Australian Wood Review

The Value of Your Work

Our decades long journey in this industry has taught us that adding value from the buyer’s perspective is so much more than being able to produce beautiful, skilful work. Of course that is absolutely necessary, but it’s as much about you as a person, about how you interact with people, how you present yourself and your business, as it is about your work.

I personally have not found it an easy road. I continue to really work on myself as well as my business. I strive to be the type of person people want to engage with, to be the person they know they can rely on and trust implicitly. I’ve had to understand that I need to design and make around what want, not just what I would like to

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