How Erinn V. Uses StyleRow to Streamline Projects & Win More Business

 

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So this is one of my active projects. With Style Row, you can put anything in it, and you can manage and track absolutely anything. So with your sections or rooms that you create, I always like to have a room for drawings at the top. I have a room for budgets, or a section I should say for budget.
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And I start to create and add all of my documents here because this is client facing. So I can make anything visible, and I can also turn off that visibility to my clients at any time through the client dashboard on style row. So I want to keep all of my up to date documents, drawings Here You can share that link with the contractor. The architect doesn't just have to be with a client. You could share it with team members that you might be working remotely with or just invite them to the project But the dashboard is a really flexible tool So I like to keep all my drawings here and even sometimes the history of them. Here we have a whole schedule lighting schedule that we uploaded. We've got all of our floor plans.
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And when you click on this, you can quickly, you know, download the drawing, so can your client, if you shared it, But you can also then manage any of the communication with your team or your client right from here as well. And then we have a New Vendor tab, which I'll show you in a minute. So this is one of my projects, I put in all the clients art. That they had that we needed to place.
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And then all of the designs, right. I'd like to start with my inspiration image at the top of the room.
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I start putting in the products any of the drawings and elevations so that when I come back to this project, five days later, five months later, everything's right here in one beautiful, easy to use place. And although this might just seem like a pretty mood board right here, where you can also like drag and drop to re-organize.
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It is a powerful, powerful, powerful workflow management and communication tool. So here you can see we've got statuses set, you can view this in the budget.
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I've got an incredible budget feature right here connected to it. Get out of Excel for your budgeting. It's a horrible place to be. You've got your drawings. We've got an incredible filter, if I want to see comments.
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Team status, order status, track my project.
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It's like having Google right here in your project with this incredible filter.
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Then you can filter by brand, filter by color, and export, you can export your lighting schedule to Excel, you can export your plumbing fixtures to Excel, filter first, then export.
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All of this time, wasted work, managing, and sharing schedules out becomes lightning fast style row.
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So, I mean, literally, with that filter to export, I've just saved you 20 hours per project.
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That you can spend on Business Dev and going winning more projects. So, as you can see, all these rooms, you can collapse them. So, I like to use that, you know, to kind of keep my focus on what we need to do.
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And we upload the images of the stone, we've selected. And then you can put that with the installation shot, the inspiration, you can dump that into PowerPoint, delete a few slides, send that off to your Stone Fabricator, right?
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There's just so many timesaving tools all wrapped here within style route.
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So, this is one of our very, very active projects.
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Just delete. I mean, you've got all these rooms right. I'm not deleting, so I'm just collapsing the garden.
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Um, then, you've got this area at the bottom called Products for Consideration.
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So, things you don't have, you don't have placed yet, or maybe you're thinking about or you shared with the client, but you decided not to use them. They can save down there for later. There's a great Bulk Actions feature here at the top.
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So, you can bulk delete, both share, change, pricing, or visibility on that client dashboard. So it becomes a really, very fast way to manage a lot of things at once right here with bulk actions. And then let me show you this client dashboard.
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So at the top, got this link.
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You can go to the client dashboard. It's got your logo on it. This, your client can save as an app on their phone on their home screen. So all they have to do is click it. They can get into the dashboard and whatever you've shared with them.
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Is visible. You can hide brand-name, hide pricing, change that, add the URL, hide the URL. It's very, very flexible tool.
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And then your client can also filter, I mean, this project has hundreds of items in it, right? There's already 135 things here I've shared with my client. She loves this because she goes to lunch with her friends, and shows them her project, which is great business development for me, right? Think about using tools that actually help you win more business while you're managing an existing project. I mean, if I turned all this off, my clients, like, wait, turn it back on, I'm at lunch with my friend, I want to show my house.
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But a really great experience for your clients. So you're gonna get those referrals, right. So this is a view of the client dashboard. It streamlines the client's feedback.
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So they're not texting me at midnight. They're not texting me these threads all weekend, They're not e-mailing me 800 things. They come into the dashboard, they leave their feedback about the breakfast room bar. All right here, for me and my team, we get an e-mail, this triggers e-mails, we can leave a feedback for the client, sends them an e-mail back.
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But when we come back, everything is right here, and my whole team can see it.
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So, everyone on the project side, the team sign has access to what the client's feedback was. So, they're not, again, taking weight off my shoulders where I don't have to then relay the 800 client texts, Instagram messages, e-mails that came to me only with my team, with my draft or with my architect, with anybody else on the project. So, it really is a multi-layered timesaving tool.
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We've also got this fabulous budget From here, you can export to QuickBooks. You can also export the client facing invoice. So right here from this export, you can create purchase orders, export to Excel, export a PDF that PDF is going to be that invoice, and then right here, you can sync to QuickBooks.
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So, tons and tons of time savings.
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All right there, and then our library is an amazing tool where it is saving everything you put in your project.
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So, your library is going to build alongside of your projects so that when you need to source, URL will give you this example that I was telling you about. These are real light fixtures that I had just clipped, because I thought they were so great. I got an e-mail from this neuro brand.
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I love this light fixture. So I went to their website. I use the style Clipper NaN later it's here, and it's sitting right in my library.
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so when I have a project for it, there it is, no more, 45 minutes, hunting down, this ridiculous light fixture, which we can all relate to, right? So all these lights, here's another one. I got this helix pendant from bright bound lighting in an e-mail. This was so great. I think they actually didn't even have that image on their website, so a screenshot at it from the e-mail, because that's the picture that caught my eye.
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Dropped it on my desktop, uploaded it to this item on Style row clipped, the spec Sheet, and a few things from their website.
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And then I've got the link back to this product on their website right here. So when you use our Clipper Bam there it is how good they do have it here, and look how cute it is. I mean, it's an adorable light fixture. So keeping your inspiration and your products in the style row library just make it so so so fast to start your next project.
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I can come right here to this cute life from Hudson Valley, bam, Add it to any of my projects, and I can start designing so fast, OK, Let me.

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