1060: Design Trade Service: Quality Vendors, Trade Pricing and AI. Your Go to Sourcing Platform

A Well-Designed Business® | Interior Design Business Podcast

LuAnn Nigara

Business, Design, Arts

4.8 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today With Greg Wyers and Jennifer Points Welcome to a Well-Designed Business. For today’s sponsored episode, I am excited to welcome Greg Wyers and Jennifer Points, president and marketing specialist at Design Trade Service. Design Trade Services is an exclusive online marketplace for designers created to streamline the sourcing process and let you efficiently shop from 80 different vendors, all in one place. They’ve vetted the products and vendors and created this marketplace, available to designers with no membership fee. DTS has also created an AI program that can help you find exactly what you’re looking for without wasting time looking through different vendor websites and taking a look at all the available products. Today, Greg and Jen are sharing everything about DTS, their AI, and how they can help you streamline sourcing for your clients. LuAnn Nigara, Greg Wyers and Jennifer Points’s Ah-Ha Moments: "It’s not just about putting something on a computer screen that works well. You have to understand the needs of both the buyer and the seller. That’s where our decades of experience make all the difference." – Greg "You can want all day from a vendor or a manufacturer, but when they say it can’t happen, someone with your experience knows how to ask in a way that gets a yes. That’s what makes DTS so valuable—it’s solving the pain points for both designers and manufacturers." – LuAnn Nigara “We ultimately think our AI will revolutionize how designers search products for a look for a client.” -Greg More About Design Trade Service Design Trade Services is an exclusive online marketplace where Professional Interior Designers can instantly purchase from Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturers at better than typical “to-the-trade” pricing. Membership is free and we're adding hundreds of new products every day. If you are an Interior Designer we have built our business for you. We make your life easier and increase your opportunity to generate revenue. We sell to you - not your clients! If you are a Manufacturer please contact us. We are building a community of Interior Designers that in total represent over $9B in industry sales per year. We would be happy to service your Interior Designer clients at no cost to you. Connect with Design Trade Service Website Instagram Other Resources: This podcast supports the Savvy Giving Design Coalition. Learn more about it here! AWDB #717 Susan Wintersteen: Interior design firm standards in a nonprofit passion project AWDB #164: Susan Wintersteen- Savvy Giving by Design

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0:00.0	Welcome to a well-designed business.
0:12.0	My name is Luann Nygaara, and I'm so glad you found this podcast.
0:16.0	Together with my husband Vince and our partner Bill, we have grown our company Window Works from the ground up.
0:21.8	So I know and I understand the challenges you face in running your interior design business.
0:28.2	I also know that your talent alone isn't enough to ensure your success.
0:33.2	So on this podcast, we talk about strategies and practical steps to help you grow your business.
0:39.6	But make no mistake about it, we have our share of fun here, too, mix in with those aha
0:44.6	moments that I love so much.
0:46.8	This isn't fluff.
0:47.8	Nobody has time for that.
0:49.5	Whether you are a new interior designer or a season designer, I am here to help you create and to manage the kind of interior design firm that you dream of.
0:58.9	It's straight talk and it's action.
1:01.1	Are you ready?
1:02.1	Let's get started.
1:05.9	Hi, welcome to a well-designed business.
1:07.9	If I asked you what your favorite part of being an interior designer is, I'm going to guess the answer isn't sourcing, right?
1:16.1	I mean, you probably don't love going in and out of all the vendor websites, reading the descriptions,
1:21.8	trying to find the right size, the right piece, the right color, at the right price point for the thing that you have in mind.
1:28.9	Or even if you kind of like that process, maybe you don't like the rabbit hole of searching.
1:34.6	You know, all of a sudden you come up and it's three hours later and you're like, great,
1:37.7	got the one sofa. Right? You probably wish, in one way or another, that this process was quicker and more efficient
1:45.8	so that you could focus on, I would encourage you, revenue-generating activities, right?
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