This is not a food blog, but stick with me because this story provides an important lesson in marketing for home stagers.
Pomegranates are delicious and loaded with antioxidants. I like to eat healthily and I also love food that looks good.
Despite that, I rarely bought the fruit for years … Read More →
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 →
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 →
Last month I posted a home staging business dilemma asking what you would do if you found yourself being asked to stage an absolutely filthy property. A special thanks to everyone who left comments on that blog post!
I’ve been in situations like this more times than I would like— meeting with… Read More →
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 →
If you’re trying to start a home staging business, you might be wondering how you are actually going to get paid. This is one of the important steps in setting up a business – determining whether you’ll take checks, cash and/or credit cards.
The ability to accept credit card payments is appealing… Read More →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Becoming a home stager doesn’t mean you have to get yourself into credit card debt stocking up on your own accessories for home staging.
If you’ve been putting off your desire to learn home staging because you’re not prepared for these expenses, you should know you have other options.
When… Read More →
