I would like to wish a Happy and Healthy New Year to everyone.  Let it bring you joy and success in whatever areas are important to you!

As for me, I am looking forward to a better year than the one that just passed.  I've had some good times and some bad times and learnt (and am still learning) to adapt and deal with new situations and challenges.

As for my Home Staging venture, I suspect the year 2008 will be the Coming OUT year!  I have noticed a lot more awareness and requests for my services in the last six months of 2007.  Some questions and situations were a challenge and, on a few occasions, I had to be quick on my feet....But every new project taught me something and made me better equipped to handle the next ones to come.  I set some modest goals at the beginning of last year and I am pretty happy to have achieved them. 

I worked and am still working very hard on my website, which is my main marketing tool it it's really paying off.  Almost all of my clients come to me after finding me on the Web. I tried several marketing strategies to see what works best for me and am fine tuning my sales pitch and the way I present my services.  You can always make it better!   I have established some important partnerships ans associations - with some hand picked realtors as well as some quailty tradespeople.  I have invested in some props inventory. My articles are regularly published on the Web as well as in a local newspaper. I have been invited to participate as one of the speakers at a big Home event in February 2008 - looking forward to that!  I even got a request from France to teach a Home Staging course there - who can say "no" to that?

I have tons of ideas and projects for the new year - my goal is to at least double my business in 2008.  I am looking into adding a couple of people to work with me, so I can take more clients, expanding my props inventory and adding some products and services to sell from my website.  So, I need to keep working at it - one thing at a time - slow and steady and it will come.  I am very excited about the year 2008 and all the good things it will bring!

Cheers and good luck to everyone!