
Trade Tales
Business of Home, Kaitlin Petersen
4.7from 98 ratings
- 187
- Episodes
- 29
- Transcribed
- 98
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Trade Tales
Business of Home's editor in chief Kaitlin Petersen talks to interior designers about nurturing creativity, finding a firm’s financial footing, setting goals and discovering their own version of success as a result.
- Publisher
- Business of Home, Kaitlin Petersen
- Category
- arts · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Mar 2021
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
29 of 187 episodes have a transcript.

23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Jay Jeffers on protecting your firm from a pipeline in flux

16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ask Us Anything: Dan Rak on improving your profit margins

9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ali Faulkner on building a team that’s passionate about the client experience
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Jay Jeffers on protecting your firm from a pipeline in flux
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Can you talk a little bit about how you charge for the work and how you explain that to clients? We are hourly and markup. And I always have been. And very, very, very rarely have we done fixed fee projects. And I have done a couple of them. And it's usually because I really, really wanted the job. So I explain to clients, there's a certain percentage that the consulting usually ends up being in terms of the project. for the furnishing side of it. And the thing that I think is really important for us as interior designers to explain is that in many cases we are doing interior architecture as well. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Trade Tales
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Jay Jeffers
- Dan Rak
- Ali Faulkner
- Shaun Crha
- Kelly Finley
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 84 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 14 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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