Give Your Home Staging Business a Boost!

4 ways to keep your Home Staging Business Bustling!

Owning a home staging business can be a fun and rewarding way to put your creative flair and sense of style to work! Of course, it is also a lot of hard work! Here are some ways to help your home staging business get organized, recognized and bustling with happy clients!

Identify and Catalogue

If there is one thing that professional home stagers need it is a solid itemization and storage system. Maintaining a current, well-maintained stock of furnishings and textiles, lighting, décor accents and other props can quickly go from hard to deal with to an impossible disaster. Implement an easy, accessible, and detailed organization system to keep things under control.

1. Create an Itemized Spreadsheet –Build and maintain an itemized spreadsheet to keep track of furniture pieces, décor and props. This task can help ensure that all of the items used to stage and style your clients’ homes are stored safely and in a way that makes them easy to locate when needed. First, catalogue each item by documenting the type, style, and colour in a spreadsheet, along with a picture of each the item.
   Next, print and store a copy of your spreadsheet in a binder with section tabs dividing items by type. For example: furniture (by rooms), rugs, window treatments, décor, etc. This creates an easy, on the go reference for times when it’s less convenient to access your digital spreadsheet.
2. Label Your Items –Label furniture and décor items with your business name and some means of tracking, like a product number. Be sure to add your tracking number to the coordinating line in your spreadsheet. This makes it easy to work with similar items or duplicate items like vases, table linens, and décor accents, etc.
   When labelling hard furniture and décor items like vases, tables, bowls, lamps and art, place an identification label on the bottom or back of the items. For soft goods, such as table linens, throw pillows and curtains, use No-Iron Fabric labels to identify each item.
3. Placement and Status– Use your itemized spreadsheet to keep track of where items are placed when used in clients’ homes. Additionally, the spreadsheet can be used to record what sort of condition the items are in and whether or not they may be in need require maintenance. Try using colour coding labels to keep track of these things.
   

Simplify Item Placement

Make it easy for staff and other helpers to place the right boxes and items in the right rooms. This will make set up and tear down faster and easier, while helping to ensure that items are correctly stored.
An easy way to coordinate the proper placement of boxes and items is with colour coded labels and a coordinating legend. Avery Moving Labels are a convenient choice for this purpose. These colour-coded labels come pre-printed with room designations including kitchen, living room, bathroom, bedroom, garage, and a write-in option. They also feature a generous amount of additional space where you can write in the contents of your boxes or other storage containers.
These labels are also an excellent choice for keeping track of stored items.

Make a Professional Impression

Name badges can instill confidence in homeowners anytime home stagers or staff members enter a home. They lend credit to the professionalism of your workers. This is especially true when using badges that present a more polished, style-conscious appearance, like The Mighty Badge reusable magnetic name badges.

Network

Networking is extremely important throughout the homebuying and renovation industries. Realtors, renovators, trades professionals, designers and home stagers work closely together, which means who you know can hold just as much weight as what you can do when it comes to acquiring new accounts.
Keep your networking skills sharp and develop eye-catching branding. This includes the creation of a high-quality business card.

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