Back Stage with Staging Diva

Get Ready for the Busiest Staging Season

Since we’re into the busiest staging season in North America, in this month’s articles you’ll learn how staging helps buyers connect with a vacant house with an excellent example of a staging transformation by a recent Staging Diva Grad. You’ll also discover where you can find 13 free marketing tips, avoid the most common home [...]

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Staging Success Stories and Business Card Tips

In this month’s posts of the Staging Diva Dispatch you’ll learn 9 tips to help you create your home staging business card. Key when you’re starting out, plus established stagers can take this opportunity to see if their current card needs some “staging” of its own! I also share a personal story by a new [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva for March 2012

If you’re one of the 400 new stagers or aspiring stagers who joined the Staging Diva community over the past month, welcome! I don’t know about you, but I really enjoyed that extra day in February. I’ve been busy with home staging and color consultation projects, mentoring home stagers, interviews for CBS Radio and Question [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva for February 2012

Helping Staging Diva Graduates stay motivated through the winter season can be a challenge. November through January are always less busy times for stagers in the US and Canada— unless you’re also doing interior redesign, color consulting and holiday decorating. Get ready though because we’re heading into the best time of the year for home stagers. This [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva for January 2012

If you’ve just joined the 20,000-member Staging Diva community, welcome and if you’ve been here for awhile, thank you for your participation! I look forward to helping all of you make 2012 your best year yet! I don’t generally make New Year’s resolutions because I know how often we fall off course and think, “Oh [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva on December 2011

If you’re one of the 350 new members of the Staging Diva community this month, welcome! December marks 7 years since the creation of the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program, which I first mapped out from my laptop at Starbucks while my 10 year old was on a playdate! At that point, I’d [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva in November 2011

I stepped out of my comfort zone and all things Staging Diva in October and entered an international competition for Women in Business, the first time I’ve done anything like that in 22 years as an entrepreneur. Much to my surprise, I’m a finalist in 4 Stevie Awards categories: * Best Mentor/Coach of the Year * [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva for October 2011

Last month’s first post of the Staging Diva Dispatch blog I wrote, “I love this time of year because I always feel like it’s a fresh start.” Just as I encourage my students to do, I’ve really been pushing myself outside my own comfort zone to grow personally and professionally. One of my big hurdles has [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva in September 2011

September means back to school for the kids, but it also means uncovering new ways to accelerate your own path to success. I love this time of year because I always feel like it’s a fresh start. While I don’t miss all that homework and pressure of exams and term papers, I do consider myself [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva for August 2011

My teen was away studying at Columbia University all last month so perhaps that accounts for my general mushiness in some of this month’s Staging Diva Dispatch posts. As I watch her try to figure out what she wants to do for a career, I’m so reminded of how important it is to notice what we’re [...]

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