“Yesterday, I had the pleasure of staging the home of a 70 year old couple,” Joelle writes. “They have a beautiful 4500 sq. ft. rancher on a 1 acre property. It is listed at $1.6 million. I was hired by the Realtor® to spend a couple hours going through the property and using only what they have do a little merchandising of their home. ”
She gives a much more detailed description here, Staging for Seniors – They Really Need Us, and the Show below clearly illustrates the value of “a little merchandising.” It also illustrates how powerful this can be as a marketing piece.
We’ve always known the sacrifice we were making for smooth movement. But with Home Stagers joining our fold, we were pushed to look harder at the image quality of our Main Shows.
It didn’t take a huge push, but it you can thank the prodding of Karen Reynolds for this major breakthough. After an email she sent me this mornign, we went on a major offensive and came up with a way to improve the image quality of our main Shows.
This is very exciting for us here at RealEsateShows.com. Our goal has always been to keep the “video -like” feel of the Shows. Until today, this has meant making some sacrifices on image quality to get rid of what we affectionately refer to as “image wobble.” Today, as a result of a combination of improvements made when we launched the new player, we found a way to get better quality AND reduce the wobble at the same time.
Side By Side Detail Comparison:
Notice the major difference in detail on the garage windows, the grass and the improved color contrast and shadow detail. This improvement will be seen most in complex interior shots and in photos of people’s faces. Everyone is going to benefit from this push! We’re thrilled! And we know you are going to be thrilled as well.
All Shows created from this moment forward will use this new method. But old Shows can also see this improvement. You simply need to replace the photos. We will apply this new setting to all replaced photos as well. [ How To Replace Photos In Your Existing Shows ]
Karen, thanks for pushing us to take a harder look! Home Stagers Rock!
Several questions have come in regarding the cost to your real estate agent clients.
Our regular retail price is $125 per year. Part of this program is your ability to offer a discount to the real estate agents you sign up under your account. This is a discount of $25, bringing the yearly cost to $100 per year, per real estate agent. Each real estate agent you sign up can subscribe at that reduced fee of $100 per year.
That’s what we know the Home Staging Shows program can be for the home stagers who take advantage of this offer. This program started with the persistence of Maureen Henry, at Rockland Home Staging. She, like other home stagers, saw RealEstateShows.com as being a powerful tool for helping her market her home staging business. But she also saw RealEstateShows.com as a way to build relationships with her target clients – real estate agents. And she was a bulldog in pushing us to come up with a strategy that would help the entire home staging industry.
Working together, we came up with Home Staging Shows, a program that empowers the home staging industry with a unique vehicle to promote themselves and a tool that adds value to their real estate agent relationships at the same time.
How does it work?
Fill out the program request form. Once we have verified that you are a home staging professional, we will send you a link to create your Home Staging Shows account. This is NOT a regular RealEstateShows.com account. This is a special account that allows you to:
Create your own Shows to market yourself
Create and manage real estate agent accounts
Create shows in their accounts
Receive communication about the Shows they create.
There are two major benefits.
First, you get access to your own RealEstateShows.com account. You can create personal Shows, partner with local businesses or simply showcase your work. This is a fully functioning RealEstateShows.com account and is free for you to use to promote yourself, so long as you sign up two real estate agents under your account within the first 6 months. The price for each real estate agent is just $100 per year.
Second, and most importantly, whether you pay for it or the real estate agent does, you benefit from creating a year long conversation with a real estate agent that is centered around helping THEM grow THEIR business. RealEstateShows.com is a powerful tool for creating featured tours for their homes, neighborhood tours that allow them to be seen as a neighborhood expert, and home buyer shows that allow them to create viral impact by accessing the power of the internet. There are many other uses for RealEstateShow.com. Check out the RealEstateShows.com Blog for more ideas you can share with your real estate agent clients, tips and how to videos.
Let the conversation begin.
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“Yesterday, I had the pleasure of staging the home of a 70 year old couple,” Joelle writes. “They have a beautiful 4500 sq. ft. rancher on a 1 acre property. It is listed at $1.6 million. I was hired by the Realtor® to spend a couple hours going through the property and using only what they have do a little merchandising of their home. ”
Our regular retail price is $125 per year. Part of this program is your ability to offer a discount to the real estate agents you sign up under your account. This is a discount of $25, bringing the yearly cost to $100 per year, per real estate agent. Each real estate agent you sign up can subscribe at that reduced fee of $100 per year.
That’s what we know the Home Staging Shows program can be for the home stagers who take advantage of this offer. This program started with the persistence of Maureen Henry, at 
