Top Influencer and AI Marketing Trends

HubSpot’s new 2024 report on The State of Marketing offers insights on the trends you can learn about at our next event in Napa! Highlighted Excerpts from the Report  AI and automation, alongside a fast-paced world, have the majority of marketers agreeing that marketing has transformed more in the past three years, than over the past […]

Social Media and Furniture Creates Thriving Business and Stardom

Five years ago,  she painted an end table someone had left on the curb.  Almost overnight, her social media accounts snowballed, shaking the social web ever since.  For someone who never considered herself creative, Maggie McGaugh’s ability to turn nothing into expensive home furnishings while creating dynamic content on Instagram and Tik Tok landed her […]

Design Influencers Leadership Conference In Napa Valley

Concluding a deliberate phase of transformative planning following last year’s successful 2022 Design Influencers Conference (DIC), the organizers at Esteem Media are pleased to announce its highly anticipated new event format. Launched as the Design Bloggers Conference (DBC) in 2011, the conference eventually evolved into the Design Influencers Conference and now take its next logical […]

How Will Leaders Run Luxury Design Businesses In 2022?

Interior design firm leaders and owners are currently navigating a topsy-turvy landscape of surging demand and declining supply, disrupted work environments, atight employment market, impediments to travel, and myriad shifts inthe normal course of business. What strategies and operating tactics feel urgent now? What obstacles do design business leaders see standing in the way of […]

Design Influencers Conference Returns Live to Atlanta March 6 2022

It is full steam ahead as the Design Influencers Conference returns live to Atlanta March 6 2022.  Following two postponements and three energetic Design Influencers Connect digital broadcasts and networking events, the conference organizers are preparing a robust return of this venerable live experience.  The March 6-8, 2022 event includes a new advisory board, surprise […]

Live Events Feel Retro? Design Influencers Conference Is All In!

Retro Design Influencers

It has been a long dark winter for live events since March 2020; an extended period that has some of us thinking that live events feel retro.  But, the sky is clearing and the Design Influencers Conference (DIC) is going all in this March in Atlanta.  After a surprisingly wonderful series of online DIConnect events […]

New Online Custom Upholstery Tool from Norwalk Furniture

Using online tools to make selecting custom upholstery fun, fast and foolproof! The pandemic has made so many things difficult as the country reels from attempts to curb its spread. We, as designers, have stayed home, zoomed, and wrestled with answering the growing demand for home office and “Netflix sectionals”. Yes, we and our clients […]

Branding for Interior Designers

Jaipur Living chats with three industry influencers about why branding is essential—and how to do it well. Branding shows itself in more than just your work; it’s the way your clients perceive and talk about you. (Pictured: swatches from Jaipur Living) What is Your Brand? You’ve heard the word “brand” before, but you might be asking […]

Design Influencers Raved; Finalizing Second DIConnect

DIConnect Opening Presentation

Design influencers raved while hundreds of delegates logged on for several hours of DIConnect programming over three days in early March 2021.  Exactly one year from the close of the last in-person Design Influencers Conference in San Francisco, Esteem Media opened up the first of three broadcasts for influencer marketing presentations, influencer recruitment, networking, and […]

Nate Berkus Keynoting

We are over-the-moon about having Nate Berkus as our keynote in San Francisco!  In 2015 we were enthralled when we first heard Nate speak at the 2015 Design Bloggers Conference and here are a few throw-back photos from that event.   Nate Berkus at the 2015 Design Bloggers Conference in Atlanta       Since […]