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Start a Home Staging Portfolio Before Starting Your Staging Business
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, advises those constantly decorating and redecorating their homes to take lots of before and after photos. It’s never too early to start your home staging portfolio.

Home Based Business Owners Don’t Need to Advertise Their Home Address
Intrepid entrepreneur, Staging Diva, advises home-based business owners to use a contact details other than their home address on marketing materials to protect their safety and to appear more professional.

Craving a Career Change? Reinvent Yourself As A Home Stager!
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, shares stories from several Staging Diva® Graduates who reinvented their lives to become home stagers.

Social Media Tip: What’s Published Online Is Public and Searchable
Using the recent Tiger Woods PR disaster as an example, The Staging Diva®, reminds home stagers that little in life is private anymore.

California Interior Designer Finds Success as a Home Stager
The Staging Diva, shares a story about an Interior Designer surviving Southern California’s housing collapse by becoming a home stager.

Worried About How to Stage a House With No Good Qualities?
The Staging Diva®, offers advice to home stagers worried about how to stage a home with no good qualities.

Home Stagers, Social Media Isn’t Just For Kids
Staging Diva, explains to home stagers why social media is not only reserved for kids and how it can be used to build a business.

Home Stagers: Compete With Virtual Staging and Fire Up Your Marketing!
Home stagers are facing new marketing challenges in the changing real estate industry. Virtual staging, a clever new way to stage homes, can splinter the market-share, but savvy stagers can learn to use the competition to actually grow their own business. Learn the secret of using the competition to fire up your marketing!

Email Scam Targets Home Stagers
The Staging Diva, cautions home stagers about a new email scam that specifically targets stagers.

Pretty For The Sake Of Pretty May Be Fine In Home Staging But Not In Web Design
Home staging expert Staging Diva discusses why flash websites, though pretty to look at, do nothing to help your website rank higher in the search engines.

Denver Home Stager Makes a Believer Out of a Skeptical Real Estate Investor
Staging Diva, shares a success story from Denver home stager, Debbie Fiskum, who’s proving in her market that home staging works.

Home Staging Your Bedroom
This is a recent article I had published in a local real estate magazine with some suggestions how to stage a bedroom.

Home Staging Your Yard
The yard is the very first thing perspective buyers see. Follow some of these tips to help your home sell quicker!

Do Your Home Staging Rates Belong On Your Website?
Staging Diva, explains why she advises against home stagers advertising their prices online.

Stagers, Don’t Let Real Estate Agents Discourage You
Staging Diva, explains why aspiring home stagers need to stop letting nay-saying real estate agents discourage them.

How a Home Stager Can Keep Homeowners Safe
Expert home stager, Staging Diva, offers tips to home stagers to help protect the safety of their clients.

Obtaining Home Staging Client Testimonials
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, explains how home stagers should go about obtaining home staging client testimonials.

Home Stagers Should Never Waive Their Consultation Fee
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, explains to home stagers why it’s so important to never waive their consultation fee even for a vacant home.

Home Stagers, Realize Your Own Power in Real Estate
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, reminds home stagers of the power they hold in real estate.

Should You Do A Home Staging Consultation If Nobody’s Home?
Staging Diva, offers advice for home stagers asked to conduct a home staging consultation when the homeowner won’t be present.

Virtual Staging or Just Misleading Pictures?
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, weighs in on the topic of virtual home staging.

Home Staging is More Practical Than a Buried Statue
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, discusses the custom of homesellers burying statues of St. Joseph in their yard, with hopes of selling faster.

Basic Home Staging Tip: Take Down Keep Out Signs
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, shares a basic home staging tip and discusses the opportunity that exists for home stagers with many foreclosures currently on the market.

Home Staging Gets House Seller An Extra $80,000 On Home Sale
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, shares a home staging success story from Staging Diva Graduate and Ontario home stager, Fabia MacNair.

Home Stagers – Tips to Face Your Fears and Keep Going
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, offers tips to home stagers to help them face their fears and keep moving forward.

Home Staging Services Don’t All Have To Be Done By The Stager
Staging Diva, talks about how home stagers don’t have to perform all the services they recommend themselves.

A Home Staging Professional Needs Confident Image
Staging Diva, discusses the importance of portraying a confident image if you want to be seen as a professional home stager.

Home Stagers Should Not Fear Luxury Homes
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, explains why stagers shouldn’t be intimidated by luxury homes.

Aspiring Home Stagers Battle “Same Old, Same Old”
Staging Diva offers advice to aspiring home stagers, encouraging them not to settle for “same old, same old.”

Home Staging Projects May Always Make You Nervous
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, talks to home stagers about how to handle on-the-job anxiety.

Staging Diva Graduate Leah Fritz sets example for all stagers
Leah Fritz is a shinning example of how perseverance in your home staging business eventually pays off.

Fall real estate season in full swing for home stagers
The Staging Diva, Debra Gould encourages home stagers to get ready for the fall Real Estate Season.

5 Easy Ways To Grow Your Staging Business!
In the new home staging landscape, everyone is looking for ways to maintain and grow their business. Your talents and skills that brought you to staging can be parlayed easily into additional services. More services = more revenue, and less reliance on the ever-changing real estate industry.

Home Staging is not a trend, it's a NECESSITY!
Home staging is just starting to gain popularity in some parts of the country. With the popularity of HGTV all perspective buyers expect a house to blow them away when they first step in to it. Staging, as the title of my article says is not a trend, it's a necessity!

Entrepreneurs: Learn from Pomegranate Marketing
Intrepid entrepreneur, Staging Diva, offers advice to entrepreneurs in an industry where their profession is misunderstood by their market.

Record Level US Home Sales Bodes Well for Home Stagers
The Staging Diva®, explains how the record level of US home sales reported by the National Association of Realtors in November 2009 benefits home stagers.

What to Do When You’re Asked to Stage a Filthy House
The Staging Diva®, advises home stagers on what to do when they find themselves being asked to stage an absolutely filthy home.

Helping Kids With The Process Of Moving, Home Staging Helps!
Selling a house isn't fun. Worrying about your kids during this process is addtionally stressful. Home staging and help selling your house fast go hand in hand. Here are some tips and ideas to help you sell your home and your children on getting the house sold through home staging.

Why Isn't My House Selling?
Many sellers ask themselves on a daily basis what can they do to help sell their house fast and for the most money. Home Staging with professional home stagers is your answer. Read for some do it yourself tips to selling your home.

The Top 10 Home Staging Ideas During The Holidays
Selling your house during the holidays brings up many questions from the sellers. Can you decorate for holidays when your house is on the market? Read on for some of my favorite tips and ideas to sell your home fast during the holiday season using professional home staging techniques.

Ideas and Tips for Selling A Vacant House Fast through Home Staging
It is never wise to sell a vacant house. There are very many options for home owners that are put in this situation. Read on to learn how to sell a vacant house fast using home staging and virtual home staging.

Home Stagers Don’t Have to Buy Their Own Accessories
The Staging Diva discusses how she handles the process of obtaining accessories for her home staging projects and why it’s not money out of her own pocket.

Part-time home stagers just as likely to succeed
Just because you can only work your home staging business part time does not necessarily put you at a disadvantage.

Home Staging Consultations Don’t Require an Assistant
Home staging expert, Staging Diva, explains why home stagers do not need to bring an assistant with them to their consultations.

Home stager lifestyle changes not always drastic
Debra Gould, The Staging Diva explains how you don't have to turn your whole world upside down to start a new business.

Home Staging Tips for the Bedroom
The Staging Diva®, provides home staging tips for the bedroom.

New York Home Stager Helps Ailing Home Owner Make Quick Sale
Expert home stager, Staging Diva, shares a story of how Staging Diva® Graduate, Susan Atwell, helped a desperate family sell their home fast.

Professional Home Stagers Don’t Work For Free
The Staging Diva® shares her opinion about home stagers offering their services for free.

Why Waste Another Day Wondering if Home Staging is Right for You?
Expert home stager, Staging Diva, encourages aspiring home stagers to stop putting off following their dream of being their own boss in a career they love.

Home staging anxiety may never go away
The Staging Diva, Debra Gould, encourages aspiring home stagers to push through their fears and build the business of their dreams.

Despite What You See on TV Home Staging is Not Physical Work
The Staging Diva®, sets the record straight for aspiring home stagers worried that a career in home staging means a lot of heavy lifting and other physically taxing duties.

Home Staging Is Not Meant to Cover Real Flaws
Staging Diva®, discusses how home staging is not a deceitful practice meant to cover real flaws in a property.

Staging Diva Calls Home Staging Consultation Reports a Waste of Time
The Staging Diva, Debra Gould, advises stagers to not waste their valuable time writing home staging consultation reports and shared why your time is better spent elsewhere.

Staging Diva Home Staging Tips for the Attic
The Staging Diva®, shares her expert home staging tips for the attic.

Staging Diva Home Staging Tips for the Garage
The Staging Diva®, shares her expert home staging tips for the garage.

Selling Your House - Competing With Short Sales? What can you do to get the best price

It’s a tough time to sell your home in this market. You are competing with bank owned homes and short sale properties that have driven down home values. What can you do to compete and maximize your sales price? These three ideas may not be conventional methods to market your home, you need to think out of the box. Long gone are the days when you could put a sign in your front yard and sit back and wait for a buyer to come along. It is dog eat dog out there right now and the seller that uses all the marketing strategies to their benefit is going to be the victor!

Why Home Staging is a Perfect Home-Based Business
The Staging Diva lists the reason why Home Staging is an excellent home based business.

Home Staging Helps Sellers Meet Conditional Offer Deadline
The Staging Diva® discusses how, in a slow real estate market, home stagers can help when it comes to meeting conditional offer deadlines.

Real Estate Agents Need Home Stagers In A Slow Market
In a slow real estate market like the one we’re dealing with now, real estate agents are turning to home stagers to help make their properties stand out from the competition. The Staging Diva®, elaborates on this fact here.

How the Law of Supply and Demand Affects Home Stagers – Part 2
The Staging Diva®, outlines the basic economic law of supply and demand how it affects home stagers in a buyer’s market.

Home staging competition may not be tough as you think
The Staging Diva, Debra Gould advises aspiring home stagers to not jump to conclusions when doing market research and discourage themselves from moving forward.

How the Law of Supply and Demand Affects Home Stagers – Part 1
In part one of a two-part article series The Staging Diva®, outlines the basic economic law of supply and demand as it relates to the real estate market.

Home staging fee setting tips
The Staging Diva discusses the importance of setting the right fees for your home staging services.

Why Home Stagers Don’t Need to Provide Furniture Rentals – Part 1
The Staging Diva® explains why, contrary to popular belief, it isn’t necessary for home stagers to carry their own inventory of furniture to rent to homeowners.

Is Pursuing Your Dream Worth Taking Some Risks
Intrepid entrepreneur and home staging expert, Staging Diva, ponders a quote by Anais Nin and shares why it was worth it for her to take some risks to follow her dream of running a new type of business.

Staging Diva’s Top Photography Tips for Home Stagers: Part 2
Internationally recognized home stager, The Staging Diva®, offers photography tips for home stagers to improve the quality of their portfolios.

Staging Diva Graduate helps home sell at first open house
The Staging Diva shares a story of a home stager who helped a home seller sell their home on the first open house.

Home Stagers Dont Undervalue Your Services
Home stagers who charge ridiculously low rates won't only be out of business in a hurry, but they are also devaluing the service of home staging.

Home Staging The Perfect Career for Baby Boomers Nearing Golden Years

The economy has everyone worried about their financial situation, especially those nearing retirement age. Many baby boomers consider starting a small business to supplement their income into their retirement years, while affording them the flexibility to pursue their passions and hobbies in a way they didn't have time for when they were younger. The Staging Diva® shares why home staging is the ideal career to get into at any age.

Staging Diva Graduate Shows How One Room May Make all the Difference
The Staging Diva shines the spotlight on Staging Diva Graduate Lisa Liberatore and how her home staging magic made all the different for a New Jersey couple's home sale.

Staging Diva Graduate Shows How One Room May Make all the Difference
The Staging Diva shines the spotlight on Staging Diva Graduate Lisa Liberatore and how her home staging magic made all the different for a New Jersey couple's home sale.

Staging Diva Graduate Demonstrates Importance of Sticking to It
Staging Diva Graduate, Stacy Goade, received calls from two prospective clients the same day she was thinking of giving up on her dream.

Stage Yourself to Sell: Image is Everything
One of the easiest ways to catapult your business to success is to act as though you are already successful. Do you play the part of a very successful home stager?

The Easiest Way to Prevent Bankrupting Your Home Staging Business…Stop Giving “Free Estimates”!

More homeowners than ever before are turning to home staging professionals for advice on how to best decorate their homes to stand out before they list with a real estate agent. If you’re one of the lucky stagers enjoying an increase in inquiries because of the market’s decline, you have to keep the fine line between ‘free estimate’ and ‘free advice’ good and clear. Otherwise, you could burn out and bankrupt your business faster than you think.

The Future Looks Bright for a Career in Real Estate Staging
As more informed homeowners hire Real Estate Stagers and more buyers have the chance to view homes that have been staged, other home sellers will realize they too have to follow the practice otherwise their un-staged homes will look even worse by comparison.

Desperate Home Sellers Turn to Home Staging for a Competitive Edge
Uncertainty rules in real estate and will most likely continue throughout 2008. Homeowners who are desperate to sell are looking to gain a competitive edge in the market. A professionally staged home makes a great first impression and can help the home sell fast.

Home Staging Helps Real Estate Investors and Builders Maximize Profits
When selling your investment property, are you tempted to leave a room or the entire house empty? Don't decide to save money when it comes to furnishings and accessories. Taking the time to do these final details will ultimately translate into a higher return on your investment.

Interior Design or Home Staging Which Career Is Right for You
Are you considering going to Interior Design school? If you have a flair for decorating and an interest in real estate, Home Staging might be an exciting alternative career option for you. Home Staging is the art of decorating a home to sell quickly and for top dollar.

Top 10 Reasons Home Staging is a Great Home Based Business
If you have a flair for decorating and an interest in real estate, Home Staging could be the right career for you. This service business, also called House Fluffing, Real Estate Staging or Home Styling, is based on the art of decorating a home to sell quickly and for top dollar. Home Staging is a great service business to run from a home office for the following ten reasons.

Staging Diva Announces Resource To Help Stagers Effortlessly Promote Their Services
Home staging expert, the Staging Diva®, has developed a resource to help home stagers promote themselves and educate their prospective clients about the home staging industry.

Home Stagers Rescue First Time Real Estate Investors
Expert home stager, Staging Diva, shares a success story from Staging Diva® Graduates, Aron Bailey Bruser and Paige Holm who prove home staging works for real estate investors.

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