Staging Diva Announcements

How to Stop Thinking and Start Doing

One of my biggest procrastination strategies when I’m starting something new is to research it to death. I developed this habit as a student years ago. If I had an essay to write, I’d keep visiting the library and dragging home more books. As long as I was gathering more research, I felt like I [...]

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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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New Staging Diva Service: Home Staging Website Checkup

If you already have your own website and it’s not getting the results you’d like, consider having a Home Staging Website CheckUp with me. I’ll go through your site with you on the phone and tell you all the things you can do to improve it, from how it looks visually, to how your copy [...]

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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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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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Your chance to be in a published book about home staging

Open to all home stagers both new and experienced! I’m writing a collection of short stories about what it’s like being a home stager with lessons learned along the way. This is a behind-the-scenes look that captures the “glamor” and joy of using our creative talents to earn a living along with the frustrations and [...]

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CNN: Jobs for Growth

I don’t know about you but when I’m surrounded by negativity and pessimism it sucks the life right out of me. In 2009, CNN placed Home Staging in the number one spot on its “seven emerging jobs poised for growth” list. If you’re in a dead end job, worried that you’ll lose your employment or [...]

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Staging Diva Featured in Entrepreneur Magazine

Staging Diva is featured for the fourth year in a row in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Business StartUps Guide. In fact the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program is the only home staging course that has been included in all of the past eight issues of this guide! > Read more media coverage and watch Debra on HGTV

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New resource for marketing your home staging business

Subscribers of my newsletter, Staging Diva Dispatch, will have a chance to pre-order the new Twitter Guide for Home Stagers at a significant discount. If you subscribe, watch your email in December for more information about this exciting new guide that will help you grow your home staging business. If you’re not a subscriber yet, [...]

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New service to give home stagers free publicity

I love to write about Staging Diva students and graduates to highlight their success as home stagers and give them free publicity. In the past it’s been awkward getting the right information to write a newsworthy story. People would forget to send some of the details, or they weren’t sending the type of information that [...]

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