Boost your confidence as a home stager

As a home stager you might find your confidence and motivation goes down sometimes. The Staging Diva shares home staging business confidence boosters.

Many Home Stagers are Introverts It’s Part of Our Power and Creativity

I’ve taken a few informal polls on Facebook and Twitter with my fellow home stagers and discovered that most of us are introverts. It doesn’t mean that we can’t be extroverted when it serves a purpose, as so endearingly described in this video of author Susan Cain’s TED Talk. It just means being extroverted is [...]

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Home Stagers Do You Believe Work is Not Supposed To Be Fun?

I recently posted an article to help home stagers get rid of the negative beliefs or labels that are secretly holding them back in life and in their home staging businesses. I challenged members in the Staging Diva community to identify a negative belief and then list 3 pieces of evidence to the contrary. This [...]

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Home Stagers Get Rid of That Negative Label Once and For All

Are you walking around with a destructive label inside your head that determines the choices you make and how you live your life? This week I met “Cynthia” (not her real name) by phone. She has been dabbling at being a home stager. I say “dabbling” because she’s done a few free projects for friends [...]

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Home Stagers, Will You Choose to Realize Your Dream?

What a journey it is becoming a home stager! Many of us are born home stagers, we just don’t realize it for many years. What I mean here is that it’s a journey discovering who we are and what we are meant to do. Along the way, we take hundreds of baby steps that take [...]

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Home Staging Business Perfectionists Need to Make Mistakes Too

Too many home stagers hold themselves and their staging businesses back because they’re afraid to make a mistake. We want everything to be “perfect.” It’s a natural tendency— we don’t want to look foolish, make a mistake or disappoint someone. But here’s the thing, if you’re not making mistakes in your home staging business, then [...]

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Provide Home Staging Tips for New Parents, Help Them Cope With Selling

This was the condition of the living room when I arrived to conduct a home staging consultation. I’m standing on the stairs for a bird’s eye view of the scene for you. By the way, that’s a great home staging portfolio photo tip for you. You can get stronger before and after photos to showcase [...]

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Why Did You Become a Home Stager?

Running your own business is not all tea and roses. It takes work whether you’re a home stager or any other type of entrepreneur. It doesn’t help that the economy has been in such horrible shape over the past few years. But, we’re all living in this economy no matter how we choose to earn [...]

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Is Negative Self-Talk Killing Your Home Staging Business?

I talk to hundreds of home stagers during home staging business coaching calls and I’m always struck by how much negative self-talk is going on. In a single 30-minute conversation, I’ll hear someone say “I’m so stupid when it comes to xyz” 4 or 5 times. Imagine how many times they’re saying it to themselves [...]

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Home Staging Career Rises from a Bakery Storefront

As a home stager and entrepreneur, you never want to pass up a golden opportunity, and the following story is a perfect example of this. A home stager named Jackie submitted this story for my upcoming book, Life as a Home Stager, and I think you’ll find it inspiring: “I have an insatiable appetite for all things [...]

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Mom Job Dreams Open Up With Kids Back to School

On Facebook I was reading a post by a creative mom who said, “Now that the kids are in school I would like to pick up some cleaning gigs.” It’s good to declare your goals because you’re more than twice as likely to achieve them. But here’s the kicker, not 5 hours later she posted, [...]

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5 Real Estate Agent Warning Signs for Home Stagers

I recently started a series of articles about marketing to real estate agents at their open houses. After all, you have a captive audience to introduce your services and if you handle it well, it can lead to many future home staging projects. Another reason to visit agents at their open houses is to evaluate [...]

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