Get More Luxury Design Clients with The Prototype

Getting more of the right clients for your interior design firm doesn't happen by accident, nor does it happen overnight. Today on The Kate Show Podcast, I'm talking with Porsche Williams of The Prototype, and she's spilling all the secrets on lead generation for luxury interior designers.

About the Guest

Porsche Williams is the CEO of The Prototype, a business concierge firm specializing in client experience and lead generation for interior designers. Passionate about streamlining business growth, she helps designers attract ideal clients, nurture relationships, and scale confidently while staying focused on their creative vision.

Through The Prototype’s expertise in client experience and lead qualification, Porsche ensures that designers can design freely and manage effortlessly, allowing creativity and operations to work hand in hand. Since 2020, her team has supported luxury interior design and architecture firms across the U.S., Canada, and Australia and partnered with IDS, ASID, Business of Home, MyDoma by Studio Designer, and more.

Now, she’s bringing her expertise to The Designer’s Guide to Reliable Lead Generation, a course designed to help designers build a scalable, stress-free lead generation system while strengthening relationships and driving long-term growth.

Porsche is a wife, a mom of two, and a champion of helping designers run their business, their way—without the overwhelm.

Learn more about her online course for interior designers here: The Designer’s Guide to Reliable Lead Generation https://www.theprototype.net/tdg

Topics Discussed:

1. What are the most common issues that prevent interior design firms from growing? A lack of clients is more of a symptom. What are the actual underlying problems?
2. If a designer is just starting to get her systems in place, what should her first few steps be?
3. What specific online automation or management tools do you recommend for designers?
4. When your team handles discovery calls for interior designers, what information does the designer need to give you ahead of time?
5. Because you are doing the discovery calls, at what point (and how) is the designer brought into the new client relationship?
6. Could you give us a general outline of the ideal lead follow-up process?
7. How does your firm help designers connect with referral partners?
8. Tell us about your course: Who is it for, and what will they gain from it?
9. Tell us how people can buy your course or get on the waiting list.

Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction and Guest Overview

(2:47) Common Issues Preventing Interior Design Firm Growth

(5:46) First Few Steps a Designer Should Make to Get Her Systems in Place

(9:39) Time Management and Estimating Time

(13:06) Tools & Systems: Project Management, Auditing, Organization, CRM

(28:04) General Outline of the Ideal Lead Follow-Up Process

(33:17) Building and Maintaining Referral Relationships

(44:29) The Designer's Guide to Reliable Lead Generation Course

(50:16) Final Thoughts