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If you’re trying to find out everything you can about being in the home staging business, you’ve probably heard of a program guaranteeing employment as a home stager at a rate of $24-$30 per hour. While that might sound like a lot if you’re used to earning minimum wage, it’s actually a very low salary for a home stager. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
In case you were still wondering how many people have heard of home staging, here's further proof that this is a well established field. It seems the scam artists are starting to crawl out from under their rocks to see if they can con home stagers into sending them money! Related Article Tags: , , , ,
Home staging is an extremely lucrative career if you know how to properly charge for your services. It makes me cringe when I hear figures as low as $31.45 per hour being touted as ‘great income’ for a home stager. That is an impossibly low rate for any independent professional to charge, but an expert home stager should actually be making at least double if not four or five times that amount. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
What could make a stronger case for hiring a home stager than an offer coming in after a home was staged... from a person who saw the home before staging without any interest? That's exactly what happened with a Maryland property transformed by home stager and Staging Diva Graduate, Holly Battaglia. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
I get approximately five calls a week from people interested in shadowing me for a day to see how I work as a home stager. I have yet to say yes, and if you're trying to find a successful home stager to shadow before you start your own business, you're not making a good use of your time. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
Because the home staging industry is completely unregulated, anybody can call him or herself a home stager. This is one of many reasons too many real estate stagers get into the industry with no business or marketing training whatsoever. Many of these home stagers have good intentions, but end up using awful marketing tactics to try to grow their businesses, and end up sabotaging their businesses instead. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
Without a doubt, having a home professionally staged is the single best way to outshine the competition. Before hiring a professional Home Stager you may want to keep in mind the following seven key points. Related Article Tags: , , , , , ,
When you aspire to be a successful home stager, drowning in debt is not a good place to be. You should only borrow money to pay for things that will help you make money. In other words, borrow only to invest in your success. You already know that it’s not a good idea to drown yourself in debt, but when you borrow money to improve your future, it is not a debt so much as an investment. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
It's rare today for anyone to keep the same career for a lifetime. And since we're all living much longer than our parents' generation, many people at the traditional retirement age realize they still have many years ahead that they'd like to be productive, not to mention doing work they would love. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
Judging by the number of folks who claim to call themselves "Home Stagers" today, you'd think it was the world's largest growing industry. Related Article Tags: , ,
Are you considering going to Interior Design school? If you have a flair for decorating and an interest in real estate, Home Staging might be an exciting alternative career option for you. Home Staging is the art of decorating a home to sell quickly and for top dollar. Related Article Tags: , , , , , ,
If you're a home stager, depending on what email lists you belong to, you may have recently received a message or two attempting to sell you virtual home staging software. I know this because I've heard from many of you curious about my take on this new practice. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
Do you imagine yourself scrimping, saving and starving during your first and second year in business as a home stager? While it's true that you may have to make some adjustments in your lifestyle when you set out to be your own boss, it's important to remember that it's all relative to what you were earning before. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
It's a great freedom being able to work from home. If you work as a home stager, interior designer or in another type of profession where you visit your clients in their homes for consultations and projects, there's never any reason why a client would need to visit you at your home office. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
As with any problem, the key to avoiding foreclosure is to be proactive. Many people facing the prospect of foreclosure will decide that the best solution is to sell their house. It might seem counterintuitive to hire a professional stager when you are facing the sale of your home to avoid foreclosure; however it has been proven time and time again that staged homes sell faster and for a higher price than homes that are sold "as is". Related Article Tags: , , , , ,
When you decide to hire a home stager to decorate your property to sell faster and for more money, you need to make sure you’re investing in the right person. After all, you’re trusting someone with the sale of your largest asset, your primary real estate, so you have to be careful to put that trust in an experienced professional Related Article Tags: , , , ,
Internationally recognized home stager, Staging Diva, reminds home stagers that they must never stop marketing no matter how afraid they are of becoming too busy. She offers suggestions of how to structure your business so you can easily take on more home staging clients. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
Becoming a home stager doesn't mean you have to get yourself into credit card debt stocking up on art, accessories, towels and bedding. If you've been putting off your desire to learn home staging because you're not prepared for these expenses, you should know you have other options. When it comes to accessories, towels and bedding - those types of things - when I need to purchase them for a client, I use their money and everything ends up belonging to my clients. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
For an innately creative soul, feeling stuck in a non-creative, non-inspiring job is a terrible fate. And it usually only gets worse coming on the end of a year when you get a few days off for the holidays because as soon as the break starts you're dreading your return to that job you hate. If you're thinking of starting a home staging business what better time to make the transition than the start of a New Year which coincidentally kicks off a new decade? Related Article Tags: , , , ,
When you decide to go into business for yourself as a professional home stager, you have no choice but to start thinking about business expenses. One of the advantages of operating your own business is that you get to write off many of your expenses against your income. This has tax advantages. If you don't have a bookkeeping or financial background (which I don't), it's a good idea to start building a relationship with a good accountant. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
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