The Hidden Reason Stagers Don’t Get Paid on Time

How to Stop Chasing Staging Business Payments for Good

What if getting paid on time has nothing to do with how good your follow-up emails are? Managing staging business payments shouldn’t mean constantly reminding clients to pay or worrying about whether you’ll receive payment before an install.

In this episode of Staging Sips, Lori kicks off a new series on the parts of running a staging business that never make it onto Instagram, starting with the money. She digs into why so many stagers worry about collecting the balance before an install or losing track of a renewal payment, and why sending more reminders never seems to work.

Bringing in a little neuroscience, Lori breaks down the three decision-making biases working against you. She also shares the shift behind why she built Harlowe as a get-paid tool, so stagers can keep their payment model and stop being their own collections department.

Your sip for the week

Look at your next install or renewal and ask yourself honestly what actually happens in your business if that payment date comes and goes. Then count how many times last month you had to send a second message about money.

The goal is a process where getting paid doesn’t depend on your memory or your client’s good intentions.

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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE:

• Why the deposit-and-balance model works at low volume and gets overwhelming as you grow.
• Why a balance due right before the install has almost no real deadline behind it.
• How present bias, the default effect and omission bias keep clients from paying on time.
• Why a better reminder will never fix a payment problem.
• How to keep your deposit-and-balance model and still stop chasing payment.

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