home staging business

Home Stager, Declutter and Liberate Your Dreams

My house doesn’t always look like a home stager lives here (especially since I don’t have a cleaning lady), but for the most part my environment is free of unnecessary objects and the usual dust collectors you’ll find in most of your clients’ homes. As most of my students and readers know, I hate clutter. I [...]

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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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3 Tips to Choosing Your Home Staging Business Name

There’s no doubt about it, choosing the right name for your home staging business is key. Much of your business image rests on this decision and it’s also one of the hardest choices you’ll face in the early days of your home staging business. Many aspiring home stagers get stuck trying to make this one decision. [...]

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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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Staging Success Spotlight Shines on Imogen Brown and Melissa Goulet

Congratulations to Staging Diva Graduate Imogen Brown of Home Staging Brisbane (Australia) on a recent home staging consultation. She says, “I consulted on a cluttered townhouse last Wednesday evening. The photographer was booked for Friday morning! The owner used nearly all my suggestions and completed the work (and shopping) in a single day (with two [...]

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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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Home Staging Success Spotlight: Stock Trader Turns Stager

Congratulations to Staging Diva Graduate Red Barrinuevo of Redesign 4 More (Toronto) on home staging four homes, getting two huge redesign projects and even having a client fly him across the country (all expenses paid) to redesign a newly renovated home, all within his first year of business (and while working full-time as a stock trader!). [...]

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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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Spread Your Home Staging Business Name Far and Wide

Purchasing a domain name for your home staging business is only one part of claiming your company name on the Internet. You should also go to the popular social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and ActiveRain and set up accounts/profiles in your business name. Even if you’re not going to use those accounts right now, you [...]

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