A 6-DAY STRATEGIC BUSINESS RETREAT FOR HOME STAGERS
Staging Business Mastery: A Retreat for Home Stagers
Join our Business Mastery Retreat and accelerate your business growth by learning how to build and scale your staging business, with actionable strategies to boost your revenue, streamline your operations, and accelerate your growth
Florence, Italy
September 17-22, 2022
Are you tired of being the Chief Everything Officer?
At this stage of your business, you should be focusing on the high-level, strategic, growth part of your staging business.
You’ve been growing your home staging business. The business is GOOD, in fact, you are pretty slammed. But you feel exhausted, frazzled and overwhelmed. You’ve been fighting for growth, it has been SO hard!
This six-day immersive business retreat is designed to help you get out of that! With tailored masterclasses and hands-on workshops, we will work with you to create an action plan for the next 12 months that aligns with your vision and goals to grow and scale your vibrant and thriving staging business ✨
Make this your most impactful week of the year
We intentionally designed our staging business retreat for you to have
Jam-packed masterclasses & workshops to recharge
You will get tangible, actionable takeaways from masterclasses and workshops tailored to your needs in growing your home staging business.
Time to design & refine your staging business
You will take time to create strategic actions to create traction that aligns with your vision for your home staging business for the next 12 months.
Connect & mastermind with like-minded stagers
Make meaningful and long-lasting connections with like-minded stagers from around the world. They're going to uplift and support you during and after the retreat ❤️
Get Immediate Feedback & Suggestions
You'll get feedback and guidance from the two experienced and internationally sought after home staging business owners, coaches and educators Cindy Lin and Elaine Penhaul.
Plus you'll get feedback from your fellow stagers, too!
1:1 sessions with two experienced coaches
You will have two 1:1 sessions to discuss your action plan for the next 12 months and get answers on anything that’s on your mind. (One session with each coach.)
Plus! A group follow-up coaching call after the retreat ✨
Eat lots of yummy Italian food! 🙌
Our Welcome Dinner and lunches will be prepared by a wonderful chef who has cooked for Michelin-star restaurants in London and Thailand.
He will also be teaching us how to make Italian pasta! 🍝
Get inspired by the rich art, culture & architecture
You can reconnect with yourself, your vision and what you want out of life and business. All in the beautiful setting of Florence, Italy!
We chose a city that can be inspiring to our participants so they can decompress from the day-to-day grind and get recharged. 💪
Get time back for yourself & your business
Our retreat gets you out of the day-to-day grind of running your home staging business.
So you are not bogged down by the daily grind and all the noises that have been distracting you from the necessary vision and strategic work.
BTW, did you know this is all tax deductible?
That’s right, educational business trips are tax deductible.
Double check with your accountant to see how much you can write off!
We’ve got THREE bonuses for this year’s participants! (Total value of $2,400)
- A 3-part live Finance Workshop Series this June that will set you up with strategies to maximize your profits. This will help us hit the ground running when we get to the retreat (🚨 Due to the nature of live workshops, this bonus is expiring in June!)
- A 6-month private membership with structured group coaching calls post-retreat
- 6-month access to our newly remodeled 6-Figure Floor Plan course post-retreat. This business course will help you streamline, strategize, and scale your staging business by working on your vision, systems and resetting yourself as a true CEO of your staging business
What You will Get By the End of This Retreat
What you'll get
Cost if you were to hire someone to do it for you
12-month strategic action plan for your staging business
$2,500
Four days of personalized masterclasses and workshops with two experienced staging business coaches to optimize your staging business
$12,000
Two personalized coaching sessions with experienced staging business coaches to help you actualize your goals
$850
Supercharge your staging success with THREE incredible bonuses: a 3-part finance workshop to prime you for the retreat, 6-month access to our private membership with structured group coaching calls, and our game-changing 6-Figure Floor Plan course, ensuring your momentum continues long after the retreat ends!
$2,400
Access to a supportive community of like-minded home stagers during and after the retreat to collaborate and mastermind with
$1,500
Enjoying delectable Italian culinary experiences during our retreat days! All made by a private Italian chef who has worked in Michelin-starred restaurants. Plus a pasta-making workshop with your new staging business BFFs
$889
What you will pay
$20,739
$3,828 (if pay in full)
“It’s all working out. I was so stressed in Italy but the action plan helped me tackle it, truly"
— Jess Harrington, JessFinessed
One of our participants from the last retreat, Jess of JessFinessed, recently announced on her Instagram that she became a landlord by having three other fantastic women-owned, furniture-focused businesses renting at her staging business HQ, a 9,300 sq.ft. warehouse.
This is a very smart and strategic business move! And it was not a small feat! But thanks to the action plan she had set out last October at our retreat, she is able to pull everything together this January!
Who is the retreat for?
This retreat is designed for experienced home stagers who are looking to level up their business and take it to the next level, especially if you have been experiencing plateaus, burnout, or growing pains.
We welcome stagers who are committed to investing in their business and themselves ✨
Experience the Beauty of Art, Culture, Architecture, Food and Love of Florence
We purposely scheduled the Retreat during the week so you can arrive early and stay for the weekend after to travel around Italy!
Florence is a great base for traveling around Tuscany and even Rome and Milan are day trip options!
Awarded Best in Travel in 2022 by the Lonely Planet, Florence is an incredible city for you to explore and experience. The birthplace of the Renaissance, the small city is compact and packed with extraordinary art and architecture masterpiece at every turn.
The entire city centre is a Unesco World Heritage Site. You will be able to find world-class art museums brimming with paintings and sculptures by Botticcelli, Michelangelo et al. Plus, many incredible chapels, marble-lined churches with breathtaking fresco, history and art.
Tuscan cuisine is also one of the best in the world. With quality, seasonal and sustainable locally sourced products, this makes Tuscany a heaven for gourmets.
If you love shopping, Florence is also the town for you! Italy’s fashion industry was born and bred in Florence, with Gucci and Ferragamo first opened haute-couture boutiques here in the 20s.
You will also find jewelry maker, ceramics with classic Florentine designs, perfumes, stationary and lots of beautiful handmade leather products ranging from purses to shoes.
This makes it the perfect designation for our retreat for home stagers! ❤️
What our students are saying...
“I'm so thankful that I took the time to invest in myself and my business.”
Since I got back, I have been working on many of the goals I set so I can provide even better staging, design and customer experience to my clients.
A huge SHOUT OUT to Cindy and Elaine for the fabulous retreat and sharing your wisdom and skills with our group to make us all better at what we do.
— Ashley Tapley, House Candy Home
DATES
6 Days September 17-22, 2022
PRICE
$3,828 USD
Pay in full and save 5% or with 4-pay
Why you need a retreat like this at this point of your home staging business
This retreat is designed for stagers like you who are going through the growing pains of building and expanding your home staging business.
You’ve been working and you’ve been busy, but you know things could be smoother and easier. Oh only if you have the time and mind to organize it! You know you need systems, SOPs, reliable team members to take your staging business to the next level, but you can never seem to pull that together.
This immersive six-day retreat will help you create an action plan that aligns with your vision and goals to grow and scale your thriving staging business.
Our goals at this retreat
Our retreat is intentionally designed for you to immerse in ideas, inspirations and strategies in the inspired setting of Italy. Our masterclasses and workshops are tailored to your needs and challenges in growing your staging business.
You will gain insights and strategies under the guidance of Cindy Lin, Founder of Staged4more School of Home Staging and the Host of The Home Staging Show Podcast, and Elaine Penhaul, Founder of Lemon and Lime Interiors.
Both women are powerhouses in the staging industry, highly sought-after home staging educators and have been coaching and helping stagers elevating their staging businesses through strategic business development, discussions and guided implementation.
Our mission is for you to leave our Retreat with an actionable plan for creating a staging business that is more profitable, enjoyable, and fulfilling to you—with a network of like-minded staging BFFs to support you along the way, even after the Retreat.
It's time to elevate your staging business by creating strategic actions that align with your vision for your staging business.
Design a smart home staging business with intentional strategies
We tailor our masterclasses and workshops based on your challenges and needs. Here are some of the topics we covered in the previous retreat.
Staging Business by Design
What is the dream home staging business you want? We did a bit of vision work to help participants work out what they want to achieve in the next 12 months and in the long run.
Systems & Process
Creating a smooth operation and streamlined workflow to build consistency in our staging work. This includes having documentation to onboard clients and team members, tracking key KPIs and metrics in the staging business to ensure profitability and efficiency.
Stability & Profitability
We cannot grow our staging businesses without a sound finance. During the retreat, we discussed at length the importance of understanding one’s financial health and how money works in and out of our home staging businesses.
Team Building for the Win
Staging is a service-based business, so it’s a team sport. We can’t lift sofas on our own and even Wonder Woman needs the Justice League. You have found your team members, but are you nurturing and training them to have longevity in your staging business? How do you measure performance?
By the end of this immersive travel experience, you will:
Meet like-minded home stagers who will mastermind, support and give you constructive feedback on your home staging business
Taking part in tailored masterclasses and workshops that are designed to specifically work on the challenges in your home staging business
Understand the necessary and strategic actions to create to grow your staging business
Get 1:1 time and feedback from two experienced, award-winning stagers and business coaches
Articulate your business goals clearly and feel confident in your growth strategies
Have a precise Action Plan that you can implement and execute to advance your home staging business in the next 12 months 🙌
Meet your instructors
Both Cindy and Elaine have built award-winning home staging businesses and have coached home stagers to help them grow and advance their staging businesses.
During the week, they will dive into their expertise and experiences to help you further your goals and vision for your staging business.
Cindy Lin
FOUNDER OF Staged4more
Elaine Penhaul
founder of Lemon and Lime Interiors
Day by Day Itinerary
Where we will be working?
We will be working in a beautiful private home that is in the city center of Florence.
It is a five-minute walk from the Duomo, full of light and extremely quiet. It is on the 8th floor overlooking the roofs of Florence (yes, there is an elevator!)
On days where we are working at the house, the lunches will be prepared by our private chef Michael. Michael has cooked in Michelin star restaurants in London and Thailand. He will create locally-sourced meals with seasonal freshness and flexibility with dietary restrictions and food allergies. On our last day, we will be learning how to make Italian pasta at Michael’s cooking school!
Who is this trip for?
This trip is for the open-minded home stagers who are dedicated to developing and growing their home staging businesses.
Great for those home stagers who value learning, education, and coaching to take their staging businesses to the next level.
This is an immersive adventure that’s best suited for those who enjoy traveling and learning as a part of a small group.
This retreat is perfect for you if:
- You are committed to building a successful home staging business
- You are ready to take action and implement proven strategies to achieve your goals
- You are looking for support and guidance from experienced staging business coaches and other successful staging business owners
- You are willing to invest in yourself and your business to achieve long-term success
While this retreat is open to all home staging business owners, please note that the content and activities are geared towards those who have already achieved some level of success in their business.
If you just started your staging business and have not yet done any paid staging projects yet, and looking to build a strong foundation for your staging business, we recommend that you consider our 5-Figure Floor Plan course or our Level 1 Certification Program, designed specifically for beginner stages.
I am thinking to join you next year instead
If you want to make a lasting impact and change to your staging business, NOW is always better than later.
We do not have any plans to host a retreat of this size next year, or any retreat at all for that matter since Cindy will be heading back to grad school!
An international trip is a big commitment. I am scared to walk away from my business for a week. Will it be worth it?
This is precisely why you need to carve out the time to do the strategic work! At this level, you should be focusing on the high-level aspects of your home staging business, instead of the day-to-day grind.
For you to grow your home staging business, your business shouldn’t be dependent on you physically being there all the time.
Our retreat may only be a week, but during this week, your business can change and benefit from SO much.
We have seen positive impact in just a few short months from last year’s participants. The retreat gave them the clarity and confidence to move forward.
We’ve seen how energies shifted in just one short week. Our participants also formed their own mastermind group where they kept in touch after the retreat to keep the conversation going.
We specifically designed a small-group, immersive experience because we believe this kind of engaging learning experience with a built-in structure for strategies planning and creation will help participants transform their staging businesses.
Investing in yourself and your staging business is a HUGE step and we don’t take that lightly.
During the week, both Cindy and Elaine will share their experiences with you (successes and failures!) candidly and generously to help you craft the strategies you need to move your staging business forward in the next 12 months and beyond.
Is the retreat taught in English?
Yes.
Both Elaine and Cindy are English speakers. Elaine is British and Cindy is American.
Cindy has lived in the UK, so she will be able to translate UK-specific terms in real estate and business.
While the terms, rules and regulations may be different country to country, the concepts we are teaching (for example, building systems and SOPs, onboarding team members, etc.) are fairly universal.
If you have any concerns about the content of the retreat not working for your country, please contact us and we can chat further about that.
Can I attend the retreat virtually?
If an in-person retreat isn’t in the cards for you right now, we completely understand.
At this time, we are not able to offer the retreat experience virtually. We want to make sure that our participants get 100% of our attention during their masterclasses and workshops.
Our current team structure is not able to support additional participants virtually.
This working retreat includes…
- Home staging business masterclasses and workshops tailored to your needs and challenges with award-winning stagers and business coaches Cindy Lin and Elaine Penhaul
- Welcome dinner made by a private chef with locally sourced ingredients
- Four lunches made by a private chef with locally sourced ingredients during workshop days
- A farewell dinner and pasta-making workshop at our private chef’s cooking school
- Beverages & snacks at the house
- A 1:1 session with Cindy
- A 1:1 session with Elaine
- A follow-up group coaching call post-retreat
- Complimentary enrollment to a 3-part, live workshop series on finances. We will cover cash flow management, budgeting, and tax planning.
- A special invite to continue your work in building your staging business with coaching and mastermind after the retreat
What’s not included?
- Transportation to Florence and back home. For example, international roundtrip airfare is not included
- Personal Travel Insurance: We recommend having personal travel insurance that at minimum covers medical emergencies and cancellations
- Your accommodation in Florence
- Transportation to and from where we are holding the sessions
- Activities not included in the trip itinerary
- Expenses and activities during free time
- Meals and beverages not included in itinerary
Travel arrangements
It’s up to you to arrange your own travels to our meeting place for the Retreat.
We will be working in a beautiful private home that is in the city center of Florence.
It is a five-minute walk from the Duomo, full of light and extremely quiet. It is on the 8th floor overlooking the roofs of Florence (yes, there is an elevator!)
The first gathering will be on Sunday at 5pm, where we will meet at the home for aperitivo and Welcome Dinner.
We recommend arriving in Florence by 3pm on Sunday, September 17th, so you can settle into your hotel/airbnb before our Welcome Dinner. We will start the workshops on Monday morning.
If you need assistance in making travel arrangements from your place of residence, we recommend working with a travel agent on making the flight and travel arrangements.
Items needed during the retreat
You are welcome to bring your laptop to take notes. There will be wifi at the home.
For the final day, you will be presenting your action plan. We don’t have a projector at the house. A presentation slidedeck is not necessary for your presentation. Last year, our participants simply talked about their plans and their ah-ha moments.
You are also welcome to bring your camera to take photos around the house and the gorgeous city of Florence. If you want feedback on your photography, Cindy will also be able to give you tips on using your camera.
Weather
The weather in Florence in September is roughly 80° / 58°F. Perfect for short shorts and dresses! ☀️
We recommend packing layered clothes for your stay and a light jacket. You may also want to bring an umbrella for the sun/occasional showers!
Is there a payment plan?
Yes.
We have a multi-month payment plan option available. It is a more accessible option if you want to spread the payments out.
You will be charged the first installment when you signup and the remaining installments each month until your payment plan is complete.
If you have any questions about your payment plan, please let us know by emailing us.
Covid policies + disclaimer
We want to let you know that, in accordance with current COVID guidelines in Italy, proof of vaccination is not required for attendees of our retreats.
However, please note that if the COVID guidelines in Italy change, it will be the responsibility of participants to manage any entry requirements.
Staged4more is not responsible for any additional costs related to changes in COVID policies in Italy, and we cannot be held responsible if a participant is unable to attend the retreat due to changes in COVID policies.
For your reference, we’ve included a link to the COVID travel guidelines from the Ministry of Health of Italy: https://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovocoronavirus/dettaglioContenutiNuovoCoronavirus.jsp?lingua=english&id=5412&area=nuovoCoronavirus&menu=vuoto. If you are a US citizen, here is the advisory from the US Embassy: https://it.usembassy.gov/covid-19-information/.
We want you to have a safe and enjoyable experience during the retreat, and your health and well-being are important to us.
As we will be in a small group setting, we kindly ask that you keep a close eye on your own health and monitor for any symptoms. In the event that you experience any symptoms during the retreat, please let us know immediately.
We also ask that if you are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 during the retreat, for the safety of everyone else in the group, please stay in your accommodations and do not participate in any group activities.
In the event that you are unable to participate in any group activities due to COVID-19 symptoms, we will work with you to make up any missed teaching portions of the retreat, to the best of our ability.
If COVID-19 policies in Italy change during the retreat, certain aspects of the retreat may be modified according to the situation beyond our control. In the rare event this occurs, we will work to offer comparable activities when possible. Thank you for your understanding.
You will be responsible for ensuring you are able to travel to Italy and meet all necessary entry requirements, which may include wearing masks in all public settings. Staged4more will not refund any lost trip funds if you are unable to meet the requirements provided by Staged4more or Italy.
If you are concerned about trip cancellation coverage due to COVID-19, we recommend purchasing or upgrading your travel insurance to a “cancel for any reason” plan.
While we will adhere to local COVID guidelines at the retreat, we cannot guarantee that the Participants will not be exposed to COVID. The Participants assume the risk and understand that they may be exposed to COVID as a result of traveling.
Accessibility
The private home we have rented has an elevator but it is not big enough for a wheelchair.
Please note that the apartment is on the 8th floor (or 7th in Italy). There are 178 steps.
It is rare that the elevator will be out of commission, but if this is a concern for you if it does happen, do consider our Tuscany retreat instead.
Booking terms + cancellation policy
If you cancel on or before July 1, 2023, you will receive a full refund minus a $275 USD admin fee.
If you cancel on or before August 1, 2023, you will receive a 50% refund minus a $275 USD admin fee.
After September 1, there is a 100% cancellation fee.
Please read through our full Retreat Terms & Conditions for any questions you have about booking, cancellation, COVID vaccines requirement, etc. before booking.
Staged4more will confirm the trip by May 1, 2023. If you would like to book accommodations and flights prior to that, please make sure they have a free cancellation policy.
Once the trip is confirmed, Staged4more will only cancel if it becomes impossible to hold the retreat. For example, lockdown, natural disaster, etc.
In the event of trip cancellation by Staged4more, you will be fully refunded. Staged4more will not be responsible for any additional costs associated with trip cancellation, such as flights, accommodation booking, etc.
I am in! This is so exciting. Where should I stay?
The private home we will be working at is near Piazza Signoria and Via Calzaiuoli in the heart of the city.
It’s about a five-minute walk to Duomo.
We recommend booking something nearby so you will be on time for the masterclasses and workshops.
I still have Qs
Great, freel free to contact us here.
