There’s a definite overlap between the tasks of a professional organizer and a home stager. In fact many home staging businesses also offer professional organizing and vice versa. That’s one of the benefits of being your own boss, you can decide what services you want to offer… Read More →
Professional Home Stagers Don’t Work for Free
It disturbs me to hear of professional home stagers working for free.
However, most of the aspiring stagers I speak with believe they have to do their first projects for free to rack up experience.
As leader in the home staging industry, I’ve written many articles on this topic, trying… Read More →
Home Staging Portfolio Photos – Hire a Professional or DIY?
As home stagers, the quality of our home staging portfolio photos is so critical to our success in attracting new staging and redesign clients.
A Staging Diva student recently asked:
“Should I hire a professional property photographer to do my before and after photos?
I’m… Read More →
Why homeowners need professional home stagers
There are lots of simple things a homeowner can do on their own to decorate their house to sell. For example:
getting rid of clutter re-painting cleaning putting out fresh flowersSo why hire a home stager?
Many homeowners don’t know what colors to paint, they can’t be objective… Read More →
Staging Diva Earns Marks as SEO Professional
I built my first website in 1999 to promote the Debra Gould Home Collection and was amazed when I was able to sell my art and home accessories across the US and Canada.
Since that time I’ve personally built a number of other sites including SixElements.com… Read More →
Home Staging Professionals Need Confident Image
Much of your professional image, your public perception and essentially your success as a home staging professional, boils down to the amount of confidence you have in yourself and your abilities.
This point is demonstrated brilliantly in a quote about leadership from Adlai Stevenson,… Read More →
Stage Yourself to Sell: Image is Everything (Part 2)
In part one of “Stage Yourself to Sell: Image is Everything,” I focussed on wardrobe and looking and acting the part of a successful home stager even if you aren’t totally there yet in reality.
Today, I’d like to focus on business image.
An important piece of this… Read More →
Home stagers you needn’t advertise your home address
As professional home stagers, it’s a great freedom being able to work from home. Since we visit our clients in their homes for consultations and staging projects, there’s never any reason why a client would need to visit you at your office.
For this reason, there’s no need for you to … Read More →
FAQ
Get Answers to Your Questions Here
We’ve grouped the most frequently asked questions and our answers into 3 categories:
Please click any question below to see the answers. General Questions About Home Staging Questions About Being a Home Stager… Read More →How to get an email address for your home staging business
As soon as you come up with a name for your home staging business, you should waste no time in grabbing the domain name for it. If you don’t know what a domain name is, it’s the technical term for your website address or URL.
If the domain name for your business isn’t available, that means someone… Read More →