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Home Staging Opportunity in Australia Created by Speech in New York

Opportunity works in mysterious ways. On my own journey of reinvention, I’ve read hundreds of books, listened to more hours of inspirational recordings than I can count and traveled across the country and back in search of “my home.” Along the way, I’ve heard this sentiment repeated in various forms but it generally goes like [...]

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How I Conquered One of My Biggest Fears and How You Can Too!

When you decide to follow your dreams and do work that you love, there are so many fears that can stop you in your tracks, if you let them. That’s one of the reasons I write so much about mindset, confidence, fear and more. I’m sharing how I conquered one of my biggest fears in [...]

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Home Stager: Prove You’re The Right Expert to Hire

One of the ways people decide which home stager to hire is they look for “proof” that the person is an expert in their field. What might that “proof” look like? For example: – An impressive portfolio of before and after pictures – Testimonials from satisfied clients – Success stories demonstrating results achieved for clients – [...]

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Teacher Turns Bakery Project Into a Home Staging Career

Jackie, an elementary school teacher, recently shared her story about how she turned an opportunity to decorate a local bakery into a new career in home staging. > Read Jackie’s story here. Her story reminded me of something I had read. Back in the 1800s, Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” His words [...]

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Does Home Staging Competition Stop You in Your Tracks?

Thinking about home staging competition in your area may make you feel intimidated. When you’re afraid to move forward with your home staging business, it’s easy to come up with all kinds of “reasons” that it won’t work. For example, perhaps you’ve heard that 90% of businesses fail in their first year. That’s pretty depressing! [...]

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Organizer, Decorator or Home Stager

You may think of yourself as a Home Stager, a decorator/interior redesigner or even a professional organizer. You can also be all 3 since these businesses combine together very nicely. Don’t feel you like you have to limit yourself. The beauty of being in your own business is that you don’t have to live inside [...]

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Profitable Home Staging Consultations

Home staging consultations have always been the biggest source of my income as a home stager. I’ve done plenty of vacant homes which can be $5,000+ projects, but they’re not as quick to complete because you have to source everything first and then wait for delivery. With home staging consultations, I meet the client in their home. [...]

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Staging Diva Grads Don’t Wash Towels

I’ve often told this story to Staging Diva Grads. I was very clear when I started my own home staging business 9 years ago that I wanted to focus on my creative talents to make a living. I had been a small business owner since 1989 and wanted to create something new that would be more [...]

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Home Stagers, Stop Attaching Your Happiness to the Job Market

If you read anything about the job market it should be abundantly clear by now that we can’t rely on anyone else to create jobs for us, and that there’s no such thing as job security. According to Home Business Magazine, nearly 70% of home-based businesses succeed for at least 3 years(compared to 29% of [...]

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3 Tips to Educate Real Estate Agents About Staging

While Staging Diva students know I don’t advocate devoting all your marketing to real estate agents, they are one of our 4 key target markets. Many of them don’t fully understand what a home stager does and how it can help them. Let’s face it, if real estate agents don’t “get it” they aren’t about [...]

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