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Become an Accredited Staging Professional® Home Stager

| September 30, 2011 | Comments (0)

Join the Hottest New Profession in Real Estate! This three day intensive Accredited Home Staging Training course designed by Barb Schwarz, the Creator of Home Staging® is for home-based professionals who want to start, build and run a profitable Staging business or for professionals interested in adding the ASP® designation and Staging services as part [...]

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Stagedhomes.com Announces Accredited Home Staging Professional® Training Course Developed by Barb Schwarz, Creator of Home Staging, Scheduled for June, 2011

| May 3, 2011 | Comments (0)

Stagedhomes.com announced today its upcoming schedule for ASP® Home Staging® Training Courses for June of 2011.  Courses will be offered in Austin/Round Rock, TX, Baton Rouge, LA, Chesapeake, VA, Columbus, OH, Tampa, FL and Waltham/Boston, MA. Following a two-day course, real estate agents will earn the ASP® Real Estate Agent Designation, and after a three-day [...]

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Become an Accredited Staging Professional® Home Stager

| February 22, 2011 | Comments (0)

Join the Hottest New Profession in Real Estate! This three day intensive Accredited Home Staging Training course designed by Barb Schwarz, the Creator of Home Staging® is for home-based professionals who want to start, build and run a profitable Staging business or for professionals interested in adding the ASP® designation and Staging services as part [...]

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Stagers. . . Is Your Mama Proud?

| June 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

Stagers: Is your Mama Proud? by Jennie Norris, ASPM, IAHSP President, Owner of Sensational Home Staging I was thinking early this morning – as my mind wandered and settled on different thoughts and conversations – that as a professional Home Stager – there seem to be those that expect us to do work for FREE [...]

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A Career in Home Staging May Be Yours Sooner Than You Think: Special Offers for Upcoming Classes

| May 15, 2010 | Comments (0)

Are you ready for a career in Home Staging? StagedHomes.com will be educating real estate agents and home Stagers to earn the ASP® designation and we’d love to see you there! You need to hurry though; we don’t want you to miss out on all the updated material and added content relevant to today’s market. [...]

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Stagedhomes.com Announces Home Staging® Training Developed by Barb Schwarz, Creator of Home Staging®, Scheduled for the Month of June, 2010

| May 1, 2010 | Comments (0)

Stagedhomes.com announced today its upcoming schedule for Home Staging® classes for the month of June, 2010. Classes will be offered in Birmingham, AL; Brookfield, WI; Newton/Boston, MA; San Jose, CA; Torrance, CA; and Portland, OR. Barb Schwarz, Creator of Home Staging® and CEO of Stagedhomes.com will personally teach a class in Tampa/Clearwater, FL. Following a [...]

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Online Publicity: A Key Benefit with Your ASP® Designation and IAHSP® Membership

| April 25, 2010 | Comments (0)

Just the other day I received an email from a professional looking for a career change. She shared that her search for her next opportunity had started through an online search engine. “I had read an article on how Home Staging had become one of the hottest new professions, and I wanted to see how [...]

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Home Staging: My Passion Continues Now and Through the Many Years…..

| October 1, 2009 | Comments (0)

I feel so blessed. Blessed to have had the opportunity to share my passion with over a million Realtors® over the years. For many years, I have traveled the nation and North America , typically one city a day, 40 weeks a year, sharing my message of Home Staging. These years make up the foundation [...]

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“Your Job Sounds So Fun!” – The Reality of a Home Staging Career by Jennie Norris, ASP Master, IAHSP

| September 18, 2009 | Comments (2)

Seems that most people believe that Home Staging is a “fun” job . . . probably ranking up there with Genie, magician, dolphin trainer, or some other “job” where a person appears to get to do something others perceive is lots of fun but don’t really understand all the work behind the result. I haven’t asked, but I think they believe that we just move a bunch of decor around and diddle with fabric or bedding, and tossing pillows is the most labor intensive thing we do.

What the public sees is the transformation of a house – room by room – where we use creativity and skill to enhance what the public sees when buying a house. What they don’t see is all the work and planning that went in to that successful transformation.

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Home Staging – Why LESS Means MORE by Jennie Norris, ASPM, IAHSP

| June 1, 2009 | Comments (7)

Some Stagers are being taught to “Decorate to sell” a house. This is a cardinal sin in the world of Home Staging. Staging is a real estate tool to help market a property. Although we do consider things like placement, color, and items used in the Staging process, ASP Home Staging is NOT about the stuff. It’s always about the SPACE.

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