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Three dynamics facing our industry and your design business
I founded the Design Influencers Conference in 2011 when the worst housing crisis in our industry’s history showed the first cracks of daylight. Simultaneously, it was apparent that new marketing strategies (blogs and social media) were a new way forward. I am connecting directly with you today because the March 2022 Design Influencers Conference is…
Read MoreAlexa Hampton Keynoting in 2020
Iconic designer, master storyteller, and boisterously entertaining, Alexa Hampton is bound to enthrall us as one of our keynotes at the Design Influencers Conference! Regularly named to Architectural Digest’s AD100 and House Beautiful’s Top Designer list, Alexa translates the classical principles of good design and decoration into some of today’s most elegant, enduring, and functional domestic…
Read MoreDesign Bloggers Conference 2018
From the moment we drew down the lights on the final session at Design Bloggers Conference (DBC) in Los Angeles early last March, we kicked off our year-long organizing cycle for the upcoming March 4-6, Design Bloggers Conference 2018 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Planning alongside the conference’s industry advisory board and Esteem…
Read MoreDuralee Sponsors Design Bloggers Conference Scholarship!
The Design Bloggers Conference Scholarship will be awarded to five worthy bloggers, and give them the opportunity to attend the conference to expand their knowledge and networks in the design blogoshphere. The scholarship was established to assist serious bloggers that otherwise could not attend and are in the process of building their businesses, reputations, and brands.…
Read MoreFuture Outlook for Home Design Professionals
Today will not last and the next few years will serve up unanticipated territory for home design professionals Both plague and blessing, I usually see the world like this; constantly sensing the jeopardy our current reality faces while imagining unexpected game changers ready to take hold. With today’s great market conditions floating all boats in the luxury home design industry, it…
Read MoreEvolution of Design Blogging and Home Design Digital Marketing
By Adam Japko When we announced the Design Bloggers Conference in 2010, we pivoted on a vision to virtually connect design bloggers and social media wonks in-real-life with education and networking that advanced everyone’s content marketing and blogging expertise. As a blogger in the wine industry, I took deep satisfaction contributing something useful to brethren content creators spending countless hours banging away…
Read MoreFirst Reveal Design Matters Home for Deserving Family
At the Design Bloggers Conference in February, nousDECOR Chief Designer Mark Cutler and Dwell with Dignity Founder Lisa Robison announced the launch of a campaign called “Design Matters” to raise funds to help decorate and appoint homes for deserving families as a pledge highlighting nousDECOR’s mission to help show how the power of beautiful design…
Read MoreDesigners That Blog Are Golden
By: Adam Japko I am relieved to only be slightly confused about the intensity of sponsor and exhibitor support for the expanded community of design bloggers and social media enthusiasts that came to Atlanta in 2015 to attend the Design Bloggers Conference. I once thought I fully grasped why this group of bloggers and content-friendly designers were commanding increasing levels of attention from luxury…
Read MoreMichael Bruno to Speak at Design Bloggers Conference
Michael Bruno is the founder and chairman of 1stdibs, the world’s largest online luxury marketplace for antiques and vintage design. Bruno, whose motto is “decide what you want, believe in it and then get ready for the ride of your life,” launched the company in 2001 from his Paris apartment armed with just a clipboard,…
Read MoreTimothy Corrigan to Speak at Design Bloggers Conference
Hailed in Architectural Digest as “Today’s Tastemaker,” Timothy Corrigan’s clients include European and Middle Eastern royalty, Hollywood celebrities and corporate leaders. His distinctive design philosophy of comfortable elegance has been featured in Elle Decor, The New York Times, House Beautiful, Town & Country, Vanity Fair, Veranda, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal. Corrigan has been…
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