How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Redesign, Redecorating, & Home Staging Business: With Companion Cd-rom (How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful...) (Paperback)

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Key Phrases: home staging business, real estate staging business, successful redesign, Mary Larsen Designs, Extreme Makeover, Mary's Trade Tips (more...)

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Product Description

Are you planning to become part of this redesign or real estate staging network? During this time of phenomenal growth, these businesses may be worth your investigation. If you can answer yes to the following questions, then the redesign or home staging business may be just right for you. Do you love decorating your home? Are you addicted to home decorating shows and magazines? Do you know exactly what someone should do to sell their home fast? Are you constantly moving your furniture around? Do you find yourself decorating for your friends and family for free? Do you have a flair for decorating? Keep in mind, however, that Redesign and Real Estate Staging are more than just having the talent and skills to do the job. The business of the business is the part that can be tricky. Readers of this book will fall into one of the following categories: Those With a Second Career: You already have a successful career and are looking for something new. In fact, the design field may be totally unrelated to anything you have ever done before Those Wishing To Be Their Own Boss: You want to have more control over your day and how it goes. Being your own boss allows you to be flexible. Those That Are Business Beginners: You have started your own business, and are finding that the small business tools that are available just do not apply to the design industry. Those That Want To Grow Their Design Business: You already are fully engaged in your own design business and need sound marketing principles to grow your business further. Those That Are Curious: You just want to know what the design industry is all about and find out if you can develop your passion into a thriving business. No matter which description fits you, this book will be instrumental in your success of the business side of redesigning and home staging.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (February 6, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601380232
• ISBN-13: 978-1601380234
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #198,436 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars First Grade Level , March 7, 2009

By	L. Chandler - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book was the most disappointing of any self help how to book I have ever purchased. I anticipated as advertised, forms to be used in the business. Yes, there are some forms, but not one was anything more than a first grader would have been able to produce in a Word document. What's your name, address, etc. I would have expected detailed information and ideas related to a good contract to protect both yourself and your client when you entered into an agreement to handle work for your client. And for supplies to start up your business, who doesn't know you need a pen or pencil,a pair of scissors, etc. The entire text of the book was at elementary level and the content of forms, etc. was the same.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book helps you now and later, April 17, 2009

By	Yoseni Severino (Old Lyme, CT United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Great book, not only does it take you step by step on how to start your business it also tells you what to do after. All I wanted to know was how to begin the business, the book goes into how to grow your business and add services. As far as marketing the book touches on ways to fully market yourself. The CD that comes along with the book has examples of business forms , business plans, and many more.

2.0 out of 5 stars CD is a virtual waste, July 31, 2009

By	Decorating Lover (USA) - See all my reviews

What a waste of a perfectly good blank CD.

Book is so basic it was almost insulting in places - like I think I can figure out how to fill out someone's form all on my own and don't need the author to waste pages on how to fill out a self-exlanatory form to me.