The home staging business is thriving! Realtors and home owners are impressed with the PRES Graduates who have completed our 5 Day Signature Certified Home Staging + Redesign course. Home staging is now seen as a necessity – in fact there are many realtors who will not accept a client…
Super excited to introduce Colleen McClure of Colleen McClure Designs who is the new PRES Staging & Redesign Trainer! Colleen is a successful interior decorator and a Certified PRES Staging & Redesign Professional. She is super excited with traveling across Canada with the PRES Staging & Redesign training programs. Read…
When I teach the 5 day PRES home staging and redesign course I take the students into real clients’ homes so they can apply the 10 Step Formula theory that they learn in the classroom. In this home we did a ‘redesign’ which is technically a one-day home makeover for…
We recently held our last PRES staging and redesign training class for 2013 and the students were absolutely amazing! When you get a group of women together we don’t always agree on where things should go, or what should go in what room – but we all agree that the…
There are many ways to grow your reputation as an expert in any industry. If you want to be recognized as a ‘home staging expert’ there are some very specific strategies that you can implement to do this. In reality becoming an expert can sometimes be more about ‘perception’ than…
Whether you are just starting up your home staging business or you have been doing it for several years now, I know your mind can be a good influence on you sometimes, and sometimes the negative just won’t stop. I talk about ‘mindset’ a lot because if you have constant…
If your sales haven’t been exactly what you were expecting now that the first quarter of the year is over, is it possible that your customer service practices may have something to do with sales? You might think you are providing an acceptable level of customer service but what if…
For most solopreneur home stagers NETWORKING is one of your key marketing strategies because you do not have a ‘company’ working on your behalf. You now are responsible for finding ways to attract new potential clients to work with you. Are you joining networking groups where the members are your…
In many of my previous enewsletters I’ve talked about the ‘ups and downs’ of being a home staging entrepreneur. We all love to be successful because we feel like a WINNER. I invite you to examine what you do when something goes well for you. Perhaps it’s a new client…
I don’t know when you decided that you wanted to become a home staging entrepreneur or why you did but I do know that the ‘life of an entrepreneur’ is not necessarily an easy, steady climb to success. You may have thought it was going to be because you wanted…