If you’ve never had to move with kids, it’s important to understand how stressful it is for a young family to sell their home. A child’s schedule is thrown off when showings coincide with bedtimes or meals. Cleaning and packing are extremely difficult to do around children… Read More →
Will the First Home Staging Training Program You Take Meet Your Needs?
All graduates of the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program are asked to complete a survey about their training and I am especially proud of the results I’ve been seeing of late. There’s one statistic in particular I feel is important to share:
20% of those who enroll in the… Read More →
Securing a domain for your home staging business
If you’ve already dreamed up a name for your home staging business but are nowhere close to building a website for it, you should still purchase your company name and your given name as domain names if they’re available.
In fact, whether or not the domain name is available is often… Read More →
Home Staging Tips for Hallways from Staging Diva
When you’re staging a home, don’t neglect the hallways of a home because they’re the paths that lead people through the house. It’s also a great opportunity to leave a strong impression with prospective buyers because most people don’t bother doing anything… Read More →
Attic Home Staging Tips from Staging Diva
When staging a house to sell, you can’t just ignore a room because it presents a staging challenge, or because you don’t think it would be as important as staging the kitchen or bathroom.
The goal of home staging is to have a buyer make a strong emotional connection with a property… Read More →
Home Staging Tips for the Laundry Room from Staging Diva
When it comes to rooms that are often forgotten in home staging, the laundry room often makes the list. After all, it’s a laundry room. How good can it get?
As I’ve mentioned in my posts about staging the garage and the basement, it’s important to remember that home staging… Read More →
Home Staging Tips for the Basement
Certain areas of a home are more likely than others to be forgotten when it comes to staging a property to sell. However these spaces, which seem unimportant to some homeowners (or even some home stagers), might actually rank higher than expected on a prospective buyer’s house wish… Read More →
Home Staging Tips for the Garage
You know that kitchens and bathrooms sell houses, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore other parts of a house when it comes to staging it to sell.
In a series of blog posts, I’ll outline the five most neglected parts of a property when it comes to staging, and how you can stage them… Read More →
Calm your fears about starting a home staging business
Everyone said I was crazy when I quit my high-level job and started my first business, a marketing consulting firm, in the fall of 1989-just at the start of the 1990s recession. I knew that with change comes opportunity and that there is much less security in working for others than in working… Read More →
Survive tough economic times by living within your means
Staying out of debt is easier said than done but it’s one of the keys to financial survival as you grow your home staging business. It’s also where the old adage “live within your means” comes in.
Start by creating a monthly budget-and then stick to it. Set up a way … Read More →
