We start a business.

We bring our skills and we bring our past knowledge.

But we also bring our brains.

It's easy to learn strategies.

It's easy to gain knowledge.

It's much, much harder to manage our minds.

Learning to be aware of our thoughts will be one of the most valuable things you can learn.

Because our minds ultimately control how much of our knowledge and skills get put into action.

Our minds control our habits.

Our minds decide whether to keep going or to stop when we don't see results.

Let's not leave it up to chance what our minds decide. Let's prepare ourselves. ]

That's what today's episode is all about.

• The one reason why any strategy you learn to grow your business will succeed or fail.
• The neuroscience behind how humans learn anything
• The four phases of belief your brain passes through with any challenging task (including your marketing strategies)

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• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

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Creating financial results in your home staging business starts with setting the right price for your services.

That seems so obvious, doesn't it?

But what is the "right" price? How do you figure that out?

Figuring it out is actually easy. It takes a little bit of thought, research and math.

Getting your mind wrapped around what the math tells you is quite another.

That is where most of our work lies.

In today's episode, we dive into the math and the mindset of setting the right price for your staging business. Enjoy!

• Two ways to not determine your pricing (that a lot of people do!)
• The detailed steps to figure out the best pricing for your business
• How to begin to manage your mind when the math gives you a number that feels uncomfortable

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The average homeowner moves every 7 years.  

28% of listing agents surveyed by the National Association of Realtors incorporate staging into their listings.

And I betcha not all of those listing agents use staging companies.

Soooo…..

We have to assume most people have never worked with a staging company before.

That can open up all kinds of opportunity for them to be nervous, confused and not be ready for their appointment or installation. And that can put us and our teams into all kinds of awkward situations.

But the beauty is...we can help close the gap on many of these things if we:

• Spend time thinking about our clients
• Think about what feelings they may be having 
• Think about what questions they are having about the process
• Think about what information they may need to know to help us do our jobs more easily
• Think about how can we communicate the process as effectively as possible

And today I'm sharing all kinds of ways and tools to help you communicate often and in a variety of ways that won't take a ton of your time once you get them set up and running. Enjoy!

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• Acuity
• Calendly 
• Honeybook
• 17Hats
• Aweber
• MailChimp
• Flodesk
• Slydial
• Call Loop
• Just Deliver It
• Canva
• Fiverr

This week, I want to introduce you to a concept that will absolutely make your business life so much more enjoyable as you grow. It is going to help you find clients who are a very best fit for your services and will help you identify those clients that won't be a right fit or get the best results from the work that you do. They are called Client Filters.

Client Filters are like having a Red Velvet Rope around your business. Even though I believe every new and newish business owner should work with as many clients as possible, I want you to know that Client Filters are available to you right away and that you can be on the lookout for ways to introduce them into your business as you grow.

Because, as you grow, you will want to be running a low-maintenance business that is clean and clear for all of your team and clients to know exactly what they can expect. And you want to be able to reproduce a great working experience for your team and great results across all of your projects. Client Filters help you do all of that. Pretty dang dreamy, right?

And...in this episode, I'll share some of the Client Filters we have inside Rethink Home Interiors so that you can start thinking about yours...

• What are Client Filters and why they will help make your business experience so much more enjoyable.
• Why I believe every newer staging business owner should work with anyone willing to pay them in the beginning.
• How Client Filters help your business work with the very best clients who value what you do and get the best results from your work together.
• The Client Filters we have at Rethink Home Interiors
• Why your Client Filter is a protective measure for your business, your team and your client.

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• Episode 5 | How to Create Boundary Alignment For Your Home Staging Business
• Episode 6 | How to Create Boundary Alignment For Your Home Staging Business

People ask the darndest things, don't they?  Can you stage tomorrow?  Can you give me a discount because I'll bring you lots of work?  Can I pick the furniture you use?

If you're in business long enough, you'll definitely hear at least one of those.  

You may also encounter scenarios like, 4 feet of snow in the driveway leading to the house you're supposed to stage, construction teams still working in the house, dumpsters blocking your access.  And on and on...

These times can totally stress us out and even annoy us or make us feel devalued.

But...there is a better way.  We can plan for these things, maybe understand where their coming from a little better and we can create communication plans that we can dust off in times of need that are neutral, grounded and effective.

• What is grounded communication?
• The 4 key ingredients to great grounded communication.
• Why the thoughts in your brain can totally derail your communication (even if you're saying the right words!).
• Empowering thoughts to develop around communicating your corporate policies.
• … and more!

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One of the joys of owning a Staging business is that you meet so many humans. And one of the challenges of owning a Staging business is that you meet so many humans!

We will be constantly working with people who haven't worked with a stager before so they may have misinformed expectations about staging (I'm looking at you HGTV!) or they may flat out just be demanding or miserable people.

They may not understand that you can't install a vacant tomorrow when you have just seen the property for the first time today. They may ask if they can come to your warehouse to choose the furniture for their project. They may ask you to come back and replace the coffee table because they aren't a fan of that style.

Either way, boundaries are going to (or should) become your business's best friend very quickly. And I say your business's friend because you are not your business. Your business needs boundaries even if you aren't great at having them in your personal life (no shame, I'm a recovering people pleaser!)

In this week's podcast, I'm diving deep into boundary and policy alignment for your business. I'll be giving you food for thought about the kinds of boundaries and policies you may want to put into place, how you communicate them, and what to do if clients don’t honor your boundaries.

Listen in to find out how your boundaries affect your business, the truth about emergencies, and the importance of thinking from a place of neutrality.

• What's the difference between boundaries and policies?
• How to set the right boundaries and policies.
• How to communicate boundaries effectively.
• Why you need to separate your boundaries from your business boundaries.
• … and more!

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Intro

Hey, everybody! Welcome episode 4 of the Staging Sips Podcast. I’m your host, Lori Fischer, and I started this podcast to share the lessons that I’ve learned along my staging business journey so that you don’t have to make the same mistakes I’ve made while reaching for your ultimate goal.

In today’s episode, I talk about the third and final phase of business - the Leverage Phase. 

This is your time! 

Everything you worked for in the Growth and Accelerate Phases of your business begins to come to fruition. This week I'm taking you behind the scenes to see what a Leveraged Business looks like. It isn't all rainbows and daffodils but it's pretty darn nice!

Your team is getting (mostly all the time) in flow, your processes are getting tighter and clearer, you have more room to breathe, you are helping more people. Enjoy this...embrace it and thank your past self for sticking with it and taking the steps to get you here. She (or he!) deserves your respect and admiration. As Snoop Dogg says, "I want to thank me" and you should too.

Listen in to find out how to build and motivate your team, reconnecting with who you are, and implementing strategies ahead of time.

What You’ll Learn from This Episode:

• How you can shed your business hats.
• How to move from 5000-foot to 30,000-foot responsibilities.
• How to deal with negative thoughts as your business grows.
• … and more!

If you want to learn how to market and grow your staging business, sign up for the waitlist for the next enrollment period for Rethink You. This is a year-long mentorship program, where I help you and other staging business owners plan, grow, flow, and thrive with the results that they’ve always wanted.

Resources

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Intro

Hey, everybody! Welcome episode 3 of the Staging Sips Podcast. I’m your host, Lori Fischer, and I started this podcast to share the lessons that I’ve learned along my staging business journey so that you don’t have to make the same mistakes I’ve made while reaching for your ultimate goal.

In today’s episode, I talk about the second of three phases of business - the Accelerate Phase. I will be walking you through what you can expect to see in your business during this phase, and we take a look at growing your team for the first time.

Listen in to find out how you can become more efficient as your business accelerates, scaling and budgeting, automation, and creating a “you not needed” business plan.

What You’ll Learn From This Episode:

• How to be committed to solving the problems that your business was designed to solve.
• How to plan your cashflow for quiet seasons.
• The importance of automation.
• Why you need to engineer your pricing from real numbers.
• … and more!

If you want to learn how to market and grow your staging business, sign up for the waitlist for the next enrollment period for Rethink You. This is a year-long mentorship program, where I help you and other staging business owners plan, grow, flow, and thrive with the results that they’ve always wanted.

Resources

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• Book: E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber.
• Book: That Will Never Work, by Marc Randolph.

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Hey, everybody! Welcome to episode 2 of the Staging Sips Podcast. I’m your host, Lori Fischer, and today starts a three-part series that I’ve put together on growing a staging business.

In today’s episode, I walk through the the first of three phases of business - the growth phase. I will also be sharing some of the benchmarks of this phase, how to stop your brain from stopping your growth, and how to overcome some of the most common hurdles that your business could come across.

Listen in to find out how to effectively grow your business so that you can begin reaching for your goals.

What You’ll Learn From This Episode:

• How to stop your brain from being a bad roommate.
• The advantage of using social media and emails.
• How to plan for the future of your business.
• Which important questions you need to be asking yourself.
• … and so much more!

If you want to learn how to market and grow your staging business, sign up for the waitlist for the next enrolment period for Rethink You. This is a year-long mentorship program, where I help you and other staging business owners plan, grow, flow, and thrive with the results that they’ve always wanted.

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Have you ever wondered why--even when you know what you should be doing to grow your staging business--you don't do it?  Today, we're going to dig in and start to uncover the mystery of your inaction.  If you learn nothing else from any other episode in this podcast, this one thing will be a game changer!

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