Shirin Sarikhani's (seattlestaged) Blog

I tell my neighbors.  I tell my clients.  I tell everybody who will listen.  NEVER pressure wash a deck!  When the pressure-wash companies send their college kids to knock on my door to "wash" my deck, I tell them why they should not be doing that to decks!  When I see their trucks*, they adverti...

      You're heading into the break room to get a second cup of coffee and you hear, "Did you see that listing on Hillcrest Road? What a disaster!" Yep, that's your listing they're talking about. You know it's a mess, but she is an older woman who loves all her things so much, you didn't have the...

Part of every successful business model is (or should be) that you need to know your "bottom line".  That is, what is the minimum amount of money you need to make each month, week, day to at least cover your overhead: insurance, storage or warehouse fees, rental trucks, mileage, gas, additional h...

When I do Pre-Market Home Selling Consultations as a Calgary, Alberta Home Stager, I often see -- and smell -- a variety of scented products throughout the home. There's the plug-in variety, the spray variety, the stash-in-a-corner-and-please-absorb-the-smell-in-here variety. I often ask about th...

  After living in Seattle for ten years, the views of Mt Rainier and Puget Sound still take my breath away. They're simply majestic. Last Saturday, I staged a 1925 home in Queen Anne, one of the most beautiful and prestigious neighborhoods in Seattle. One is lucky by just living in Queen Anne. Ev...

Enhance Your Business Listing - Rank Higher and More Often Having your Local Business Listed on the web is important for its future survival.  Claiming your listing will help give you more control over how the search engines index you and will also help prevent spammers from hijacking it.  There'...

Back in October, after I attended the Raincamp, I realized that Ben Kinney is totally right. Social media is the only way forward and "being a geek is cool". Right away, I became a Rainmaker and I got Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts. At the beginning, I wasn't ready to write blogs, so In...

I was not raised with Christmas, so my friends and families were impressed, when they saw my first Christmas tree and my holiday decorations, after I got married. What impressed them most was the way I was able to intertwine both Chanukah and Christmas themes and still create a cohesive look.Afte...