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I’m so excited to kick off the Staged Home Lifestyle Radio Show today. On a weekly basis, I will be interviewing real estate and home related professionals from all across the country to provide homeowners with valuable information, resources and tools for home selling, improvement, maintenance and living! This radio show is an extension of [...]
The “Set the Stage for Your Success” ezine debuted on September 4, 2008. Since then, we have offered credible, practical advice to home staging professionals about how to take their businesses to the next level on a bi-weekly basis. We are proud to be recipients of the 2009 Apex Award for Publication Excellence [...]
So I’ve watched about 6 episodes of this new program and I have mixed feelings about the show. In case you’re not familiar, the gist of the show is that Stager, Lisa Lynch, has 8 hours and $1000 to stage each home which includes minor renovations. She mostly uses the homeowner’s things to [...]
Alice T. Chan, the Staged Home Lifestyle Expert takes you with her to the PCBC show at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Alice shares highlights of the latest and greatest in building and design at the show.
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I recently upgraded the look and feel of my new website/blog and I can’t tell you how excited I am about the new image. It makes me giddy every time I see it. I called it “Staging the Stager’s” blog and really, that’s what it was. I had a lot of ideas and some had to be dismissed because it started to clutter the look and I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t a contradiction to my message since decluttering is synonymous with home staging. Unfortunately, I’ve seen many Home Staging websites that have way too much visual clutter which is a direct disconnect from who they say they are and what they do - it’s the old “practice what you preach” and “walk the talk” theory.
After months of dabbling in social media and learning about it, the light bulb finally starting to shine because it started to make sense. It’s time consuming and if you don’t know what you’re doing, it could be a huge waste of time, particularly since it’s so vast.
Let’s face it, we live in a world where verbal agreements, a handshake and a smile is not going to be sufficient to cover your you know what, so here are 10 practical tips for creating an agreement that both you and your clients, vendors, and team members can agree to.