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!
When Researching Personal Shopper Training Programs, Consider the Experience of Your Instructor – Michelle T. Sterling, Sterling Style Academy Training Director
When you are looking up the various personal stylist and personal shopping training programs on the market, it is important to consider many factors, including: Who will be training you? Learning from your instructor’s vast personal styling and personal shopping experience is equally, if not more valuable, than mastering the text book elements and principles of design as they relate to image, fashion and style. A good instructor will ensure you understand color, dressing for body type and building your career. But a great instructor will also share a wealth of real world client experience and will teach you how to excel in various personal shopping and personal styling situations in which each client presents a unique styling scenario in different cultural environments. This is knowledge that can only be gained through experience, and as an aspiring personal stylist, you want to train with Certified Personal Shopping Instructors with real world, global experience.
Michelle T. Sterling, founder of the Sterling Style Academy and Global Image Group, has offered her unique, global perspective of personal styling to an elite group of more than 350 personal shopping students from 40 different countries. Ms. Sterling achieved her AICI Image Consultant Certification in 2003 (the first year it was offered) after working with executive and affluent personal shopping clients since 2000. In 2000, she founded the Global Image Group, which today has a team of a dozen image consultants working with clients in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, South America, and Japan.
Ms. Sterling founded the Sterling Style Academy in 2002, and has developed the program into an internationally recognized Personal Styling and Personal Shopping Training Program that takes place in eight cities globally, including New York, Miami, San Francisco, Las Vegas, London, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Dubai. While Ms. Sterling’s main focus is now her students, she continues to work with executives and personal shopping clients in each city during her travels.
Always looking to further develop the value of the Sterling Style Academy to reach a broad range of aspiring personal shoppers and stylists, Ms. Sterling introduced the Sterling Style Academy’s Online Training Program in 2005 where students can enroll per module and study at home on their own schedule to train to become personal stylists. Online modules are formatted in such a way that it somewhat emulates the in-class training courses, giving at home students personal stylist training that is virtually on par with in-class courses.
And in 2010, Ms. Sterling wrote and published three new at home personal shopping and personal styling training workbooks with DVDs to further diversify the training options available to aspiring personal stylists. Focused on offering the services of Wardrobe Consultations and Closet Evaluations, Personal Shopping Sessions, and creating Client Wardrobe Lookbooks, students can now purchase service-specific training tools through the Sterling Style Academy Boutique. Taking at home training another step further, Ms. Sterling also released the Sales, Marketing and Brand Identity Launch Kit to give new personal shoppers a business and marketing plan to grow their businesses and increase clientele through proven industry marketing strategies.
All of this from a women who started working in retail at age 16. Graduates worldwide can attest to the level of professional training they received from Ms. Sterling at the Sterling Style Academy. If you’d like to learn more about enrolling into the Sterling Style Academy or purchasing any of the at home learning tools and resources, please call the Sterling Style Academy at +1.888.866.8996 or email the Sterling Style Academy.
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.
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 Graduate Success Stories from the Sterling Style Academy
The Sterling Style Academy is so proud of the success our global graduates have achieved. Due to each Certified Personal Shopper’s business savvy to apply the tools and knowledge they learned from training with the Sterling Style Academy, they have become personal shopping and personal styling pioneers in their home cities and countries, including Japan, Trinidad, Chile, Italy, Dubai, Nigeria, Russia, the United States, and Canada.
Each of the Sterling Style Academy Certified Personal Shoppers featured are not only pioneers in their industry but they are all self-motivated, go-getters. They have a true passion to become successful image consultants and personal shoppers and they implemented their education into a viable career in different parts of the world. Not only do they jet set to work with clients but they are also driven, motivated, and take advantage of opportunities when they appear. These are the true characteristics of successful and dynamic entrepreneurs and we are very proud of them for achieving their goals. Some of our graduates were as young as 23 when they started, proving age does not make a difference in professional image consulting, personal styling and personal shopping.
Read some of the Sterling Style Academy’s Graduate Success Profiles:
Yuuri Takano (Japan) – Graduate of New York 4 Week Course – August 2005, is a 2 time author, trainer, consultant, and public speaker.
- Jeunesse Ali and Amy Inglefield (Trinidad) – Graduates of Miami 2.5 Week Course – Janaury 2008, are co-founders of TimeSquared, LTD. a leading personal styling business pioneering the industry in Trinidad and Tobago.
“Hi Michelle! So great to hear from you! Business is great!
No plans to be (in Miami again) as yet but I’m always doing some last minute jet setting so I’ll be sure to let you know. Hope all is well. – Amy Inglefield”
- Tania Siddiqi (Dubai and Pakistan) – Graduate of Dubai 2.5 Week Course - November 2009 joined the elite team of Global Image Group Consultants after graduating from the Sterling Style Academy.
- Ameriga Giannone (Italian born, residing in Chile) – Graduate of Miami 2.5 Week Course – January 2010 is a make-up artist, fashion stylist and personal stylist in Santiago, Chile. She travels between Chile, Argentina, and Italy to work with clients – shopping for them globally.
- Helen MacGillivray (Canada) - Graduate of New York 2.5 Week Course - April 2010 has published a style guide and works with personal styling and corporate styling clients.
“Hi Michelle, I hope everything is well with you. My business is growing fast and I am planning two workshops for this month. Also I am going to make the shopping trip to Vegas happen in March. I will keep you posted and if you need a testimonial let me know. – Helen”
- Yetunde Bankole-Bernard and Eloho Alero Abada (Nigeria) – Graduates of New York 2.5 Week Course and Las Vegas 5 Day Course – April and September 2010 – are still launching their business in the very new personal styling industry in Nigeria. They are setting themselves up to be personal shopping pioneers in their industry.
“Hi Michelle! We’ve talked about you all week & even just concluded on sending a message today. We are doing great! Putting finishing touches to the website and holding a seminar by the end of Nov. Sure we’ll keep you posted. Regards, Yetunde”
“Hallo Michelle! Everyother thing is going on smoothly according to plan and you will be hearing from us shortly! I see there’s a lot going on at your end – as usual. Hope you are well and do take care. – Alero”
- Ann Damon Reilly (USA) – Graduate of One-on-One Training – June 2010, incorporated her interior decorating business with image consulting – immediately generating clients.
“Just wanted to let you gals know the Sterling Style Academy training was such a great experience for me. As a busy mother of two this career fits so well with managing my family. I recommend the in person training – so valuable to have the face to face contact and knowledge provided. I reflect on my training often when working with my clients. Feel free to contact me at ann@anndamonreilly.com if you have any questions. www.anndamonreilly.com is my website. Work in progress!”
Keys to Success:
As fashion and style are truly hands-on professions, we believe that our graduates have benefited greatly from the in-person, hands-on training they received in one of our in-class courses. With one-on-one interaction with instructors and class mates from all over the world, Sterling Style Academy graduates are more globally versed in fashion and aware of the influences of various cultural trends.
Those who graduate from the Sterling Style Academy all share the abilities to put their education to use in their businesses, market themselves appropriately according to the tools they learned in class, and most importantly, they are not afraid to take risks. Sterling Style Academy’s training director, Michelle T. Sterling, who co-authored the book, Success Simplified, motivates students through her own drive and business savvy to do the same in their market. Students recognize that to be successful in the image consulting and personal shopping industry, it takes personal conviction and the confidence to take smart risks. Our graduates take this cue from our internationally recognized alumnae and staff to build successful businesses for themselves in their own region or country. This is what makes the Sterling Style Academy so unique and globally recognized as a leader in producing top-notch personal stylists and personal shoppers.
Another key to success for each of our featured alumni, particularly in 2010, is their investment in their continuing development as image professionals through our training materials. These valuable training products incorporate instructional training workbooks and dvds that our graduates can future reference upon the completion of their personal stylist and personal shopper training.
The Global Benefits of the Sterling Style Academy
The Sterling Style Academy trains globally diversified image consultants and personal shoppers who not only become pioneers in their countries but also are based all over the world. Many of them take advantage of the Sterling Style Academy’s “Corporate America,” success oriented mentally – incorporating our methodologies in their best business practices. International students who have chosen to educate themselves in New York, Miami, San Francisco, or Las Vegas have also benefited from the American shopping experience. Those who have enrolled in our international programs in Dubai, London, Sydney, and Hong Kong have truly mastered the art of international shopping combined with a structured methodology for conducting personal shopping sessions outside of the United States.
Image consulting and personal shopping is not only a growing industry worldwide, but is also one that is financially viable, no matter where in the world you launch your business. Regardless of where you live and if your training takes place in the United States or by an American-based personal shopping training academy, the principles and core competences you learn at the Sterling Style Academy are universally accepted worldwide.
The Sterling Style Academy trains successful image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers in London, Sydney, and Hong Kong. Our 2.5 week certification course has been successfully executed in Dubai with a 300% increase in student body attendance within one year. We expect the same kind of success for our World Traveler program, which positions you for success to become a global image consultant and to market your services to individuals or corporations in more than one region, especially if you’re an expat. Work with clients between London and Hong Kong, or between Sydney and New York, or where ever you travel to! Register for the World Traveler program for Sydney and Hong Kong before January 12, 2011.
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.
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.
Networking in Your First Year as Certified Image Consultant, Your New Life as the Go-To Fashion Expert
Your life as a professional image consultant or personal shopper begins at the Sterling Style Academy. When you train at one of our 10 personal shopper training classes in New York, Miami, Las Vegas, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai, you graduate with a global network of personal stylist peers who are as eager as you to launch their image consulting business. Your new professional network includes fellow personal stylists from Africa, Europe, Australia, Middle East, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, India, South America and/or North America, so you’ll never be alone or without support as a Sterling Style Academy Alumni.
Once you graduate as a Certified Image Consultant and head back to your home city, your life as a professional personal shopper begins. Especially during your first year, and throughout your career as a whole, you can definitely count on networking. As a personal stylist, networking includes mingling with high profile individuals and trend setters of your community. You should be attending highly publicized parties hosted by your city’s fashionable magazines, the latest art gallery openings, department store special events, and designer fashion shows. A hired photographer will be present at each of these events so ensure your photo is taken every chance you get. As glamorous as it is, being your own publicist and being seen at the most fashionable events serves as a huge key to your visibility as a professional personal stylist.
These are the events at which you will meet your area’s fashion press and industry bloggers. At this point, you’ll need to consider your marketing plan, and the Sterling Style Academy can equip you with a complete Sales, Marketing and Business Brand Identity Launch Kit to ensure you always convey the right message. It goes without saying that you will need professional quality business cards and well-written marketing collateral including press releases. Our Sales, Marketing and Business Brand Identity Launch Kit includes sample marketing and business plans, 10 press release templates, 4 marketing collateral templates, and industry proven text to position your services to your target audience. Since you will speak to the fashion industry press like a seasoned expert, the press will position you to the public as a seasoned personal stylist, thus increasing your client portfolio.
Parlay your press, fashionable photos and the trends you spot into your own personal styling blog. Publishing your own fashion advice in a well written, stylized blog format will further establish you as a local fashion expert as your new contacts can read all about your services and personal styling skills after you’ve met. This is also the best way to received web-based inquiries regarding your services from potential clients you’ve never even met!
Now you have the press, the photos, and the blog to prove you are a fashion expert! This builds credibility that every entrepreneur needs when just starting out. Touch base with your fellow Sterling Style Academy Alumni often through our new Facebook group to brainstorm new ideas to secure more clients and to keep each other inspired. What works in one country may never have been tried in another and that may be just the tool you are looking for!
About Sterling Style Academy
The Sterling Style Academy trains prospective and aspiring personal shoppers, personal stylists, and image consultants to launch the career of their dreams. With training courses held 10 times per year in major cities around the globe such as Hong Kong, Sydney, London, New York and Dubai, plus online training, and at-home training products – you will begin your personal shopping career as a Certified Image Consultant. Master the principles 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 earning an income doing what you are passionate about – SHOPPING and STYLING!
You are Already a Recognized Fashion Expert – Become a Personal Styling and Personal Shopping Pioneer in Your Country with Sterling Style Academy in Miami
The Sterling Style Academy has trained image consulting pioneers, leading the personal styling industry in their own countries, including Japan, Trinidad, Nigeria, Canada, and Norway. These students have enrolled in the Sterling Style Academy’s personal shopper training courses around the world, and have since launched their personal shopping businesses to become recognized experts in their country. Make 2011 your year to become the recognized fashion and styling expert in your city by enrolling in the Sterling Style Academy’s 2.5 Week Training Course in Miami, January 5 – 21, 2011. Registration is open through November 22, 2010.
Are you an aspiring personal shopper living in Central America, the Caribbean, South America, or Europe? The Miami personal styling training course is for you. This course has attracted students from Trinidad, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Columbia, Slovenia, Moscow, Italy, the southern and central United States and more.
The growing economies of South American countries offer tremendous opportunities to establish a flourishing image consulting or personal shopping firm. Personal stylists and personal shoppers represent a new niche market in Central and South America with little competition and unlimited ability to grow a successful fashion business.
The Sterling Style Academy equips these pioneering personal shoppers and stylists with unparalleled industry tools that are easily adaptable to the target personal shopping clientele that each new personal shopper chooses to work with. Study the exciting and growing field of personal styling, personal shopping and image consulting in Miami’s exclusive fashion promenades this January 2011 and graduate as a Certified Image Consultant with the tools, skills and confidence to launch your own fashion styling business in 2011.
What are the tools with which the Sterling Style Academy equips personal shopping students?
- Week 1: Master the elements and principles of design as they relate to different body types through the uses of color, texture, patterns and silhouettes, to create a successful image.
- Week 2: Apply your newly mastered skills in the real world shopping environment of the trendy Miami fashion scene, including actual client consultations, closet consultations, and personal shopping experiences.
- Final Days: Learn how to market yourself and your business to secure clients and grow your business. How much should you charge? What consultation packages should you offer? How do you get your name out there?
- Post Sterling Style Academy: Certified Image Consultants are equipped with easily adaptable kits and templates on CD and DVD to:
- Execute a Personal Style Evaluation
- Conduct a Closet and Wardrobe Consultation
- Create Packages for your Personal Shopping Services
- Create a Wardrobe Look Book for your Clients
- Instructions on Make Up Application
- Sterling Style Academy Alumni Network
- Access to Sterling Style Academy Industry Tools including
- Develop your marketing plan with the Sterling Style Academy Marketing Kit
- Corporate Image Development Course in Las Vegas: Enroll as a refresher or gain the skills needed to work with top-level executives
- Home Study Personal Shopping and Personal Styling Training Products
With the best personal stylist training and the right marketing and brand positioning, you will attract the clientele appropriate for you and you will always be busy. Position your personal shopping business to be in high demand and pioneer the image consulting industry in your country with a solid foundation at the Sterling Style Academy.
Your educational investment in the Sterling Style Academy is 100% tax deductible for your business. Call the Sterling Style Academy or email us to answer your questions about the right training courses and personal shopping training products for you. We’re excited to launch yet another year of training the world’s top-notch image consultants, personal shoppers, and personal stylists! Enroll today to join the elite network of Sterling Style Academy Certified Image Consultants and grow your business in 2011.
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