Interview with UK Millennial Home Stager Olivia Conlon, from £30k to £1M in a Year - a podcast by Cindy Lin | Staged4more School of Home Staging
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Today on the show, we have Olivia Conlon, a UK stager based in Glasgow, on the show. She started her staging business when she was 16 and about 4 years in, her home staging business services entire country of United Kingdom and she not only stage homes, her business also includes manufacturing furnishing, importing soft goods and renting and selling staging inventory to investors and buyers. It’s an absolutely incredible business model.
Currently operating throughout the UK, Olivia Conlon of ThePropertyStagers and her team of ten, furnish around 300 properties per year in the UK. What makes the business unique, aside from its stellar reputation, is that its young founder has grown revenue from £30,000 in year one, to £1 million in the space of twelve months.
On learning that 80,000 families will wake up in temporary accommodation such as hostels this year, Liv recently launched the 100 Home Christmas Makeover in partnership with London based charity Home Finder. Liv’s mission is to bring true Christmas spirit into the temporary homes of 100 families by providing items donated by homeware brands including Christmas trees, lights and soft furnishings to uplift their living space.
On today’s show, we talked a lot about educating the market on home staging, since home staging is still very new in UK. We also talked a lot about building the look for staging the homes, what home staging is, how to prepare homes for sale, dealing with client pushbacks, especially on pricing of staging, her business operations and real estate in the UK. She also talked about the challenges she faces staging entire United Kingdom, business operations and providing vacant home staging services and how she used social media to build her business and now marketing her home staging business to service the entire country.
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