Michelle Minch & Todd McAllister have a combined 35 years of inventory buying experience. Over the years they have developed buying strategies that help simplify and economize the process. You will learn strategies and industry secrets they have developed over many years of buying inventory at furniture markets, from online vendors and through brick and mortar stores.
What home stagers and designers can expect to learn from this RESACON session:
- Learn how to shop showrooms effectively.
- Maximize your business profits by who you buy from.
- Strategize the shipping of your orders.
- Streamlining your inventory for maximum profits.
Who is MICHELLE MINCH?
Michelle Minch is the owner of Moving Mountains Design, a successful Los Angeles home staging and interior design company based in Pasadena, CA. Michelle started her staging business in 2006, and has grown year over year due, in part, to her focus on marketing.
Michelle began her career in design as a Stylist and Visual Merchandiser for commercials, music videos, television and feature films. Home staging and interior design was a natural progression, allowing the use of her visual merchandising skills, years of design, marketing and management experience with the goal of creating appealing and comfortable one-of-a-kind interiors that help sell homes.
Michelle’s home staging and interior design work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Green Builder, Sunset Magazine, Los Angeles Weekly and many other national and international publications.
Her accolades include; 2 Chrysalis Awards for Excellence in Remodeling – one for kitchen design and remodeling and one for a whole house makeover RESA® 2010 & 2014 Professional Stager of the Year Winner (International) Stager Of The Year Nominee, multiple years Nationally recognized expert on home staging and the home staging industry
Who is TODD MCALLISTER?
Todd McAllister is the owner of OnStage, based in Portland, Oregon. He got started in home staging by accident, and the accident has turned out pretty good for all involved. Now years later, Todd has an amazing staff, two locations and is very proud to say that OnStage offers their employees health and retirement benefits.
Todd credits much of his success to not giving up in the beginning, empowering his team to make decisions, taking risks and continuing to change and evolve in how you run the business and how you do things.
Before home staging, Todd worked for a comic book publisher, managing the production of over 300 books and the components of each book. After about 9 years, he transitioned into visual merchandising for Nordstrom. Todd’s position consisted of floor changes, where he would clear off and entire department and reset every fixture, and re-arrange the merchandise, dressing mannequins, re-working the merchandise and holiday sets where he would install Christmas the night before thanksgiving. Todd was also part of a team that would travel around to store openings and set up the entire store before the grand opening. Todd feels as though this job is what really got him thinking on how important visual presentation is, which later translated into home staging.
Like many other stagers, Todd has staged thousands of properties. Many times, the furniture was nicer than the house it was going into, but it was his job to make the home look it’s very best. He has met many interesting people over the years and seen a lot of crazy things, but says that it’s been the crazy that has kept him going. Todd finds the most rewarding jobs are the modest homes of first time sellers as they are very self conscious about their home and feel that it is not the biggest or most beautiful. Todd notes that when they see the end product, they are the most appreciative and never realized that their home could look this nice (and to get the call that it went over asking is just icing on the cake).