utilized by interior designers for business growth, offering an actionable plan to increase profit margin by adding sourcing and warehousing to your business model. They discuss the basics of how to source and ship antiques globally and various pricing models for antiques.

As Toma introduces the episode, you will notice a slew of sounds around her because, in an effort to meet her phenomenal podcast producer Jason Perrier's request for a podcast this week, she recorded her intro at Newark Airport on route home from Highpointe Market where she has been speaking on The Business of Antiques. While at High Point, Toma led a couple of tours of the Antique and Design Center, where she also looped people around the Highpoint Market grounds taking them to some of the outer antique dealers that are not as easily located. She sings the praises of a great new antiques warehouse called Odette, as well as one that's been a long-standing fabulous dealer called Shwung Home. Toma plans to have both of those dealers on a podcast coming up.

Toma also shared this via Instagram Live, and this is the converted file, so the sound quality is not going to be as great as it usually is. If you would like to see it as an Instagram Live, you can go to @TheAntiquesDiva or her other instagram account, @RepublicofToma. Toma felt like the conversation was really relevant so she wanted to include it on the podcast in an earnest effort to continue to provide you with regular content even when she is traveling and a little limited on time for her regularly featured content. We hope you enjoy this episode.

This post is sponsored by our Antiques Diva Educational Retreat: