One of the keys to any successful business is Momentum.
At Showhomes Home Staging, we have a tradition of celebrating wins by ringing bells. We do this when we add new franchise owners, we do it when we contract new homes to stage, we do it when we move in our live-in home stagers and we [...]
Showhomes held its first annual Home Staging Certification class this past Thursday at a $1 million dollar Brentwood, TN mansion that has been on the market for some time. 35 Showhomes home stagers from markets all over the country descended for an intense Home Staging class taught by the Decorating and Staging Academy, Showhomes’ advanced [...]
Home Staging Franchise Showhomes listed as best bet in down market by The Street.com:
The Great Recession has made some would-be entrepreneurs skittish about starting a business from scratch.
For them, it may make sense to buy a business franchise. While franchises have taken a hit, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) forecasts that the number of franchises will expand 2% [...]
March 31, 2010 – 10:37 am
Showhomes home staging recruiting business owners to open home staging businesses
Think home staging is a career choice only for creative people who love to decorate?
Think again.
Careerbuilder.com listed Home Stager as the top emerging career in the down economy and the remarkable sales results home staging produces is creating potential for enormous growth throughout the coming [...]
Showhomes is a national franchise and we train new Home Stagers often. One of my favorite parts of training is a field exercize that clearly demonstrates the difference in a vacant home for sale and a home that is both occupied and fully staged. Our company’s success is based on the premise that vacant homes [...]
February 26, 2010 – 1:16 pm
John Mulkey, Author and Owner of www.thehousingguru.com, wrote this blog post recently about the direction the housing market is heading. John is a fair and balanced industry expert and he’s spot on with his perception of the market. John, having been a home builder, flipper and all-things-real estate expert for more than 40 years, understands [...]
February 22, 2010 – 10:26 am
Nashville Based Showhomes Bucks National Trend and Scores Higher
2009 was a bleak year for business.
Franchised businesses, which typically outperform independent small businesses, were not immune to the downward pressure. The Franchise Business Review, which surveys individual franchise owners in franchise systems all over the country, reported that overall satisfaction scores dropped from the previous year.
One [...]
Thomas Scott, VP of Marketing and Systems Development for Showhomes, helping fix the housing crisis one house at a time. Father, photojournalist, writer, big thinker and author of this blog. tscott@showhomes.com