Do they really care about your interior design businesses or just another way to make your money theirs?

During the economy downturn, I got many emails from those interior designers who asked me to take their classes, seminars, and webinars and learn how to get the clients, how to market yourself, how to advertise, how to run interior design business... Yeah right! I think those designers just got no clients, no jobs, so they found other ways to make money. I admire their quick thoughts in order to survive, but deeply feel piles of bull shits. When the economy was good, they would never share those business know-hows with anyone, now the market is in deep shit, and they all come out and start to teach people these things. Well, if there is no clients out there, no matter what kind of trick you learn, how fancy your facebook, twitters, or blogs look like, how search engine friendly your web site is, you will not get any client period! Moreover, if there were so many clients out there, those interior designers would not have so much time to give out seminars or classes, they would be so freaking busy working on their projects, and if their tricks were so good, how come they don't have any project to work on and have to spend all of their time on giving out seminars?! C'mon! If you are an interior designer, do what interior designers are supposed to do which is designing spaces, stop using this tough time exploitating other interior designers and wasting their time and money because in deep inside of your heart, you know whatever you teach them will not help them getting any clients because there is none!

Interior designer license or just a piece of paper?!

Many so called interior designers out there do not have any interior design related education or credential, they are not even talented or know how to draw, but because they have connections and are business savvy, they will be able to get clients and hire someone who knows how to design and draw to work on the projects. I would like to know how the interior designer license will be able to keep that kind of people from practicing interior design and protect the real interior designers?! I am not afraid of competing with other creative interior designers because my creativity is very competitive and I am confident I will survive in this business if I compete with other interior designers on creativity, drawing skill, and project management ability, but I can't compete with someone who was born to rich and have lots of connections because those people will take most of the potential clients on the market no matter what and people like me will end up working for those fake designers and making joke-like salaries. So, I really don't care about the governor is going to de-license the interior designers because interior designer's license really has not helped me a bit.

Who is the designer and who is the sales?!

When a car was built at the factory and sold by a dealership, what do you call the person who sold the car? the sales, duh! Well, so how come an employer who does not know any interior design who can hire a person doing all of the design work but the employer still can declair him/herself as the interior designer? Well, why can't we call the employer an interior design sales, or maybe we should start to call the car dealership's sales automobile designers?!

Design Trends or Sales?

I always received the newsletters from ASID which had many articles talking about kitchen design trends or green design trends...etc, for me, they are just bunches of companies trying to sell their products. Kitchen companies sell contemporary Minimalist kitchen cabinets detect Minimalist design trend is in. Furniture companies sell traditional style furniture say the traditional style trend is coming back and on the rise. The paint companies say the certain color trends will be popular the next coming season which the paint company happens to be the only one sells those colors they claimed to be in style. C'mon! Since when the design trends are detected by the businesses?! Aren't interior designers should be the ones detect the design trends?!