Home Stagers should not work for free

I have written many articles on the topic of home stagers giving their services away for free and I strongly object to working for free in the Staging Diva courses, but this issue continues to come up.

I don't like to hear about home stagers working for free. However, most of the aspiring stagers I speak to seem to think they have no choice but to do their first projects for free in order to rack up experience.

The thing is, it's often those stagers offering to do home staging projects for free who will always struggle to get business. Much of this comes down to perception.

After all, if you’re giving away your services for free, how good can you be?

I recently wrote about home stagers working for free on the Home Staging Business Report. You can read the entire article here.

A home staging business can't grow itself

Over the years I’ve trained thousands of people to take their decorating talent and turn it into a profitable home staging business. Unfortunately, after that training is finished, I don't have any control over what people do with their new knowledge.

The best case scenario sees a new home stager take what they’ve learned about building a successful business and forge on; setting up alliances, marketing their company and getting lots of clients. However, this is not always what happens. Read more about what often happens after someone completes their home staging training at the Home Staging Business Report.

Home Stagers have high earning potential in poor economy

If you're interested in starting a home staging business, you have most likely heard of a training program guaranteeing home staging employment at $24-$30 per hour. This might sound like a lot to you, but it's really a low income for a professional home stager.

In this economy, home staging is a needed service and you can actually earn closer to six-figures a year if you're seriously commited to building your business.

I recently posted an article to the Home Staging Business Report about this topic in greater detail. You can read it in detail here.

Free course helps aspiring home stagers grow their businesses

A new free course from The Staging Diva is now available for new and aspiring home stagers looking for sound advice to apply to their growing businesses.

12 Tips for a Successful Home Staging Business is delivered in a series of a dozen email messages, each containing a tip you can apply to your staging business.

Topics in this free home staging course include:

* Deciding whether or not Home Staging is the right career for you
* The truth about home staging accreditation
* How much money a home stager can make
* Why you shouldn’t give away free estimates
* How to prepare for your first home staging consultation
* and much more!

Learn more and sign up by clicking here.

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Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva knows how to make money as a home stager and is determined to inspire and teach others to do the same. There are over 1000 Staging Diva Graduates who have learned to use their decorating talents and run their own home staging business in the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program.

One page marketing plan can remove intimidation factor

To follow up on my last post, I would like to share one of my favorite tips with you. When it comes to developing a marketing plan for your business, many people envision a formal, inch thick document. The thought of coming up with such a thing can be daunting enough to prevent some entrepreneurs from ever coming up with a marketing plan.

When it comes to my own marketing, I like to do things a little differently by using a one page marketing plan. It's true! Read more at the Home Staging Business Report.

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A Fortune 500 company veteran, Debra Gould has been a business writer since the 1980s and wrote a chapter of the book "Marketing Masters" published in 1998. She is also known as The Staging Diva and 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 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.

Staging Diva Graduate Makes it to HGTV

Two months after completing the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program, Susan Manlove had landed a home staging project that more than paid for her course. That alone would be reason to celebrate, but within her first year in business, Susan was contacted to stage a home for popular HGTV program, My House is Worth What?.

Visit the Home Staging Business Report to read Susan's story.

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Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva knows how to make money as a home stager and is determined to inspire and teach others to do the same. There are over 1000 Staging Diva Graduates who have learned to use their decorating talents and run their own home staging business in the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program.

You're Invited to the Staging Diva Birthday Blow Out Bash!

Today is my 49th birthday. There, I said it! For some reason, I'm having a hard time with this one. Come to think of it, turning 39 for me was harder than turning 40 was too.

In any case, to shake off my "I'm getting older" blues, I've decided to host a sale like never seen before at www.stagingdiva.com.

From today (October 27) until midnight on October 31, all Staging Diva home staging products will be discounted by 10% - 30%.

To learn more about all of the Staging Diva home staging resources available, and for more information about this blow out sale, visit the Staging Diva Store.

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Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., a leading home staging company that provides free information to raise the standards in the industry and build awareness amongst homeowners and their real estate agents about the benefits of decorating a house to sell. Debra Gould developed The Staging Diva Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.