Home Staging
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Business collections catering to real estate readers or those seeking careers in home staging will find HOME STAGING FOR PROFIT a unique, necessary and specific acquisition. Begin in 7 days or less, work from home, and build up a six-figure business with a guide based on the author’s years of work. From furniture rental and business record-keeping to check-lists for venders and enhancement design tips, this manual is a distinctive ‘must’ for any library catering to either re-career readers or those seeking tips on home staging. –Midwest Book Review
From the Author
My goal in writing this guide was to aid anybody learn in the ease and privacy of their home how to start out and grow a successful staging business – and to do so without having to take an expensive, time consuming seminar. It has been a work in progress. I’m delighted that so some peole, from each background and experience level conceivable, have found the guidance to be helpful, practical and easy to understand. It is very gratifying to recognise that I have had a little percentage in helping so galore women achieve their goals and dreams and become as independent as they choose to be.
From the Back Cover
Home staging is growing by leaps and bounds, in spite of and because of a tough economy, and is the utterly suitable business prospect for any person who loves decorating, loves organization, craves independence and enjoys working with people.
Jennings leaves no stone unturned as she peels back the layers of this exciting, fast-growing industry so that any individual may learn how to become a professional home stager – disregarding of their age, background, resources, experience or knowledge.
If you’ve already taken an highpriced seminar on starting a staging business, don’t read this. It will break your heart. Barbara Jennings, bestselling author and national trainer, has written an splendid guide on how to earn up to $100,000+ in a home staging business. Director of the Academy of Staging and Redesign (Decorate-Redecorate.Com), she takes readers step by step through the maze of starting and growing a remunerative business, covering nearly everything one needs to know and more. With 40 years of experience and author of 16 books, her huge format manual teaches the necessary tactics and schemes so anybody may succeed who puts forth the effort. Holding not one thing back, this guide is loaded with numerous check lists, a wide potpourri of forms, specific how-to details and much more, and has helped launch over thirty thousand staging careers globally. Additional resources are brought up as well. Written in a personable and conversational style, this guide is a must-read for any individual severe when it comes to a staging business (or just exploring). No degree or prior experience is needed. The manual includes practical discussions and tips, such as:
• the top errors and mutual difficulties venders make
• what stagers must do and understand
• how to tell apart a home’s pluses and errors
• how to consultation and bond with real estate agents
• how to consultation and bond with venders
• the five ingredients for a successful staging service
• professional image, complex mental states and ethics necessitated
• how to do consultations, submit bids, make demonstrations
• how to set up the business, licenses to get and so forth
• how to legally protect the entity, as well as one’s family
• how to get clients and referrals from multiple origins
• how to net income from consultations and offer full staging services
• how to promote, maintain and sustain the business indefinitely
• how to price services with selfassurance and ease
• how to protect, coordinate and prioritize
• 107 questions to ask agents and householders to aid quote services
• elaborated pricing guidelines for financed and empty houses
• broad list of stager tools necessitated for actual projects
• extensive cleaning and painting guidelines
• a 29-page elaborated checklist to make consultations quick and easy
• list of over 300 possible business names
• elaborate data on habit visual aids, promotional and management tools, dual certification courses
• 15 handy reproducible forms ready to go
• multiple checklists and handout examples for value added services
Barbara Jennings offers corroboration courses in home staging, interior redesign and corporate art consulting. She has trained over thirty thousand advisors globally. Readers may also access a lot of exclusive visual aids and tools (as well as progressed training) directly from the author.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #135993 in Books
- Published on: 2011-07-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .54″ h x 8.27″ w x 11.02″ l, 1.29 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Reviews
58 of 61 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent training by a true industry leader and genuine author
By Casey Cole
I am extremely pleased with this book and other books by this author. The subject is covered about as thoroughly as it can be covered, pointing out many things I never would have thought about on my own. The many before and after pictures illustrate points being made plus there are descriptions of other tools that will help me promote my business.
Most notable and helpful are the great lists: questions to ask real estate agents, questions for homeowners, tools you need to have, the best furniture and accessories to have in inventory, a complete check list of things a stager should evaluate when doing consultations, and different easy ways to price services (my biggest dilemma) and business set-up.
She also talked about professional design training, and tools she makes available which should make the staging work itself easier. How often do you see a book-writer find the tools for you and offer them at sale prices? She couldn’t have made it easier to get started and know what to do than if she took you by the hand. That would be nice too, but impractical, I know.
I especially like it that she is transparent about her own success over many years, and that I can go to her website and see testimonials of others who have taken the training. I will refer to this book often because of it’s thoroughness and expertise; there is more in it than what you expect because it’s a very large book, not like all the others.
That I can write her when I have a question and receive a personal response is comforting; that I can request her monthly newsletter is also a valuable bonus other authors don’t offer at all.
There are some authors who talk in generalities because they have something more they want to sell you. So they hold back on the really specific details. Jennings doesn’t do that. She lays it all out there for you and you just have to follow her lead to be successful.
34 of 36 people found the following review helpful.A must for home stagers
By Giselle B
I’m switching careers and have decided to try the home staging business. After reading about the author and her experience, I ordered this book and I’m glad I did. It provides the exact information I was seeking. It’s informative and written in an extremely easy style to follow. Although some of the information is obvious/basic – (decluttering) – it is important enough it probably should be emphasized. The author even provides a list of potential names for your new business. She also includes a question and answer section in which she provides good guidelines for potential situations. I purchased another book at the same time I ordered this one and there is no comparison. I would definitely recommend this book.
31 of 33 people found the following review helpful.Great Resource!
By Happy Designer
I purchased Home Staging for Profit to find out more about this area of design support. I am a decorator/redesigner and was very pleased to see the amount of detail and information. It contains everything you would need to know to provide these services and how to set up and manage the business. It is very clear and offers a number of lists, forms and other resources. I was so impressed that I have enrolled in the author’s training, mainly to get the other books. The book is sometimes repetitive and does offer the other resources, but it is information that is well worth repeating. I would recommend this book highly!
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