Staging Diva Bookshelf – Debra Gould Shares Her Favorite Reads

Home staging expert Debra Gould, The Staging Diva, shares her favorite reads with home stagers. Book reviews and opinions.

Indispensable Home Stagers? Are You a Linchpin?

I recently finished reading Seth Godin’s Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, which is written for people still toiling away inside corporations but it offers some interesting insights that we can use as home stagers too. He argues that every workplace has traditionally had “management” and “labor” but that now there is an important third group, which [...]

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Pre-Release Price for Home Stager’s Guide to Twitter Expires Dec. 10

With the New Year quickly approaching, you should be setting some new goals for your business. If you’re not currently using Twitter to grow your home staging business or if you have a feeling you’re not using it to its full potential, one of those goals should be to implement this social networking phenomenon into [...]

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Intimidated by Twitter? Pre-order this guide for home stagers

Unless you’ve been completely cut off from the TV and radio, certainly by now you’ve heard of Twitter – “the fastest growing phenomena on the Internet,” according to TIME Magazine. This totally free social networking site definitely hit the mainstream in the second half of 2009, when a number of celebrities jumped on board. Prior [...]

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Staging Diva Reviews “Rich Like Them”

I like to share books I’m reading in case you’ll find them helpful in your home staging business or your life. This one was a quick read, entertaining with a few insights scattered along the way. Rich Like Them: My Door-to-Door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in America’s Richest Neighborhoods by Ryan D’Agostino started [...]

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Entrepreneurship is like parenting

Your business was conceived the moment you had the big idea that would free you from the daily grind of working for someone else – becoming a home stager! You worked hard to bring your business into the world; drafting a plan, coming up with a name, finding a designer to create your logo, a [...]

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Freakonomics has lots to say about real estate agents

I just finished reading Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. While I’ve been happy not to read economics books since finishing my MBA over 20 years ago, this is way different! These authors are not your typical economists and what pulled me in was the provocative chapter title “How is the Ku Klux Klan [...]

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