How to Start and Operate Your Own Design Firm

© 1994, 2007 Albert W. Rubeling, Jr.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-58115-474-0
ISBN-10: 1-58115-474-7
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rubeling, Albert W.
How to start and operate your own design firm : a guide for interior designers and
architects / Albert W. Rubeling, Jr.— 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58115-474-0 (pbk.)
ISBN-10: 1-58115-474-7 (pbk.)
1. Architectural practice—United States—Management. 2. Architectural services
marketing—United States. I. Title.
NA1996.R83 2007
720.68'8—dc22
2006100744