Business Consulting and Business Coaching Teleclass for Image Consultants, Personal Stylists, and Personal Shoppers
Are you an image consultant, personal stylist or personal shopper and in a business rut? Are you having trouble getting your business started? Could you use some business and career coaching to help you get to the next level?
The Sterling Style Academy would like to announce our 2012 3-Month Teleclass: The 5-Step System to Building a Successful Styling Business.
This teleclass will combine our acclaimed Sales, Marketing, Business Brand Identity Launch Kit (a $797 value) with six 1.5 hour sessions over the course of 3 months so that you are able set yourself up for business success. We will teach you the fundaments of building an image consultant business as well as how to set goals for yourself to accomplish all the necessary tasks you will encounter to achieve your business goals.
The Sterling Style Academy 5-Step System to Building a Successful Styling Business teleclass begins on April 18, 2012 and concludes on July 18, 2012. Registration for this program closes on April 10, 2012.
For more information about this program, fees, and / or to register, please click here.
About the Sterling Style Academy
The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams. With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry. Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert. Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling! Like us or become our BFF on Facebook.
Have You Looked into Image Consulting and Personal / Fashion Styling Courses at the London College of Fashion in London and Dubai, or FIT in NY?
While London College of Fashion in London and Dubai or FIT in New York are great institutions, their curriculum is based on all aspects of fashion and not just on image consulting, fashion styling, personal styling, or personal shopping.
Wouldn’t you want to be trained by industry experts who excelled in their careers within the first 3 years of consulting and successively increased their earnings by over 100 percent after their second and third years in business? Not only is image consulting a career and a profession, it’s also an entrepreneurial industry and in order to succeed you must be armed with an industry focused education, the right tools, and have inspired passion and motivation to succeed. The key to any successful entrepreneur lies in your ability to make things happen. That means marketing yourself appropriately, developing a strong professional network of individuals, and applying your education to inspire others to be the best they can be.
At the Sterling Style Academy, we not only provide you with a top-notch education focused on the elements and principles of design as it relates to image, fashion, and style, our instructors also inspire you to run successful businesses which is backed by our Sales, Marketing, Business Brand Identity Launch Kit. We also provide you with on-going education in the form of Short eCourses, Teleclasses on business development, and our founder and training director, Michelle T. Sterling, is co-author with Steven Covey on Success Simplified. In 2011, we will be launching our new color analysis booklet for your own personal reference or to share with clients as you consultant them on what colors look best on them.
So as you can see when selecting an image consulting training program that suits your needs, carefully consider the following: 1) what you want for yourself, 2) what type of business do you want to build, and 3) do you want to have fun doing it in the process because image consulting and personal styling are just not careers, it’s a lifestyle too!
If you’re a glamorous fashionista you belong with the elite group of Sterling Style Academy certified image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers. Take a moment and consider your dreams and your future – we’re confident you’ll find the Sterling Style Academy as part of your brilliant future in the image, fashion, and style industries.
Fashion consultant icons like Stacy London of What Not to Wear did not graduate from fashion schools like FIT or London College of Fashion. She graduated from Vassar College with a solid education which met by opportunity turned into good luck. As a co-host for the past seven years on What Not to Wear, her career has blossomed from a fashion editor at Vogue, to a reality show star, and transitioned into business consulting. She has built a multi-million dollar empire through her show and endorsements.
Will you be the Sterling Style Academy’s next celebrity stylist? We’ve already produced up and coming ones in developing countries such as Chile, Guatemala, and Pakistan. You too can become part of this elite group of image consultants and personal stylists who are educated by people with an education such as our founder, Michelle T. Sterling, graduate of Wellesley College, a notable institution for producing top-notch female politicians, executives, and media personalities. Train with individuals with an education who also provide you with a top-notch education in a once in a lifetime, lifestyle experience at one of our 9 major fashion capital destinations in the world.
About the Sterling Style Academy
The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams. With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry. Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert. Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling! Like us or become our friend on Facebook.
Other countries with a growing interest in image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The emerging market country indices included are: Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Angola, Congo, Bangladesh, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey.
London 4 Week Image Consultancy Training Programme from the Sterling Style Academy
The 4 Week Certification Programme is a fully comprehensive programme designed to meet the training needs of international fashion connoisseurs and individuals who prefer to cultivate their image and styling skills through extensive case study development. This programme is offered each year during June in London. Students may enroll in this course on a weekly basis, however most opt to participate in the entire four week program. In this program, you will learn the following:
• Introduction to style – How do we define and refine it?
• How to analyse fashion, incorporate trends, and develop style
• The elements and principles of design as it pertains to style
• How to assess facial features and body types to create suitable wardrobes for your clients
• How to incorporate these elements into analysing an individual’s personal style and colouring
• How to develop a look specific to your client’s personal style and colouring
• The elements and importance of wardrobe evaluation
• The principles behind closet organization and clothing care
• A day in the life of an image consultant
• Effective shopping strategies and protocol
• How to determine your target market and develop your marketing plan
• How to conduct personal style and closet evaluations
• The essential elements of effective communication skills and its non-verbal impact
• How to utilise these elements to improve your corporate presentation and interpersonal communication skills
• How to develop your client’s image to improve their overall presence
Click here for future class schedule and training investment structures.
Certification only granted upon completion of entire programme
Program Schedule: Monday – Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Clinic: Friday, TBA with assignments to be completed in the evenings.
For more information, please contact us to receive a course prospectus.
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Upon receipt of your registration form, we will send you a Welcome Package outlining the logistics of the training program, suggestions on where to stay, a detailed agenda, and much more. Your investment does not include air fare, lodging, transportation, personal expenses, school supplies or meals. Students should budget an additional USD $1550 per month.
Beginning in 2011, the Sterling Style Academy introduces the 4 week image consultancy training programme in London, taking place 30 May – 24 June, 2011. Due to popular demand for the in-depth 4 week personal stylist and personal shopper training programme in Europe, the Sterling Style Academy has expanded upon its multi-national personal stylist and personal shopper training course options. Until 2011, the 4 week comprehensive personal style coaching training programme was only offered once per year each August in New York. As a result of increased enrollment of students from the UK, Italy, France, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, India, Hong Kong and other European Union, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries, the Sterling Style Academy now offers a second 4 week personal stylist and personal shopper training programme during the month of June in the global fashion capital of London.
Have you dreamed of earning an income through personal style coaching and personal shopping? Train to become a top-notch image consultant this June 2011 in London, in the midst of world class shopping. Your new career as a personal shopper or personal style coach starts with hands on training on London’s Oxford Street, the largest shopping destination in all of Europe, and Bond Street. Train to become a personal stylist while learning the principles of colour and design as they relate to the body at Selfridges, Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and other world famous London department stores. Master the skills of personal styling and personal shopping on Sloane Street in Knightsbridge, home to up market luxury shopping and living.
Fashionable men and women from around the world train at the Sterling Style Academy to launch their dream career as a top notch image consultant, personal style coach, and personal shopper. Students enroll in our image consultancy training program to gain a global edge on fashion and shopping and to train with students from countries and cities including: London, UK, Moscow, Russia, Paris, France, Rome, Milan, Italy, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Romania, Slovenia, Poland, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, India, Iran, Hong Kong, and China.
As shoppers from the Middle East, India, and the European Union often go to London during the summer months to vacation and shop, June is the perfect time to invest in image consultancy and personal style coaching training with a global perspective from the Sterling Style Academy.
Registration for the 4 Week Image Consultancy Training Programme in London closes 18 April, 2011. The investment for this in-depth, hands on, up market personal stylist and personal shopper training is USD$9947, which is just USD$2497 per week.
The Benefits of the Sterling Style Academy are the following: 
1. Commitment to Excellence. We consistently update our course curriculum so that our students receive the most current and timely style industry information. Wardrobe case studies are shaped by the hippest celebrities and designer style, and our coaching of corporate communication and appropriate wardrobe is geared toward persevering through economic downturns.
2. Faculty Reputation. Your instructors have 50 years of combined industry experience and the Sterling Style Academy’s Founder is a Wellesley Alumnae, member of the National Organization of Professional Women, AICI, ASTD and other professional organizations committed to excellence. You will train from experts who are recognized as being in the top 2 percentile in the image consulting industry.
3. Global Diversified Student Body and Internationally Recognized Student Alumni. Sterling Style Academy Certified Image Consultants span the globe from over 20 different countries from every continent. The leading image consultant in Japan, Yuuri Takano, residing in Tokyo, graduated from the Sterling Style Academy New York in 2005 and re-enrolled with her assistant in 2008. She has since pioneered the image consultant industry in her country, becoming a media darling, author and premier image consultant in Japan and to the Japanese in America.
4. Every dollar of your Sterling Style Academy training investment is tax deductible. As a business owner, your industry education becomes a valuable tax deduction and may be written off as a business expense.
About the Sterling Style Academy
The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams. With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry. Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert. Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling! Like us or become our friend on Facebook.
How to Develop a Capsule Wardrobe
Capsule wardrobes put two tops and two bottoms together and use them to create a variety of looks. Simplify your wardrobe with this informational video from Michelle T. Sterling on creating a capsule wardrobe.
About the Sterling Style Academy
The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams. With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry. Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert. Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!
Sydney and Hong Kong Personal Shopper Training for the World Traveler, Benefits to Training in these World Class Cities
The first opportunity to train to become a world traveling personal stylist with the Sterling Style Academy in 2011 takes place in Sydney, Australia from February 28 -March 9, and continues in Hong Kong from March 14 – 18.
Many aspiring personal shoppers who contact the Sterling Style Academy ask, “What is the benefit of training in two different cities?” And the answers are numerous. The more world traveling experience a new personal stylist or personal shopper has, the more culturally well-rounded this personal shopper’s skills are. Being able to speak to the preferences of different clients from all parts of the globe makes a personal stylist’s services that much more marketable to a variety of clients in a variety of locations.
Personal shoppers with this caliber of personal style training are able to charge a higher hourly or daily rate than personal shoppers without world traveling experience. Further diversifying your awareness and experience working with different cultures, all while incorporating this experience into a cohesive look and style representative of your client will make your services that much more valuable to world traveling professionals and socialites.
Consider the cultural aspects of training in globally renowned cities such as Sydney and Hong Kong. While Asian and Australian cultures are quite different in values, training in both markets is a great opportunity to globally diversify your personal styling skill set and to learn how to work with clients of different values, backgrounds, and life or career ambitions.
Australia represents western-influenced values and cultural similarities to markets like the United Kingdom and the United States, while in proximity to Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Sydney is the place to build a solid foundation regarding the technical aspects of style. Australians are generally interested in learning about the right colors that suit them and how to dress according to their body type as well as personal style. It’s the ideal place to learn the principles of design as they relate to personal styling.
Australia is a booming market for the personal shopping industry as many people are interested in hiring image consultants. Both British and Australian prospective clients value entertainment and invest more on housing and real estate, and Australians are more prone to purchasing luxury items. Training in a market with this type of high demand is a great experience as you are able to see all the aspects of the industry and the various services you can offer. The Australian dollar is also strong against the US dollar, making Sydney a valuable location to invest in personal stylist training.
Hong Kong is the ideal place to learn how to become a personal shopper in Asia. With so many luxury and mid-market stores at your disposal and high rise shopping centers throughout the city, Hong Kong offers the perfect opportunity to master the services offered by a personal shopper. Hong Kong’s culture is conducive for this type of profession, as Asians in general value brand names at a good value, allowing you the opportunity to position your expertise to be of value to busy executives and affluent shoppers.
In addition to offering world class shopping opportunities, Hong Kong, like other major cities including Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok and Jakarta, is an epicenter of international business. Training in a city where corporate values and executive presence dominate the wardrobe values of so many working professionals, will provide personal stylists with a competitive edge in the world of corporate image consulting.
Training in multiple business and fashion capitals gives personal shoppers a competitive edge that just cannot be learned by studying at home or online. Personal stylists aspiring to work with globe traveling professionals and affluent clients must be world travelers themselves. Register for the Sterling Style Academy’s World Traveler(TM) Program taking place in Sydney and Hong Kong beginning March 9, 2011. Students must enroll by January 17, 2011, in order to train with other personal shoppers from around the world in Sydney and Hong Kong.
About the Sterling Style Academy
The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams. With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry. Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert. Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!
Certified Personal Shopper Salary and Personal Stylist Salary – What to Expect as You Launch Your Personal Shopping and Personal Styling Career
Many people seek higher education upon graduating from college or university to become further marketable. This is also true in the personal styling and personal shopping industry. Credibility is based on education and experience, and when you seek out certified personal stylist or personal shopper training, you’re further educating yourself to become a highly desirable commodity. Often business people seek a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) to become even more credible business professionals. When you seek higher education in the personal shopper or personal stylist industry, you are showing your commitment, dedication, and credibility within the industry to become a top-notch personal shopping and personal styling professional who gives scientifically based advice regarding the art of styling.
As a Certified Personal Shopper, you are able to bill clients a higher hourly or daily rate than non-certified personal shoppers or stylists. And your clients will be eager to pay, because they trust that you have truly mastered the principles of image and style, and they know that their image goals will be achieved under your guidance.
In many mid-sized to major cities (in the US, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, or Asia), a personal shopper without professional training who is launching her business can realistically look to secure clients at an hourly rate equivalent to $20-$30 USD per hour. However, if you add the credibility of professional training, your starting hourly rate can range from the equivalent of $50 – $100 USD per hour, depending upon your market and your target clientele. Within your first 3 years, you will be able to raise your asking price to $100-$150 USD per hour because now you have training and experience.
During your first year of professional personal styling, you can realistically expect to work with an average of three clients per month depending upon how aggressively your pursue clients and how well you utilize your network. Given an 8 hour personal styling and personal shopping session – this means that as a non-certified personal stylist, you can expect an income from $480-$720 USD per month.
A Certified Personal Shopper who launches her business working with an average of 3 clients per month at 8 hours per session can expect to earn from $1200-$2400 USD per month. As you can see, because you have invested in professional training, you are already on your way to seeing a real, lucrative income from personal styling and personal shopping become a reality within the next 2-3 years.
During your first 1-2 years as a professional personal shopper, you will most likely need to seek an additional source of income in order to sustain your living expenses, or be supplemented by your partner, spouse or family. But as you will learn below, if you continue to actively pursue your new career, you will be enjoying a full-time, lucrative income through your personal styling business within 3 years!
During your second and third years as a professional personal stylist, as a non-certified personal shopper, you will be able to raise your hourly rate to $30-$50 USD. With dedication to your business, you can also expect to double your client load to an average of 6 clients per month. Given an 8 hour session per client, a non-certified personal stylists can expect to earn from $1440 – $2400 per month, equivalent to $17,000 – $25,000 per year. Based on these numbers, you can see that a Certified Personal Stylist worked half as much and earned the same income during her first year as a non-certified personal stylist earned working twice as much in her second or third year.
As a Certified Personal Shopper, you can expect to raise your hourly rate to $75-$150 per hour during your second or third year and can also realistically double your client load to 6 clients per month. By investing in Personal Shopper Training now, in two-three years you can expect to earn from $3600-$7200 USD per month. That’s a yearly income of $43,000 – $86000 achieved during your second or third year as a Certified Personal Shopper! Obviously, it goes without saying that these numbers are achievable through hard work and dedication to actively seeking clients and consistently building your network. However being your own boss also has it advantages and provides you with more flexibility and freedom than working in a retail establishment or for a company.
Personal Shopper and Personal Stylist Salaries Across the Globe Range From:
Dubai Personal Shoppers: 350 – 550 AED per hour based on their experience and training
London Personal Shoppers: £ 30 – 45 without training and £ 50 – 80 on average with training
Australian Personal Shoppers: $100 – 175 per hour in a major metropolitan city such as Sydney or Melbourne
European Personal Shoppers: € 55 – 90 per hour on average in a fashion capital, based on credibility and training
Hong Kong Personal Shoppers: HK$ 550 – 1250 per hour depending on experience, training and target demographic
Nigerian Personal Shoppers: ₦ 15175 – 22750 based on target demographic and personal stylist training
The personal shopper and personal stylist industries are growing rapidly in countries including: Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, France, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Poland, Australia, Hong Kong and China, Singapore, Shanghai, Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea, The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, Nigeria, South Africa, and across Africa. With the US Dollar currently weaker in value against the Euro, now is the time for aspiring personal stylists from Europe and Asia to invest in the Sterling Style Academy’s World Traveler Training Programs, 2.5 Week Training Programs, New York 4 Week Training Program, and our at home training products.
Imagine launching your business as a Certified Personal Stylist and earning a salary equivalent to your friends in the corporate, cubicle world of 9-5 in less than 3 years. Imagine earning an income that increases by 50%-100% each year based on your own hard work and merit. In no time at all, you’ll be enjoying the life and career of your dreams!
Through personal shopper training in 10 cities around the world, online training, at home training products, and the Sterling Style Academy Marketing and Business Brand Identity Launch Kit, your goals of creating a full-time personal shopper and personal styling business can be achieved! Making an investment in yourself is making an investment in your business.
About the Sterling Style Academy
The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams. With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry. Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert. Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling! Like us or become our friend on Facebook.












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