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Obtaining Home Staging Client Testimonials

Guest post by: Debra Gould

Article Overview: Home staging expert, Staging Diva, explains how home stagers should go about obtaining home staging client testimonials.

Obtaining Home Staging Client Testimonials

Do you make it a regular practice to follow up with your clients after staging their homes?

Hopefully you’re not waiting for them to get back to you to tell you about the results your work achieved. Think about it, how many times have you yourself just never gotten around to dropping that Thank You note in the mail?

Even if your clients are all thrilled with the results they got from using your services, you might never know how they felt about your staging or the results you helped them achieve if you don’t call or write them and ask for the details.

Nothing can sell your home staging services (with the exception of your before and after photos) like strong testimonials, case studies and/or success stories from your satisfied customers.

If you still haven’t had a “real” home staging project, don’t worry about it. Just write about the results you got from staging one of your own homes in the past. You don’t have to say it was your own home, just tell the story. You’re not making anything up; we’re all our own first clients when we’re getting started.

And what about the real estate agent you used when you sold your own home? If you staged it well and they sold it faster or for more money than similar homes at the time, they will give you a testimonial if you ask. But you need to know how to ask, and how to arrange it so that they get around to it rather than putting it off and putting you in the uncomfortable position of having to continually remind them.

In the Staging Diva Ultimate Portfolio Guide you learn four different scripts to use when you’re trying to get testimonials and success stories from your clients (home sellers and real estate agents) and what makes a strong testimonial; it’s more than just “Jane Stager did a great job staging my house and I couldn’t be happier.”

In this comprehensive home staging resource you’ll learn how to write about yourself, how to write a proper creative brief and even how to take better before and after photos. It’s a guide that belongs in every home stager’s reference library.

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Article Tags: client testimonials, home stagers, home staging



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Re: Trade Shows - Are They Worth It? - HI, I have used trade shows (not participated) to collect potential clients. For example, the Home & Garden Industry is extremely behind the time in regards to their websites. I attended an Home & Garden Expo in Denver and collected all the companies contact information. I plan on cold calling & mailing information to each business. It also gave me time to research the industry more, talk directly to the owners in many cases, and learn more about what they need. Jeff
Dramatized the product - Tough one... It's going to have t be a mix of different media. 1. Testimonials of current owners of the product and how it's helped them. This can be done thru Video and print 2. Somehow I believe there will have to be Video of it being "dramatized" 3. People of influence will have to support or sponsor the product. just some that came to mind..
Re: How Do You Fight Spam? - There are several ways in which you can stop spam: Client side: you can configure your email client to move spam to the junk mail, and you can do this by blocking their domain, some clients will even allow you to block ip blocks. Server side: you can set your server to have a white list, that can control spam before it gets to your inbox.
Try wikipedia.com for more information - That depends what type of business you are involved in. Maybe if you share that, we can help you a little better. I work mostly in the Work at Home industry so my advice would only be along those lines.
Franchises in Texas... - I wonder if any Home Depots are going to open in Houston and environs to take care of rebuilding the city and suburbs? At the very least, it will probably be a boon for construction and home repair workers.... and scammers too, of course.


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