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Best selling author and national expert and trainer, Barbara Jennings has written an excellent guide on how to earn up to $100,000 or more from a home staging business. Director of the Academy of Staging and Redesign (Decorate-Redecorate.Com), she takes readers step by step through the maze of starting and growing a lucrative staging business, covering virtually everything one needs to know and do. With 37 years in staging, redesign, decorating and home business development, her large format, in-depth manual teaches the essential tactics and strategies so anyone can succeed who puts forth the effort. Holding nothing back, readers are privy to the inner secrets, can harness all of the author's insights, and avoid the pitfalls.

The manual is loaded with numerous check lists, a wide variety of forms, over 140 pictures, specific how-to details and so much more. A free online discussion forum is also available to anyone interested, as well as free newsletters on a wide variety of decorating topics. Readers just need to visit her website to enroll.

For anyone who loves decorating and working with people, staging is a fast growing industry with great profit potential no matter what the economic climate or where one lives. How often does one get to be paid while having fun? Home staging combines decorating techniques with real estate strategies so stagers can effectively help owners sell their homes in record time for record profits, a vital service needed today more than ever. Written in a personable and conversational style, Home Staging for Profit is a must read for anyone serious (or just exploring). Photos help capture the essence of staging while giving readers a clear idea of what to expect. No degree or prior experience is needed. The manual exemplifies solid business training plus decorating and staging specifics, including:

• numerous candid before and after pictures of actual, recent projects
• the top mistakes and common problems sellers make
• what stagers must do and understand
• how to identify a home's assets and faults
• how to interview and bond with real estate agents
• how to interview and bond with home owners
• the five ingredients for a successful staging service
• professional image, attitudes and ethics needed
• how to do consultations, submit bids, make presentations
• how to set up the business, licenses to get and so forth
• how to get clients and referrals from multiple sources
• how to profit from consultations and offer full staging services
• how to promote, maintain and sustain the business indefinitely
• how to price services with confidence and ease
• how to protect, organize and prioritize.

Jennings has written several books including Rearrange It, which teaches how to start and grow an interior re-design business. She has also written Staging Luxurious Homes and Staging Portfolio Secrets, and Advanced Redesign.

Readers will also receive:

• 47 staging tricks for instant home appeal
• 107 questions to ask agents and homeowners to help quote services
• detailed pricing guidelines for furnished and empty houses
• legal issues readers should know about
• extensive list of stager tools needed for actual projects
• extensive cleaning and painting guidelines
• a 29-page detailed checklist to make consultations easy
• list of over 300 possible business names
• detailed information on available visual aids, promotional tools, management tools, and dual certification courses, which were pre-developed to supplement reader's knowledge, increase confidence and hone design skills are also included (last chapter)

Bonus Section includes:

• 15 handy reproducible forms ready to go
• multiple checklists and handout examples for value added services

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Price: $28.03 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The latest edition to the Ed Schein's well-loved set of process consultation books, this new volume builds on the content of the two that precede it and explores the critical area of the helping relationship. Process Consultation Revisited focuses on the interaction between consultant and client, explaining how to achieve the healthy helping relationship so essential to effective consultation. Whether the advisor is an OD consultant, therapist, social worker, manager, parent or friend, the dynamics between advisor and advisee can be difficult to understand and manage. Drawing on over 40 years of experience as a consultant, Schein creates a general theory and methodology of helping that will enable a diverse group of readers to navigate the helping process successfully. .
Price: $44.20 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The official announcement of the revision to the Common Lectionary, in which 20 international denominations, from Protestant Free Wesleyan to Roman Catholic, participated for six years. A complete three-year listing of the Lectionary (A, B, C) guides Scripture reading on the Lord's Day, aiding pastors and professors who use the Revised Common Lectionary that begins in Advent (November) 1992..
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Written by one of the premier psychiatry departments in the world, this "gold standard" on consultation liaison psychiatry offers expert guidance on diagnosing and treating the psychiatric problems of the in-hospital, medically ill patient. It features practical advice on how to manage both adults and children who are coping with life-threatening illnesses, chronic disease, disfigurement, and more. Readers will also find advice on commonly found but difficult to manage problems such as depression, anxiety, and delirium.

• Features the expertise of clinicians, teachers, and researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital.
• Provides cognitive and behavioral strategies that practitioners at all levels can use.
• Presents practical guidance on drugs and their side effects, along with recommendations for alternative drug therapies.
• Discusses how to manage difficult, hypochondriacal, and somatoform and conversion patients.

• Features 20 brand-new chapters that discuss such key issues as end-of-life · geriatric considerations · eating disorders · genetics · behavioral medicine and hypnosis · and complementary medicine and natural medications.
• Presents updated and expanded material on psychopharmacology and drug/drug interactions.
• Offers advice on how to avoid critical errors.

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Price: $60.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Focusing on how consulting is accomplished, this practical book provides a comprehensive and balanced overview of the practice and theory of consultation. Dougherty presents a generic model for application, surveys various approaches to consultation, discusses the organizational context of consultation, and reviews the many ethical and professional issues consultants face. Following this book's structure, readers learn to develop their own personal model of consultation..
Price: $85.49 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Psychological Consultation and Collaboration outlines the major theoretical approaches to consultation and collaboration and offers concrete ideas about the processes as well as techniques and strategies for use in collaboration and consultation. This comprehensive book devotes two chapters to specific consultees: parents and teachers. Additional chapters deal with consultation in organizations, the consultee, the consultant, and the use of data and information to inform the consultation process. This 6th edition includes significant new information regarding collaboration and a completely rewritten chapter on behavioral consultation. The assessment model incorporated into the behavioral consultation and collaboration chapter follows the federal guidelines for assessment and intervention for exceptional children and includes material that can be used with all students. Cross-cultural concepts have been incorporated throughout the book.New information includes the influence of cultural values on the consultation and collaboration process, differences in verbal and non-verbal communication in the major cultural groups in the US, and tips for using this information in cross-cultural work..
Price: $85.33 [Notify me when price goes down.]

A three-year pattern of lectionary readings has come into widespread use over the past generation within many churches Since its release in 1992 the three-year Revised Common Lectionary has had a significant influence ecumenically on worship and its preparation. Now the ecumenical consultation responsible for the Revised Common Lectionary is releasing a set of proposed prayers specifically designed for use with the calendar of readings in the RCL. The Consultation on Common Texts sought to prepare a truly ecumenical set of prayers that represent the full spectrum of Christian tradition in all its diverse richness..
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