August 2008

Staging Diva Announces First Graduate in Germany

I’m pleased to welcome a talented artist to the Staging Diva Graduate community of professional home stagers, and our first Graduate in Germany. Tina Humburg views home staging as a natural evolution of her current business which is doing custom paintings. She found as she was in people’s homes to discuss the art she would [...]

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5 Massive Mistakes Homeowners Make – Part 1: Focusing on Price

When you decide to hire a home stager to decorate your property to sell faster and for more money, you need to make sure you’re investing in the right person. After all, you’re trusting someone with the sale of your largest asset, your primary real estate. You have to be careful to put that trust [...]

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Home Staging Time Suckers – The Indecisive Client

I hope you are almost convinced that your pricing strategy has the power to make or break your business by highlighting some of the biggest time sucking clients you will encounter in the home staging industry. We’ve already discussed The Distracted Client, The Chatty Client, The Pack-Rat Client and The Wishy-Washy Client. Now, the most [...]

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Home Staging Time Suckers – The Wishy-Washy Client

In my last post in this series, I talked about the danger of charging a flat rate when you are dealing with The Pack-Rat Client. In this post, I’ll talk about one of my biggest pet-peeves which will cost you over and over if your pricing strategy doesn’t include a cancellation fee; “The Wishy-Washy Client”. [...]

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Home Staging Time Suckers – The Pack-Rat Client

I hope you’re enjoying these posts about the different time-sucking home staging client types you might encounter at your consultations. I really believe that when you charge a flat rate, all you’re doing is setting yourself up to lose your shirt. Today’s installment is what will end up to be the client that costs you [...]

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Home Staging Time Suckers – The Chatty Client

In the first installment of this series of posts about home staging client types that can make you wish you didn’t charge a flat rate, we discussed “The Distracted Client”. Today I’m going to talk about another common time-sucking client type that can help bankrupt a business based on a flat rate pricing structure; “The [...]

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Home Staging Time Suckers – The Distracted Client

Whew! I am very excited to have just finished a new ‘soon to be released’ special report for aspiring home stagers. With my final edit, there was one particular section that I thought was too good not to share a little bit early. Through a series of blog posts, I will be highlighting the different [...]

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Home Stager Needed in Niceville, Florida

I have a client with a home in Niceville Florida who wants to hire a house stager. This 1700 square foot home is only minutes from the beach. Since this is a small property and won’t be listed for about two years, the owner is likely looking for expert staging advice that he can learn [...]

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Is There a ‘Back to School’ Career Change in Your Future?

Even though most of us hang on to as much summer as we can, as soon as the calendar changes from July to August the department stores want us in ‘back-to-school’ mode. With school-aged children, besides dreading another year of packing lunches, you’ve probably already started to think about what they will need in the [...]

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Home Stager Needed in Grand Rapids, Michigan

I have a client in Grand Rapids, Michigan who would like to meet with an expert home stager before she lists her 4300 square foot home. The list price is anticipated to be $350,000. Grand Rapids is the second largest city in Michigan with a population of over 1 million, making it the ideal location [...]

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Home Stager Needed in Albuquerque, New Mexico

I have a client in Albuquerque, New Mexico in immediate need of an expert home stager. Their 3156 square foot home has been on the market for two months and is listed at $549,000 (after a substantial price drop). The home is unoccupied, but fully furnished. What a great opportunity to show a home owner [...]

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