How to make money from an empty space in your home.
Do you have a spare space in your home? you can make money from it, or perhaps you have a garage that is full of Junk that you no longer use, you may just be allowing a gold mine to waste if you are not using that empty space and you are not making good money from it
Today I will teach you 7 ways you can make money from an empty space in your home, you will find out that you can actually add more income to your finances just by using what you already have available or perhaps taking time to declutter your space and renting out that extra space to make you an income that will make your life better.
Are you ready to make money from your home? let’s go
–Rent your Spare bedroom on Airbnb:
Airbnb is an online platform that allows people to rent out their spare rooms which will normally be furnished to travelers and tourists who don’t want to go to the traditional Hotels. Airbnb revolutionized the way people secure accommodations when they are on holidays. I love Airbnb because you get the feel of staying at home while you are on your holiday, I do get tired of staying in hotels because most times what you can eat is restricted to what they have on the menu.
With an accommodation service like Airbnb, you can make your own meals and still feel relaxed in a homely atmosphere. According to a write up on CNBC, the nightly rental incomes for 1-2 bed apartments on Airbnb ranges from 95 dollars to 254 dollars, if you live in any of the 15 cities like Houston, California, Austin Texas, Dallas, San Antonio Texas, Chicago, New York city, SanDiego California, Pennsylvania etc.
-Rent your Garage:
Do you have a garage that is full of junk that is no more useful to you but you are paying for it because of its part of your home. You can go to online platforms like STOWIT and list it for rent. This online platform helps connect people who want to store their stuff to people who have available spaces for storage. The storage area is not restricted to garage alone but also your loft, den or perhaps an outdoor space. You can make up to 15,000 Dollars a year renting out this space which usually will have yielded nothing. The good part Is that you get to keep 96% of your listing price.
–Start a B& B Service:
If listing your spare room on Airbnb is not your thing, then you can start a traditional bed and breakfast service for people who are traveling who perhaps need to spend the night in town. The only difference is that you have to pull in your customers yourself as against listing in a known service site like Airbnb.
-Start a Popup Restaurant:
If you have a large kitchen area with dining and you love to cook, you can start a pop-up restaurant in your home, you get people to book your meals and they arrive during the scheduled time to eat your homemade meals. This will probably work well if you live in an area where people value good homemade meals and they don’t want to break a bank for it.
-Rent your Parking Space:
If you are someone who has an extra parking space that is never in use during the day, you can make money from it by renting it out to people who are in need of it. This option will be valuable if you leave near a busy area where parking is scarce and quite expensive. People will be willing to pay you to park their cars since you will offer a cheaper alternative to paid parking lots. Parqex is a good example of an online platform that connects users with renters.
-Make money from your Garden:
Are you someone who loves to have beautiful gardens? you can rent it for one-off events like weddings, engagements, children’s parties, especially during the season when people prefer to be outdoors than indoor, you will be able to make money using this option if you do not mind having parties in your garden or cleaning up after they are done.
-Turn your Loft / Attic into a private workspace:
Some people love to leave their own house to go and work in places where there are fewer distractions, you can turn your loft, attic or den into a private workspace that you can lease out to people who need it, more like we work model but this is definitely from your home.
Before you get into any of these ideas please ensure you research the legal requirements and make sure your insurance allows you to take any of these options as an income earner for you.
This post is about that momma who may not want to start a full-fledged business but wants to make money from home. In this post, I want to describe7 activities that you can do at home to make money from home without necessarily running it as a full-time business. It does not mean it’s not hard work but it’s like a side hustle that brings you that extra income while you stay home to take care of your kids.
Most of this ideas are not full-time businesses, this is not the place where I ask you to start a Blog, because I know that Blogging is a full-time job if you want to make a success of it. These are called side hustles for a reason, they should not detract from you doing what you normally do.
So here we go
Freelance writing:
If you are what people call a wordsmith, then its time to use your skills to make money from it. When you go to places like Upwork and freelancer.com you will find that people are posting their Gigs, that is advertising their projects for someone to help them with.
Registering on such sites will give you the opportunity to sell your skills for potential income. If you are really good at copywriting you can have the opportunity to charge people who need copies written for their products which they want to sell. Another way you can make money is by registering with sites like Digital Nomads and watching out for companies that are looking to hire writers for their blogs or websites. The good thing about freelance writing is that you get to choose your own timing and how much work you want to do.
Delivery:
This a cool way of making money without having to carry people in your car.The good thing about this idea is that you can just load up your kids into the car, have a wonderful ride while making money at the same time, how cool is that.
Companies like Doordash have restaurants signed up with them who then have freelance workers like you sign up with them to help them do deliveries. The good thing is that you get to choose your working time. Another company that partners with people to help do their delivery is postmates, they do all kinds of delivery for their customers.
Personal Shopper
Are you a person who loves shopping, there is something for you to do, you can sign up with companies like thumbtack a platform that connects personal shoppers with those who need their services in that area. Personal shopping often is interwoven with personal styling, so you can find yourself thinking of taking it to a full-time business as you help more people do their shopping and styling.
Web search evaluator:
A web search evaluator analyzes search results for quality and relevance. It’s a job that algorithms do but the only issue is that it lacks the human angle to it. People are often hired by companies like Appen to help do these tasks.. You can also get to rate videos and ads quality while at it. The only downside to this job is that it is repetitive and boring and sometimes your project may end without you getting another.
Online surveys:
Online surveys are the king of side hustles if you are willing to sign up to as many as possible and be patient enough to take the surveys to make you money. It’s a major way some people make money from home, it may come in different ways, some require that you take their surveys as they are sent your way. Some pay you cash while for some you get points which you can trade for your own needs. Example of such survey companies is Swagbucks, pinecone researchopinion post, survey junkie.
Transcription:
You can join companies that are looking for transcribers for their business. A Transcriptionist help transcribe audio recordings into written formats. You can also join platform like Upwork where you advertise yourself as a transcriber and get to bid on transcription jobs posted on their platform. The good thing about doing transcribing as a side hustle is that it requires little skills, all you need is your ability to listen intently and write down what you hear. An example of companies that hire transcribers is Rev
Doshapp is a new app that is still in its beta testing phase but you get paid to do your shopping in participating companies.what is more, you get to make money from other people when they use your referral link to sign up. This means that you can use your Facebook page to invite people to sign up for the service and you get paid for their referral. Dosh app pays you some money when you shop and travel using hotels that are part of their network.
In conclusion, while you may not be able to combine all these activities at once, you can stager the activities by starting out this way
First, combine this set to start off in making money from home, this is because they require minimal effort and do not require much to start off.
They include Using the Dosh app, registering for online surveys, web search evaluator and delivery. As you become more comfortable, you can then add freelance writing, personal shopping, and transcription.
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What is affiliate marketing? it’s a word that may be new to a beginner Blogger, one who just started blogging or is about to start but to veterans, it’s not a new word, In fact, its a word that means earning income for Bloggers.
Affiliate marketing is promoting other peoples products for a commission payment. Affiliate marketing can be a huge source of income for your blog if you have gained a following and people trust your advice or the services you offer. Just like you are likely to trust your medical doctor if he were to prescribe medication for you.
Bloggers use affiliate marketing for making income from their blogs because most times when you are writing a post where you are providing useful information you are likely to point people to products and sites that will help them to achieve their desired results.
By linking to that site via your post, you help your reader to achieve their goals of reading your Blog and you also make income from that referral, I will count affiliate marketing as a referral based business.
After you have learned what affiliate marketing is, the next thing will be how does it work.
In this post, I will be detailing to you, how it works, what affiliate options are open to you and how to choose the right ones.
How to choose the right Affiliate program
When you want to start affiliate marketing the first thing you need to do is to decide to choose the right affiliate link. This is because if you are careful to choose the right affiliate program, you increase your chances of spending your time promoting products that will pay you better and increase your income earning potentials.The right affiliate link has the following attributes
It fits in with your audience type:
You use affiliate marketing links that tie into the overarching message or niche which your blog is all about or what your post is about. It will make no sense for you to choose an affiliate link whose products do not tie into your niche, this is because most affiliate links are tied to your original post while writing, so if you choose the wrong affiliate link which does not fit into your niche, you may find it difficult to slide it into your post.
For instance today I am writing about affiliate marketing, the easiest thing for me to do is to recommend affiliate products that you can sign up for that pays well. One of such affiliate program is Viglink, Viglink is an affiliate marketing program that is a marketplace for a great number of products covering a lot of niches. Signing up with Viglink will give you access to a whole lot of other products.
The good thing about using Viglink for affiliate marketing program is that once their code is inserted in your blog, they do the affiliate linking themselves. They are able to affiliate any word that ties into a link on their platform thereby saving you the stress of inputting their affiliate URL in your posts. To sign up for Viglink you can click on any of the banners shown below.
Note for instance how I used the affiliate link in the above post, I explained briefly how this affiliate link benefits you and pointed you to where you can sign up for it. This example above fits in with my overall post idea today.
Another example, For instance, my Blog that talks about starting home businesses so it will not be out of place for me to encourage you to use a Shopify store to start your online selling business, it ties into my overall niche. But if I started selling to you a product that has to do with baby teething perhaps I saw a baby teething product which has a good commission and I decided to fit into my post write up today, I will struggle to find a place to fit it into because my post today is not about selling baby items.
Choose Affiliate links with a good commission percentage:
I always love affiliate products that give you up to 40% mark up, of course, it all depends on the final price of the product, for instance, I once made a sale via one of my affiliate links, that link paid me about 45 dollars. It had a 50% commission on it. It was a service based product. I have noticed that the service based product affiliate often pays more. For instance, when you are promoting a course, the course owner is often willing to pay you 30- 50 % of each sale that you make. I believe that intangible based products pay more commission s than tangible products. That’s why people who promote courses and software often make more money from affiliate marketing than those who promote physical goods.
For example, a digital seller of ebooks or courses may pay you 50% commission while an Amazon will pay you 5% or even 2% of the sales. This is where you need to make a decision, do I promote the products that pay me more? of course, you can as long as it fits into your niche. To know which affiliate networks will accept you as a Newbie blogger, click here
Choose affiliates programs with a wide range of Products:
There are affiliates that gather a lot of products under them in that once you are signed up with them you have access to a wide range of products and services. Signing up with one of such affiliates saves you the headache of signing up or applying to each of the products one by one. These types of affiliate programs are called affiliate marketplace, this is because they have a lot of products within all kinds of niches signed up for them. Having access to that affiliate marketplace means you can easily;y apply to the ones you like and have them approve you. Examples of such affiliate programs include Viglink, Awin, and Shareasale
Choose affiliate Links that offer extended cookie period:
This is the time it takes for a customer to come back and make a final purchase. Sometimes a person might click through from your blog to a link but may not be ready to make a purchase immediately. Perhaps that person will come back say in two weeks time to make a purchase. If the cookie length is one week, even though that customer made a purchase finally, it may not be accredited to you so you won’t get paid. But if that cookie length was about 30 days, anytime that person comes back to make a purchase without necessarily going through your blog again, you will still get credit for that purchase.
Choose affiliate links that offer both CPC and CPA:
Most links on affiliate marketing are based on either CPC( Cost per click) or CPA( Cost per action). Cost per click means that as long as someone clicks on your link to the website even if they don’t make a purchase you get paid. Cost per action means that the person who clicked through has to do something, sometimes its a purchase or perhaps fill out a form. Whatever they get to do which was the desired intent of the advertiser, you get paid for such actions. Some advertisers pay for both actions while some will only pay for CPA.
What to consider before you sign up for an affiliate offer
Minimum Payout: Do they have a have threshold of payout such as requiring that you make up to 500 dollars or 1000 dollars before you are paid, you should pick affiliate programs that will pay you out for as low as 50 dollars. For a blogger starting out, every dollar counts.
Promotional Materials e.g banners, videos, links, affiliate panels are the affiliate program structured enough to provide you with the materials you will need to drive your promotions. This is important as it helps give you more options for promotions. For example, a text link may be great for some promotions perhaps through your Newsletter but the visual banners may be good for online social media channels or Blog posts.
Payment method: What type of payment method do they have? PayPal, check, transfer are they flexible with their payment methods? These are important parameters because it’s not enough to make money from the affiliate marketing efforts, getting the cash in your pocket is important too.
Tax forms: Do you need to fill out a tax form before you collect your payment
Are they popular? are people recommending that you join them? this is often an indication that people are being paid, beware of affiliate programs that people are not promoting. I will always advise that you search for a review of such programs before you join them.
How to attach affiliate Links to your Blog posts.
People often ask, how do I attach affiliate links to my Blog posts.
Manually Linking
There are various ways to do this, you can do it manually, meaning that if you are writing your post and you get to the place where you need to use your affiliate links you can refer to it by highlighting and then adding your affiliate link.
Remember that for each affiliate Program you sign up for you are given a special link to your account, this special link is to enable the product owners to track your sales. If you link to just the normal website link provided on their website, you will not get paid because they cannot tell that the customer came from you. Therefore be sure that you obtain a product link before you can then link to that product.
Another way to manually add an affiliate link is to insert the code which often represents the advertiser’s banners on your website.
Automated Linking:
You can use a Plugin like Thirstyaffiliate, they help to cloak your links and protect the income you make from your affiliate links.
You can also use WordPress Auto links if you are using WordPress as your content management system: WP auto link helps list your links for web crawlers so that people can easily click on it.
How to Know which Affiliate Programs will accept you.
Various affiliate Programs require some conditions before you can be accepted into their network. There are however some affiliate programs that will accept you as a Newbie blogger as long as your content is not offensive. Please read my post on affiliate networks that will accept you. By reading up that post you will get access to my curated list of affiliate networks that will accept you as a Newbie Blogger.
Do you have you other ideas on how to choose the right affiliate marketing program for a Newbie blogger? Leave your comment below
Drop shipping is business model where a seller obtains a product from a manufacturer and sells it to the buyer without necessarily keeping inventory. The manufacturer is the one who delivers the product to the final buyer.
It is one of the easiest ways to start an online shop. You pay nothing to your product supplier until you make a sale.In this post, I will be teaching you how to dropship from Aliexpress with 50 dollars or less, so hang on with me as I take you through.
*there are affiliate links in this post, please see my disclaimer policy*
Aliexpress is an online marketplace much like Amazon, except that it is for Chinese sellers. In Aliexpress you get a congregation of manufacturers or big-time whole sellers who sell products to you at the manufacturer’s price, which means they sell at a lower price than you will get at your normal everyday store.
If you want to start selling online without holding inventory, to drop ship from Aliexpress will be the best method to follow.I have been part of forums where people do not understand how to dropship using Aliexpress, hence the need for this post.
The first thing about selling online is that you have to determine what you want to sell i.e defining your niche, if you don’t know what to sell then it will be difficult for you to know how to market or sell your products.
Defining your niche will help you narrow down to what you want to sell and hence decide where you want to source for those products from.
To read more about discovering your Niche please get my free ebook: From stay at home mom to Mompreneur, I dedicated a section to write about finding your Niche.
The next thing to do when you discover what you want to sell is to find suppliers.
For the purpose of this post, I will only be treating using Aliexpress as a supplier to your Business. There are other ways of finding suppliers, you can read that up in my earlier post.
How to Choose a Supplier when you want to Dropship from Aliexpress
The first thing to do before you start searching for your suppliers in the Aliexpress platform is to register on the site.
Register on Aliexpress
Your registration on the platform will give you the opportunity to send emails or messages to your supposed suppliers, you will also be able to Follow a store, this helps you save your suppliers so that you don’t keep searching afresh each time you want to make a purchase.
I suggest that once you have adjudged your supplier to be the one you will use, you follow the store immediately so it is saved in your account. Anytime you want to use that supplier you just check your account and click on the store to go directly to that store without necessarily searching for the store again.
Please note that you cannot search for store names, you can only search for products.
Registration does not take more than a minute, it’s no different from registering on Amazon.com
Before you start choosing a supplier for your products when you want to dropship from Aliexpress, there are certain key metrics that you must look out for.
Metrics for Choosing a Supplier
1 How long has the supplier been open for Business:
Before you choose to order from a supplier the first thing that you should check out is how long has this store been selling on this platform. This will give you a sense as to how reliable that supplier is. It will do you no good to pick a newcomer on the platform who is still trying to get off on his business. There will not be enough reviews for you to know if that person has been consistently delivering to her customers. I will normally go with someone who has been in business for over two years.
2 Check for Feedback scores:
On the Aliexpress platform, all shops have a feedback score attached to them which are usually graded in percentages, this feedback score is a sum total of an average number of people who returned a good feedback on the products they bought from the shop.
Most times, the shop owners are always encouraging you the buyer to leave a good feedback. In fact, they often remind you via emails to come back and leave a feedback so that they will know you were satisfied.
Your feedback is often in form of written notes, star ratings and perhaps even pictures to show that you received the item. This score is perhaps what Aliexpress uses to grade a particular seller. I will go with sellers that have a 98% feedback score and upwards. Sometimes you will see a seller who is considered a Top brand, such sellers may not have a feedback score percentage attached but they have a top brand badge on their platform, this indicates that Aliexpress trusts the quality of products sold by that store.
3 Number of Orders
Before selecting a supplier for your products, you need to check for the number of orders they have processed, it may be for your particular product or for another product from the seller. This is because you want to know that the person you are going to buy from is really selling products consistently. You want to check out the hot selling products and the number of orders that product has sold out.
Most times, you will see that the hot selling products for that store have a lot of reviews, you should take your time to read the reviews not just the good ones but the bad reviews too. You want to know how the seller handles bad customer experience. It’s not enough to say that we will refund your money if you do not like our products, but do they actually do that? Of course, Aliexpress offers buyers protection but you may want to buy from someone who has integrity.
4 Check for shipping options:
What shipping options do they have? and do they offer epacket? I will always go with anyone that offers epacket because it gives you the opportunity to offer free shipping to your customers which will make the customer happy and encourage repeat sales.
5 How long does it take for your Product to arrive
Depending on where you are selling in, perhaps in US or UK or maybe you are shipping worldwide, you have to check what time it takes for your order to arrive. Orders that are shipped to the US take from 12-20 days to arrive via epacket. I sold an item during the Christmas period to a customer and my order reached my customer in 10 days. I was quite impressed. The time it takes for your customer to get their order is important since you dont want an irate customer that did not get his or her orders on time. I will suggest that you add a little lead time to your own product shipping time, this will give you leverage for any delay in shipping from your suppliers.
6 Communicate with your supplier by sending him a message.
Contact your intending supplier to find out if they dropship from Aliexpress. It’s important not to assume that every seller on Aliexpress must want to dropship. Some may not want to, so it’s important to check out with the seller and let them confirm to you that they are willing to dropship for you, should you make a sale.
7 Make a test order:
You could test order the product you want to sell so that you can check out the process, as this will enable you to know what the whole process will be like. It will also give you an idea of how the actual product looks like. Pictures don’t always tell the whole story. You may need to handle the product and packaging to know if its worth using that person as a supplier.
8: Take advantage of the App To Dropship from Aliexpress
Aliexpress has an app which you can download on your phone to use. I have noticed that goods are often cheaper on the app. You can take advantage of the app to get cost savings on your product sourcing.
After you have completed these preliminaries, you now want to start your online shop.
Salehoo : Vetted suppliers for your dropshipping business
Cost of Setting up your Online shop
There are basically two options you can go with when you want to start drop shipping a product. You can choose to sell on an online marketplace e.g Amazon, Bonanza, or you can choose to sell on your own hosted ecommerce shop using such deliverers like Shopify, Big commerce or Wix.
Domain name registration through each platform is – 10 dollars.
So the big question that is still hanging now is how to add these products to your e-commerce shop.
How to Add Products to your Ecommerce shop
You can choose to do it manually- quite time-consuming- you have to cut and paste each picture to your online shop. Plus you will have to manually maintain your pricing, ordering, and tracking.
or you can use this very important Plugin Alidropship which takes care of the following
Product Automation: This includes search and importation of products to your shop, pricing update, epacket filter options, Order fulfillment, auto tracking and also the auto update on product information. For more on how this plugin can change your dropshipping business, click Here.
Customization: This includes Free themes, built in product customization, unlimited products addition, woocommerce support, product variation.
Managing: This includes Live statistics, cashback system, payment gateway integration.
If you chose to go with hosting your shop on Wix, you may find that you have an extra 23 dollars which you will use to set up your first Facebook Ad, in other to attract your first customers.
Please note: Aliexpress is different from Alibaba.com. Most people think they are the same but they are not, Alibaba.com caters to people who want to import physical goods and then distribute or ship themselves and they often require a minimum order number for you to use them.Alixpress selles to anyone even if it is one article you want to buy.
Other alternatives to Alixpress could be joining online directories who curate and qualify manufacturers. An example of such online directory is Salehoo. You pay an amount yearly to have access to suppliers in their database who are prequalified by them. The only thing is that you still have to do the due diligence of reaching out to each one supplier and creating a relationship.
Do you want me to help you do all the written due diligence above? contact me for consulting.
I will help you set up your first shop and ensure all the necessary job is done. I can provide a done for you shop as long as you have picked your Niche. send an email to elizabeth.uchealor@thehomebusinessowner.com
HGTV anyone, raise your hand if you love watching that show. I watched like tons of it, I loved watching how ugly homes were bought, transformed and sold at a good amount. I loved Fixer upper Flip or Flop and Love it or List it.
My love for interior décor and design started long ago when I moved to a new home. I was involved with the designer that designed my home, I got to pick the colors that worked for me and that home turned out perfect.
Today I will be talking about starting a Home staging business from the perspective of a Home business, I know that sounds cocky but I guess I will let it slide. For those who love to watch HGTV or are interested in real estate, you will always see those guys who offload the furniture and arrange empty homes to make it look beautiful before it is listed for sale, those people are called home stagers.
The work of a Home stager goes a long way to help increase the value of a home, real estate agents have been known to sell property well above their value because they engaged a good home stager who brought out the beauty of the home. They also help to create the ambiance which makes people consider buying a property.
Ultimate Portfolio Guide for Home staging by Debra Gould
To start a Home Staging Business here is what you need to do.
1.Understand your Market
Home staging is like an accessory to the real estate market. This means that most Home staging business jobs in conjunction with real estate agents or homeowners who are looking to sell their homes. Home staging helps to bring out the beauty in a home and also enhance the essential qualities in a Home in other to make it more appealing to the buyer.
You will need to study your real estate market before you decide to start your business for instance, here are some questions you need to answer
-Where are the homes selling, what seasons do you see for sale signs everywhere?
-Where are the real estate agents who are involved in selling these homes and how will you approach them to market your services?
-Where is the next real estate fair taking place and how will you participate?
These are some of the questions you need to ask yourself so as to get a good knowledge of what the market is about before you dive in.
2.Put together a Portfolio:
One of the beautiful things about Home décor and Home staging is the fact that a picture is worth a thousand words. This means that once people see your photo shots, they quickly have an idea of what you can do. So in starting Home staging business, the first thing you may need to do is to put together a Photoshoot which you can use as your own portfolio, this will give people an idea of what you can offer.
Remember to take the before and after pictures so as to illustrate the difference that your services made in the home you staged. If you are just starting out you can use your own home or friends home. You may even reach out to Homeowners who are trying to sell their homes and offer to home -stage for them for free in exchange for recommendation and referrals.
3.Network with Real estate Agents:
When one is starting a business, one of the most daunting tasks is always where do I start from, how do I reach out to people who need my services. I think the first thing you may need to do is to connect to people who are selling homes, that is the real estate companies and agents and offer to work with them.
You can choose to start by showing them your portfolio or even offer free services for a start so they can see your handwork before perhaps making a commitment to you.
Another set of people that you need to connect with are Furniture sellers, renters, and logistics people and generally, stores who sell their goods to homeowners. You can also connect with local people who live in your area they are often the ones who know what homes are hot on the market, those who are eager to sell.
4.Write a one Page Business Plan:
A business plan is a document that enables you to know how to make money from your business. I know that when people hear the word business plan, their mind gets switched off especially if you don’t consider your self-business savvy but it does not have to be something fanciful, just a One-page business plan will do.
If want one, please go here to read my post on the one page business plan. Your business plan will enable you to plan and itemize your income streams and decide how you are going to make money from those income streams.
Home staging Business training
5.Marketing:
Your Marketing plan is an integral part of what you will be doing in other to land your first client. Getting your name out there may require the following marketing drives
–Set up a one-page website:
To learn how to start a one build a one-page website you can read my post on how to start a Blog when you are not Techy, yes it’s not a Blog that you are starting but a simple website is no different from a Blog setting, that’s why I refer you to that post
Set up your Online Presence:
Start by setting up your different social pages like Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. Because Home staging business is a visual-based business, you cannot afford not to be on Instagram and Pinterest, It pays to understand what platform will enhance your business more.
Offline marketing activities will include
-Attending local reals estate fairs and distributing your marketing materials aka, cards, Fliers, and banners.
-Checking out your neighborhood for recent listings or even properties that haven’t sold in a while. Perhaps your staging business can contribute to enhancing its value.
-Submitting your portfolio to Real estate offices.
Skills that you may require start off
Home staging business is an unstructured industry, therefore, you may not need any kind of licensing in other to set up your business. Except of course incorporating your company, businesses want to deal with businesses, not individuals.
–A Natural talent for decorating, designing and staging: This may be an innate quality which you have within you in that case you just need to brush it up by reading up materials which are related to the business and increasing your knowledge. You may also decide to take a course if you can afford it.
One of the people I will advise you take a course from is an industry professional who knows what she is talking about when it comes to home staging business. You can look up Debrah Gould from stagingdiva.com she is an all-time industry personnel who offers courses in Home Staging. Her courses are pricey but I know they are worth it
-A good Knowledge of Interior designing and Home décor will be of enormous advantage.
A keen eye for organizing things: Since home staging is about arranging stuff to tell a story or create an ambiance, you should have a keen eye for organizing things to make it work
Love for shopping and decorating: You love to shop for furniture decor accessories, you know how to get a good bargain.
Revamping furniture: Love for refurbishing and refinishing Furniture to make it look new
Color combination: Natural sense of color combination and coordination
Business skills: Which includes marketing, budgeting, negotiating, proposal writing, contract drafting.
Photography: Ability to take pictures from an angle that gives the best benefit.
P.S: You may not have all these skills but if you have a love for decorating and interiors, you can begin to actually learn and implement on your small projects till you perfect it.
How to start a Home Staging Business
Types of services you can offer as Part of your Home Staging Business
Home staging for Sale: This involves when you are staging a home for real estate agents who want to sell their homes
Home staging for Rent: This involves when you are staging a home because the owner wants to rent out his home perhaps to vacationers or even long-term living.
Color Consultation: This involves color consulting for the homeowner to know what types of colors suits them so as to guide them in choosing the best color spectrum for their homes.
Home decorating: This involves furnishing and decorating homes for individuals who want such services and are not interested in hiring an expensive home designer.
General consultation: This includes general consultation that can be done online for people who desire to decorate their homes themselves but have no idea where to start from. This could involve, coaching calls, online written instructions.
Resources you will require to start a Home Staging Business
-A business license and structure
-A good camera
-Laptop
-Phone
-Home office
-Initial start-up capital
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