Meet Toby Fairley, an award-winning interior designer and business consultant whose mission is to help creative women become millionaires—and beyond—while having a great quality of life.
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Today, Fairley runs two seven-figure businesses and has over a decade of experience helping creative professionals take their companies and lives to the next level. Her biggest dream is to help creative women become millionaires—and beyond—while having a great quality of life. Just before graduation, I realized there was no way I could ever hold a job in accounting. I’m not a quitter but I was miserable. I could barely force myself to show up for class and when I did, I felt like I was suffocated by all the boring details. But I still loved decorating. Friends would call me to help them pick out furniture and I was creating custom window treatments for my own apartment.
make smart business moves while your creative skills will help you attract clients in your industry."Fairley: Creatives are busy being creative, but they're not doing the things that move the needle. They forget to bill or under charge clients, they don’t figure out how many clients they need to bring in to meet overhead. They’re trading dollars for hours and that’s the fastest path to burnout—I know because I was there. I had to take on more and more clients which spread me so thin. I was hiding from clients hoping they wouldn’t call me asking where their stuff was.
I knew there had to be a better way to live—and there was. First, through innovation. I started teaching other creatives how to run profitable businesses. Second, by scalable business models. I created online courses and programs that didn’t need 100% of my attention.... [+]Da Costa: Innovation, harnessing technology, and meeting people where they are has been key for you.
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