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Services for Real Estate Pros with James Frazier Personal Development Coach

Today I am officially announcing a new service designed to help fill a void in the home staging business. Since there appears to be an extreme shortage of male home stagers and since some of the female home stagers have expressed a desire to occasionally partner with said male home stagers, I have decide to launch a new "virtual male home stager" service. Armed with a digital camera, a high speed broadband card, your trusty laptop, and a cell phone, you simply walk through the house taking photos and simultaneously downloading them to me as we speak on the phone. I will be offering philosophical advice,moral support, psychological insights, helpful suggestions, and home-staging coaching from a male perspective- all in real time. As an added bonus, I will also recite experts from James Joyce's Ulysses or, if you prefer, some poetry from Blake.

Think of the "team' approach to home staging and how beneficial this might be. Take your business to a whole new level. Please feel free to contact me for details and pricing.

James Frazier Professional Home Stager...."Real miracles..reasonably priced".

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Lori Kim Polk
Premiere Home Staging : Home Staging Services - Roseville, CA
Home Stager - Roseville, Sacramento
This sounds fun!!  Oh and you can replace the husband that I don't have... or do I? Nope, the remote is right where I left it... don't have one ;0)
Oct 01, 2007 02:17 PM
Jackie Peraza
Perceptions AdverStaging(TM), LLC - Framingham, MA
Home Stager - Framingham, Massachusetts

Ah ha ha ha ha!!!  The remote is right where she left it!!!! Ha ha ha ha!!!  Oh wait...where is my remote?!?

Jackie

Oct 01, 2007 02:40 PM
Charlene Storozuk
Dezigner Digz - Burlington, ON
Home Stager - Burlington Ontario
James, you are awesome!
Oct 02, 2007 01:06 AM
Jaynee Acevedo
Capital Style Home Staging - Kensington, MD
Capital Style Home Staging

Okay, James....I may be your first customer.  One question, though:  is that ROBERT Blake?

 

Oct 02, 2007 04:08 AM
James Frazier
James Frazier Personal Development Coach - Rockford, IL

Jaynee..no it is the other Blake. You know the one who used to recite poerty in his back yard to his lover while they both stood there naked (no, not absence of staging certification-the other kind of naked).

Speaking of Blake..here is a ridde. Anyone know the references and meaning of this poem by Blake: 

Now I a four fold vision see

And a four fold vision was given unto me

Tis four fold in my supreme delight

Anf three fold in soft Beulah's night

And two fold always

May God us keep from single vision and Newton's sleep.

Any one have any ideas?

Oct 03, 2007 12:52 PM
Betty Haney
Haney Consulting - Calgary, AB
James, this is a letter Blake wrote to his friend Thomas Butts.  I believe I studied it in a long ago English University class - but must admit I know 'not' about the meaning.  Single Vision, I believe, is all about us - very narcissistic.  With two fold vision we begin to see the world around us and can participate in relationships with others.  Three fold - haven't got a clue.  Four fold, I think is when you feel very spiritual and one with God.  Okay, now let's hear what the poem is really about.  Betty
Oct 03, 2007 04:10 PM
James Frazier
James Frazier Personal Development Coach - Rockford, IL
Betty...I need to wait for other responses then I'll give mine. Thanks for the reference to his friend...that is one piece of the puzzle I did not know.
Oct 03, 2007 04:57 PM
Betty Haney
Haney Consulting - Calgary, AB
James, my professor would be proud!  Betty
Oct 03, 2007 04:59 PM
Anonymous
Carol Ellis Luxury-Domain to Home Stage

Do you do Dylan Thomas or maybe read a little Kafka?  Oscar Wilde? Ayan Rand? Flannery O'Conner?  Haven't read A good Man is hard to find, just part of them will do, I don't have time to revisit my old friends now. ;) 

 

Oct 03, 2007 11:17 PM
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Maggie Kent
Front Door Interiors - Bethel, CT

What a day...here I am investigating staging in an Everyman moment in one blog and remembering Beulah's beauty and restfulness the next! Do we really contemplate life and death as we market homes? I say long live Blake (as opposed to long ago lived Blake) for believing death is just part of living the larger vision.  But it sure doesn't hurt to live daily with a hunk on the phone giving his best! Thanks for the idea...I'll keep it in mind!

Maggie

lime: a small green fruit (couldn't resist)

Oct 04, 2007 07:08 AM
Yvonne Root
rooms b.y. root - Prescott, AZ
Home Stager - Northern Arizona

James, I have no luck with the challenge. But -- my hubby has suggested that it would certainly be a great idea for us to use your new service. He feels that may be the only way he can "out number" me on occasion. We have 6 children (only one is a boy.) We have 8 grandchildren (only one is a boy.) We have 4 great- grandchildren (only one is a boy.) We have one dog. Yes, she is lovely.

Oh, BTW, he says the cost of your service is not a problem. I'm to hire you post haste! We will sign a non-disclosure clause and then sell your ideas tomorrow. Thanks for the help.

Oct 04, 2007 11:01 AM
James Frazier
James Frazier Personal Development Coach - Rockford, IL

Carol, no Kafka...I am already suffering the labors of Sisyphus. As for Wilde, I must admit I have not read much of his material although I am interested in his life. Joyce borrowed a wonderful expression from him-"cracked looking glass of a servant" to describe Irish art.

Maggie..Hulk? Wow I'll take that as a compliment (apparently you have not seen my photo or video) and, yes, some of us do ponder these things as we are in the middle of a staging job...I frequently lose the will to live in some of these places which makes me wax philosophical as a survival technique. BTW I caught the Everyman reference-very clever. HCE (here comes everybody) from Finnegan's Wake, perhaps?

Yvonne..have you husband call. He will be appreciative of all my masculine moral support in the face of this overwhelming feminine influence.

Oct 04, 2007 01:46 PM
Maggie Kent
Front Door Interiors - Bethel, CT

I ponder Joyce's words from A Portrait of the Artist:"...wanting to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld..."  My image of these "completed" homes always falters in the the real world view.  But I continue.   BTW, I thinkst those know not whilst I speak regarding Everyman...as of 10:10am 62 views, no comments?! But I got a star...Love it...Maggie

Oct 05, 2007 02:11 AM
Paula Springer
Key Elements Inc. Home Staging & Interiors - Portland, OR
A.S.P.
James I need the poetry feed !!! My ears ache. Speed dial is  yours. Long ago my Grandpa in Springfield told me to quit studying art and poetry and get a good job as a secretary. I am so glad to be among others that would break out !!!  
Oct 11, 2007 03:49 AM
James Frazier
James Frazier Personal Development Coach - Rockford, IL

OK for Betty and anyone else interested in my take on Blake's poem, I make no grand claims to "the truth" here, just my interpretation.

Now I a four fold vision see  This refers to the glorious ability to see the world symbolically- to be able to one thing in another- the very opposite of literal thinking.

And a four fold vision was given unto me  Blake acknowledges that this ability comes from a higher source something bigger than the human ego-whether you call it divine, or the unconscious, of the higher self or whatever it is conceived as a great gift

Tis four fold in my supreme delight  Blake's supreme delight is his art. Does not all good art take us to this symbolic level. Something greater than literalism, and  the mechanical philosophy.

And three fold in soft Beulah's night  This refers to his lover and sexuality- a merging of two which becomes a third- something else beyond each separate person.

And two fold always   This is the ability to always see beyond the literal and to be open to the meaning of any event.

May God us keep from single vision and Newton's sleep.

This is a slam (slightly unfair since Newton was an alchemist as well as a scientist and a deeply religious man, albeit unorthodox) on Newton and the Newtonian- Cartesian world-view that came out of the work of Newton and Descartes. In fairness, it is likely Newton himself would be horrified at the atheistic  turn that science took and the philosophy that became attached to his name. Blake is a example, perhaps one of the greatest examples, of the Romantic movement that arose in opposition to the mechanical world-view. Some would say the 19th century movement known as Romantiscism was revived from the dead in the 1960's with the counterculture movement.

Oct 11, 2007 06:22 AM
Betty Haney
Haney Consulting - Calgary, AB
James, you're good!  I think you would be a very good English professor.  Any thoughts on moving in that direction?  How about a literature class at a community college?  Your students would love you - both knowledgeable and 'human' at the same time.  This is a rarity in teaching.  Betty
Oct 11, 2007 04:29 PM
James Frazier
James Frazier Personal Development Coach - Rockford, IL

Betty, thank you so much for your flattering remarks. No thought on teaching...I am still engaged in writing my new book titled, " So you want to be a home stager, WHAT ARE YOU NUTS?" as well as the sequel to my first book, "Confessions of a male home stager"but after that maybe I'll give it some thought. Thanks for the encouragement.

 

Oct 12, 2007 12:50 AM
Nora Marek
Home Stager Brevard County, Florida - Viera, FL
Melbourne Home Staging - (321)795-8761

I can't even comment, they have said it all to you...no witty quip...not wise crack...not even a male ego joke.....But, can you say "Yes, you are always right and by the way, you look very slender in that outfit today?" then maybe I will hire you...and speed dial too!

Oct 12, 2007 01:01 PM
James Frazier
James Frazier Personal Development Coach - Rockford, IL

I can and would do that since I have had so much practice over the years; so much so, that I dare think a claim to "expert" in this area would not be out of line.

Oct 14, 2007 03:38 AM
Maureen Maureen
Orangeburg, NY
A Good Man is Hard to Find is one of my favorite short stories.  You could analyze it for a lifetime and still only scratch the surface.  
Oct 24, 2007 05:27 AM
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