Frequently I am asked to hire aspiring stagers who want to "decorate!" as they put it. I must get 5-10 emails a month. I go through a series of questions, usually none of which are answered to my satisfaction.
However, I have learned over the last 7 years that everyone deserves a chance and that you either "got it" or you don't. Any person can take a staging course in this world and even that will not help you if you don't "have it" so to speak. Natural ability and the "eye" that it takes to put a room together cannot be learned in a class. May I repeat.... CANNOT be learned in a class.
I am finding it about a 1 in 30 success rate. Seriously. I bring on new "stagers" for a training day, ready willing and able to go, they show up and talk the talk and then there is no ability to put the room together.
This is a serious business that honestly requires spectacular people who are gifted at Staging, who perform superior to their counterparts, who run the full race even till late hours, who are tireless in ideas, who will jump in their car at 8:45 pm to make it 22 miles to Home Sense for the "perfect thing" rather than compromise a project outcome out of sheer laziness.....these "stagers have it in their BLOOD. They never quit, need no direction other than how to get to the house - and even then they are able to read maps and figure it out- they are the stars of this industry, the real deal. And hiring these Stagers will make your property sell. Hiring the "others" who do not fit the bill are going to cost you money.
As a Business Owner, I feel overwhelmed at times with the amount of people who call themselves stagers and in fact do damage to this fabulous industry.
That is my soap box for the day....take from it what you will.
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