Getting Paid! Financial Strategies for Home Stagers

Do you make these mistakes when home staging? Many stagers unwittingly set themselves up for failure when it is so easy to avoid. If you've ever lost money on a project or you're afraid you might one day, this guide is for you. Best selling home staging author, Barbara Jennings, provides another excellent strategy-filled plan, with insider secrets, to generate and protect your profits every step of the way. There are times when clients look to escape paying for their services and home stagers need to be prudent and savvy to avoid such unfair practices. This guide teaches concrete, specific steps to take to make sure the proper documents and paper trails have been initiated to insure full payment once projects are completed. While no one wants to have to sue a client, this sometimes becomes necessary and readers will learn specific steps to take in advance to ward off the need for court, but at the same time protect their interests should legal recourse become necessary. This explicit guide also provides 53 fresh illustrated staging tricks to enhance your services while making a property look spectacular. This section alone is well worth the price of the guide.

Here is a list of topics included in this excellent guide on protecting your house staging profits:

• How to Make Sure You Get What You Want
• Don't Act Like an Elephant
• Know What You're Worth
• Cultivate This Important Habit
• Work on This Important Aspect
• Get Comfortable with This Topic
• Avoid Working For or With These Types
• Know What You Want to Get
• It's Not What the Market Will Bear Or Is It?
• What Things Are Not Your Friends
• It's More Than Getting an Agreement or Contract
• Three Types of Positions to Take
• Positioning - What is it?
• How to Recognize the Salable Property
• How Distance Can Help You
• What to Focus on Rather Than Features
• Important Points to Make to Agents
• How to Separate the Serious From the Non-Serious
• Arriving at an Agreement
• Effortless Clue About Paperwork
• How to Pass the Flinch Test
• Restraints That Will Hamper You
• How to Protect Your Reputation
• Making Sure Your Business Conduct is Right
• Answering the Question: Is the Customer Always Right?
• How to Turn a Negative Into a Positive
• Legal Action is Always a Possibility
• How to Limit Your Deals the Smart Way
• Collecting the Data You Might Need
• The Best Time to Close Your Deals
• The One Thing You Want to Always Be
• The One Thing You Always Want to Do
• Why It's All About Compensation - Not Deals
• One Last Protective Strategy
• Learning How to Face Reality
• Sometimes Tough Love is Required
• More Ideas, Aids and Tools
• Top Paint Companies in USA
• A Handful of Successful Stagers
• Landing the Project So You Can Make a Profit
• Learning to Receive
• Turning Profits Into Riches
• What is Your Net Worth?
• Managing Your Profits
• Focusing on Your Opportunities
• Focusing on Promotion
• Overcoming Promotional Resistance
• My Final Challenge to You
• Questions and Answers
• How to Make Sure You Survive Hard Economic Times
• Twelve Tips for Success
• Reasons to Advertise in a Tough Economy
• Coping with Changing Times
• Publicity Still Pays Off
• Master the Art of Talking Points
• Black Belt Marketing Strategies
• Surviving the First Ten Years
• Additional Resources

The author has also written the following books: Home Staging for Profit, Staging Portfolio Secrets, Staging Luxurious Homes, Rearrange It, Advanced Redesign, Home Staging for Yourself, Arrange Your Stuff, Wall Groupings!, Where There's a Wall - There's a Way. She also hosts Decorate-Redecorate.Com which is home to the Academy of Staging and Redesign, one of the most respected home study schools for the home staging and interior redesign industry.