Consulting for Interior Designers

Interior Design Industry Insider giving long term stability and growth to each and every client

“I think analytically, but because I am a designer, I am very sensitive to the ways in which designers work.” Deborah Flate

Deborah Flate began her career as an interior designer working in residential, commercial and   hospitality which gives her a unique understanding, as a consultant, of what issues your are faced with and how to lay out a plan that will increase your business.

25+years of experience;  working SOLELY with Interior Design industry and increasing sales and profits for every single company that she has worked with.

Deborah has an understanding of all aspects of the Interior Design Industry from an experience perspective. This includes being a commercial, residential and hospitality designer and working for a dealership to sales and management.  She is what you would call a “TRUE INSIDER” and has worked with and learned from the absolute best in the industry .

Deborah closes the distance between the client’s present level of results and the client’s desired outcomes LOOK FOR YOURSELF:

“We engaged Deborah to assist during a period of transition and growth in our firm. She is task oriented and result driven which is especially useful to consulting clients.  She is intelligent, energetic, conscientious and exceedingly loyal.  She is extremely amiable and has a very affable personality.  She conducts herself in an entirely professional manner and takes an enormous amount of pride in her work.  Deborah has a wealth of experience within the interior design industry and as a result is in a position to offer guidance and “big picture” counsel to firms that engage her services.

In short, Deborah has an in depth knowledge of facets of the interior design and will prove to be an asset to the firms that engage her services”.

Suzanne Lovell (Principal Lovell & Associates/Raffine Furniture/Twill Textiles)

The techniques she implements and teaches are NOT BAND AIDS and COME FROM EXPERIENCE of successfully increasing business for her clients.  She has worked with and learned from the BEST IN THE INTERIOR DESIGN INDUSTRY and she is a true insider that brings an understanding, from an experience point of view, of turning interior design businesses into thriving profit centers. We take a look and treat the business as a whole.  You will not get a temporary “fix”.

“I am enjoying and definitely profiting from your very informative workshops”.

Dee Schlagel, Design Discovery

“I attended your seminar yesterday at the CAI showroom in Arlington Hts.  It was great!  Some things I knew but didn’t know how to implement them in a way to grow my business.  I’ve signed up for the follow-up seminars at CAI where you go into more detail about target market, branding, social networking and sales and presentations.

Thank you again for yesterday’s seminar and your enthusiasm.  I look forward to working with you in the future”.

Karen Riordan KCR Interiors LLC

Deborah Flate offers workshops for Interior Designers that give you an affordable way to work with her.  She gives you STEP BY STEP methods (same methods she uses for all of her private clients) on how to build your Interior Design business and a STEADY FLOW OF CLIENTS.  She will show you how to position yourself as an expert which defines your value to clients.  Deborah  guarantees that if you apply all of her time tested techniques you learn, you will get 3 new clients in three months time.