Staging Business Tips

Two New Staging Diva Products to Inspire and Educate

Whether you’re an aspiring home stager or an established pro, you’ll love this free report! In “Ask Staging Diva: Can a regular person like me become a home stager?”, you will meet inspiring women and men who have turned their love of decorating into a home staging business. You’ll also see the eye-popping results they’ve [...]

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Is it too late for me to become a home stager?

There’s a saying that the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is today. In other words, if you’re thinking it’s too late for you to do work that you love, then I challenge you to fast forward another 20 years and ask yourself whether you shouldn’t have [...]

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Move your staging business forward with this fear-busting exercise

I’ll let you in on a secret. I feel fear at least once a week! Why? Because I tend to envision every possible thing that can go wrong in any situation. The thing is, I’ve learned to not let fear stop me from doing something that will make my life better. Becoming a mother was [...]

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Home staging portfolio photo tips

A picture truly is worth a thousand words. Everyone loves before and after photos. That’s why so many magazines and TV shows use them in home decor and personal makeover stories. If you’re not careful with how you shoot and present your photos, you’ll be sabotaging your business efforts considerably. It takes time to set [...]

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Six Elements website makeover

I built SixElements.com over 7 years ago to promote my home staging, color consulting and interior redesign business. It was only the second website I had ever created, so part of my limitation in constructing it was what I could figure out how to do on my own programming-wise. This is tricky though because you [...]

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Don’t believe everything real estate agents tell you

If I listened to every real estate agent who told me home staging wouldn’t work in my city seven years ago, I would not be a successful home stager today. Just last month I talked to the owner of a vacant condo that she’s about to put on the market. It will be one of [...]

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Real estate investors desperately need home stagers

Real estate investors need the help of home stagers if they want to flip their properties or even just to attract a quality tenant if they’re planning to rent the property out until the market picks up. It’s common for investor/renovators to assume that once a place is fixed up and painted, that’s all they [...]

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Home Staging Portfolio Makeover

Your home staging portfolio is one of the most important marketing pieces you have as a professional in such a creative industry because it’s a direct reflection of your abilities. Like any ability, true mastery comes with practice. The longer you are a home stager, the better you get at transforming homes. It’s important that [...]

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Weekend Home Staging Portfolio Project

If you’re struggling with the idea of building your own home staging portfolio, try this quick weekend project. It can be done in your own home or at a friend’s or neighbor’s. Perhaps you’d even like to tackle this as a holiday gift for a family member? Find a bathroom that is structurally sound but [...]

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Get Discovered While you Help a Reporter Out

Here’s a free service that can help you get quoted in the media. It’s called Help a Reporter Out or HARO for short. Once you sign up, you’ll get a daily digest of inquiries by reporters seeking experts on topics for their stories. For example, recently a reporter wanted women business owners over 60 to [...]

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