Choosing Home Staging Courses

Choosing Home Staging Courses: 5 Money-Wasting Mistakes To Avoid

Creative types getting into the home staging industry often get sucked into wasting hundreds if not thousands of dollars on training by making these 5 common mistakes. Here’s what you want to watch out for: 1. Taking home staging courses from someone who has never been a successful home stager. This is especially common because [...]

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The Staging Diva Difference

My Client Relations Manager, Victoria, receives several emails each day asking what makes Staging Diva Training different than other programs. It’s a great question and one that I think it’s time to address here. I am providing this information based on other programs’ claims, but especially on what I’ve heard from several of my students, [...]

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“Uncertified” Nebraska home stager helps clients sell fast

Last year, an aspiring home stager by the name of Katie Mines, left a comment on one of my blog posts saying that she was overwhelmed with the choice of where to obtain her home staging training. While she enjoyed my Staging Diva home staging newsletters and blogs, she was advised to take a course [...]

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Staging Diva homework has a purpose

If you’ve been researching home staging training companies, you’ve probably encountered those that require you to hand in assignments to be graded in order for you to graduate or “qualify” for “guaranteed jobs”. I take a different approach to assigning homework than most other home staging training programs and there are several reasons for this. [...]

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Look out for home staging training snake oil

Anyone who has taken my training or has attended an Ask Staging Diva Live event knows that I am honest and upfront about how the home staging industry works. It bothers me when I see companies operating unethically. Home staging associations, training organizations and others offering the latest “get rich quick as a home stager” [...]

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Earning a living by following your passion doesn’t happen by chance

Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” I believe there’s a great deal of truth to that quote. During one of my many moves, I found a five-year old newspaper clipping about the home staging industry that I had saved in a “business ideas” file. The irony was I had no memory of seeing [...]

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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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Want to be a home stager? 15 questions to ask before handing over your money

I receive many emails from people who are completely confused by the various home staging training programs available. With so many options, I can understand the frustration. Since this is a completely unregulated industry, it’s important to do your research before handing over you money. These 15 questions will help you research the various programs [...]

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Top 10 Reasons Home Staging is a great 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 [...]

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Should I go to Interior Design School or Be a Home Stager?

Many women approaching their 40s write to me wondering whether they should go to Interior Design School. It’s an issue I struggled with myself many times over a 20 year period. I interviewed a number of interior design schools at various points in my past career but never followed through on actually applying. I already [...]

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Home Stagers Using Fake Portfolios

Since home staging is a completely unregulated field, some house stagers seem to think “anything goes” and others do certain things without really thinking through the ramifications. I’m disturbed by the number of home staging websites using the same before and after images. That’s because many of these stagers have taken a program that includes [...]

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