Many aspiring home stagers are reluctant to start a business because they claim that nobody will spend money on home staging in this economy. However, the National Retail Federation (NRF) has released statistics saying that American consumers plan to spend more than $447 billion dollars… Read More →
Home Stagers Make More Money Than Real Estate Agents
It’s amazing how many home stagers think they should be real estate agents too. They think that’s a fast road to easy money, not realizing that home stagers often make more money than real estate agents.
I read a recent blog post written by a real estate agent fed up with people… Read More →
Cut home staging appointment scheduling stress
I used to race around like a mad woman trying to fit 10 home staging consultations into a week, always afraid to put a client off who needed me and fearing if I didn’t see them right away they’d disappear and find a home stager somewhere else.
Then I realized that if you’re … Read More →
Home Staging Seasons and What You Can Do About It
Home stagers in seasonal areas like Palm Springs California (where the population can drop by hundreds of thousands for parts of the year), often worry about how they’ll keep busy in the off season.
The truth is, there are home staging seasons no matter where you live.
Home staging … Read More →
Creativity is Essential, But What Makes You Creative?
“The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”- Edwin H. Land
I love this quote for so many reasons, one being that it reminds me of how subjective creativity is.
When it comes to staging a home, you have to be willing to look at things in different ways and see what… Read More →
Don’t Live With The Regret of a Path Not Taken
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
– Robert Frost, The Road Not taken
I once read about a university survey that was conducted in various nursing homes. These elderly men and women were clearly at the end of their lives and… Read More →
Staging Diva Graduate Proves Importance of Kids Rooms in Home Staging
Even though Staging Diva Graduate Lisa Liberatore is no longer a teacher in the public elementary school system, she’s still teaching in her new full-time career as a home stager.
Her staging business Brown Butterfly Interiors is based in New Jersey.
She’s leaving a mark in her Bay… Read More →
Staging Diva Graduate named Business Woman of the Month
Staging Diva Graduate Cheryl Ward is a Computer Technician by day and a home stager the rest of the time. This month marks the one year anniversary of Cheryl’s business Ivy Home Staging located in Ontario, Canada. She was given an additional reason to celebrate when she learned she would be… Read More →
What Happened to that Home Staging Project?
Being a home stager means that your home staging business will have natural ups and downs.
This is a reality of any business really.
Sometimes this is due to the season. For example, there is less demand for home staging services in December, just because that’s not a big time for people… Read More →
The Law of Attraction and What’s Missing
When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
I received an email from Michelle McDaniel that had this very powerful anonymous quote in the signature line.
I like to think of “Hope” as that voice in your gut that tries to speak more loudly than the rest of the world, and… Read More →
