Amber Langston's Blog

Hi everyone!  (SEE BELOW FOR THE COLUMNS....I HAVE POSTED BOTH OF THEM BELOW)I am doing something a little different for my column this weekend and I want YOUR input!!I have been writing a column for my paper for almost a year now....whew...that's A LOT of tips to give out every Sunday! I am goin...

Hi Everyone!   I do a lot of non-profit work here in Little Rock, AR. Probably more than I should...but that's ok.   I recently helped plan the Silent Auction for an event supporting an organization called Women and Children First. I wanted to do something for the silent auction, but since not ev...

Hi everyone! Hope your week is well! I recently read some comments on a post about HGTV being a friend or foe. I think we all were in agreement that there are good and bad points to these shows. Perception and Reality are often very different...and sometimes these shows don't rightly portray EXAC...

Hi everyone! I've been gone for a while from the RAIN. It's be beeeeuuuuzzzzzzeeeeee. (BUSY). Feast or Famine, right? I'd rather be feasting personally.Anywho. I write a column for our paper here in Little Rock, AR and sometimes I post them here. One I just wrote was about 12 tips for getting org...

This is the tittle of a book I just read. Below is a column I did on the book recently for a local paper. I just wanted to share. Sometimes I think we all get a little caught up in the "de-cluttering" concept of being a mechanism to help sell a home....but Peter Walsh (who wrote this book and is ...

 Hi everyone! I recently wrote this and wanted to share.    Ten ways a can of paint can help sell a housePainting is often times the least expensive way to update a home. It’s truly the biggest bang for your buck when selling a home. Aside from instantly changing the look of a room by painting, a...

Are you press release ready??? This is an important component of your marketing efforts. Many of you probably know this, but for those of you that do not, here's a sample outline from www.marketingsource.com that I found to help you write one of these! Write one and keep it handy.  FOR IMMEDIATE ...

I recently wrote this for the weekly column I write in our local paper. I think this is the funniest one I have done. You know it gets really difficult coming up with new ideas to write about staging every week.... so I have to start thinking of creative ways to explain what I need to. HA!AMBER  ...

I recently wrote this and wanted to share. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!AMBERBehind Closed DoorsWe all have the aliment from time to time. The “shove it and shut it” disease. It strikes even the MOST organized people in the world. Symptoms are: messy, packed, completely disorganized closets, cabinets ...

Staging is not magical. It's really a true statement if you think about it. It's also something that should 100% be said in some fashion to potential clients when making a presentation. And here's why.....Kudos to successful stagers everywhere...because I have been noticing more and more people ...