Staged4more News

As the company grows, we need more people!

We are hiring

*Admin Assistant (paid hourly, benefits, on site)

*New Media Marketing & PR Intern (college credit, work from home)

*Graphic Design Intern (college credit, work from home)

Please let us know if you know of anyone!

The details are at https://www.jobscore.com/jobs/staged4more/list

Cheers,

Cindy

Hey ladies & gents

You may have noticed that bits and pieces are missing or moving around on the staged4more site. The main reason is we are making transition into the new theme and site, we have grown out of this current scheme and ready to re-stage our home on the web! (Or maybe it’s just Halloween approaching and the spirits are being playful and start shifting stuff on us!) So pardon our dust, and let us know if you have any feedbacks you would like to see on site.

Cheers,

Cindy

Hello

Carnival of Real Estate readers, Welcome to the Staged4more Blog!

Since Staged4more is a home staging company in San Francisco bay area, most blog posts have to do with designs, staging, real estate marketing and San Francisco bay area. Feel free to give us any suggestions on the blog or layouts of the blog. We are actually in the process of switching to a new wordpress theme. We have out grown our current site.

We are also looking to broaden the scope of our blog and actually coming out with a magazine. If you would like to become a contributor, please let us know!

Cheers,
Cindy
Boss lady @ Staged4more

You can also connect with us:
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Sam’s Club® Champions Women Entrepreneurs to Celebrate Sam’s Club 25th Anniversary

Sam Walton Emerging Entrepreneur Awards Announced in North Carolina. Click here to meet the entrepreneurs.

The Sam Walton Emerging Entrepreneur Award winners were selected based on their business profiles, their commitment to community and their personal development. Awardees will receive one-year of paid professional business coaching, free access to Count Me In’s educational resources and seminars (valued at over $7,000.00), and a Sam’s Club Business Membership, made through a separate donation from Sam’s Club. The winners will also benefit from inclusion in the Count Me In organization’s community of like-minded women entrepreneurs who inspire and mentor each other.

“Count Me In is making a difference for women business owners and the communities where they live and work,” said Sharon Orlopp, senior vice president, People Division at Sam’s Club. “We applaud the CMI mission and believe this investment will further their efforts to support the economic independence, professional development and the success of women.”

From accountants to organic food distributors, handcrafters to bodywork therapists, skincare product producers to civil engineering consultants, the Sam Walton Emerging Entrepreneurs represent a broad array of industries and professions across the country. San Francisco Bay Area, California-based Cindy Lin own and operate Staged4more Home Staging and Redesigns, a company that specializes in creating spaces that sell. Cindy Lin is not only a burgeoning business owner; she is also a leader in her community. She not only participates in her local community to help other small business owners through her organization effort of BizTechDay, a technology bootcamp that helps 500+ San Francisco bay area small business owners to turbo charge their businesses, she also actively participates in local woman business entrepreneurs community by taking leadership roles in organizations like pow.wow women’s network and SF Small Biz Women. Additionally, raising awareness of home staging industry is part of her company’s mission. In 2009, Lin plans to launch a real estate initiative that aims at reducing waste during real estate resale process. “It was amazing to win this award. It feels validating that I am doing something right.” said Lin.

About Sam’s Club®
Sam’s Club is a division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., (NYSE:WMT). The first Sam’s Club opened its doors in Midwest City, Okla., in 1983. Today, Sam’s Club serves more than 47 million U.S. Members with locations nationwide and in Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Sam’s Club offers exceptional values on merchandise and services for business owners and consumers. Online merchandise and Club information is available at samsclub.com.

About the Wal-Mart Foundation
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and the Wal-Mart Foundation are proud to support the charitable causes that are important to customers and associates in their own neighborhoods. Through its philanthropic programs and partnerships, the Wal-Mart Foundation supports initiatives focused on enhancing opportunities in education, job skills training, sustainability and health. In 2007, Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club and the Wal-Mart Foundation gave $296 million to communities across the United States. To learn more, visit www.walmartfoundation.org.

About Count Me In
Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence is the leading national not-for-profit provider of resources, business education and community support for women entrepreneurs seeking to grow micro businesses to million dollar enterprises. Count Me In launched the Make Mine a Million $ Business to inspire one million women entrepreneurs scale their businesses to a million dollars in revenue by 2010 by providing tools, skills and the support of a nation-wide community of peers.

Stage It Forward: San Francisco Bay Area Stagers’ Get Together

LET’S GET TOGETHER TO MEET, GREET, MINGLE AND CHAT!

RSVP HERE

Thursday, November 13, 2008 from 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM (PT)

Event Details

November is Home Staging Awareness Month

Professional Home Stagers Gather to Discuss Industry News and Promote Home Staging

The Real Estate Staging Association (RESA) the Trade Association for Professional Home Stagers has announced that November is Home Staging Awareness Month.

RESA along with IRIS and ASHSR is proud to announce that we are National Co-Sponsors of Home Staging Awareness Month.

During Home Staging Awareness Month the popular “Stage it Forward” (SIF) Round Table Meetings will be taking place all over North America. SIF originated from a powerful internet blogging community that is hosted by Real Estate Blogging website called Active Rain.

The meetings will focus on the Staging Industry, creating standards, ethics and the wants and needs of the Professional Stager. You ALL can have a voice in creating standards and choosing the direction you want your industry to take.

Keeping with the tradition of SIF and RESA ALL Stagers are welcome to attend or facilitate/moderate a meeting. You do not have to be a member of RESA to attend or facilitate the meeting nor do you have to hold any particular designation.

LIGHT LUNCH WILL BE SERVED. RSVP HERE

When
Thursday, November 13, 2008 from 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM (PT)

Where
Staged4more Warehouse
390 Swift Avenue #6
South San Francisco, CA 94080

Hosted By
Real Estate Staging Association

The Real Estate Staging Association (RESA) the Trade Association for Professional Home Stagers has announced that November is Home Staging Awareness Month.

RSVP HERE

Local Business Woman Named As Micro to Millions Awardee at Make Mine a Million $ Business™ Albuquerque Event

San Francisco, San Francisco September 10, 2008 Real Estate

(PRLEAP.COM) San Francisco, CA –[September 17, 2008] – Non-profit business program, Make Mine A Million $ Business has selected local business woman Cindy Lin of Staged4more Home Staging and Redesigns as one of 5 business women awardees to win the Micro to Millions awards package at the Albuquerque event on September 18, 2008 at the Wool Warehouse.

The exciting event will feature female entrepreneurs from New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California who competed for business development packages that include $5,000 in financing, coaching, and membership in a nation-wide community of women business owners providing assistance to help their businesses grow to million-dollar enterprises. The event will include educational and network opportunities in addition to keynote speeches by Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish and Nely Galan, Founder of GaLAn Entertainment.

Cindy Lin is the founder and lead designer of Staged4more Home Staging & Redesigns, which opened its door February 2006. Even at age 27, Lin is already an accomplished home staging professional and stylist. In additions to her staging work, her real estate blogs, coaching and speaking engagements have set her apart as a leader of the home staging industry. She has studied with various successful home staging and design professionals, including Barb Schwarz, the original creator of home staging, Mary Knackstedt, author of first interior design textbook, Christine Rae, staging educator and author of Home Staging for Dummies. Lin holds several key staging designations which include Accredited Staging Professional Master (ASPM), Interior Redesign Industry Specialist (IRIS) and Certified Staging Professional (CSP). She served as Charter President for San Francisco Chapter of International Association of Home Staging Professionals (IAHSP) from 2005-2007 and recently became Charter President for San Francisco Chapter of Real Estate Staging Association (RESA).

To date, she has assisted 60+ San Francisco bay area home sellers and agents to stage and sell $45+ million worth of real estate, in which, earned a combined $1,527,000 in over-asking price. Her work and Staged4more have appeared in San Francisco Chronicle, San Mateo County Times, Home & Garden Television (HGTV) and many other online media.

In 2007, 62% of her company Staged4more’s staged & sold listings were sold Over-Asking with an average of 3.34% increase in selling price, which equaled to an average return on investment of staging at 1129.24% for her sellers. For an $800,000 listing, that’s an average of $26,720 increase over the original listing price.

“Winning this program means a lot to me. Home staging is such a young industry, and there are a lot of turbulence within the industry as well as external distrust and pressures from the consumers. One of the main struggles among seasoned stagers is that ‘Does our business model work? Can we be here for the long run while dealing with temperamental economy, tests of legitimacy and unethical behaviors done by unqualified individuals who are just in it for the glory?’ By winning the micro program means what I am doing and planning to do make sense. Being accepted into the micro program is also encouraging for other female small business owners in the networking groups that I host, as well as women entrepreneurs my age. It can be intimidating working in a field that is dominated by people twice my age, without the life experiences or the previous corporate lives like most of my competitors or clients have. I am often asked about my age when I first meet potential clients, or being treated as an intern,” said Lin.

More than four hundred women applied for the packages being awarded at this event. The Micro to Millions program is an offshoot of the Make Mine a Million $ Business program, which began in 2005 to provide packages of support to women who had been in business for over two years and had reached $250,000 in annual revenue. The Micro to Millions program was created to provide the right help to women who had not yet achieved that level of growth, but were determined to reach the million-dollar mark.

Described as a cross between “The Apprentice” and “American Idol,” the Make Mine a Million $ Business competition provides twenty women whose businesses have hit $250,000 in annual revenue the opportunity to present their business in a 3 minute “elevator pitch” to a panel of business experts and a live audience. Ten Make Mine a Million $ Business winners will be chosen by the audience and judges who collaborate on the selection process.

Launched in 2005 by Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence and founding partner American Express OPEN ®, the Make Mine a Million $ Business program was created to help post-start up, women-owned businesses grow to one million dollars in annual revenue. Since the inception, the program has hosted 18 competitions in cities around the country and grown into a nationwide movement.

“We are excited to come to New Mexico and provide support to women entrepreneurs in the region,” said Nell Merlino, founder and president of Count Me In. “The number of applicants mirrors the growth of our entrepreneurs’ businesses and their desire to take them to the million dollar level.”

The Make Mine a Million $ Business program has garnered support from organizations who are all joining hands in order to make an impact in women’s lives and strengthening the US economy. The impressive list of blue-chip national sponsors include American Express OPEN, Cisco, Dell, FedEx, and JetBlue. Sponsors provide an array of products and services that serve as invaluable tools for growth.

For more information about how women can grow their businesses please visit www.makemineamillion.org.

About Count Me In
Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence is the leading national not-for-profit provider of on-line business loans and resources for women to grow their micro businesses into $million enterprises. Find us at www.countmein.org or call 212-245-1245.

Media Contacts:
Ann Noder Marybeth Grass
Orca Communications for Make Mine A Million $
480-248-0012 602-896-7643
Ann@orcacommunications.com Marybeth@orcacommunications.com

Hello ladies & gents,

I am one of the co-organizers for BizTechDay, a fabulous all-day event packed with information that is 200% devoted to growing your business with efficiency and cutting-edge technologies (that are easy to learn!)

A lot of you know I am passionate about technology and using it to make my business smoother and my life easier. I have had great successes with utilizing online media for Staged4more, to the point I am now coaching other small business owners how to do it. I used a lot of the social media and web tools (that are mostly free) to get to #1 on Google in my home base for FREE in 6 months.

A lot of the stuff we are planning are exactly about that. You will learn about using social media that are FREE TOOLS for you, such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yelp, e-commerce platforms, email marketing tools, Search Engine Optimization strategies and much more). The schedule offers 2 tracks with more than 10 workshops to choose from as well as keynote speakers, networking and a Genius Bar! The workshops will all be led by industry-leading experts.

SIGN UP FOR BIZTECHDAY NOW! After 9/15, the price goes up $100! Use discount code BIZSCY148

Cost: $149 before September 15th, $249 after September 15th
Location: Downtown San Francisco Hilton

BizTechDay is sponsored by the Small Business Administration (SBA), Ladies Who Launch, American Express OPEN, EventBrite, IBM, Craig’s List, Constant Contact and Meetup.

This is a tremendous opportunity to spend a Saturday with great people and get some great information to build your business! You can access the early bird special ($149 per person) by using the following link:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/141023806/BIZTECH/101793602

TO YOUR SUCCESS!

Cheers,
Cindy