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HOW YOU CAN BECOME A HIGHLY PAID REDESIGNER. Do you go crazy in other people's homes because everything is in the wrong place? Would you like to turn that craziness into cash? Now you can make outstanding profits arranging furniture and accessories for others! Interior Redesign is the creative use of professional arranging techniques to transform a client's home from ordinary into extraordinary in a matter of hours by moving and arranging the furniture and accessories the client already owns. It is one of the easiest and most rewarding businesses in the design field today. Now Barbara Jennings, the West Coast pioneer of interior redesign, offers readers a way to improve, enhance, enrich and dramatically grow their income with their own home based redesign business. No experience necessary - no degree necessary.As director of the Academy of Staging and Redesign (hosted at Decorate-Redecorate.Com), Jennings explains the best, easiest and most profitable ways to start, grow, manage and sustain a highly successful redecorating business. She brings 38 years of experience in home business development together with decades of interior design expertise in this large format, practical manual that reveals in simple terms the how-to strategies of top professional re-designers. She teaches readers exactly what to say and do on their half day or full day projects. A very simple, low risk business to learn, readers will discover how to transform a home in a matter of hours using just what is there, then making suggestions as to what additional products and services the homeowner could acquire, if needed. The manual provides both business setup and superb marketing training, as well as design training, and the author suggests plenty of additional training and visual aids that could be acquired which will be helpful to readers as they build their business and market their services to consumers. Readers will learn to integrate, advance and deploy workable, sustainable methods that lead to confidence, empowerment and strong profits, even in a tough economy.Written in a no-nonsense, yet personable style, Rearrange It! teaches readers who want a thriving interior redesign business: how to prepare themselves professionallyhow to get clients and referralshow to conduct consultations the right wayhow to set up their business and protect themselves legallyhow to hang art and pictures properlyhow to market and promote their services in a variety of wayshow to get free publicity for their businesshow to reach potential clients and qualify themhow to assess a room quickly and know how to solve the problems31 examples of arrangement techniques used by professionals (including the most popular furniture arrangement configurations, one of which should solve even the most complicated room)20 questions to ask homeowners before starting a redesign consultpractical do's and don'tsquestions and answersimportant legalities and set up guidancehow to develop a business planthe proper business etiquettean extensive furniture and accessory moving tips segmenthow to charge for serviceshow to get referrals and testimonialshow to get other tools and resourcesand how to get free ongoing trainingBarbara Jennings is director of the ACADEMY OF STAGING AND REDESIGN at Decorate-Redecorate.Com. She has written 13 popular books on home staging and redesign and trained over 10,000 globally through her certification courses and business guides.

Be Your Own Boss. Make Your Own Hours. Make More Money. Rely on Your Own Ingenuity and Initiative: Work at Home. Whatever your dream of self-employment, this idea-packed guide will show you how to make it come true. Its practical, down-to-earth advice will help you join the millions of independent-spirited people like you who have decided to invest in themselves and run their own home-based businesses. Armed with the information in this book, you'll be able to take that first step toward independence, gain control of your own work life, and reap and keep ALL the fruits of your labors. Now in a new, expanded second edition, 1101 Businesses You Can Start From Home: Gives you 1101 money-making business ideas you can tailor to your own interests, needs, and circumstances—from the mainstream to the highly unusual—in 33 easy-to-use sections. Just reading through them may spark the exact business arrangement you've been looking for. Describes each job in detail—its potential income, start-up costs, physical challenges, legal restrictions, and location requirements—information that will save you a fortune in time and money spent on research. Helps you narrow your choices by showing you how to weigh such factors as personal preferences, time and money commitment, space requirements, and the advantages and disadvantages of different types of businesses. You will go in with your eyes wide open, and increase your chances for success. Offers an abundance of practical business tips on loans, advertising, pricing, sales techniques, building a client base, bookkeeping, insurance, and legal issues. Now includes 130 new business ideas, including entrepreneurial consultant, missing persons service, writing business plans, senior day care, computer recycling—and more! Why wait any longer? With the guidance of this invaluable book, you can start on the road to self-employment today.

Completely revised and updated, The Crafts Business Answer Book is an essential resource for anyone looking to start a homebased art or crafts business or perfect an existing one. Crafts business expert Barbara Brabec provides the answers to every question a creative person might have about the business side of crafting-from pricing and advertising, to understanding tax and labor laws, to protecting original work with copyrights and trademarks.

Bigger profits come from valuable add-ons in any business - so why leave profits on the table? Get more activity, more power, more utilization, more efficiency, more mastery, more profits -- more of everything -- from the basic, universal concepts and strategems used by the top redesigners, designers and home stagers. One of the easiest and smartest ways to garner more clients and get the maximum amount of profit out of the business relationship and get them to purchase more and to do so more often is to implement money-making multipliers, mechanisms and catalysts that offer great value and superior service to people who already trust you and have done business with you already. This is the primary goal of Advanced Redesign - to show readers how to do exactly that. It's the additional, value-added products and services offered clients that separates one's business from the competition and propels one's business to the heights of income and gain preeminence in the area over all competitors. By incorporating correctly just a few of these ingenious gems, readers should enjoy improved, enhanced and enriched profits, greater variety and maximum enjoyment in their business.Now staging and redesign expert Barbara Jennings of the Academy of Staging and Redesign (hosted at Decorate-Redecorate.Com) teaches readers the best and most efficient ways to expand a house staging or interior re-design and redecorating business marketing a wide variety of natural backend products and services to appeal to a broader client base. Statistics prove that one's best, most lucrative business comes from current and former clients. This guide will help readers examine, evaluate, identify and observe areas they may not have thought about before. It will show how to integrate, advance and deploy these products and services.Launching a basic home staging or interior re-design business is great, but stagers and re-designers can easily miss out on an abundance of extra profits by not offering related products and services to their clientele. By correcting these oversights, readers will have a much higher, bigger, better, more profitable yield or result from their marketing efforts. In Advanced Redesign Jennings offers you a myriad of standard and "not so standard" ideas to help expand one's business in a professional manner. A sequel to her 3 other top guides for the home staging and redesign industries, this large sized manual is brimming with advanced tactics and strategies.Written in a no-nonsense, conversational style, Advanced Redesign teaches anyone who wants to earn maximum profits from their business how to add strategic products and services that will help their clients beyond arranging their furniture and accessories or sprucing up their house to be sold. This thorough, idea-driven guide is the 3rd in a series by Jennings. Author of Rearrange It (a start-up guide to the re-design business) and Home Staging for Profit (a start-up guide to the home staging business), Advanced Redesign takes the reader deeper and more creatively into strategies and tactics they should consider adding to their basic services that are creative, enjoyable and highly profitable. With these varied ideas, readers can pick and choose what best works for them based on their personal interests, background, locality, competitive edge and experience.The author has also written Arrange Your Stuff and Decor Secrets Revealed and Wall Groupings!. In the home staging field, she has also written Staging Luxurious Homes and Staging Portfolio Secrets and Getting Paid: Financial Strategies for Home Stagers, to name a few.

Launch and grow your home-based mail order business with this step-by-step guide. Learn about equipment, pricing, online marketing, and much more while using worksheets and checklists to get organized and achieve your goals.

In this book, Raymond and Dorothy Moore give you some great advice for successfully managing your family. Then, after you've organized your home, they show you creative and practical ways that your family can start a home business together.Book SpecsPaper BackPublisher: Moore Foundation, ThePrinted: 1994Pages: 267Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue How to Manage Your Home One Man's Family How to Coach Young Financiers The Wasteful Generation Recycling Happily Making New Out of Old They Who Serve The Twice Blessed Organization: Just a Little Bit at a Time Home Industries The Miracle of Work: How Hands Build the Head and the Heart The C-I Magic: Why Cottage Industries Are Special How Others Do It A Few Home Businesses Finding Money for Your Industry When the Handicapped Become Assets Preparing for Employment: Home Industries and Apprenticeships Something for Single Parents Considering The Law's Demands Epilogue Appendix: Resources Notes Subject Index About the Authors

Ready to launch and grow your home-based landscaping business? This guide covers all the bases, from getting clients and referrals to designing projects to marketing your business on the Internet.

This how-to book provides step-by-step guidance on starting a successful home typing business, including everything from explaining the benefits of having a home typing business to getting clients, how much to charge, advertising and promotion, business letters with samples, and much more.

Explaining how to find a rewarding career through self-employment, a guide to the "matrixing" method explains how to cultivate the perfect personality/career match and includes worksheets and inspiring stories. Original.