Home Staging for Profit: How to Start a Six Figure Home Staging Business and Begin in 7 Days or Less - Couverture souple

Jennings, Barbara

 
9780961802622: Home Staging for Profit: How to Start a Six Figure Home Staging Business and Begin in 7 Days or Less

Synopsis

Don't read this if you've already taken an expensive seminar or class on starting a staging business. It will break your heart. Barbara Jennings, bestselling author of 20 books and national trainer since 2002, offers a newly updated 2025 comprehensive guide on earning excellent income in a home-based staging business, now a textbook used by multiple universities and technical schools.

NOTEWORTHY: The 2025 Updated Version includes access to a 50-page downloadable PDF with full-color before-and-after pictures of 36 staged rooms (plus notations) AND colorful staging tricks used by professionals to make homes sizzle (note: the images in the book are black-and-white). A bonus colorful PDF of more staged and redesigned homes is also accessible.

The author takes readers through the maze of starting and growing a lucrative business, covering virtually everything needed to succeed, avoid pitfalls, and grow quickly. This large format (2025 edition) exhaustive manual teaches essential tactics and strategies so readers can succeed who put forth the effort. Holding nothing back, it is loaded with numerous checklists, software resources, a wide variety of forms, specific how-to details, and much more. It has helped launch over 40,000 staging careers globally.

Written in a personable, conversational style, these insights are a must-read for those serious about a staging business (or just exploring). No degree or prior experience is needed.

The 2025 manual includes practical discussions and tips, such as:

  • the top mistakes and common problems sellers make
  • what stagers must do and understand
  • how to identify a home's assets and faults
  • how to interview and bond with realtors
  • how to interview and bond with sellers
  • the five ingredients for a successful staging service
  • the professional image, attitudes and ethics needed
  • how to do consultations, submit bids, make presentations
  • 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 sources
  • how to profit from consultations and offer full staging services
  • how to promote, maintain and sustain the business indefinitely
  • how to use social media to build and grow the business
  • how to price services with confidence and ease
  • how to protect, organize and prioritize
  • 107 questions to ask agents and homeowners to help quote services
  • detailed pricing guidelines for furnished and empty houses
  • extensive list of staging tools needed for actual projects
  • extensive cleaning and painting guidelines
  • a 29-page detailed checklist to make consultations quick and easy
  • list of over 300 possible business names
  • 15 handy reproducible forms ready to go
  • multiple checklists and handout examples for value added services
  • blank pages at the end for note-taking

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À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Jennings, CSS/CRS, is the director of the Academy of Staging and Redesign (sponsored by Decorate-Redecorate.Com). With over 40 years experience in home business management and development, and having started and developed four highly successful design and art consulting businesses in her career, she has trained tens of thousands across the globe through her books and courses, teaching her proprietary tactics and strategies in home staging, interior redesign and corporate art consulting. Her books have been widely used as textbooks in a number of colleges, universities and trade schools. She is also a published artist and jewelry designer.

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