Today Oprah is announcing on her show that she’s ending The Oprah Winfrey Show in September 2011 after 25 years. It’s not like she’s retiring of course. Aside from her current media empire, she’s launching her own cable TV channel and will in all likelihood have… Read More →
Registered Nurse and Mother of 4 Finds Success in Home Staging Career
Judging by the professional quality of her home staging photographs, you would probably never guess this home stager has spent the past 20 years working as a Registered Nurse before she started her home staging career.
Staging Diva Graduate, Holly Battaglia of Holly’s Home Matters (MD)… Read More →
Don’t let fear stop you from marketing your home staging business
It’s amazing how it happens. When you were starting your home staging business you worried that you’d never get any clients. And now that you’ve built a great reputation and your business is growing rapidly you want to stop marketing because you don’t think you can take on any more clients.… Read More →
Staging Diva Graduate Home Stager Named New Entrepreneur of the Year!
There are a handful of Staging Diva Graduates who stay in very close contact with me making them impossible to forget. I love connecting with students on Twitter, Facebook and through the comments they leave on my blog.
One of these home stagers is Heather Stewart of HS Home Staging located… Read More →
Australian home stager increases property value by $30,000
Colette Smith has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. This former owner and operator of a picture framing and gallery shop is now using her business acumen and talent for decorating to help homeowners in the Perth Metropolitan area of Australia sell their homes fast.
Colette is a Staging… Read More →
Job Shadowing for Home Stagers – Confidence Booster or Bad Idea?
I get approximately 5 calls a week from aspiring home stagers interested in job shadowing me for a day.
These potential home staging interns don’t fully understand what they’re asking, from the business owner’s viewpoint.
I have yet to agree to let anyone shadow me.… Read More →
When Your Home Staging Client Hates What You’ve Done
I published a home staging business dilemma recently that had many of you thinking!
The question was, “What if your home staging clients hate what you’ve done?”
The dilemma I presented involved a home stager leaving a staging consultation with excited clients.
After staging, while the … Read More →
“Uncertified” Nebraska home stager helps clients sell fast
Last year, an aspiring home stager by the name of Katie Mines, left a comment on one of my blog posts saying that she was overwhelmed with the choice of where to obtain her home staging training.
While she enjoyed my Staging Diva home staging newsletters and blogs, she was advised to take a course… Read More →
Busy Months for Home Stagers Include October and November
While September marked the start of one of the busiest home staging seasons of the year, it’s certainly not the only time home stagers get lots of business.
Busy months for home stagers include October and November too.
Many home sellers who listed their after Labor Day without staging… Read More →
When real estate agents request cheap home staging
No matter where you live, whether it’s a small town or a major center in Canada, the US or abroad, you’re going to hear about home stagers with cheaper rates than you.
Often you’ll hear the most “price complaints” from real estate agents who are already afraid their clients… Read More →
