![]() “Well, I guess that you’re not ready to grow your business.”Įventually, they got the message and the calls stopped.Īfter that experience, I was dubious about houzz and their true intentions, but I just went about the business of growing my brand on my own platform– this website. I don’t remember how much it was then, but these days the pro program is $3,500 a year my sources tell me.Īfter the first call or two, I started getting an uneasy feeling, especially after the woman snidely said: However, not from potential customers, but from marketing folks from houzz urging me to sign up for their “pro program.” This is a paid program for which houzz promises far more internet exposure. Then, in late 2012, the calls did start coming! And I’m not saying that this is their fault but I received no phone calls from my profile. So, I put up a few photos from my portfolio and wrote a little blurb and waited for the phone to ring. In the beginning, I recall it as being a charming idea that would undoubtedly help me grow my business as we were slowly coming out of the deep recession of ’08-’09. Like a lot of things, I’m not sure how I first heard about houzz, but I do know that I’ve had a profile on it, since 2010. Plus there are profiles from auxiliary businesses anything having to do with the business of home building and furnishings. At its core are some 200,000 interior designers who’ve uploaded millions of images from their own portfolios that are shared in millions of idea books. Over time, Houzz has grown into a business worth four billion dollars. It was started by a husband and wife, Adi Tatarko and Alon Cohen in 2010 their corporate headquarters are in Palo Alto, CA. Most of you are most likely familiar with Houzz, but if not Houzz is a website and online community about home improvement, decorating, landscaping etc. So again.The last several weeks, there has been much buzz in the interior design community regarding the giant home furnishings website, Houzz. It's with having to see threads that are not related to the forum. Someone who comes to the Laundry forum is not interested in how someone decorates their living room in the Decorating forum or how to build a new house in the Building a House forum What the heck were you thinking? What you're seeing is people are NOT HAPPY having to wade through threads that have nothing to do with the forum they spend time in!!! No one wants to see threads that have no relation to the forum they are in. You're creating a problem when there was none. There's an old saying If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There was a thread started on the kitchen forum about this issue and I think one person was happy with this new format. Plus, it now pushes down threads into obscurity too quickly so people who come to the kitchen forum can no longer get the help they need. When I go to the kitchen forum, I ONLY WANT TO SEE KITCHEN THREADS to click on! We don't want to wade through threads that have nothing to do with the forum we are in! I go to the GW side to get and give advice for the problems related to the forums I'm interested in. It's all Pros showing off how wonderful they are. I NEVER go to Design Dilemma or any of the other houzz forums and don't want to. Now instead of seeing just the kitchen threads in the kitchen forum ([ [( )),we have to wade through threads that are in design dilemma, appliances, etc. Your new format for the GW side of houzz is horrible.
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