Essential Home Staging Props for Every Room of the Home A key part of home staging is modernizing and the most effective way to modernize a space is to add some key staging accessories that help to update each room.  Usually the home stager after the walk-and-talk consultation will create this home staging props shopping list for the seller.  Better yet, the home stager can simply shop on the seller's behalf to purchase items that will go a LONG WAY in updating the home and attracting that best offer possible. My Expert E-Designer has curated a 20-page, shopping list of essential ho ..read more

This April 22nd Virtual Happy Hour video continuing our series on how to pivot your business and do remote design and staging easily! Our virtual happy hours are getting crazier and crazier as we work together as an industry to solve our clients staging and design issues while sheltering in place.  In other words doing remote design and staging which we've all found to be much easier than expected...woot! It was a special virtual happy hour because I walked you through some safety roll-out best practices AND strategies for remote design and staging. Here's what we  cover ..read more

We are in Week 5 of our Virtual Happy Hours where every Wednesday at 3pm, we drink, laugh, learn, inspire and create strategies for staging virtually during this pandemic! In last week's virtual happy hour  on April 15th, I discussed the myths about doing business during this time, how the right marketing approach is critical, mistakes stagers are making, why you can work with clients remotely to do staging virtually and I recapped my "A-Z Guide on Working Remotely and Staging Virtually with clients". The one-hour, free live session went over a lot and more importantly, the chat room of ..read more

In our April 8th, Virtual Happy Hour I gave a detailed presentation PLUS resource links and "copy and paste" scripts on exactly how you should market your new remote staging and design services. I showed people a brand new marketing approach that will win them results RIGHT AWAY.  Trust me when I say that you have never tried this with clients, so the value in this free presentation will blow your mind. Here's the process I shared but I took it one step further by including very specific, copy and paste scripts to use in order to not be overly salesy but authentic.  Overly ..read more

In my last Virtual Happy Hour (free Wednesday, learning happy hours I've been doing since this crisis hit that you're welcome to join me on:-)), I shared some early stories of how home stagers have taken my formula for going remote with their business and had great success! Here's the training replay below of our learning Virtual Happy Hour and what you can plan to learn: How stagers are pivoting their business services to success! How to use Zoom in combination with an automated scheduler to have easy video guidance calls with clients AND how to make it all automated...woot!! How one stager ..read more

In the March 25th Virtual Happy Hour, I did something a bit different and that is I created a one-hour workshop on how to go remote with your consulting services.   Here's what you will find inside this critical guide to pivoting your business during the Covid-19 crisis: One-Hour Instruction Video on Mindset and the Right Client Approach 7-Step Process to Going Remote (should only take you 2 hours:) Email Swipe Files on Introducing it to Prospects and their Welcome Email 20 Minute Training on How to Automate Your Guidance Call Process Using a Calendar Tool Canva Templates for Your Service Ima ..read more

As promised in my earlier letter providing staging business advice on how to handle Covid-19 (Coronavirus), we held our first "Virtual Happy Hour" where we talked about how to communicate with your clients about the Coronavirus.   In that live Virtual Happy Hour, I also provided a downloadable, Word Doc example email you can easily customize and send to your clients (get it below). Here is the replay of that virtual happy hour with a TON of questions answered, as well as gorgeous before and after photos... (If you're having trouble seeing it, go to YouTube directly using this link:  ht ..read more

I've thought long and hard on how to approach everything we are seeing on the news regarding Covid-19 in a positive and productive email to you my dear readers.  No doubt, you are getting a lot of these emails but my hope is to take a different and more "actionable" approach that is tailored to the staging/design industry and filled with helpful tips, useful tech tools, free training and weekly inspiration... First off, I want to encourage you by telling you that this is temporary.  This too shall pass (hopefully sooner than later). We are all in this together.  We are all impacted.  Togeth ..read more

I just finished a live webinar on "How to Make Money Doing E-Design for Clients" and the response was AMAZING!  If you missed that webinar, you can check it out by clicking here (just know that at minute 15-20 we had a few technical snafoos...ugh!) The big question I got from the audience was, "If I go through the Expert E-Designer training and take advantage of my pre-loaded DesignFiles.co account, WHAT EXACTLY IS INSIDE?" So...I created a 5-minute video showing you ALL the boards that are inside my account that would be loaded onto your account when you sign up for a DesignFiles account thr ..read more