Would you rather poke your eyes with needles than to have to be a “sales person” in your business? You are not alone; I know how much entrepreneurs really dislike selling.

Most people hate the word “selling” which results in a loss of major revenues every year because they are afraid to offend someone or don’t want to face rejection when they ask for the sale.

I’ve heard it hundreds of times from my PRES Home Staging & Redesign students and I used to hear it all the time in corporate when I was the Sales Manager.

In fact I hear this so much that I am hosting a FREE one-time only teleseminar specifically on this subject in order to give you valuable information you need to know on this topic at 6 p.m. Pacific on Thursday, September 8, 2011…

’5 Steps to Taking The Fear Out of Selling – Relationship Selling Made Easy’

On this call you’ll learn:

1. How to “prospect” effectively in order to have prospective clients clamour to work with you.
2. How to “qualify” your prospective clients so you can easily identify exactly what it is that they need from you.
3. Discover this simple tactic that will showcase your expertise and overcome your prospect’s objections.
4. Learn how to close the sale with authenticity, grace and ease.
5. Find out how this final, crucial step will ensure you a long-standing, thriving business.
6. How you can claim $300 off my brand new on-line PRES Home Staging Home Study Course 2.0 — featuring live training with me, Q&A calls, PM3 recordings, transcripts and more!

Whether you are a brand-new entrepreneur or have been in business for a long time, you don’t want to miss this important information I have to share with you!

It’s time to stop being afraid of selling! Take advantage of this complimentary call where you will learn how to attract your ideal client so you no longer have to “sell” anymore . . . even in tough financial times!

Thursday, September 8, 2011 @ 6pm PDT

Click on this link to sign up now to reserve your space on this complimentary call!

“See” you then!
Feel free to invite friends and colleagues to this call, but please remember to reserve your spot HERE first!

I suggest grabbing your seat even if you’re not sure you can make the live call. If you miss it, you’ll still have access to the audio recording (which will be very valuable if you’re an entrepreneur or business owner in any capacity!)

Here’s that link again to register: http://www.homestaginghomestudycourse.com

I recently came back from a Peak Potentials course called Wizard Camp. I was delighted that the camp came just before the launch of my new PRES Home Staging Home Study course because I knew I would need to put some of the manifestation training that I would be learning into practice.

I make these kinds of investments in myself because I know they are critical to my personal and business growth. This is what Wizard Camp was all about taken directly from Peak Potentials website:

‘There is no greater skill than the ability to manifest what you want. This is the magic of the wizard!

The wizard archetype, also known as the magician or alchemist, is able to turn “lead into gold”. The unique quality of the wizard is an ability to manifest their desires in the real world. There are 7 specific steps to creating anything. At Wizard Training Camp, you will learn and practice these steps and come away with skills that will change the course of your life.

You will learn:

• A highly developed “reality creation” technology.
• Specific clearing processes to make space for higher wisdom.
• Enlightened principles for creating success without struggle.
• How to tap directly into your intuition.
• How to see through the illusion of the world and come from a higher perspective.

The Wizard Training is special. If you would like to learn how to manifest exactly what you want in the world, be there.’

So here I am a ‘Wizard’ and having to implement much of what I learned from camp because I have come up against a few glitches in rolling out this new program. It’s all good and I just ‘correct and continue’ because I know I will find a way to fix the few challenges that I am having. They are mainly technical for me, and I know that ‘since everything happens for a reason, and that reason is to serve me so that I can serve you’ it will all be fixed in time for the September launch.

I’m manifesting this new PRES home staging home study course so that I can serve 1000s of people (mainly women) and lead them to manifesting their own magnificent home staging business. I hope you can join me on my ‘FREE’ call on September 8th as I share some of my wizardry with you.

Would you rather poke your eyes with needles than to have to be a “sales person” in your business?

You are not alone; I know how much entrepreneurs really dislike selling.

Most people hate the word “selling” which results in a loss of major revenues every year because they are afraid to offend someone or don’t want to face rejection when they ask for the sale.

I’ve heard it hundreds of times from my PRES Home Staging & Redesign students and I used to hear it all the time in corporate when I was the Sales Manager.

In fact I hear this so much that I am hosting a FREE one-time only teleseminar specifically on this subject in order to give you valuable information you need to know on this topic at 6 p.m. Pacific on Thursday, September 8, 2011…

’5 Steps to Taking The Fear Out of Selling – Relationship Selling Made Easy’

On this call you’ll learn:

1. How to “prospect” effectively in order to have prospective clients clamour to work with you.
2. How to “qualify” your prospective clients so you can easily identify exactly what it is that they need from you.
3. Discover this simple tactic that will showcase your expertise and overcome your prospect’s objections.
4. Learn how to close the sale with authenticity, grace and ease.
5. Find out how this final, crucial step will ensure you a long-standing, thriving business.
6. How you can claim $300 off my brand new on-line PRES Home Staging Home Study Course 2.0 — featuring live training with me, Q&A calls, PM3 recordings, transcripts and more!

Whether you are a brand-new entrepreneur or have been in business for a long time, you don’t want to miss this important information I have to share with you!

It’s time to stop being afraid of selling! Take advantage of this complimentary call where you will learn how to attract your ideal client so you no longer have to “sell” anymore . . . even in tough financial times!

Thursday, September 8, 2011 @ 6 p.m. PDT

Sign up now here to reserve your space on this complimentary call.

“See” you then!

Dana

I’d like to let you know about a quick way to earn some extra cash by doing what I know you love doing . . . spreading the word.

If you keep up with marketing blogs and the online industry, it’s likely you’ve heard the word “affiliate” used a lot. I’m not surprised as it is a very successful way to earn passive income and many are taking advantage of it.

Just in case you aren’t sure, an “affiliate” is someone who earns commissions for promoting someone else’s products or services. There are many people who have made a business out of this income stream and others use it to supplement their existing income for some additional spending money.

And that’s why I want to tell you about my brand new PRES Affiliate Program. With this new offering, you now have an opportunity to earn commissions on my upcoming, brand new online home staging home study I’m launching next month!

I invite you to join my PRES Affiliate Program. It’s absolutely free to join, so even if you just have a small list or few social media followers, you’ve got nothing to lose –and only commissions to gain.

With my soon-to-be-announced (FREE) call happening on September the 8th, ‘Taking the Fear Out of Selling’ it will be a perfect opportunity for you to earn commissions when your referrals sign up to participate in my brand new online course: PRES Home Staging Home Study Program 2.0 Blueprint . . . 7 Steps To Creating Your Home Staging Business – Make Money Doing What You Love!

The course starts September 22nd so you could start earning commissions as early as next month!

To start earning commissions right away, create your free affiliate account here: https://www.secureinfossl.com/affSignUp/1114.html

With Gratitude
Dana

P.S. Remember my free 90-minute call is happening on September 8th, 2011 and will be a perfect opportunity for you to invite your list to attend. On that call, I will reveal my 7-week online course where I will take students through a step-by-step process on how to build their very own home staging business and make money doing what they love!

Sign up to become an affiliate today and I will send you more details soon on what you need to do next: https://www.secureinfossl.com/affSignUp/1114.html

Michaela Starling of Starling, Staging and Stylingis one of the instrumental organizers in getting the Victoria Meet Up group together. They are made up of a core group of home stagers, stylists and redesigners who have created a very successful networking group, getting together once a month to share ideas and learn from industry experts.

I am really excited to be heading over to Victoria BC tomorrow to do a presentation to the Vancouver Island Stagers, Stylist and ReDesigners. While I have taught several of them there are many whom I have not had the pleasure of meeting yet. It will be a fun night with lots of sharing of ideas about the home staging and related industries.

Photos next week….

If you don’t have a Meet Up Home Stagers group in your area why not think about starting one. It’s a great idea to check out other Meet Ups in your area where you would be able to make referrals to and be referred by others.

I am totally excited to be on the Fanny Kiefer Studio 4 show today! The live show is at 9am I’m scheduled to be on at 9:40. The show then repeats at 1pm, 4pm and 9pm if you can’t make the early one! I’ll be talking about my new book Start & Run a Home Staging Business and about why sellers need to stage their home to get top dollar, and to sell sooner than homes that are not staged.

If you do miss it they put it up on You Tube (I’ll get the link) and/or you can go to Studio 4 and catch the last week’s worth of Studio 4 episodes.

Off to get dressed:)

As a pioneer in the home staging industry it’s my duty to promote and educate the public on the benefits of home staging. It is a proven fact that staged homes sell for more money and sooner than homes that are not staged.

In January I created my 2011 Vision Board with Fanny Kiefer Studio 4 Interview in my Feng Shui Bagua Career section. I did this a few years ago as well but I knew I needed to write a book Start & Run a Home Staging Businessto get on the show, and so I did! My Vision Board has manifested into a real live interview for me with Fanny Kiefer of Studio 4 on Wednesday July 6th and I am excited!

Fanny Kiefer in my Career Section of my Vision Board

Here’s the story of how all this great PR has come about:

My publicist Sarah Yu of Self-Counsel Press pitched my book Start & Run a Home Staging Business to the National Post and I wrote several blog posts for them on home staging tips.

From there the Vancouver Sun editor liked the stories and decided to have a freelance writer Alison Applebe come and do an interview with me. This article should be in the Sun early July in their HOME section.

Sarah then got me a television spot on a local show Global TV and I again talked about the benefits of home staging while promoting my book.

I then used all this media/PR information when I wrote my own pitch to Ian MacKenzie to get on Fanny’s show. This was on my ‘bucket list’ and I felt I could manifest it in time. So at 9am on Wednesday July 6th I have the pleasure of sitting across the table from Fanny Kiefer whom I totally admire for her professionalism, her busy savvy, and her overall brilliance as a women entrepreneur.

I will be talking about the benefits of home staging for home sellers and my intention is to promote it so well that many of the PRES graduates have home sellers calling them to help them stage their home. Of course I hope to attract some potential new students for my PRES Staging & Redesign course offered the week of July 11th.

If you want more information about creating your own Vision Board as a home stager, go to my Archived eNewsletters in January 2011 and download the Feng Shui Western Bagua which is how I create my boards. You don’t need to use the bagua at all, it’s just a guide.

As a home staging instructor part of my role is to continue to educate the public about the benefits of home staging – mainly getting top dollar for a staged home and selling more quickly than an unstaged home! I’ve had a great time this week with being interviewed for an up-and-coming article for the Vancouver Sun’s Home section. The freelance writer Alison Applebe did a great job of interviewing me so stay tuned for that.

I was interviewed on Global TV Sunday morning with Sophie Lui. It was great to be able to promote home staging and my book.

I am super excited to be on the Fanny Kiefer Studio 4 show on July 6th at 9am. I’ve wanted to get on Fanny’s show for 2 years now, and having written my book, Start & Run a Home Staging Business seems to have done the trick! Stay tuned for that….

Want to learn how to start up a home staging business in just one week? ‘Staging Guru’ Dana Smithers of the PRES Staging Training Programs is sharing her journey from start- up to success! Her inspirational talk is tomorrow at the Vancouver Public Library at 7:30pm.

In her talk you will learn how she overcame many obstacles on her journey as a solopreneur. She shares her 3 top marketing strategies that she used to grow her business and become a home staging expert. She’ll tell it like it is – what skills and talents a great staging entrepreneur needs to be successful.

If you don’t know how much time you should be spending on home staging, administration and marketing & sales Dana will share those percentages with you. Having the right skill sets and learning business skills are part of a home stagers’ success but equally important, and sometimes more so, is the ‘home stagers’ mindset’. Find out why negative thinking is non-productive in growing a business!

Just by showing up you can WIN A COPY of her book Start & Run a Home Staging Business published by Self-Counsel Press.

Get $400 OFF her PRES 5 Day Professional Home Staging & Redesign course!

PS Now that the Canucks won last night they won’t be competing for that time slot with me – so no excuses, come and join me I would love to meet you!

Vancouver Library Home Staging Talk

If you are still not sure if home staging is the career for you then you will find the the PRES Staging Training Program’s FREE Webinar on ‘How To Become A Home Stager In Just One Week’ a great place to start!

Our webinar is offered the first Tuesday of every month from 5 – 6pm. The next one is June 7th.

Dana J. Smithers a Canadian home staging industry leader does a ‘live’ webinar so that you can personally ask her questions about home staging as a career. If you have never been on a webinar all you need to do is to contact us: Janice@PresStaging.com and we will provide you with the access code from your computer. You can either phone in or use your microphone from your computer.

The power point presentation is packed with information about how to start and grow your business. You’ll learn staging secrets that propel you to success just by being on this webinar.

PS If you live in the Vancouver area you will have a chance to see Dana live at the Vancouver Public Library on Thursday May 26th at 7:30pm. She’ll share her business success secrets and give you the key marketing strategies you need to create a thriving home staging business.