Proof Home Staging Works / Staging Statistics from Staging Diva

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Home Staging Controversy or Effective Marketing for Real Estate Broker

Home staging is a powerful part of the real estate industry. In fact as much as a decade ago, Forbes Magazine called home stagers the “dream weavers of the real estate world.” I quite loved that label and quoted it in my very first website for Six Elements Inc., the home staging business I started [...]

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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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Staging Diva Graduate gets $15,000 over asking for her own home

Staging Diva Graduate Lavonne Clifford spent years focused on others as a dedicated mother and full-time volunteer. Now that her children are in high school, though, Lavonne is focusing on her career as owner of Atlanta-based Big Dog Staging. Lavonne wrote to tell me about one of her most impressive home staging success stories which [...]

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Home stager helps client stop paying two mortgages

I’ve written about Staging Diva Graduate Holly Battaglia before. She has a very inspiring story as she manages to work over 20 hours a week as an Oncology RN on top of running her successful Maryland home staging business, Holly’s Home Matters. She’s also a busy mother of four children aged 9-15! She recently wrote [...]

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Staging Diva Graduate gets stale NY listing sold in 7 days

Before becoming a home stager, Staging Diva Graduate Jodi Whalen of New Jersey-based Pear Tree Home Designs had an exciting career as a Marketing Director at the Food Network. As a home stager, though, this mother of a very active toddler has much more flexibility over her schedule. Despite working part-time as a  home stager, [...]

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Survey lists home staging among best home improvements

Six hundred real estate agents in the US were recently polled by HomeGain in the annual Home Sale Maximer survey. The survey asked agents to list their top picks for home improvements that help sellers get the best return on investment (ROI). Staging made it to number 3 on the list behind lightening and brightening [...]

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Staging Diva Graduates and Partners in Design Prove Staging Works

Staging Diva Graduates Heather Cook and Alana Merritt, owners of Rooms in Bloom Home Staging & Design Inc., haven’t always been home stagers. Both women had their own home interiors businesses before taking their home staging training. They now make more money and have more control over their schedules which is very important for anyone [...]

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Staging Diva Graduate Proves One Room Can Make all the Difference

Even though Staging Diva Graduate Lisa Liberatore is no longer a teacher in the public elementary school system she’s still teaching in her new full-time career as a home stager. Her staging business Brown Butterfly Interiors is based in Bay Head, New Jersey where Lisa is really leaving a mark as she proves the value [...]

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Staging gets house sold in 5 days with multiple offers over asking

If there’s one thing most home stagers can agree on it’s that there’s never a dull moment in this career. You’re constantly being challenged and forced to think on your feet, it really is an exciting career. It’s only made better when you hear back from a client about the results your staging brought about [...]

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Staging Diva Graduate Leah Fritz struts her marketing stuff

While the economy was taking its toll on established home stager, Leah Fritz’s business, Leah was hunkered down, working on her marketing despite the storm of uncertainty swirling around her. She wasn’t distracted by a constantly ringing phone so she invested time in the development of her marketing plan. Her email wasn’t full of client [...]

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Home staging gets house seller an extra $80,000 on home sale

Before finally hiring Staging Diva Graduate Fabia MacNair, a desperate house seller had accepted an offer of $250,000 for her home knowing it was worth more. She wasn’t interested in doing the work needed to complete the home staging to-do list, however, because she just wanted to sell. Fabia hated that her hands were tied [...]

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