Some of the Big50 answer the question: How do you handle clients who do not pay invoices? More
Wally Orfield recently signed a contract for the largest job his Minneapolis-based company's ever had. Now, instead of leaving product selections up to customers, Orfield plans to bill clients for X number of hours of an interior designer's services -- eight hours is the number he's thinking of -- and build the cost of that service into the contract. More
When he was 14, Wally Orfield, following in his father's footsteps, purchased a burned-out building in downtown St. Paul, Minn., and rehabbed it. With an infusion of new blood into the business -- namely his daughter as salesperson -- Orfield says his plan is to grow in size and delegate functions to the point where the company can run itself. More
