Before becoming a home stager, Staging Diva Graduate Jodi Whalen of New Jersey-based Pear Tree Home Designs had an exciting career as a Marketing Director at the Food Network.
As a home stager, though, this mother of a very active toddler has much more flexibility over her schedule.
Despite… Read More →
In coaching home stagers, I’m constantly reminded how important mindset is to what we can achieve.
The bottom line is you have to be willing to stick with it if you want to achieve home staging business success.
Mindset is EverythingI can be very negative when I’m living inside… Read More →
It never ceases to amaze me how much valuable content about home staging is added to this blog every single day by way of your comments and questions.
Peggy’s comments on my article Stagers don’t let real estate agents discourage you inspired today’s article about the need to remind… Read More →
When you have a passion for home staging and/or interior design it’s impossible to keep it stifled inside.
I love hearing from Staging Diva Graduates like Pamela Sholty who have left behind jobs they despised to reinvent themselves as home stagers.
Pamela works from Fresno, California,… Read More →
Home stagers, have you ever heard of Akio Morita? Probably not.
He started a company that produced a rice cooker. Unfortunately, it burned more rice than it cooked and less than 100 units were sold.
Had Morita and his partners given up, his company – Sony – wouldn’t be a … Read More →
Nobody starts a home staging business hoping for it to never become successful, yet, by the way many new stagers seem reluctant to invest money in good-quality tools and training it seems many of you are really holding yourselves back.
When you start any type of business you need to invest … Read More →
In the December issue of my monthly newsletter for home stagers, I featured Susan O’Connor – a recent Staging Diva Graduate who had given her notice to leave her corporate job to focus on building her staging business.
At that time, Susan said she had already lined up a consulting job that would… Read More →
Being in business for oneself is not as easy as it might look. You have to work through that feeling of wanting to give up that many business owners, including home stagers, experience in that first year or two in business.
I came across a quote recently by an unknown author that says:
“Don’t… Read More →
Home stagers have to step out in faith when they decide to embrace their creative talents.
There’s no firm guarantee about what the future holds. Which is true of anything you decide to do in life, isn’t it?
Aren’t we all looking for “wow moments”?The times… Read More →
If you’re dreaming of taking your decorating talent and turning it into a profitable business, I know you will see yourself in the following statements from Staging Diva Graduates.
They are all regular people like yourself with one thing in common – natural decorating talent and the drive… Read More →
