AVOID MAKING CRITICAL MISTAKES WHEN HOME STAGING FOR A CLIENT! Many stagers unwittingly set themselves up for failure when it is so easy to avoid. If you've ever lost money on a project or you're afraid you might one day, this guide is for you. This frank and focused training points out the problems before you make them so you can avoid them. Bestselling home staging author, Barbara Jennings, provides another excellent guide filled with insider secrets to generating and protecting your profits in your home staging business. There are times when clients look to escape paying for the services they have already received and home stagers need to be prudent and savvy to avoid such predicaments. This guide teaches concrete, specific steps to take before, during and after a project to make sure the proper documents and paper trails have been initiated to insure full payment once projects are completed. While no one wants to have to sue a client, this sometimes becomes necessary and readers will learn specific steps to take in advance to ward off the need for court, but at the same time protect their interests should legal recourse become necessary.
The topics are wide and varied, such as: How to get what you want, how to know what you're worth, how to avoid working with difficult people, how to avoid assumptions, the three kinds of positioning, how to focus on the right topics, how to utilize the right paperwork and pass the flinch test, how to turn negatives into positives, how to manage small claims and close your deals, ethics of the successful, how to land the profitable projects, surviving in hard economic times and so much more. It also includes 53 enhancement techniques and tactics fully illustrated for a complete guide that's sure to help any reader gain complete peace of mind and confidence as they accept projects to manage in their home staging business.
Barbara Jennings, CSS/CRS (CA), is Director of the Academy of Staging and Redesign will help readers find, uncover, discover, refine and use the best tactics to achieve higher, bigger, better and more profitable results from their home staging business. She has trained tens of thousands of stagers and redesigners all over the globe through her home study books and dual certification courses the most impacting, challenging and transforming tactics that lead to the fastest, easiest, safest and most profitable yields. The Academy of Staging and Redesign is hosted at Decorate-Redecorate.Com, and Jennings has nearly 4 decades of experience in interior design, home staging, redesign, marketing and promotion of a business. She has successfully built 4 home based businesses in the design field in her distinguished career.
A best selling author of distinction (whose books are well noted for their specifics and detailed information), she has authored 12 books and 6 electronic books such as: Home Staging in Tough Times (print), <I>Home Staging for Profit (print or ebook), <I>Staging Luxurious Homes (print), Staging Portfolio Secrets (print), Getting Paid: Financial Strategies for Stagers (print), <I>Home Staging for Yourself (print), Rearrange It (print or ebook), Decor Secrets Revealed (ebook), Arrange Your Stuff (print), Advanced Redesign (print or ebook, Where There's a Wall - There's a Way (print), Wall Groupings! (print), Pro Art Consulting (print or ebook), and The Secret Art of Hanging Art (ebook). She also developed the highly respected Certified Staging Specialist Designation (CSS) and hosts one of the largest online directories for stagers and redesigners on the internet PLUS a free discussion forum for the exchange of ideas on staging, redesign and decorating in general. Jennings continues to actively develop and pioneer innovative, affordable visual aids, promotional tools, slideshows and CDs, home-study dual certification courses and assorted back-end products to assist readers in promoting and managing a staging and redesign business long term, which are all available at her website, including free monthly design newsletters, the Academy of Staging and Redesign, the International Staging and Redesign Directory and the free discussion forum. Look for more of her books, visual aids and tools at her website. Jennings also teaches how to become a corporate art consultant.
