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 →
The smell hits you when you walk in the door. There’s a litter box somewhere nearby that hasn’t been changed in at least a week. The kitchen is filthy – there’s garbage and mail everywhere and dirty dishes are stacked in the sink, beside the sink and on top of the stove.
There’s a … 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 →
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 →
I like to share books I’m reading in case you’ll find them helpful in your home staging business or your life.
This one was a quick read, entertaining with a few insights scattered along the way. Rich Like Them: My Door-to-Door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in America’s… Read More →
I’ve always been one of the most expensive home stagers in my city, even when I was just starting out in 2002. And I’ve never made any apologies about it.
My belief has always been: It’s fine if other home stagers want to give their time away for basically nothing. It doesn’t mean… Read More →
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 →
You receive a phone call from someone interested in obtaining your home staging services. They’ve seen your portfolio of before and after photos after you were referred to them by their real estate agent.
Your initial home staging consultation with them goes very well and they decide they… Read More →
