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No One Needs to Know You’re a Part-Time Home Stager
Written by: Debra GouldArticle Overview: Expert home stager, The Staging Diva®, offers advice to part-time home stagers concerned about being perceived as unprofessional.
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No One Needs to Know You’re a Part-Time Home Stager
One thing many aspiring home stagers have in common is that they need to continue working while they start up their home staging business on a part-time basis. In an ideal world, everyone could quit their job and work on starting their business full time, but this is not an ideal world and this isn’t possible for everyone.
The biggest concern for someone in this position is that they’re not going to be seen as professional since they’re “only” part-time home stagers.
When aspiring stagers come to me with this concern, I tell them the same thing:
Nobody needs to know you’re doing this part-time.
If I had a full-time job and was doing home staging on the side, I would still set up my business. I would have my business phone number, business cards, a home staging website and a page on the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers. If someone were to call me, they would get a professional sounding greeting. It’s not going to say, “Hi you’ve reached Debra and by the way, I’m a part-time home stager and I only work on weekends.”
When you get a call from a potential client and they want to meet with you, you don’t have to tell them you’re moonlighting as a home stager and can only meet them on Wednesday after work. If that’s the only time you have available, tell them you happen to have an opening on Wednesday night at seven.
If that doesn’t work for the homeowner, just keep going back and forth until you find a time that works for both of you. Unless you tell them you’re trying to do home staging around your full-time job, they’re likely going to assume you’re a very sought after, heavily booked home stager.
Remember it’s all about perception. If you have a professional looking website and home staging portfolio, and carry yourself with confidence, nobody is going to question whether or not you’re doing this part-time or not. It won’t even cross their minds.
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About the Author: Debra Gould RSS for Debra's articles - Visit Debra's website Debra Gould, aka The Staging Diva®, is President of Six Elements Inc., an internationally recognized home staging company. Inspired by many requests from aspiring home stagers wanting to start similar businesses, Gould created the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program. Gould has trained 4000+ students in over 20 countries to start staging businesses. Buying decorating and selling six of her own homes in four years lead to an interest in real estate staging which she turned into a career with the launch of sixelements.com in 2002. Since then she has staged hundreds of homes in addition to teaching home staging training. Gould is the author of several home staging resources including a series of popular home staging guides made up of a Design Guide, Color Guide, Portfolio Guide and Twitter Guide. For more information about Debra Gould visit stagingdiva.com. Click here to visit Debra's website If You Want To Be a Home Stager Luck Wont Make It Happen Putting an Empty Home on the Market is Leaving Money on the Table Home Staging Business Lessons From a Brisket Social Media Tip Whats Published Online Is Public and Searchable Home Staging and Merchant Accounts |
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