Staging Business Tips

Protect Your Family and Staging Business from Bed Bugs

In November I traveled to check out colleges with my teen, who also wanted to see the latest Harry Potter movie. At the same time, the news was filled with stories about how bed bugs were taking over homes, hotels, movie theaters, etc. This got me thinking about what this means for home stagers, since [...]

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How to Stage a Kitchen

Kitchens and bathrooms are key to selling a home because they’re the most expensive rooms to renovate, plus they’re the easiest place to turn buyers off with what I call the “yuck factor.” If you’ve been out looking at homes on the real estate market, you know what I mean. You’ll find anything from sticky [...]

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Test your home staging savvy

Very few of us come to a home staging career with official training in interior design. I know I didn’t! But that doesn’t mean you don’t have a natural talent for recognizing if a home is properly decorated to sell. Many aspiring and new home stagers I speak to really need to get out of [...]

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The Myth of Multi-Tasking

I’ve prided myself on being a successful multi-tasker, ever since I started my first serious job after finishing my master’s degree in the 1980s. I was working in the marketing field at the time, and was responsible for 5 products at Nabisco Brands, along with a series of new product launches. I had a boss [...]

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August additions to the Home Staging Glossary

I’m always looking for new terms to add to the Home Staging Glossary by Staging Diva that I created this summer. It already includes more than 120 terms and phrases that will benefit home stagers— whether you need more help in understanding decorating, home staging and real estate terms, or even concepts to help you [...]

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What Makes Staging Diva Different?

One of the most common questions I get asked is “what makes Staging Diva different than other home staging courses out there?” With so many options to choose from, it’s important to know whether you’re comparing apples to oranges. One of the key differences is my focus on how to take your talent and turn [...]

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New Home Staging Glossary Explains Terms

Home stagers learn how to “talk the talk” One of my summer projects, inspired by an MDF inquiry from Staging Diva Graduate Stacey Goade, was to create a new free resource for anyone interested in the home staging field. You may be completely new to this, or you may be well established as a home [...]

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When Stagers Get Stage Fright

Most live performers, feel nervous before a show even if they’ve been touring for years. Once they’re onstage they use their adrenalin rush to their advantage. I like to think of the moment that a home staging project comes together as “show time,” and I never totally relax until that happens, even though I’ve been [...]

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What is your current job costing you?

Sometimes I hear from “corporate types” who are considering leaving their careers to become home stagers. One of their fears is giving up the $100,000 salary. I can relate to that fear since that was my situation years ago when I longed for more independence and to do something more creative with my life. But [...]

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50 answers to your home staging business questions

New and aspiring stagers, imagine if you could talk to someone who has been a home stager since 2002 and ask 50 questions about what it’s like, how to handle home staging business challenges, and more! In Ask Staging Diva® Live – Volumes 1, 2 and 3, you’ll get 3 hours of professionally edited recordings [...]

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