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Yeager Design & Interiors (YDI) is a local Residential and Commercial Design firm with a showroom located in Scott Depot, West Virginia. They can provide design services for just about any scope of work needed. Also, YDI can provide installation and contractors or are happy to work with those a client provides. No job is too small or too big for their design team to handle.
Elizabeth Yeager Cross – Owner of Yeager Design & Interiors (YDI)
Show Notes:
- 0:52-2:00: Jim introduces today’s guest, Elizabeth Yeager-Cross, winner of last year’s “The West Virginia Woman Owned Small business of the year award” and her company Yeager Design and Interiors.
- 2:01-3:56: Yeager-Cross begins the show by providing some background and insight into her company and how it came to be.
- 3:57-4:11: How did you get into the interior design business?
- 4:12-6:16: “The heart of design for me started with my Mother.” Yeager-Cross discusses her mom’s love for interior design and the eye she had for it and how that inspired her as a young girl.
- 7:32-7:42: When you meet folks for the first time, what’s your 30 second elevator pitch for your company?
- 7:43-8:22: “If you want something done, and you just don’t have time for it, you hire a professional, for anything in your life and interior designers are no different.”
- 8:23-8:48: Elizabeth, what’s been the worst or hardest experience you’ve had since starting Yeager Interior Design?
- 8:49-11:04: Yeager-Cross talks about the difficulty that comes with working with people and how it’s impossible to please everyone and learning how to deal with that.
- 11:05-12:05: Why do you like doing business in West Virginia? What’s the best part about it?
- 12:06-13:40: Yeager-Cross goes into the people of West Virginia, her roots in the state, and the long-standing businesses she has the opportunity to work with to name a few things about why she loves doing business right here in the mountain state.
- 13:41-14:10 Jim takes a moment to recognize and thank the sponsors of Positively West Virginia.
- 14:11-14:18: What’s the long-term vision you have for your company?
- 14:19-15:25: “As a business owner, you always want to have a plan of growth.” Yeager-Cross mentions her plan of growth is to enhance their website and to create more of an online presence through social media.
- 15:26- 16:00: Elizabeth, what’s one thing you want our audience to know about you as a person?
- 16:01-17:04: “I am a Christian first and foremost, I’m a mother of two, which is my most important job, it always comes first. I’m a wife, to my husband Brett, and I’m a family girl. More than anything I want to help West Virginia grow and I want to be a good business person that helps grow and inspire the people around me.”
- 17:05-17:17: What is one piece of advice you’d give to young entrepreneurs, business owners, even woman-owned companies that are trying to make it here in our state?
- 17:18-20:07: “Well, first, don’t leave!” “Get involved on a local level with your chamber of commerce.” “As a business owner, don’t be afraid to take that next leap!”
- 20:08-20:15: What’s one thing you do everyday that you think contributes to your success?
- 20:16-21:14: “Number 1, I ask for people’s business!”
- 21:15-21:20: What’s one resource you use in your business that you just cannot live without?
- 21:21-22:11: Yeager-Cross says that it’s social media and talks about the importance it plays in running her business!
- 22:12-22:21: What is one book you’d recommend to our listeners?
- 22:22-23:08: “The most inspirational book for me is The Bible.”
- 23:09- 23:26: If you could meet anyone in West Virginia, who would it be and why?
- 23:27-24:38: Yeager-Cross says that she would like to meet Chuck Yeager, the man who broke the sound barrier, and not just because of the last name. She mentions how she’d enjoy just sitting down and talking to him about his many feats and stories he has.
- 24:39-25:08: How can our listeners and readers learn more about you and your company?
- 25:09-25:58: “The best way to get ahold of us would be my cell phone number listed on our website!
- Phone: 304-553-5663
- Email: yeager@ydiwv.com
- 25:59-26:13: Elizabeth, do you have any closing comments that we haven’t touched on yet?
- 26:14-27:02: “Yeager design does residential and commercial interior design. We offer furniture, finishes, lighting, art, small accessories, gifts, rugs, anything you’d possibly need for your home or business, we can provide that service.”
- 27:03- Close: Jim wraps up the show by thanking Elizabeth Yeager-Cross for joining him on another episode of Positively West Virginia and once again thanks our wonderful sponsors for allowing us to share with you these positive, business stories happening right her in the Mountain State.