Product Description

HOW YOU CAN BECOME A HIGHLY PAID REDESIGNER. Do you go crazy in other people's homes because everything is in the wrong place? Would you like to turn that craziness into cash? Now you can make outstanding profits arranging furniture and accessories for others! Interior Redesign is the creative use of professional arranging techniques to transform a client's home from ordinary into extraordinary in a matter of hours by moving and arranging the furniture and accessories the client already owns. It is one of the easiest and most rewarding businesses in the design field today. Now Barbara Jennings, the West Coast pioneer of interior redesign, offers readers a way to improve, enhance, enrich and dramatically grow their income with their own home based redesign business. No experience necessary - no degree necessary.

As director of the Academy of Staging and Redesign (hosted at Decorate-Redecorate.Com), Jennings explains the best, easiest and most profitable ways to start, grow, manage and sustain a highly successful redecorating business. She brings 38 years of experience in home business development together with decades of interior design expertise in this large format, practical manual that reveals in simple terms the how-to strategies of top professional re-designers. She teaches readers exactly what to say and do on their half day or full day projects. A very simple, low risk business to learn, readers will discover how to transform a home in a matter of hours using just what is there, then making suggestions as to what additional products and services the homeowner could acquire, if needed. The manual provides both business setup and superb marketing training, as well as design training, and the author suggests plenty of additional training and visual aids that could be acquired which will be helpful to readers as they build their business and market their services to consumers. Readers will learn to integrate, advance and deploy workable, sustainable methods that lead to confidence, empowerment and strong profits, even in a tough economy.

Written in a no-nonsense, yet personable style, Rearrange It! teaches readers who want a thriving interior redesign business:

• how to prepare themselves professionally
• how to get clients and referrals
• how to conduct consultations the right way
• how to set up their business and protect themselves legally
• how to hang art and pictures properly
• how to market and promote their services in a variety of ways
• how to get free publicity for their business
• how to reach potential clients and qualify them
• how to assess a room quickly and know how to solve the problems
• 31 examples of arrangement techniques used by professionals (including the most popular furniture arrangement configurations, one of which should solve even the most complicated room)
• 20 questions to ask homeowners before starting a redesign consult
• practical do's and don'ts
• questions and answers
• important legalities and set up guidance
• how to develop a business plan
• the proper business etiquette
• an extensive furniture and accessory moving tips segment
• how to charge for services
• how to get referrals and testimonials
• how to get other tools and resources
• and how to get free ongoing training

Barbara Jennings is director of the ACADEMY OF STAGING AND REDESIGN at Decorate-Redecorate.Com. She has written 13 popular books on home staging and redesign and trained over 10,000 globally through her certification courses and business guides.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59282 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Review
Any library strong in either interior decoration or business titles simply must have REARRANGE IT! The author's been professionally rearranging homes in California since 1986: her home-based designer tips lend perfectly to those who would operate and foster home-based work while her case studies of clients, tips on what to charge and how to rearrange, assessments of what homeowners need most, and how to turn a chaotic home feel into a design masterpiece makes for clear, specific suggestions. While those selling homes and real estate agents will find this of key interest, so will both those seeking to make a business of home arranging and homeowners just seeking a more logical arrangement, making for a wide-ranging recommendation suitable for any public lending library. --Midwest Book Review

About the Author
Barbara Jennings, CSS/CRS (CA), is Director of the Academy of Staging and Redesign (hosted at Decorate-Redecorate.Com) and has trained tens of thousands of stagers and redesigners through her home study books and dual certification courses. She has personally mentored stagers and redesigners across the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe since 2002. Jennings has nearly 4 decades of experience in interior design, home staging, redesign, marketing and promotion of a home-based business. She has successfully built 4 home based businesses in the design field in her distinguished career.

A best selling author of distinction (whose books are well noted for their specifics and detailed information), she has authored 13 books and 6 electronic books such as: Home Staging in Tough Times (print), Home Staging for Profit (print or ebook), Staging Luxurious Homes (print), Staging Portfolio Secrets (print), Getting Paid: Financial Strategies for Home Stagers (print), Home Staging for Yourself (print), Rearrange It (print or ebook), Decor Secrets Revealed (ebook), Arrange Your Stuff (print), Advanced Redesign (print or ebook, Where There's a Wall - There's a Way (print), Wall Groupings! (print), Pro Art Consulting (print or ebook), and The Secret Art of Hanging Art (ebook). She also developed the highly respected Certified Redesign Specialist Designation (CRS) and hosts one of the largest online directories for stagers and redesigners on the internet PLUS a free discussion forum for the exchange of ideas on staging, redesign and decorating in general. Jennings continues to actively develop and pioneer innovative, affordable visual aids, promotional tools, slideshows and CDs, home-study dual certification courses and assorted back-end products to assist readers in promoting and managing a staging and redesign business long term, which are all available at her website, including free monthly design newsletters, the Academy of Staging and Redesign, the International Staging and Redesign Directory and the free discussion forum.

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Customer Reviews

Exceptionally Good Training
I was one of those people who almost took an expensive seminar to learn how to do this business. How fortunate I am to have run across this excellent book on the subject instead. It was much larger than I expected it to be and packed full of just the kind of information I was hoping to find from how to get started, how to conduct appointment, how to set up and so forth. Not only does the author share her knowledge and experience generously, but she provides access to many additional resources she also provides to give you a well-rounded education to do the business with confidence. This book is filled with practical guidance and I will refer to it often, I'm sure.

Great Source!!
As an interior designer, I was looking to expand my business into the home staging arena, but wasn't really interested in spending thousands of dollars on one of those 3-day courses. After ordering and reading the reviews from the author's Home Staging for Profit: How to Start and Grow a Highly Profitable Home-Based Staging Business, I stumbled across this book and am very thankful that I found it. As a designer, it provided knowledge that I already was trained in, however I thought it was a good refresher, because it reminded me of things that I had forgotten. I thought the author did a great job again in providing an in-depth guide about interior redesign. I found this book as well as her other to be quite informative, easy to read and chalked full of great tips and examples. I would highly recommend this to anyone who is interested in running their own interior redesign business.

Takes the mystique out of interior redesign
This book explains the art and business of interior redesign in a completely understandable manner. Barbara Jennings left no stone unturned in this pratical guide. Her detailed advice enabled me to a become a more professional designer. I found the book enlightning and I saved money by purchasing this book, as opposed to attending an expensive time consuming seminar away from home.

Thank you Barbara!