Home Staging Tips and Inspiration to Grow Your Real Estate Staging Business
In the past I’ve written about the 5 home staging secrets we need to share with real estate agents and how home stagers shouldn’t let real estate agents discourage them from a home staging career. Here Staging Diva Graduate Susan Atwell shares a story about a presentation she made at a real estate office.
One of her key goals was educating them that their [...]
Home staging is a service that not everyone has tried yet, despite what’s happening in the real estate market. That’s changing and often it’s the wives who have to convince their husbands to try hiring a home stager for home staging tips to sell their home faster and for more money.
Usually I deal with the wife almost exclusively when it’s a couple selling their home. [...]
I haven’t used home staging video to promote my services yet. Frankly, I find it a bit intimidating because I know how important business image is, and how key quality and the right visuals will be given the services we offer.
The many video courses I’ve sat through advise “Just get started, it doesn’t have to be perfect.” Yet, I end up thinking “Yeah it’s [...]
When I started coaching home stagers and teaching home staging courses years ago, I never realized how many dramatic, and often heart-breaking, personal stories I’d hear from my students. Many have fled abusive marriages, lost loved ones, fought their way through cancer and more.
Tragedies force change upon us and it’s only in retrospect that we are reminded how “easy” it is to [...]
There is no single path to a home staging career. Home stagers come from many different backgrounds and past jobs before building their own business decorating homes to sell for the real estate market.
I’ve had home staging students who were in: nursing, auto sales, financial services, film, retail, cleaning, painting, stay-at-home-moms, army and more. One was even a past personal assistant to comedian Rodney Dangerfield! You can meet some of them in [...]
Australia home stager, and new Staging Diva Graduate Katrina Gibbons of Stylus Home Staging Brisbane, shares a terrific example of how much more desirable a staged home looks than a vacant one.
Check out Katrina’s transformation of a living room/dining room, and patio area visible just beyond the glass doors.
By the way, this is also a great example of a compelling before and after photo pair for a [...]
Your home staging business card is one of the most critical pieces of your home staging marketing.
Here are 9 home staging business card tips to ensure you’re creating the right image for yourself as a home stager:
1. Remember that home staging is an image business.
I can usually tell which home stagers will ultimately fail almost before they start. My first clue is the quality of the logo and/or business card. When either one is sloppy or [...]
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