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Use your talent for decorating and learn how to make money as a home stager. Study from home with audio recordings and complete study notes. You can get your staging business up and running in as little as a week.

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"Staging Diva Business Training Workbook: Planning notes, worksheets and scorecards to start and grow your business with confidence," by Debra Gould is 100 pages of activities to help you move forward with the startup and growth of your staging business in a step-by-step fashion. There's no 'make work' here, it's all practical exercises to keep you focused on your priorities. Based on the Staging Diva Training Program.

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"Staging Diva Ultimate Design Guide: Home Staging Tips, Tricks and Floor Plans” contains home staging expert Debra Gould’s secrets for how to stage any room in a home. This must-have resource will boost your design confidence through easy to use ideas brought to life with floor plans and before and after photos from the hundreds of homes Debra has staged.

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"Staging Diva Home Staging Business Quick Start Checklist: 20 Steps to Start Your Home Staging Business" by Debra Gould is a handy TO DO LIST. You'll save time and money by doing things in the right order when you're starting your business. This Quick Start Checklist takes the worry out of what to do first and lets you focus on getting it done. Why reinvent the wheel? Follow the 20 steps in the order they are outlined and you'll have what you need to launch your business.

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“Staging Diva Home Staging Consultation Checklist with Room-By-Room Client Planning Forms” by Debra Gould takes the guess work out of how to do a home staging consultation and lets you fill in the blanks as you go through a home. You’ll learn the techniques and process the Staging Diva has used successfully in hundreds of homes, and how to avoid doing time wasting and unprofitable reports.

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"Staging Diva Sales Script: How to Avoid the Free Estimate Trap and Turn Homeowners into Home Staging Customers in One Phone Conversation" by Debra Gould is THE script she used to go from zero to $10,000 a month in sales within two years. Learn word for word what she says when a homeowner calls and why she never does free estimates.

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"Staging Diva® Ultimate Portfolio Guide: Winning Clients With The Perfect Home Staging Portfolio" by home staging expert Debra Gould will give you the steps to creating a winning home staging portfolio. Whether you're writing a brochure, creating a portfolio album, building a website or your Profile page in the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers, this guide will teach you how to write about your talents and get great home staging before and after photos. Filled with tips and tricks, worksheets and more.

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The Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers is the fastest and easiest way to gain an Internet presence for your staging business. We build your page and host it on high-traffic StagingDivaDirectoryOfHomeStagers.com so that homeowners and realtors will find you!
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The Staging Diva Network is an online discussion group for Staging Diva Graduates to share challenges and triumphs. A supportive community to stay connected with others starting their own staging businesses and a great place to get questions answered any day of the week!

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"Staging Diva Ultimate Color Guide: the easy way to pick colors for home staging projects," by Debra Gould, will take away any fear about quickly choosing colors for your clients. Filled with helpful tips and Debra's top picks for staging colors that work in any home. You'll get specific Benjamin Moore color numbers, color palette groups and more!

 

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The "Staging Diva Home Staging Business Booster eCourse" will help you stay motivated and keep your business moving forward. When you register, you'll get a weekly business boosting lesson by email every week for 21 weeks. Home Staging expert Debra Gould has been an entrepreneur since 1989 and she has created each lesson to give you practical and concrete steps you can take to build your business. An inspiring quotation is always included to reflect the spirit of that lesson.

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"Home Staging, a hot growth business", says Entrepreneur Magazine







The Staging Diva Program is the only home staging business opportunity featured in all of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Start Up Guides for the last three years.
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Debra Gould's mission is to empower and inspire others to start and grow their own home staging business. If our products or services fail to meet your expectations, we'll give you a full refund.

Satisfaction Guaranteed!

"My first staging project was worth over $8,000. Then, within days of joining the Staging Diva Directory,  I got another project to stage a condo worth over $1.8 million. Taking The Staging Diva Training Program and joining the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers have been great investments in my business!"  Bill McIntosh (BC)

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"I got my first real estate staging project within weeks of finishing the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program and made more money than I used to make in a whole week in my full time job!" Kelley D'Lima (AZ)

"My first project was worth $5,000 and thanks to the Staging Diva Program, I knew how to handle it!" Erin Rhindress (MA)

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"After the Staging Diva Courses I made almost $18,000 on my first project and staged another 17 homes in my first year, with an average fee of $10,000 on each! Thank you Debra Gould for all your help and encouragement and giving me a way to quit my previous job and become a full time home stager!" Ken Sater (CA)

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"I'm so happy to be starting a new business at the age of 76. I got two staging projects within weeks of completing the Staging Diva Training. Thank you Debra for everything you have done to make my dreams come true!" Jean Smith (FL)

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"Starting my own business at the age of 26 is such a dream come true!   I would have never made the leap if I didn't find the Staging Diva   Training Program." Andi Atteberry (CA)

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"The Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program is a definite 10 on a scale of 1 to 5!" Lucie Quigley (NS)

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"Debra takes away the fear and inserts a 'can do' policy that gives you an extra boost of confidence to start your staging business. I'm so impressed with her integrity and will continue to buy other Staging Diva products. After taking the training I made over $5,000 on my first project!" Debra Rowley (WA)

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"Enrolling in the Staging Diva Program is one of the best investments I have ever made. I liked everything about it. By the end of the fifth class I had everything in place to start my home staging business." Michelle Aleff (MN)

"The Staging Diva recordings are straight forward and easy to follow. Because of what I learned I made $4,000 on my first staging project!" LaJeanna Pilant (TX)

"Thank you Debra for doing the home staging business justice and being a leader in the field!" Lisa Kauffman (MA)

"After the third course I landed my first client and earned enough to pay for the whole training program and turn a profit too! Thank you Debra for being so open and candid about the intimacies of operating your home staging business so that we can have a better chance to succeed!" Terri Tough (AB)

"I paid big dollars previously for another company’s training, which did not begin to compare to Debra Gould’s courses. The Staging Diva Program is the best investment I ever made in starting my staging business." Linda Borghi (MO)

"Don’t wait or hesitate to take the Staging Diva Program! It was so worth every penny! Not only did I learn more about the business aspect than I expected, I was inspired and motivated in the process! I now know I absolutely can run my own real estate staging business." Kathy Fredrickson (IL)

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"It was a pleasure taking the Staging Diva Courses and Debra Gould has provided continued encouragement and knowledge during my first year in business. I competed last week with someone who has been staging for 12 years and I got the project!" Gary Baugher (TN)

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"I can't believe I'm getting paid for something that I love to do and that comes so naturally to me." Peggy Depalma (ON)

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"You will leave the Staging Diva Program with a written road map to guide your success. This is practical, no-nonsense information on what you need to start your own home staging business. " Jody Thulin (CA)

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"I have never been so driven, passionate and totally motivated as I have been since completing the Staging Diva Program. Run, don't walk to your computer to enroll now! You will regret that you didn't do it sooner!" Dane Caldwell (ON)

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"The Staging Diva Program gave me the knowledge, power and confidence to quit my job of 8 years and start doing something I have only dreamed of." Heather Ray Ryan (FL)

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"The Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program isn't just about Staging - it's about being in BUSINESS and making MONEY and keeping yourself SANE at the same time!" Victoria Willits (MD)

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"The Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training information is invaluable and we appreciate the ongoing support and personal touch that you offer." Adam Luttrell (Tasmania)

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Home Stager Needed in Loveland, Ohio

I have a client in Loveland, Ohio who will be needing an expert home stager soon. This completely furnished 4700 square foot home will have a list price of between $400,000 and $500,000. This project would be a nice addition to your home staging portfolio.

It couldn’t be easier for you to apply for this home staging project. All you need to do is complete the form at the Staging Diva Home Staging Project Referral Service.

Please include “Loveland, OH Staging Project” for the project location in the first line of the form.

You must be a Staging Diva Graduate and have a professional Internet presence and/or a page on the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers to be recommended for this position. The reason for the latter being, I can’t convince someone to hire you if they can’t study your portfolio.

If you get any paid work through this referral, there will be a $250 referral fee. Given the anticipated list price of this Loveland home, this real estate staging project would be a beautiful addition to your portfolio as an expert home stager.

Because of all the traffic I get to my two sites, SixElements.com and StagingDiva.com, I get lots of leads on projects from all over the United States and Canada, and as far away as England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Israel! I will only refer them to Staging Diva Graduates.

I generate tons of traffic for anyone listed on the Staging Diva site. Only one good project would more than pay for your entire Staging Diva Training Program plus building and hosting your web page on the high traffic Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers for an entire year! When clients find you from your listing in the Staging Diva Directory, I do not charge you a referral fee.

Debra Gould, The Staging Diva®
President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging

Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., an internationally recognized home staging company that is frequently profiled in the media in both the US and Canada. Debra Gould developed The Staging Diva Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.

Learn more about the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program.

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