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A Home Staging Professional Needs Confident Image
| Guest post by: Debra Gould |
Article Overview: Staging Diva, discusses the importance of portraying a confident image if you want to be seen as a professional home stager.
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A Home Staging Professional Needs Confident Image
Much of your professional image, your public perception and essentially your success as a home staging professional, boils down to the amount of confidence you have in yourself and your abilities. This point is demonstrated brilliantly in a quote about leadership from Adlai Stevenson, an American politician appointed by John F. Kennedy as Ambassador to the United Nations when he said:
“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
How much faith do you put in a seemingly inept professional? I fired a real estate agent I worked with during one of my moves to a new city because she seemed like she didn’t know what she was doing just because of how she handled seemingly ordinary tasks like being organized for showing appointments.
Whether she could have negotiated well for me or not, I’ll never know because she didn’t inspire the trust I needed to have from the start. As a professional home stager you have to appear as a professional stager by how you look, what you do and what you say.
Whether or not you’ve done a paid staging project before, you need to project a confident image.
If you arrive at your home staging consultation with butterflies in your stomach, that’s normal, but you mustn’t let your client know about them! As a professional home stager, you have to look the part. And in order to look the part, you have to feel like you have it all together.
You wouldn’t be reading this article unless you’re a home stager already or plan to become one, and if that’s the case, you likely have the raw talent it takes to be a success in this business. After that it’s confidence you need.
The right home staging training program will automatically make you more confident in your abilities because it will help you build the foundation that will support those abilities. When you have more confidence inside, you project a more confident image automatically to others. They sense it first in your body language and then by what you say.
If self-confidence wasn’t such an important element of being a home staging professional, I wouldn’t have invested time in developing so many products to help you believe in yourself, in all areas of starting your business.
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