How to work out your real day rate and project fee from your own numbers
The exact sum Susie uses, so your fee covers your hours, your costs and a profit.
Free live masterclass for interior designers & home stagers
Stop discounting to land the client. Start winning bigger projects at higher fees.
Live with Susie Batista, who built, grew and sold her own design studio.
Starts in · Tue 17 Nov · 7:30pm UK
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Free · Live online · 90 minutes
Here's what you'll learn
The discovery call script that turns "what do you charge?" into a signed proposal
What to ask, when to give the number, and how to stop the call ending on "I'll think about it".
How to turn one finished project into a month of posts that bring in enquiries
The Show the Work method, so your portfolio does the selling between projects.
Meet your host
Susie Batista
Interior design business coach · Founder, Just Build It
Susie spent eight years in interior design and home staging, then built, grew and sold her own design studio. She started out as cabin crew with no business background at all.
Everything on Tuesday comes from what's working right now for Susie and the designers and stagers she mentors.
8 years
in interior design and home staging
Sold
the design studio she built and grew
Co-founder
RSBN Developers, property development
Free when you register
The Fee Check
A one-page worksheet that shows you, in ten minutes, whether your last project actually paid you.
Put in the hours you really spent, your costs and what the client paid, and it gives you your true hourly rate.
Delivered in the WhatsApp group, not by email
In their words
What designers are saying
"I've just won two projects higher than I've ever charged before."
"I've printed it out and I'm working on it daily."
"Pushing myself out of my comfort zone and talking on camera has given me so many views and an enquiry."
Our students
Hear from our students
Video to swap
Rachel
Home stager in Kent who won two projects above anything she'd charged before.
Video to swap
Rima
Interior designer in Surrey who started posting on camera and got her first enquiry from it.