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Featuring Carl Dismukes Coastal Stagedesigns HOME MEMBER SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SUBMISSION BEST OF HOME STAGING WINNERS IAHSP INDUSTRY AWARDS IAHSP SPOTLIGHT MAGAZINE EVERY BUSINESS HAS A STORY Up Coastal Stagedesigns Published : Nov 25, 2022 Carl Dismukes by IAHSP® About Member Spotlight Every business has a story. We want to share yours. The International Association of Home Staging Professionals is proud to highlight business owners and companies in and around the business of Home Staging, Real Estate, Design, and Short-term Rental, though our IAHSP Member Spotlight. Our goal is to highlight and explore the various business models and services that are offered throughout our ecosystem and community, giving both the public and our membership the ability to learn more about the businesses and services available through our vast network of service providers and businesses. Let's dive right into our latest IAHSP Member Spotlight. < Back Carl Dismukes Coastal Stagedesigns Follow on social media: https://www.coastalstagedesigns.com Contact Me Q. Thanks for taking the time to sit with us to share your story with our readers. Can you start out by sharing a little bit about you and your company? I have been a creative professional for all of my career... graphic designer, art director, creative director and brand manager. Now as owner of Coastal Stagedesigns, I’m able to put my creative side to work with my business side to bring Home Staging to a part of the country that had little or no home staging resources. Q. Everyone has a story about how they got started, what was the inspiration or the catalyst for you starting your business? In 2016, my corporate job gave me the option to either relocate to headquarters in New Jersey or take a package. I had been working full time remote from my home in Panama City Beach, Florida for several years and chose to stay. I was then faced with how to reinvent myself within a resort community where there was virtually no corporate presence. Initially, I got my real estate license, but on my first day with my new broker, I asked about how to pursue staging. Within a few months I got my ASP RE to start staging my own listings. Then in October of 2018, I took the full ASP course and opened my company. Then one week later, on October 10, Hurricane Michael devastated my beloved community and at that time, no one cared about how nicely staged a home was. They just wanted a roof over their heads. I spent the next several months helping local residents find homes, sell their damaged home and move on with life. But out of the devastation rose an opportunity to give those homes new life and to sell at the highest price. The company took off working with investors who were flipping houses and with homeowners who were ready to move on after repairing their homes. Q. What services do you offer? And why did you choose to offer those particular services? Though I have provided occupied staging for my own real estate customers, my core business is vacant staging... it's where my passion is. However, as I mentioned, I live in a resort area with probably as many short-term rental units as full-time residences. Out-of-state investors were seeing the staged properties and asking to purchase the contents for setting up as a rental. Savvy investors were also looking for help with updating their units or furnishing vacant units. Earlier this year I introduced "Curated Furnishing Packages." We provide turnkey furnishings to those investors to set up the properties to attract renters at the highest rate and to gain 5-star ratings. Q. Did you ever have a project or customer, where everything was going wrong or the project was challenging? Can you share about that time, and how did you find a solution, or over-come the challenge? An out-of-state investor who knew the value of staging called one day from my Google listing to have me look at a property he had bought to fix up and flip. It had been on the market for a couple of months with little or no activity. When I arrived there was a dumpster sitting in the front yard, the yard was knee high in grass and weeds, there was no real estate sign anywhere and the inside was a mess. I worked with him to clean up the yard and do some landscaping and had the inside cleared out and cleaned. I got it staged and immediately the listing agent was getting calls after we finally got him to put up a sign. But he was still falling down on the job, not following up with buyer's agents or the owner. Eventually the owner asked me to take on the listing. I don't normally do anything to compete with the listing agent, but in this instance, I felt the agent had done such a poor job of representing the seller that I agreed to take it on. Partnering with other agents from my office, we did some clever marketing and within two weeks we were under contract. And the buyers bought the furnishings to set up as an Airbnb. I have since done other projects with the investor and I feel I have a long-term repeat client. brands that every home stager should know 1/4 Q. Running a business is not always easy. What have you learned about yourself and your business, since launching your company? I can't do it alone. But finding the right people I can trust isn't easy. I have had to put the effort into finding the right people so that I can let go and depend on them to do what is needed. There have been a number of false starts with folks who just didn't work out, but I have been incredibly lucky to pull together a team that allows me to focus on the parts of the business that are more critical. Q. We've all had either an employee or a customer that makes what we are doing worth it all. Can you share with us a story about an employee, vendor or customer that really impacted you and touched your heart? I don't know where I would be today without my warehouse manager, Aaron. My business is relatively small compared to some of my IAHSP friends, so I don't have the luxury of having full-time employees. Struggling with either hiring movers for each installation or having my own staff, Aaron came along at just the right time. He also runs his own landscape business, but always makes time with his employees to take care of stagings and destagings. We have come to "share a brain," being able to make decisions without even having to speak it. His wife also helps from time to time with projects. They have become that kind of family that we all create around ourselves. Q. If you could go back in time and give yourself some advice on how to manage or grow your business, what advice would you give yourself? Be open to anything. Opportunities present themselves in the most unusual way. Have the foresight to see those positive opportunities and act on them. Q. If a potential client were reading this article right now, what would you tell them about you, your team or your business that would convince them to choose your company? Coastal Stagedesigns is a multi-award-winning company with the experience to make your home sell faster and for more money. And our statistics prove it. Check out our website for reviews and a portfolio of work. We take pride in the attention to detail that we bring to each and every project. Q. What is one fact about you or your business that most people might not know? In addition to home staging services, we also offer “Curated Furnishing Packages.” With these services, we design a unique, but affordable furnishing package for short term rentals. With Panama City Beach being located on the Gulf of Mexico, there’s a huge need to update older houses and condos to appeal to today’s short-term rental market. Today’s families are more sophisticated and are looking for a vacation spot that fulfills their expectations of a luxury holiday. We provide these services usually in less than 3 weeks with unique and stylish furniture and accessories. Q. Where do you see your business going in the next 5 or 10 years? Grow! Grow! Grow! We are ever expanding and I see a full-time staff for both the staging part of the business as well as the furnishing arm. Q. It was so great sitting with you to learn more about you and your company. How can people find out more about you and your business? Visit our website at coastalstagedesigns.com, interact with me at facebook.com/carl.dismukes7 or facebook.com/coastalstagedesigns. And call me any time at 850-896-1900. Q. Thank you so much for sharing your story with IASHP! Thanks for talking with me, Joseph! It has been a pleasure. Articles. by IAHSP® Share this Article on Facebook Every business has a story. Articles by IAHSP wants to tell your story. With Articles, we highlight the many businesses that make up and surround the business of Home Staging and Real Estate. We feature local businesses to learn how they got started, what makes them unique and where they are heading. Share the stories you read with your social network and help others discover local businesses that are doing amazing things, globally. Every business has a story. We want to share yours. Get featured on Articles Previous Next Partnership Sign Up Now Partnership Get Trained Sponsored Shop Now Partnership Learn More IAHSP Official Shop Now Sponsored Shop Now Partnership Shop Now IAHSP Official Share Your Thoughts Sponsored Shop Now

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< Back Listen on your favorite podcast channels: Want to recommend a podcast? Home Stagers and Designers on Fire Marianne Cherico Are you a Home Stager or Designer who wants to attract more ideal clients, up level your business, make more money and still have a smokin' hot life? If so, this podcast is for you! Hosted by best selling author, coach and speaker Marianne Cherico , this is a place where top leaders share best practices for creating a life and business by design-one that sets your soul on fire. Tags: Business, Home Staging This podcast is accessible for MEMBERS ONLY. These are the recordings of our monthly calls. Anyone can attend the live call, but only members can access it to rehear or after the call is over. Share this podcast on Facebook Previous Next brands that every home stager should know Go to link Go to link Go to link Go to link Go to link Go to link Go to link Go to link Go to link Go to link 1/2

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< Back Update Profile Next > Steven Norris President, IAHSP Young Professionals in Home Staging and Design P: E: Steven Norris is a successful real estate agent with eXp Realty, the largest real estate company in the world. He serves as the Colorado State President of Young Professionals for eXp, and works with thier national group to develop strategies to bring in younger professionals to real estate and eXp. In his role with IAHSP, Steven helps with strategies to attract and retain younger professionals - 20-40 yrs old - to help build the future of home staging, real estate and design.

Featuring Tatiana Mozerova TNT Staging HOME MEMBER SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SUBMISSION BEST OF HOME STAGING WINNERS IAHSP INDUSTRY AWARDS IAHSP SPOTLIGHT MAGAZINE EVERY BUSINESS HAS A STORY Up TNT Staging Published : Jan 4, 2023 Tatiana Mozerova by IAHSP® About Member Spotlight Every business has a story. We want to share yours. The International Association of Home Staging Professionals is proud to highlight business owners and companies in and around the business of Home Staging, Real Estate, Design, and Short-term Rental, though our IAHSP Member Spotlight. Our goal is to highlight and explore the various business models and services that are offered throughout our ecosystem and community, giving both the public and our membership the ability to learn more about the businesses and services available through our vast network of service providers and businesses. Let's dive right into our latest IAHSP Member Spotlight. < Back Tatiana Mozerova TNT Staging Follow on social media: http://www.tntstaging.com Contact Me Q. Thanks for taking the time to sit with us to share your story with our readers. Can you start out by sharing a little bit about you and your company? Yes! Happy to be sitting here with you, thank you. So, our company TNT Staging was formed in the summer of 2017 by myself and Tatiana Murga. We actually met at the International House in Charlotte at a Russian Conversational hour and quickly developed a friendship. At the time we were both doing quite different things but looking to make some bold moves in our lives. We did and do have a lot in common. We are both proud female entrepreneurs who oddly enough transplanted to Charlotte, NC from Russia, so we had a cultural kinship we could share as immigrants. But we also complement each other really well in our differing strengths and abilities. We strike an excellent balance which is why I think we make such great business partners. We like to think of TNT Staging as a one-stop-shop for interior style & design related services in the real estate realm. We provide exceptional home staging services here in the Carolinas in addition to real estate photography, short-term rental set up, interior design consultation and our newest e-commerce offering which is our online furniture store. We have an incredible network of repeat clients who choose us to elevate their business through our services. As a business and as individuals we are focused on providing value and are committed to quality and it clearly shows through our repeat clients and referral business. We’ve also been recognized as industry leaders and have even had the honor of being awarded the title of Best Staging Team by your own organization. Q. Everyone has a story about how they got started, what was the inspiration or the catalyst for you starting your business? Tatiana and I are both committed to growth as individuals. And this often means pushing our comfort zone and trying new things and taking calculated risks. We wanted to build something that was bigger than us and I think like many businesses, we began by finding a need that existed in the marketplace and designing a service to fill that need. We are passionate about interior design and recognize how a space is designed and the elements in it all influence your emotions and your mood. We already had so many connections in the real estate industry here in the Carolinas that it made sense we look to see if there was a connection, we could make between doing what we love and serving a community we already had ties to. The growth in Charlotte has been upward trending for decades so we knew we were already in a great spot to feed the need of the market right here at home. It felt a lot like we had all the pieces, and we were really motivated to flesh out how we could connect all those pieces into a strong business model with opportunity for growth. And I’m proud of how much we’ve been able to accomplish and how many people we have brought into the fold over the last 4 and half years. Q. What services do you offer? And why did you choose to offer those particular services? We offer four main services: Home staging, real estate photography, short-term rental set up and an online furniture store. Our core service has been in home staging. We stage vacant homes and use transitional, modern, mid-century modern & contemporary styles. We are the only staging company in the area that installs curtains on site. This feature is important to us to offer because the visual impact of drapery in person as well as in photos makes a huge difference. It may seem like a small detail, but the addition of curtains makes a space feel more open, defined, and finished. It takes extra time and planning to add this element to our projects, but our results make it worth it. We also own our furniture and décor which means we have flexibility and control over the inventory and our clients don’t end up paying a middleman for the product. Our real estate photography is top notch. With 41% of homebuyers beginning their home buying search online it’s incredibly important to have the visual impact of our work presented effectively in photos. This was proven to be even more critical during the early part of the pandemic when buyers were literally crafting offers on homes using only the photos available online. Our photographer understands what is most crucial to highlight for a real estate listing and how to accurately capture the interior of a space. We capture in HDR and deliver edited and formatted images directly to our clients so they can immediately use the images in the MLS and elsewhere. Short-term rental set up is a relatively new service we offer to our clients, though it’s been in our wheelhouse for years. This was exciting because the need for this surfaced organically. We had been styling our own portfolio of short-term rental properties and started receiving direct inquiries as to who did the interior design for those properties. When we responded that we had done the styling ourselves we were asked if we would offer that as a service to others. So, we did precisely that. Now our clients can hire us to provide bespoke and turnkey design services for their own Airbnb and short-term rental properties. It’s a collaborative process and it’s a lot of fun. We create a design board for each space and will even source and install the furnishings for clients. In fact, we even dispose of the trash when we are done with the installation, so the space is clean and ready to be photographed and booked. We made it as easy as possible for property owners to increase their nightly bookings by creating captivating spaces. This equates to a higher ROI for them and so the value of this service is baked in already. And through our collective years of experience shopping for and installing furniture we’ve become really well versed in understanding what pieces are functional, have a fitting design and which manufactures provide a quality product. So that’s where the online furniture store came into play. It’s another service we are excited to offer. Through our furniture store our clients can purchase quality pieces with the benefit of our wholesalers pricing. We also offer our warehouse for local pick-up for furniture purchases. Q. Did you ever have a project or customer, where everything was going wrong or the project was challenging? Can you share about that time, and how did you find a solution, or over-come the challenge? Oh yes! I think every business owner has their fair share of these challenges. I remember one in particular that happened in our early days as a staging company. I was 9 months pregnant at the time and there was a very challenging staging project on our books. We had opted to use an external moving company to handle moving our inventory to the property. When I arrived on site, I discovered that the movers had broken the only marble top coffee table we had that was the style and dimensions we needed for this very high-end new construction listing. I’m sure it was quite a sad sight to see me, 9 months pregnant, on the floor in desperation, wracking my brain on how to solve this problem. But in that moment, I made the decision to call on Nick and to ask him to work as our dedicated TNT in-house mover. Nick joined us and shortly after that we bought our first moving truck so we could ensure that we extended our ownership over that part of the process as well instead of relying on a third party who may not have the same dedication to quality as we do. We have since built an amazing and professional in-house moving team. Their skill, care, and attention to detail has made a world of a difference to each and every project. It was through that very unfortunate experience though that I was able to take something negative and turn it into something undeniably positive that changed the trajectory of our business for good. Nick is still with us and is now the foreman and leader of our logistics team. It’s incredibly rewarding to watch great professionals grow within TNT. We are quite grateful. brands that every home stager should know 1/4 Q. Running a business is not always easy. What have you learned about yourself and your business, since launching your company? Oh wow, so so much! One thing I can definitely say is a good lesson is to treat your business as a business; not as a hobby...even when you are just starting out. You’d be amazed at how much this mindset shift can influence how and when you make decisions. Launching a business and keeping it going is definitely not easy, but it can be really invigorating and self-actualizing. I’ve learned that your standards and ethics equals your business. They need to be clearly defined and shared by everyone who is representing the company name. This also relates to quality standards. It’s easy to slip into the pitfalls of doing something on the cheap, because you think you’re quickly growing your bottom line. But the fact is, without quality your bottom line will always be at risk...the work you do is your reputation. Best to make sure you treat each client like they are your only client and leave the corner-cutting to your competitors. Q. We've all had either an employee or a customer that makes what we are doing worth it all. Can you share with us a story about an employee, vendor or customer that really impacted you and touched your heart? We are incredibly lucky to have the best team and the best customers. To have the opportunity to watch our customers grow their businesses, selling real estate faster and for more through professional staging and be able to grow together with them is truly the most rewarding thing. It feels like they are our sister-teams in a way. When they succeed, we succeed. Honestly our team as a whole makes what we are doing worth it all. We are so lucky to have our dedicated, professional, and hard-working team out there doing the amazing work they are doing. They always go the extra mile and treat TNT as their own business — it really shows in their attitude, and it shows in their work. Our competitors may get the same furniture, but they’ll never be able to have the same team working for them. Loyalty, respect, and treating each other right is our secret weapon. Q. If you could go back in time and give yourself some advice on how to manage or grow your business, what advice would you give yourself? I love this one. By far, the biggest piece of standalone advice I wish I had taken to heart earlier is perfectly encapsulated in the proverb “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” I think one of the pitfalls entrepreneurs can easily find themselves in is trying to go ‘fast’ instead of strategizing and planning how to go ‘far’. If you work in a silo; trying to wear too many hats; feeling that you will grow ‘faster’ if you just do everything yourself...you can find yourself in a place of being spread too thin. And when we spread ourselves too thin it is harder to focus on quality and long-term strategy because you’re too busy focusing on meeting the timing demand of the moment. So the advice is to build a team of skilled and supportive individuals — To plan and know where you want to go and enlist the help of others to get you there. We could not be where we are today without the incredible help of our team. Our growth and success as a business is directly tied to their skill and dedication and willingness to meet a challenge head on. Q. If a potential client were reading this article right now, what would you tell them about you, your team or your business that would convince them to choose your company? I would want them to know that they aren’t simply paying for a service. They are hiring a team, a dedicated team of individuals who are expressly equipped to help them grow their own business. Our clients are business owners themselves...they are real estate agents, investors, and builders and so when they engage with us for our services, we are very directly helping them grow their own business. Our team is their team. Their success is our success. That’s why we also tag our real estate partners in our social media posts. We have a common goal and that’s to help them sell their property for the highest value with the shortest days on market. And in the same way with short-term rentals, we know that not only does our interior styling positively impact their nightly occupancy rate, we also know those owners are going to receive inquiries as to who created those compelling spaces — and we want them to proudly say our name. Q. What is one fact about you or your business that most people might not know? This is a fun one. One fact about our business that most people don’t know is that our team is composed of amazing folks all from Eastern Europe. We have team members from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and we are all a united group of warm-hearted and hard-working people. We tackle each project as a team. And when it’s time to celebrate our wins as a company or our wins as individuals, we come together like one community and have an absolute blast. We are one big family truthfully. Q. Where do you see your business going in the next 5 or 10 years? Right now, we are about to launch our e-commerce branch with our online furniture store. That was a seed we planted and watered and are now seeing the fruits of that labor begin to grow, which is just so exciting. Our vision for the next 5 or 10 years is to focus on streamlining the home staging process; really fine-tuning it so that it is largely replicable. With that we would want to then share that knowledge, experience and expertise with our fellow-stagers in the industry either via a franchise model or an online training course or both. We like to say that we see TNT Staging as being the Starbucks of the Staging industry in 5-10 years. And I think as we continue to serve our community, we will discover new ways to expand our services to meet the growing needs of our local area as well as the industry as a whole. We welcome a good challenge and are always searching for new opportunities to serve others. Q. It was so great sitting with you to learn more about you and your company. How can people find out more about you and your business? It was great sitting with you as well. We have a ton of info on our website TNTStaging.com that explains in more detail about our services and showcases some choice projects from our portfolio. We also have a contact form there for anyone interested in reaching out to us for a free quote or for more information. Also, if you follow us on Facebook and Instagram you can get inside views of our projects. We provide a lot of helpful tips and regularly post video and images of the properties we work on so people can see our projects come to life. Instagram: @tntstaging Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TNTStaging/ Q. Thank you so much for sharing your story with IASHP! You’re welcome! And thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to talk about our business and to highlight the AMAZING team we have to thank for our success. Articles. by IAHSP® Share this Article on Facebook Every business has a story. Articles by IAHSP wants to tell your story. With Articles, we highlight the many businesses that make up and surround the business of Home Staging and Real Estate. We feature local businesses to learn how they got started, what makes them unique and where they are heading. Share the stories you read with your social network and help others discover local businesses that are doing amazing things, globally. Every business has a story. We want to share yours. 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Giving Back Matters From the Chairwoman Giving back does matter. IAHSP was founded on the idea of community giving back. IAHSP is a community of business owners who are passionate about Home Staging, Real Estate and Design. But more importantly, our members love their communities, and are making a difference locally. In this series, we highlight and feature the businesses and business owners who go above and beyond to serve and help their local communities, and the world. Please share this article and help me share the stories of people within our community that are making a difference, because Giving Back Matters. Jennie Norris IAHSP, Chairwoman Why does giving back matter to you? ~ Share XYX Consulting Contact us at: me@m2.com Clark Test Thank you for sitting with me and sharing about why and how you are so passionate about giving back. Before we get started on that, can you share a little bit about you and your business? Where are you located? What services you offer? Etc. 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