The Sterling Style Academy regards the Morgan’s Hotel on Madison Avenue our home when we train aspiring personal shoppers and personal stylists to master the elements and principles of image, fashion and style.  You’ll learn how to select the appropriate colors, silhouettes, textures and patterns to meet the style needs of your clients in the contemporary setting of the Morgans Hotel with fellow aspiring personal shoppers and personal stylists from around the globe.

Once you’ve mastered the science behind fashion and style, you will experience the practical application of conducting personal style evaluations, wardrobe clustering, personal shopping sessions, and working hands-on with a variety of internationally recognized fashion collections.   After you’ve practiced your newly mastered styling skills on other members of the class, the Sterling Style Academy brings in actual personal shopping clients so students may work directly with real people in need of real wardrobe and image solutions.  The hands on, industry training we offer at the Sterling Style Academy provides you with the best real world experience prior to providing real solutions for real people.

To be a well-rounded personal stylist it is important to have some product knowledge of skin care and make up.  Therefore the Sterling Style Academy partners with Dior Make Up providing you with a Master Class in make up application conducted by Dior Make Up Artists.  Our students are also trained to conduct wardrobe and closet consultations by working with an actual designer wardrobe in need of professional assistance so you can master closet organization principles and the secrets to creating a well-functioning wardrobe for which your personal styling clients will pay top dollar.  To conclude the class, students learn how to create wardrobe lookbooks tailored to each client as an additional service you may offer in your personal styling and personal shopping service arsenal.

The Sterling Style Academy trains fashion enthusiasts to become certified personal stylists 3 times a year in New York.  Each training session offers different benefits allowing you to select the best personal stylist and personal shopper training option for you.

1) The 2.5 Week Personal Shopper Certification Course: April 4 – 20, 2011.  Registration closes on February 21.  Tuition $7497USD.

2) The 4 Week Personal Shopper Certification Course: August 1 – 26, 2011.  Registration closes on June 20.  Tuition $8997USD. 

3) The World Traveler Program (London | New York):

• Session I in London, 4 – 14 July, 2011.  Registration closes on May 23.  Tuition $6247 USD
• Session II in New York, July 18-22, 2011.  Registration closes on May 23. Tuition $4447 USD

CLICK HERE to see what our New York graduates have to say about us and experience first-hand what it’s like to be part of the Sterling Style Academy. 

At the Sterling Style Academy, we offer all of these hands on personal shopper training experiences, plus our unparalleled training workbooks and DVDs that are yours to keep with your investment in one of our personal stylist and personal shopper training courses.  Along with all of these training tools, we still consider the strongest part of your personal style and personal shopper training at the Sterling Style Academy to be the diverse group of students you’ll train with from around the globe.  Each personal shopper training course is attended by students of all ages, ethnicities, and professional backgrounds.  Our Certified Personal Shopper Graduates have gone on to become personal style consultant pioneers in their own countries including Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, the UK, Turkey, Trinidad, Nigeria, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, India, Canada, and more.  We’ve trained over 200 hundred students from more than 20 countries to launch their own personal shopping business and we look forward to helping you launch the fashion career of your dreams in 2011!

Contact the Sterling Style Academy directly to learn which training program or short personal stylist eCourse is right for your career goals and will best suit your needs.

Jump start your image consulting business with our Sales, Marketing and Business Brand Identity Launch Kit. Many students frequently come to the first day of image consultant training asking how will I get clients and how do I market myself.  This resource will help you position yourself as an expert which will result in attracting clients.  If you are serious about starting an image consulting business and would like would like to build the foundation for growing a sustainable business, we recommend taking advantage of the Sales, Marketing and Business Brand Identity Launch Kit Special Offer to incoming students at the introductory investment of US$597 plus shipping and handling.

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!  Like us or become our friend on Facebook.

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.

• 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.

Click here to make your investment today or click here to convert the investment into your currency.

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.

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!

As a Certified Personal Stylist, you are able to evaluate each unique wardrobe with a fresh and analytical eye to create new outfits and wardrobe clusters that your clients may have never considered! Offering wardrobe evaluations are a great way to reinvent the old closet into an exciting new wardrobe for your clients. The Sterling Style Academy offers a Wardrobe Consulting Workbook and DVD to train you how to offer this unique and highly marketable service and what you can charge for your personal styling services.

During the New Year, people want to reinvent themselves - they want to look more stylish, get noticed by others and be highly desireable. As a Certified Personal Stylist you will be able to analyze their current career wardrobe and mix and match to create exciting new looks by adding accessories, changing colors, and teaching your client how to dress a look up or down depending upon the situation. Suddenly you have transformed their existing wardrobe into a fashionable tool that will help them get noticed.

This time of year is also the time for a new outlook on love and dating. Your clients are ready to put dating nightmares and those old boyfriends and girlfriends behind them and exude a new look of confidence and romance. Your skills as a Certified Personal Stylist are invaluable to your clients as your objectively trained eye will hone in on how to dress to accentuate their best features while minimizing flaws. Your expertise in creating the right look, whether it be dramatic, romantic, sporty, or effortlessly chic will renew your clients’ confidence and get them back on the dating scene, ready to fall in love, just in time for Valentine’s Day!

By evaluating a current wardrobe and offering closet organization techniques, you are able to revamp tired looks into exciting new looks your clients will confidently wear. You’ll also be able to identify several missing key pieces that you can recommend your clients to purchase, thus adding personal shopping services to your consultation process and adding more value to your client’s experience.

Get started offering Wardrobe Consultation and Closet Organization Services today by investing in the Wardrobe Consulting Training Workbook and DVD from the Sterling Style Academy for just $497 USD. If your New Year’s Resolution is to launch your dream career as a Personal Stylist in 2011, then start your training with the Sterling Style Academy! The Wardrobe Consultation Workbook and DVD makes a great holiday gift for the aspiring personal stylist in your life. You can also consider the Personal Shopper Workbook and DVD to train to take clients on personal shopping trips and how to execute a style consultation in the fitting room. Check out these personal shopper and personal stylist training products and more through the Sterling Style Academy Boutique!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

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 know who you are – and we know why you’re reading our blog right now.  It’s time you start making money at what you are REALLY good at – SHOPPING AND STYLING!  Your friends have already asked you, “When are you going to quit your job and become a Personal Shopper?”  Well?  When?

The Sterling Style Academy, is now offering 3-day courses in New York, London, and Dubai on color analysis, fashion styling, and personal shopping.  As New York, London, and Dubai are the “IT” places for high street to up-market fashion and shopping in the US, Europe, and the Middle East respectively, the Sterling Style Academy is offering a unique opportunity to learn how to become a fashion consultant and personal shopper in this 3 day interactive program.  Not only will you learn valuable information that will make it easier for you to shop for yourself and for others, you will also be able to implement knowledge and skills you gain from our course in fabulous cities like New York, London or Dubai. 

In our 3 Day Short Course program, you will learn the following:

• Day 1: Color Analysis – Learn the theory behind color, how to evaluate individuals based on their personal coloring, and how to select the appropriate colors for an individual
• Day 2: Fashion Styling – Learn the theory behind the different types of fashion styles, how to determine an individual’s fashion style, and how to select the appropriate clothing based on an individual’s fashion style
•  Day 3: Personal Shopping – Learn the ins and outs of efficiently and effectively personal shopping for yourself and others, how to work with men and women, and how to work with stores from start to finish

New York: April 18 – 20, 2011 | Registration close: March 28, 2011

Dubai: May 1 – 3, 2011 | Registration close: April 11, 2011

London: June 1 – 3, 2011 | Registration close: May 11, 2011

New Student Tuition Fee: USD $2497 (Currency Conversion)

Returning Student Tuition Fee: USD $1947 

Daily Program Schedule: 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. with assignments to be completed in the evenings.

To register and make your investment today, please click here. 

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.

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.

The Sterling Style Academy is the first and only image consultant training program to offer the World Traveler(TM) Program to prepare personal shoppers and personal stylists to be hired by globe traveling professionals and exclusive clientele.  These clients pay lucratively to ensure they project the most successful image whether they are attending the Cannes Film Festival or closing the business deal in Tokoyo.  From Moscow to Singapore, world travelers seek the best local culture has to offer.

As a global personal shopper, you must operate from the same global perspective as your exclusive niche market.  With a resume boasting personal stylist training in Sydney AND Hong Kong, or London AND New York, you have already established your credibility as a fellow world traveler and can charge top dollar for your top-notch personal styling services.  You’ve been to Harrod’s in London, Bergdorf in New York, the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, and the downtown towers of Hong Kong, not to mention the not-for-tourists shopping destinations off the beaten path.  You have been there, you can relate, so now they are ready to get down to the business of creating a successful image – with you.

The Sterling Style Academy’s World Traveler(TM) Program is designed to teach you the elements and principles of design as they relate to the body and fashion with practical application during part one of the course in Sydney or London.  Then you travel to Hong Kong or New York to apply your newly mastered skills to the business of personal shopping and personal styling, including style evaluations, closet consultations, and personal shopping sessions, in the setting of up-market department stores.

World Traveler Program(TM) Eastern Hemisphere:

• Session I - Sydney, Australia – February 28 – March 9, 2011.  Registration closes by January 17, 2011.
• Session II -  Hong Kong, China – March 14 – 18, 2011.  Registration closes by Jan. 17, 2011.

World Traveler Program (TM) Western Hemisphere:

• Session I - London, United Kingdom – July 4-13, 2011. Registration closes by May 23, 2011.
• Session II - New York, United States – July 18-22, 2011. Registration closes by May 23, 2011.

Session I and II can be taken separately and be split into 2 years.

The Sterling Style Academy faculty are seasoned world traveling image consultants and will ensure you graduate the World Traveler(TM) Program with insider shopping knowledge.  You will master the fashion industry skills to perform closet consultations on up-market wardrobes, personal shopping sessions with designer labels, and wardrobe consultations with actual world traveling clients.

As a Sterling Style Academy Graduate, you are equipped with a training manual CD and four instructional DVDs regarding how to execute a Personal Style Evaluation, a Wardrobe and Closet Evaluation, Personal Shopping Services, and Makeup Application.

Launch your global personal shopping career in 2011 with the Sterling Style Academy’s World Traveler(TM) Program.  Email us for more information or call to speak with one of our representatives.  Enroll in the World Traveler(TM) Program today.  International students are encouraged to enroll via wire transfer rather than credit card payment.