October 2008

Heroes of Home Staging

Thinking about how I might support Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I asked Staging Diva Dispatch subscribers if any of them were also breast cancer survivors who might want to share their personal stories about fighting this disease and going on to reinvent their futures. My intention was to gather stories that would: empower others to [...]

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Entering my 50th year with gratitude

I had an awesome birthday this week which has left me feeling very grateful for things big and small, friends and family. First of all I had my child to celebrate and eat chocolate with and my mother, who survived cancer this year, was able to visit. I received calls from Australia, California and Bermuda [...]

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Home Stager Needed in Hermitage, TN

I have a client in Hermitage, Tennessee in need of a professional house stager immediately. This furnished, 2600 square foot home has been on the market for 6 months and has a list price of $234,000. After 30 showings there have been no offers on this home. The seller says that though overall feedback about [...]

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Staging Diva celebrates birthday with up to 30% off all home staging training courses

I decided to shake off the “I’m getting old blues” with a Staging Diva Birthday Blow Out Bash this week. All of my home staging training courses, home staging guides, sales scripts, business coaching etc. are priced at 10% to 30% off between now and this Friday, October 31, 2008. It’s a great time to [...]

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Veil being lifted on new home staging resource!

For the past several months, I’ve been busy developing a brand new Staging Diva website and I’m finally ready to reveal all that hard work to the world! This new site, ExpertHomeStagingTraining.com, was built to promote the new Home Study Kit version of the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program and I’m very proud [...]

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Recession-proof your real estate career

If you’re among the thousands of people who got a real estate license when the market was hot, are you starting to think it might not be as easy to make money as it looked back then? According to the 2007 Real Estate Trends Report, there is one licensed Realtor® for every 90 Americans. There [...]

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Do your homework before enrolling in a home staging training program!

As a society, we are a skeptical bunch. Today’s consumer almost instinctively sees sales pitches as scams and are afraid those products that do sound worthwhile must be too good to be true. There are thousands of valuable and reputable products available to us thanks to the power of the Internet. Yes, there are bad [...]

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Staging Diva Earns Marks as SEO Professional

SEO Professional – 71% I built my first website in 1999 to promote the Debra Gould Home Collection and was amazed when I was able to sell my art and home accessories across the US and Canada. Since that time I’ve personally built a number of other sites including SixElements.com to promote my home staging [...]

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Home Staging: The Perfect Career for Baby Boomers Nearing Golden Years

With all the negative news about the economy and the shocking drop in value of investments, baby boomers are  getting concerned about their retirement. As you approach your 60s, you may feel ready to retire, but not ready to stop working all together. If you’ve already retired maybe your savings and pension aren’t quite enough [...]

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Which comes first – clients or references and a portfolio?

Without clients you can’t get references or build a portfolio. But, you need a portfolio full of before and after photos and great references to get clients. This classic ‘Catch-22′ exists for every individual that sets out to start a home staging business. Yes, it might seem like a frustrating and impossible situation but put [...]

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Home Staging for Unimaginative Buyers

Home buyers have less imagination than you might think. That’s why home staging can make such a difference in the selling price of a home and how long it takes to sell. Most people aren’t able to look past ugly, crowded and disorganized rooms, or figure out in the 5 minutes they might spend in [...]

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