Whether you still have a paying job, you work part time, or you’re a stay at home Mom, having an emergency fund to fall back on is always a good idea. Even if you never need it, just knowing it’s there will give you peace of mind.
You never know what curve balls life will throw your way, so you have to be prepared. It’s never pleasant to think about, but you can’t predict when your family might face a job loss, significant home repairs or escalating medical expenses.
One way to build up this nest egg is to start earning money on the side as a home stager while you still have another job. You can put another $500 a week in your pocket just doing home staging consultations on the weekends. That’s an extra $26,000 a year!
For more financial survival tips and tons more information about home staging in this economy, you should download a copy of “Ask Staging Diva: Can I grow a home staging business in a depressed economy?” It won’t cut into your savings because it’s free!
Debra Gould, The Staging Diva®
President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging
Debra Gould developed the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging businesses. There are currently over 1000 Staging Diva Graduates around the world. Debra encourages anyone concerned about starting or growing a home staging business in today’s economy to download her free special report: “Ask Staging Diva: Can I grow a home staging business in a depressed economy?”
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It’s a bit like anything in life, you will have some that think it’s a load of old tosh and some that think it’s brilliant.
You just need to get out there and find the ones who think it’s fantastic!
Hi Donna,
I agree with you. I spent last weekend hitting open houses, giving brochures to lots of real estate agents. I was told “staging is done”, ” in this economy people can’t afford staging”,one real estate agent said they do their own staging. Another agent said “staging is exactly what people need in this economy”. It’s really frustrating as you say. So many differnet opinions, and my opinion is in this economy everyone needs stagers so that they have the “wow” factor. It feel like you’re pushing a boulder up a mountain!
Agents are not the best source of business for staging consultations, you need to get to home sellers. I discuss how to do that in course 4 of the Staging Diva Training Program. It does take time to get your business known and you have to keep at it.
We are just at the start of the spring real estate market so getting your name out there in as many places as possible is key. Don’t give up, the business will come but you have to keep working it. You can read additional information about why the current economy and slumping house prices make this the perfect time for home sellers to hire home stagers in this free report: “Ask Staging Diva: Can I grow a home staging business in a depressed economy?“
As a full time stager, even I would love to be able to do consultations every weekend. I announced an April special concerning consultations via a newsletter that went to close to 500 people on my contact list. I got 2 responses – a real estate agent who wants me to do a consult on her own house which is for sale, and another agent who said she would let her clients know. Now I know it’s only 4 days into the month, but I thought I’d get a better response than this. Also, whenever I do sales presentations to real estate agents or when I’m at networking meetings and events, I always promote consultations as a way for “staging” to be done for only a few hundred dollars – an investment of a few hundred dollars that could yield thousands. I don’t know….I throw out the bait and none of the fish bite. Very frustrating.