{"id":2943,"date":"2011-04-26T20:54:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:02:47","slug":"why-does-one-decide-to-pursue-a-career-as-an-image-consultant-personal-stylist-or-personal-shopper-see-what-the-sterling-style-academys-training-director-michelle-t-sterling-has-to-say-about-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/why-does-one-decide-to-pursue-a-career-as-an-image-consultant-personal-stylist-or-personal-shopper-see-what-the-sterling-style-academys-training-director-michelle-t-sterling-has-to-say-about-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does One Decide to Pursue a Career as an Image Consultant, Personal Stylist, or Personal Shopper? See What the Sterling Style Academy’s Training Director, Michelle T. Sterling, has to say about it."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When people ask me why do you do what you do and do people really make money doing it?\u00a0 The answer is because I LOVE<\/strong> what I do with an absolute passion<\/strong> and yeah, I make a living doing it too!\u00a0 Now just because I\u2019m passionate about what I do doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t a lot of hard work, round-the-clock projects, and innovation going on \u2013 not to mention the need for execution<\/strong>.\u00a0 My career started out, just as yours will too, putting all the time, effort, and energy into networking, creating strategic alliances, finding my niche \u2013 ultimately all to market myself and get my name out there.<\/p>\n

In a relatively young and new industry such as image consulting there is so much opportunity there to create a name and a niche for\u00a0 yourself, however it all really comes down to how much do you want to be an image consultant, personal stylist and personal shopper<\/strong>.\u00a0 And are you going to take the initiative to make it happen?<\/strong>\u00a0 Ask yourself what motivates you to want to become an image consultant and what are my gifts?\u00a0 By clearly being able to define your natural talents and believing in yourself, you too can become one of our rock star, go-getting graduates from the Sterling Style Academy.<\/p>\n

To be successful, you need focus, determination, and a plan!<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s why we encourage our students to make an investment in themselves and their businesses with our Sales, Marketing, Business Brand Identity Launch Kit<\/a>.\u00a0 The Sterling Style Academy is here to be your \u201cenablers.\u201d\u00a0 This is why we\u2019ve been working so hard to create our wonderful learning tools and resources for you.\u00a0 Just in two years we\u2019ve rolled out the Sales, Marketing, Business Brand Identity Launch Kit, Wardrobe Consulting, Personal Shopping, Personal Styling<\/a>, and now, What Are My True Colors<\/a>? which will soon be followed by Color Analysis.\u00a0 And we are constantly updating our curriculum to bring\u00a0 you training modules that represent current fashion, while also teaching you how to mix haute couture with high street fashion.<\/p>\n

\"Fashion<\/a><\/p>\n

So what is really missing from the Sterling Style Academy education?\u00a0 YOU.<\/strong>\u00a0 You are the only one missing from taking advantage of this international opportunity to travel the world, experience new places, cultures, and shop!\u00a0 This opportunity is a dream come true for most fashionistas.\u00a0 So follow your heart, to follow your dreams, to find your true calling.<\/p>\n

I can sincerely tell you that there is no other career more befitting to my life, personality, tastes, and interests than becoming an image consultant, personal stylist, and personal shopper.\u00a0 I wake up every morning feeling fortunate and grateful that I fulfill my life\u2019s passion on a daily basis.\u00a0 Can you say the same thing?\u00a0 Well what are you waiting for?\u00a0 The Sterling Style Academy is your opportunity to live\u00a0 the life of you desire \u2013 and it never gets boring either if you create opportunities for yourself and to just be your fabulous self.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

About the Sterling Style Academy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sterling Style Academy<\/a> trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.\u00a0 With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York<\/a>, London<\/a>, Dubai<\/a>, Mumbai<\/a>, Hong Kong<\/a>, Sydney<\/a>, Miami<\/a>, Las Vegas<\/a>, and San Francisco<\/a>, as well as Online Training<\/a>, Teleclasses<\/a>, and Short eCourses<\/a>, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.\u00a0 Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.\u00a0 Contact the Sterling Style Academy today<\/a> to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about \u2013 shopping and styling!\u00a0 Like us or become our\u00a0BFF on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n

Other countries with a growing interest in color consultations, 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,\u00a0Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When people ask me why do you do what you do and do people really make money doing it?\u00a0 The answer is because I LOVE what I do with an absolute passion and yeah, I make a living doing it too!\u00a0 Now just because I\u2019m passionate about what I do doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[110,116,118,150,155,168,173,186,202,227,260,262,271,273,302,357,360,371,424,494,502,505,515,531,557,562,580,593,661,673,679,686,687,689,691,702,710,735,774,791,798,824,831,838,849,853,872,879,894,910,928,960,984,996,1040,1041,1043,1045,1070,1075,1096,1101,1106,1119,1171,1172,1173,1182,1186,1197,1215,1255,1264],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-become-a-fashion-stylist","category-become-a-personal-shopper","category-become-an-image-consultant","tag-and-personal-styling-are-australia","tag-and-turkey","tag-angola","tag-austria","tag-bangladesh","tag-become-a-personal-shopper","tag-become-a-personal-stylist","tag-become-an-image-consultant","tag-belgium","tag-canada","tag-chile","tag-china","tag-colombia","tag-color-analysis","tag-congo","tag-czech-republic","tag-denmark","tag-dubai","tag-egypt","tag-finland","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-greece","tag-hong-kong","tag-how-to-become","tag-how-to-become-an-image-consultant","tag-hungary","tag-image-consultant","tag-image-consulting","tag-india","tag-indonesia","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-japan","tag-korea","tag-las-vegas","tag-london","tag-malaysia","tag-mexico","tag-miami","tag-michelle-t-sterling","tag-morocco","tag-mumbai","tag-netherlands","tag-new-york","tag-new-zealand","tag-norway","tag-online-training","tag-other-countries-with-a-growing-interest-in-color-consultations","tag-personal-shopper","tag-personal-shopping","tag-personal-styling","tag-personal-stylist","tag-peru","tag-philippines","tag-poland","tag-portugal","tag-russia","tag-san-francisco","tag-singapore","tag-south-africa","tag-spain","tag-sterling-style-academy","tag-sweden","tag-switzerland","tag-sydney","tag-taiwan","tag-thailand","tag-the-united-kingdom-and-the-united-states-the-emerging-market-country-indices-included-are-brazil","tag-training","tag-wardrobe-consulting","tag-what-are-my-true-colors-a-modern-guide-to-color-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17775,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/17775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}