Nora Lakey’s story should be enough encouragement for anyone on the fence about becoming a home stager to go for it.
Nora wrote to tell me she had finally completed the final course of the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program and shared her amazing success story with me.
Last June, Nora started taking the Staging Diva courses, one at a time. Since then (before even graduating from the program) her company Presentation by Design Staging Services has staged an astonishing 38 properties. Not only that, Nora was invited to participate in a real estate commercial explaining the advantages of home staging. That free marketing opportunity led to many jobs for Nora but her success story doesn’t stop there.
Nora was also invited to speak to a group of 70 real estate agents this month which resulted in several referrals and an invitation to speak to the group again! She’s now busy putting together a presentation of before and after photos to share with the same agents next month.
“It all began last year with a DREAM and Debra Gould’s Staging Diva Course #1,” states Nora. She added, “The dream has now moved out in front of me and I’m now trying to slow it down! I know I still have much to learn but I’m so glad Debra is only a keystroke away.”
I absolutely love hearing stories like this. If you’ve taken the Staging Diva courses and have a home staging success story of your own, please email me and I’ll write a story like this about you to give your business even more exposure.

Debra Gould, The Staging Diva®
President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging
Debra Gould developed the Staging Diva 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.
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Home Staging Resources | |
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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. | "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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AMAZING !!!
I’m also in Texas…have taken 1 course, but got gun shy due to the economy.
I’m about 1.5 hours from San Antonio.
Congrats to you Nora !
You give me courage !
Ellen
Ellen, now is not the time to be gun shy! There are tons of opportunities you just have to go after them.
Please read this free report, which I know will help you:
“Ask Staging Diva: Can I grow a home staging business in a depressed economy?“
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