Home Staging Business Dilemma – Home Staging Business Report

Learn from these home staging business dilemmas and challenges faced by real home stagers. Weigh in with your opinions and learn from the solutions.

5 Tips to Get Media Attention for Your Home Staging Business

Getting media attention for a home staging business has been a hot topic lately. Recently after writing about 3 Staging Diva Graduates featured in staging stories in Kenosha, Nashville and Chicago newspapers, a home stager in Alaska wrote that she was having trouble getting local papers interested in writing about her. Here  are 5 tips [...]

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How Do I Get Media Attention for Home Staging and My Staging Business?

Getting media attention for your home staging business is like getting thousands of dollars (if not tens of thousands of dollars!) of free advertising and should be the goal of anyone with a home staging business. In a recent post, I featured 3 Staging Diva Graduates who have been featured in local newspapers in Kenosha, [...]

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Using Home Staging Photos In Your Portfolio When You Just Give Advice

Recently I posed a staging business dilemma from Leah Fritz of Perfect Place Home Staging about whether it’s OK to use before and after photos for your staging portfolio when you didn’t physically do the work. In Leah’s case, the client staged her home herself based on all the advice Leah provided during a home [...]

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Home Staging Business Challenge: Micro-Managing Real Estate Agent

A real estate agent, who believes in the power of home staging to help real estate listings sell faster, can be a real asset when you’re building your home staging business. Especially in the early days when few people have heard of you yet and getting noticed as the expert home stager in your local [...]

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Can I Use Home Staging Photos When I Just Did a Staging Consultation?

Staging Diva Graduate Leah Fritz of Perfect Place Home Staging has this staging business dilemma and wonders what she should do. See what you think and add your comments below. “A homeowner I did a home staging consultation for took such excellent detailed notes during our meeting that she was able to execute my whole [...]

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Working for Mad Men or Being Your Own Boss

I’m a Mad Men fan and disappointed we have to wait for the new season. Watching the show is a great reminder of why I wanted to be my own boss by the time I was 30— a goal I’m proud to say I achieved. When I was in the corporate world (and then worked [...]

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Home Staging Business Solution to a Real Estate Agent Challenge

I recently posted a home staging business dilemma from “Simone” a home stager who shared her story about an especially challenging real estate agent. He blew up and started yelling at her at an agent open house following something she said. Her story raised interesting issues around dealing with difficult people and raised the potential [...]

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The Real Estate Agent Blew Up, Now What?

Home stager Simone raises important questions in this story about what happened when she visited a real estate agent open house and got into a real conflict. See what you’d recommend for this home staging business dilemma: “I’m a home stager (not a real estate agent) and I went to an agent open house hoping [...]

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Home staging help for a blah living room

Last week I posted a staging savvy challenge asking your busy living room you can still add your comments to that one too. It will be interesting to see the contrasting ideas for these two very common problems for staging a living room! Debra Gould, The Staging Diva® President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging Debra [...]

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Home stagers and the bed bug epidemic

In a recent home staging business dilemma post I asked what you would do if you were putting away your home staging accessories only to discover you brought home an unknown number of bedbugs with you from your latest home staging project. There were some great comments on that original business dilemma post. It’s clear [...]

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Home staging and bedbugs – what would you do?

You’re unpacking your gorgeous new inventory of opulent bedding, throws and accent pillows after the million dollar listing you staged just sold, having spent only a week on the market. It was the first house you had the opportunity to use your entire new collection of home staging accessories for and you’re excited to pack [...]

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