ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS
2012
Make sure you highlight the best architectural features when selling… ‘The way you live in your home, is not the way you sell your house’ has been a PRES staging mantra for over 10 years now. We were staging this gorgeous heritage home in Vancouver and wanted to highlight the best architectural f...
11/20/2012
How To Provide a Recommnedation Report to Your Sellers As part of the PRES staging training course we provide students with over 25 templates that they can use to get started in their business. The Recommendation Report is one of them. I recently heard of a stager going in to provide recommendati...
11/19/2012
Be respectful to your sellers even if you get 'bruised ego'. So why wouldn't a seller want their property to look absoltuely the BEST it could look for the showings? It's all about the emotional attachment to 'the way things used to be.' The longer they have lived in their home, the harder it ca...
11/18/2012
Have you ever made a bed out of shower doors? PRES stagers have! Stagers always need to ‘think outside the box’ to create new ways of using furnishings that help us create the right look. For example during one of the PRES staging training classes we needed to create a guest bedroom downstairs. D...
11/16/2012
Advise Your Sellers to Start A Year Ahead For Selling! As a home stager I encounter many, many older home sellers who have lived in their homes for 25 or 30 years. It's agony for some of them to face the fact that they need to move and downsize, and in some cases it feels like the end of the worl...
11/16/2012
Attracting New Clients is Easy Peasy with Speaking Engagements! Over the past 10 years a great deal of my business has come from opportuniites for speaking engagements. It's one of my Top 3 Marketing Tactics for home stagers (and realtors) to use to attract new clients! I've done talks at librar...
11/15/2012
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The Power of ‘Giving’ in Business We all know the importance and role that we as business owners can play in giving to charities that need our support. For years now the PRES Staging Resource Centre has taken students into real clients' homes to stage them for selling or redesign them for living....
11/14/2012
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My Heart Goes Out to the Grieving Sellers Over my 10+ years of working with sellers I’ve seen a ‘roller coaster’ of emotions that surface from that first consultation and sometimes long into the new home. Sellers who are happy about moving usually work more quickly because they see an end goal in...
11/13/2012
How To Select Rental Furnishings for Vacant Home Staging During the 5 day PRES signature Home Staging Training course, we train in one of the largest rental showrooms in Vancouver, Fluff Rentals. One of the advantages is that students get real hands-on experience and learn the process involved wi...
11/12/2012
Luxurious Bedding In Vancouver BC - 'To LIVE For!' While I am on the hunt for some gorgeous new bedding I checked out some exclusive bedding stores in the Vancouver area this weekend. As home stagers it's important to spend time in higher-end design stores so you can get ideas for the master bedr...
11/11/2012
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Our blog posts are primarily written to provide education to new home stagers and share information with more seasoned professionals. We focus on marketing strategies and tactics because we know this is what is essential to growing any business.
We like to post the odd blog that might be controversial to some, and welcome opinions and open discussion from all Active Rain members and viewers.
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