Today is the last day to save $100 and order the entire Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program for only $795. You can also order individual courses for only $179, which goes up to $199 November 1.

In fact, if you order all five courses today, you save $200 over ordering the individual courses at the $199 price.

Each course is 2 hours in length and comes with a full set of Staging Diva Course Notes. You’ll be ordering course recordings unless you want to wait until January to take the courses live by phone with me.

If you can do the program now, I don’t recommend waiting since you’ll want to get your business up and running before the busy spring real estate market which starts by the end of January/early February.

Actually, there are tons of projects out there right now for all those desperate homeowners who weren’t smart enough to have their homes staged before they put them on the market this fall. Now as the holiday season approaches they realize they’re looking at waiting several more months to sell, unless they do something drastic.

Their agents are all telling them to cut their asking prices. Home Stagers offer a very attractive alternative. I once spent 6 hours rearranging a house and the owner sold the following week with three offers. His agent had wanted to drop his asking price by $50,000 so he hired me instead! This was after sitting on the market for four months. Imagine the result if I’d staged the house in the first place!

How much do you think a homeowner would be willing to pay you to save himself $50,000? That’s why home staging is such a lucrative business. We’re offering a service that homeowners can make huge profits from. As the real estate market slows and shadows grow over the state of the economy, demand for home staging will grow.

If you’re worried about ordering course recordings because you won’t have me on the phone with you to answer your questions, consider these advantages over the live program:

• You can listen to the recordings as often as you like. I pack a ton of information into 10 hours of recordings. If you re-listen a month later, I guarantee you’ll hear something you missed the first time through.

• You aren’t tied to the course times. Listen when your kids are at school or spend a weekend and listen to the whole program; it’s entirely up to you!

• I record all my TeleClasses then I go through and listen to them all. I specially select the ones I offer for sale as recordings based on the quality of the questions asked. Each group is different. Some ask me lots of great questions and others don’t. By ordering the recordings, you’ll have the benefit of listening to my answers to the best questions any group asked.

• The recordings and notes are emailed to you as “download” links. You don’t need to be computer whiz to get the material. You click on the links and the material automatically downloads onto your computer. You print the notes and you listen to the recordings on your computer at your convenience. If you have an iPod or other mp3 player, you can even copy your recordings onto that and listen while you’re walking the dog!

“I was worried listening to the classes might be dry. Big mistake on my part. You are awesome and strong… my new Staging Hero!” Sam Turner

Staging Diva Accelerator Upgrade

When you order the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program, you’ll have the option of adding two hours of one-on-one coaching with me by phone for only $300 more. You can take 6 months to use that time and I’ll help you with:

• naming your company
• writing your marketing materials
• building your web site
• how to deal with an especially difficult client
• how to manage a complex project
• and more. Whatever you want to ask me about!

Here’s what one student who just finished listening to the Staging Diva course recordings wrote to me yesterday:

“I have been in love with design and real estate for 25 years, always feeling the need to do something with the two of them. Having an education in interior design and a real estate license I found myself standing still. Knowing I did not want to be a glorified sales person or work for anyone I choose to start a marketing company, and 15 years later found myself still craving the passion for the two industries.

I have been researching home staging for about a year and finally found Staging Diva. Something kept drawing me back and telling me this woman REALLY knows her stuff. Not just the “pretty picture” but the business in the real world we live in. I signed up for all 5 courses and found them to be an absolute eye opener, a must-have if someone is thinking of starting a staging business, or any business for that matter. Not enrolling in the Accelerator Upgrade with your personal coaching was definitely a wrong business decision for me (yet another lesson learned).

Debra you have inspired me so much as a businesswoman, someone who became a dream catcher not just a dreamer. With your straightforward get-to-work attitude, passion for the business, and your students questions, the Staging Diva Program is without a doubt worth every single penny spent.” Christine Obarto, Michigan

If you’ve been itching to reinvent your life and do something that reflects your real talents, I hope you’ll consider the Staging Diva Training Program. You can listen to a free preview to learn more about it.

Don’t forget you need to order before November 1 to get the $795 price, an amount you can more than make back with your first staging project!

Discover the ONLY Home Staging Business Training Program taught by a seasoned entrepreneur who has successfully grown her own home staging business (not as a side-line to selling real estate) — The Staging Diva Training Program. With an MBA in marketing and hundreds of home staging clients, internationally recognized home staging expert Debra Gould, The Staging Diva, is uniquely qualified to train others how to start and grow a profitable home staging business.

You can become a Staging Diva Graduate with 10 hours of training by phone with Debra Gould from home, or you can do the entire program by listening to recordings which are emailed to you immediately after you register.

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Please don’t take the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program unless you are serious about building a home staging business. I don’t want to waste my time and resources on people who like taking courses but never actually take action in their lives.

I’m serious about helping aspiring home stagers build financially successful and creatively satisfying businesses. So it frankly drives me crazy when I see people do nothing with the tools I give them.

It also drives me crazy when six months into their business, they wonder why they don’t have enough work, yet they have still not even put the time into developing a proper portfolio. I tell them how to build a portfolio in course 2 of the program. So it’s not an issue of not knowing what to do, it’s an issue of not actually doing it.

One Graduate turned down a project I had for her because she didn’t have a brochure yet. Hello? Getting your first project is the hardest (because you have no track record), so when someone is ready to hand you a real live client that lives 10 minutes from your house, TAKE IT!

Another Graduate wanted me to stop referring projects to her because it interfered with dating. She had a job and was staging homes on the side. Well of course building a business will cut into your social time if you already have a full-time day job!

I’ve had Graduates take a full week to act on a lead. Call me crazy, but I have a thriving business and a life, and I still manage to get back to any lead within 24 hours!

Building a business takes time, focus and energy

The world does not beat a path to your door with fists full of cash just because you’re there. Especially when they can’t find you and you can’t articulate what you have to offer in a compelling way!

In the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program I give you all the tools you need to get started and grow your business, but you do actually have to do the work of putting what I tell you into action!

Nothing will make you skinny or successful overnight

There is no fitness equipment that will make you skinny and keep you that way, unless you watch your diet and use the equipment every other day. Yet millions of people spend billions of dollars for the latest gadget, only to have it collect dust under the bed or act as a very expensive place to dump clothes.

Similarly, there’s no such thing as a “business in a box” or a successful “get rich quick” scheme. While there are millions of people ready to spend money on these instant and easy solutions, I don’t promise one (for the same reason I don’t offer fake home staging credentials).

Here are some results Staging Diva Graduates have acheived. But make no mistake, they did the work with what I gave them to make it happen:

“Within weeks of completing the program and getting my listing on The Staging Diva Directory, I got two projects worth $3,500!” Linda Schleihauf (ON)

“Thank you for the home staging project referral on that $1.6 million dollar home. The staging went well and I felt confident and comfortable working with the clients thanks to what I learned in the Staging Diva Program.” Anne Counard (WI)

“I took what I learned in The Staging Diva Program and made over $4,000 profit on my first project!” Kathleen Fischbein (NY)

“My first project was worth $5,000 and thanks to you I knew how to handle it!” Erin Rhindress (MA)

“I’ve just finished staging my sixth house and I’m loving every minute of it. Thank you Debra, I couldn’t have done it without you!” Mandy Cosentino (ON)

It won’t be “easy” to build your business, but it will be “infinitely easier” than if you hadn’t done the Staging Diva Program.

When you’re ready to work for what you want, I can show you the road that will turn your passion for decorating into a thriving home staging business. If you follow what I tell you, you’ll save years of trial and error and you’ll be focussed on the techniques that will yield the best results.

It won’t be easy, but I can make it infinitely easier! Besides, isn’t following your dreams, and finding a way to use your natural talents to make money doing something you love, worth some effort?

P.S. ORDER THE STAGING DIVA TRAINING PROGRAM BY OCTOBER 31 and SAVE $100!

Discover the ONLY Home Staging Business Training Program taught by a seasoned entrepreneur who has successfully grown her own home staging business (not as a side-line to selling real estate) — The Staging Diva Training Program. With an MBA in marketing and hundreds of home staging clients, internationally recognized home staging expert Debra Gould, The Staging Diva, is uniquely qualified to train others how to start and grow a profitable home staging business.

You can become a Staging Diva Graduate with 10 hours of training by phone with Debra Gould from home, or you can do the entire program by listening to recordings which are emailed to you immediately after you register.

Read more about Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training

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I have a client in Montreal with a cottage style home in Le Plateau. It’s three stories, about 2000 sq. ft. Not yet on the market but will likely list around $400,000.

The homeowner works in Toronto so he’s only there on weekends. The house is furnished, though I have no idea whether it would still need additional pieces provided. You’ll find out during your home staging consultation.
The client is looking for a home stager to help him get as much as possible when it’s time to sell his Le Plateau “cottage.”

This is a great project. If you’re interested in this home staging project in Montreal Quebec, email me ASAP with:

• Your name
• Company name
• Phone
• Email
• The address of your website

Please include “Le Plateau Home Stager” in the subject line of your email.

Also note that if you don’t already have a website or a page on the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers, it will be more difficult to win this project. It’s hard to convince a client to hire you over the phone if they can’t see your portfolio.

Because of all the traffic I get to my two sites, SixElements.com and StagingDiva.com, I get lots of leads on projects from all over Canada and the US and even in South Africa! I will only refer them to Staging Diva Graduates.

It’s interesting that with all the Staging Diva Graduates I have in Montreal, none have yet joined the Staging Diva Directory! This could be a real opportunity for you to build a staging business there and become the local home staging expert. By the way, once you’re the first to join from a city, you’re listed first as others join the directory in your city, which they inevitably will.

I generate tons of traffic for anyone listed on the Staging Diva site. Only one good project would more than pay for your entire Staging Diva Training Program plus me building and hosting your web page for an entire year!

Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., a leading home staging company that provides free information to raise the standards in the industry and build awareness amongst homeowners and their real estate agents about the benefits of decorating a house to sell. Debra Gould developed The Staging Diva Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.

Learn more about the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program

You can get your company listed in the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers. Debra Gould will personally build your page and all the code to help search engines find you!

Learn more about the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers

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This vacant home in London Ontario is in desperate need of staging. Priced at over $800,000 it’s not going to sell as quickly as it would with proper furnishing and staging.

Vacant homes don’t invite buyers to fall in love with the property; quite the opposite. They just scream “desperate to sell, make me an offer.”

Often buyers won’t take that next step of making that offer because they can’t visualize themselves living there. It’s just a house, with all its imperfections front and center. There’s no way to tell really how large the rooms are, or whether their furniture might fit. And it’s all so depressing really… an empty house is not a home!

Generally, when offers do come in on vacant homes they are much lower than the homeowner was hoping for. After all, the buyer knows the seller is desperate so why present an offer even remotely close to the asking price?

This is a great project where you can stage a home from top to bottom with furniture, art and accessories. There are ten rooms here! You should be able to make about $5,000 on this project.

If you’re interested in this home staging project in London Ontario, email me ASAP with:

• Your name
• Company name
• Phone
• Email
• The address of your website

Please include “London, ON Home Stager” in the subject line of your email.

Also note that if you don’t already have a website or a page on the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers, it will be more difficult to win this project. It’s hard to convince a client to hire you over the phone if they can’t see your portfolio.

Because of all the traffic I get to my two sites, SixElements.com and StagingDiva.com, I get lots of leads on projects from all over Canada and the US and even in South Africa! I will only refer them to Staging Diva Graduates.

It’s interesting that with all the Staging Diva Graduates in Ontario, none are in London! This could be a real opportunity for others to build a staging business there and become the local home staging expert.

Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., a leading home staging company that provides free information to raise the standards in the industry and build awareness amongst homeowners and their real estate agents about the benefits of decorating a house to sell. Debra Gould developed The Staging Diva Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.

Learn more about the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program

You can get your company listed in the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers. Debra Gould will personally build your page and all the code to help search engines find you!

Learn more about the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers

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I have a homeowner in Brunswick Georgia who needs a home stager. The client will be putting his 2500 square foot vacant home on the market soon. This is a great project where you can stage a home from top to bottom with furniture, art and accessories.

You should be able to make a couple of thousand dollars on this project, given that the home’s asking price will be in the $185,000 range.

I love looking up interesting facts about all the towns and cities I get home staging project leads for my Staging Diva Graduates in.

Did you know that George Washington proclaimed Brunswick as one of the five original ports of entry for the Colonies in 1789? Today, Brunswick has Georgia’s second largest concentration of historic structures. That’s Brunswick’s Old City Hall pictured above.

If you’re interested in this home staging project in Brunswick Georgia, email me ASAP with:

• Your name
• Company name
• Phone
• Email
• The address of your website

Please include “Brunswick, GA Home Stager” in the subject line of your email.

Also note that if you don’t already have a website or a page on the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers, it will be more difficult to win this project. It’s hard to convince a client to hire you over the phone if they can’t see your portfolio.

Because of all the traffic I get to my two sites, SixElements.com and StagingDiva.com, I get lots of leads on projects from all over Canada and the US and even in South Africa! I will only refer them to Staging Diva Graduates.

Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., a leading home staging company that provides free information to raise the standards in the industry and build awareness amongst homeowners and their real estate agents about the benefits of decorating a house to sell. Debra Gould developed The Staging Diva Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.

Learn more about the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program

You can get your company listed in the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers. Debra Gould will personally build your page and all the code to help search engines find you!

Learn more about the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers

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I just finished my final coaching call with new Staging Diva Graduate Karen Totten of Newmarket. She did the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program with me this summer and also purchased the Accelerator Upgrade which gave her two hours of coaching time, one-on-one with me.

Her first project took 7 weeks to complete. It was for a home that was on the market for 8 months with a best offer last October of $659,000. The clients took the house off the market and worked with Karen who not only staged the house but managed all the other details for carpentry, painting, new appliances and more that needed to be done.

Home Staging Results

Overall, the client invested $48,000 on their property (over $14,000 of which went to Karen for her time). The result, the client sold after only 6 showings and got $780,000 on a $799,000 asking price.

In other words, even after investing $48,000, the client made a profit of $73,000 over their best previous offer, and they were able to sell after only 6 showings, when they had previously sat on the market for 8 months.

And for Staging Diva Graduate Karen Totten, she made over $14,000 in only 7 weeks in a brand new business. Not bad for her investment of only $1095, which gave her 10 hours of course time, notes, plus 2 hours of one-on-one business coaching with me.

By the way, I’ve shared these details with Karen’s permission. I consider any business details discussed during coaching sessions privileged information.

Discover the ONLY Home Staging Business Training Program taught by a seasoned entrepreneur who has successfully grown her own home staging business (not as a side-line to selling real estate) — The Staging Diva Training Program. With an MBA in marketing and hundreds of home staging clients, internationally recognized home staging expert Debra Gould, The Staging Diva, is uniquely qualified to train others how to start and grow a profitable home staging business.

You can become a Staging Diva Graduate with 10 hours of training by phone with Debra Gould from home, or you can do the entire program by listening to recordings which are emailed to you immediately after you register.

Read more about Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training

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Home staging does not have to be a very physically demanding career. Yes you need to be mobile enough to go up and down stairs, hang a picture, move small accessories and accent furniture (for example a light end table). But you don’t need to lift heavy objects, or paint, or clean your clients’ homes. In fact, if you’re doing those things, stop right now!

Your time and expertise as a home stager are too valuable to be doing physical labor that is best left to others, who specialize in those things and aren’t charging the same fees you are.

It makes me crazy to see some home staging training companies selling cleaning supplies! As if a home stager is a glorified cleaning lady. Believe me, if I were cleaning my client’s homes I’d sure get an ear-full from my mother. I can hear her now…. “my daughter the MBA cleaning someone’s toilet!”

Not that there’s anything wrong with being a cleaning lady if that’s your chosen work. But if you’re a professional home stager, your clients should be hiring you for your expertise in decorating a house to sell quickly and for top dollar; they should not be expecting you to polish their floors!

Which gets us back to the age question.

Staging Diva Graduates range in age from their late 20s to mid 60s. They come from all kinds of previous careers. Some are retired and some have sent their kids off to school and decided it’s time for them to do something they feel passionate about.

Don’t let a fear that you’re too old stop you from pursuing home staging as a new career. As long as you have an innate talent for how things should be arranged in a room and you are interested in, and understand real estate, you can make home staging a very lucrative and creatively satisfying business.

Considering our life expectancy is now into the 80s, you’re never too old to try something new, if you start now!

Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., a leading home staging company that provides free information to raise the standards in the industry and build awareness amongst homeowners and their real estate agents about the benefits of decorating a house to sell. Debra Gould developed The Staging Diva Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.

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Are you starting to feel isolated working from home? This is very common, especially if you are accustomed to going into an office every day. When you’re used to having coffee every morning with your co-workers and having people ask you about your weekend, your kids, etc., it can be a shock to the system to realize that a whole day can go by without speaking to anyone!

One of the things I love about working from home is when I’m not with clients, I can wear whatever I’m comfortable in. But if I’ve been home too many days in a row and there are no clients booked in the near future, there’s nothing like getting dressed up, putting on makeup and going out to help me feel like I still work!

Home staging will not keep you busy 5 days a week all year, even when you are well established. So, what do you do when the phone isn’t ringing off the hook? How do you deal with feeling isolated and like no one is ever going to call?

Find ways to get out of the house and connect with people, in other words TAKE ACTION.

For example, check the local paper and see if there are any group meetings that you can attend. Perhaps the Chamber of Commerce is holding an event? Are there any small business groups in your area? Consider taking a seminar that will increase your business skills and provide an opportunity to meet potential clients at the same time. Helpful topics include: marketing, selling skills, how to use a particular software program, small business accounting, time managment, business writing, presentation skills, etc.

If you read my previous article, Home Stagers are Hot, you’ve already picked up some tips about how to leverage your time at networking events by using the fact that you’re in a relatively “new” business, and then turn this into new business opportunities.

When I’m in a slow week, and especially if I’m not feeling like talking to people, I spend the day in a big bookstore pouring over interior design and color books. It feeds my creative soul, gives me new ideas for my business and brightens my spirits. And if I’m careful and don’t get caught up in actually buying all these beautiful books, it costs me nothing.

If you want to see some of the inspiring books I have brought home on such excursions, check these out!

These are just two of the many “survival strategies for being your own boss” that I share in course 1 of the Staging Diva Training Program.

You can also get ideas like these to help build your business in the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Booster eCourse (a 21 week program sent to you by email for only $40). That’s a sample of it shown in the image above in this article.

If you’re feeling isolated or like your business is going nowhere, get out there and go to an event and connect with people. More people will learn about you and what you do, and you may even find a new client!

And more importantly, enjoy the lull in the action by remembering that it only takes one or two projects to make all the money you need for a month. So don’t get discouraged during the slower weeks. It all balances out in the end, as long as you stay motivated and keep your business moving forward!

Discover the ONLY Home Staging Business Training Program taught by a seasoned entrepreneur who has successfully grown her own home staging business (not as a side-line to selling real estate) — The Staging Diva Training Program. With an MBA in marketing and hundreds of home staging clients, internationally recognized home staging expert Debra Gould, The Staging Diva, is uniquely qualified to train others how to start and grow a profitable home staging business.

You can become a Staging Diva Graduate with 10 hours of training by phone with Debra Gould from home, or you can do the entire program by listening to recordings which are emailed to you immediately after you register.

Read more about Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training

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I have a homeowner in Kansas City Missouri who needs a home stager. She’s living in the 2,600 square foot home, but wants a stager to help redecorate it to sell more quickly and for top dollar.

Kansas City is the most heavily populated city in Missouri and the 7th largest city in the Midwest. Yet, there are only two Staging Diva Graduates there, and clearly homeowners are having difficulty locating them on their own!

If you’re interested, email me ASAP with:

• Your name
• Company name
• Phone
• Email
• The address of your website

Please include “Kansas City Home Stager” in the subject line of your email.

Also note that if you don’t already have a website or a page on the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers, it will be more difficult to win this project. It’s hard to convince a client to hire you over the phone if they can’t see your portfolio.

Because of all the traffic I get to my two sites, SixElements.com and StagingDiva.com, I get lots of leads on projects from all over Canada and the US and even in South Africa! I will only refer them to Staging Diva Graduates.

You can become a Staging Diva Graduate with 10 hours of training by phone from home or you can do the entire program by listening to recordings which are emailed to you immediately after you register.

Learn more about the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program

You can get your company listed in the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers. I personally build your page and all the code to help search engines find you!

Learn more about the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers

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My previous article “Home Staging Field Rife With Fake Credentials” has stirred up a lot of discussion in the Staging Diva Network (online discussion group for Staging Diva Graduates) as well as lots of emails to me with comment.

Some of my graduates have asked, in the face of competitors that promote fake credentials, why I don’t do the same and create my own.

My position has always been that I object to fake credentials so I don’t want to add to the confusion in the market place by creating my own (even though most everyone else does).

When students complete my program, I could call them:

• Staging Diva Graduate (SDG)

• Accredited Staging Diva Graduate (ASDG)

• Staging Diva Certified Graduate Home Staging Professional (SDCGHSP)

• Staging Diva Home Staging Expert (SDHSE)

• Staging Diva Graduate Professional Home Stager (SDGPHS)

• etc., etc., etc.

And then for even more money, create a Masters Level program and give people this designation:

• Staging Diva Graduate Master (SDGM)

• Staging Diva Certified Master Graduate (SDCMG)

• Master Staging Diva Home Staging Professional (MSDHSP)

• etc., etc.,

Does everyone see how silly this all is? All these names are just made up by the people marketing programs. They aren’t official credentials granted by some independent third party. Yes, I lose students because I don’t give out meaningless letters to put after your name, but I think to do otherwise would compromise my integrity.

I also don’t believe in scaring potential students into believing that if they don’t take MY program, they can’t be real stagers (this is another tactic used my some companies). You can start a business today and call yourself a professional home stager without taking ANY program.

Clients will hire you because you:

• present yourself in a credible and professional way

• sound like you know what you’re talking about

• appear confident in your abilities

• have a strong portfolio of before and after photos (that are your own, not given to you as part of the course you took)

• have past clients or agents that speak highly of your abilities

• have properly explained how you are a solution to their problems

• demonstrate the value of hiring you

• are available when they need you

In 99% of the cases, they won’t hire you just because you have initials after your name. Especially since the vast majority of homeowners will never have heard of those initials before.

With rare exceptions, they also won’t hire you just because you’re the cheapest home stager in town. If they don’t have confidence in your abilities, they’d be stupid to save a few hundred dollars in fees when how well you do the job can make thousands of dollars of difference in the selling price of their home.

My mission is to inspire and empower others to follow their dreams and live their best life. I want my students to go through the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program and absorb the lesson that they don’t need to hide behind anyone else and that they can have credibility and power in their own right.

My goals in the Staging Diva Program are to give students the tools they need to go out there confidently and know how to take the innate decorating talent they have and turn it into a successful business. That’s not about letters after your name, it’s about understanding the business and marketing of home staging.

Debra Gould (DEC, BA, MBA) — those ARE real college and univesity awarded credentials that I earned over years of study, exams and a graduate-level thesis, but you’ll rarely see me put them after my name!

Discover the ONLY Home Staging Business Training Program taught by a seasoned entrepreneur who has successfully grown her own home staging business (not as a side-line to selling real estate) — The Staging Diva Training Program. With an MBA in marketing and hundreds of home staging clients, internationally recognized home staging expert Debra Gould, The Staging Diva, is uniquely qualified to train others how to start and grow a profitable home staging business.

You can become a Staging Diva Graduate with 10 hours of training by phone with Debra Gould from home, or you can do the entire program by listening to recordings which are emailed to you immediately after you register. Over 50 pages of notes and the Staging Diva Home Staging Checklist included.
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